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The Sarcastic Guide To Web Design and Development - Part 1
2008-06-04 15:33:00 ***This article is sarcastic*** There are a handful of rules that will automatically place in the rungs of “All-Star Web Design er and Developer”. It is my objective to share these with you. 1 - You Are Always Right The client never knows what the client wants. It’s up to you to tell them. If they disagree with you, ... More About: Development , Guide , Sarcastic
What You Need To Know About SQL Injection
2008-06-02 21:21:00 Having seeing the effects of an SQL Injection attack, I thought I’d be able to tackle some tips on preventing SQL Injections in the first place. All it takes is one vulnerability to affect your entire software application. If the vulnerability is general enough, you could be the target of scripts that scour the web ... More About: Web Development
Busy Person?s Guide To Getting Work Done
2008-05-29 19:21:00 I apologize for not posting in a while, life has been hectic. That being said, how about a post on getting work done. We’ve all been in the position, whether it’s at work, in school, where there was just so much work to do, that you had a hard time getting around all of ... More About: Work , Guide , Person , Busy
Follow-Up - TNX.net Thoughts
2008-05-14 18:37:00 I’ve had the chance to use TNX.net now for a few months, so I can give a better opinion on it. For the original review, you can check it out here. TNX.net is pretty close to being a fire and forget income generator. Although you can make enough of an income stream without ever having ... More About: Thoughts
Custom Web Applications? Check Your Host First
2008-05-13 04:56:00 I’ve gone through experiences recently with certain web hosts that reminded me that making assumptions when it comes to host+software compatibility is a big, big mistake. What had happened was that I had read the software requirements before purchasing a custom web applications (think something along the lines of a forum, or newsletter software) and ... More About: Applications , Web Development , Check , Host , Custom
Even More Tips On Getting Those First Visits To Your Website
2008-05-07 19:21:00 Sometime ago, I wrote on article detailing 7 tips on getting those first visits to your website. Here are some additional tips that can help you get that jumpstart that you need. Your Email Signature is Prime Real Estate. Have a few links (but nothing elaborate) to your website in your email signature. A well-written email ... More About: Website , Tips
Tips On Developing HTML Emails and Email Templates (Part 2)
2008-05-06 18:29:00 This is a continuation on the first article I wrote on developing HTML emails and email templates. Let’s jump right into some tips: Use HTML markup to style whenever possible. Use attributes like background=”" whenever possible. CSS backgrounds will incorrectly render in GMail, so whenever applicable, make sure your background will work if applied to a ... More About: Web Development , Email , Templates , Tips , Emails
Tips On Buying Your Domain Name
2008-05-02 19:12:00 So you’ve got an idea, whether it’s a blog, online community, company, whatever. Whatever it is that you do, you need the domain name. Here are a few tips on buying your domain name: Your first target should be the .com. If only the .biz/.net/.org/.info/etc is available, try another name. Other TLD’s just don’t come to ... More About: Buying , Domain , Domain Names , Domain Name , Tips
Building Online Communities - Usability and Design
2008-04-30 18:34:00 I decided to bundle these two issues together. Although usability and design already play a big part in websites in general, they play an even bigger part in online communities. Design Your design, is your identity. Your users will feel how much work you put into your site’s branding and identity. If your forum uses a common ... More About: Building , Usability , Online , Communities
CSS Layout Basics - Part 2
2008-04-28 19:17:00 Now you’ve gotten through Part 1 of CSS Layout Basics and you understand the basic principles behind CSS, we can get a little deeper. Not all CSS requires stylesheets. Apart from a stylesheet, there are two ways to incorporate CSS: inline CSS and page CSS. Inline CSS Inline CSS is referred to when CSS is inserted to ... More About: Web Development
Multiple Domain Names? Use Redirects
2008-04-25 19:27:00 Sometimes, if you do a little bit of digging, you can find out that multiple domain names can display the same website. This is a problem, if it’s not done correctly. Why It’s Bad Search Engines, or, let’s be serious here, Google, is known to penalize sites with duplicate content. These penalties can range from de-listing your ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Names
7 Tips For Getting Your Emails Through Spam Filters
2008-04-21 18:08:00 When developing websites, you’ll often be tasked with launching emails from your web server to a variety of destinations, whether they’re internal or external. These emails can be confirmation emails, newsletters, etc. However, sometimes they get caught in various spam filters, and since many spam filters are different, it’s hard to pinpoint what you need ... More About: Spam , Web Development , Tips , Emails , Filters
CSS Layout Basics - Part 1
2008-04-17 19:03:00 In the event you’ve figured out that you want to ditch table-based layouts and build CSS-based layouts, but you just don’t know where to start, I’m here to help. I won’t go too indepth, but I’ll cover the basics. You will need to have two files. An HTML file, and a CSS file. Both of these ... More About: Web Development , Part , Basics , Layout
10 Web Development Tips Part 3 (CSS Edition)
2008-04-15 15:36:00 This article is part 3 of our 10 web development tips series. If you?re interested in part 1, click here, or in part 2, click here. These 10 tips will deal more with CSS and developing your HTML base template from the design. 1 - Use ID instead of CLASS wherever possible In the example: <div id=”myID”>myID</div&# 62; ... More About: Web Development , Tips , Development , Part , Part 3
Quick Tip To Get Some PageRank
2008-04-11 19:04:00 Over time, I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting some abnormal PageRank boosts. I finally tracked it down. (And this can be our little secret.) Blogs or websites with the “Top Commenters” plugin will actually post links to the author’s website without a nofollow link. These links can appear on every page, or uniquely on the main ... More About: Pagerank , Quick
Building Online Communities - Balancing Monetization
2008-04-10 03:34:00 As communities grow larger, monetization starts to become necessary and tricky. You’ll soon realize that small changes, changes as small as a design tweak or navigation rearrangement, will start to unsettle a very vocal minority. These changes, can include monetization. As you incorporate additional advertising revenue streams, your returning users will appear to become agitated with the changes. You don’t want your community to dissolve, what can you do? Address the community about the website’s financial situation - Be upfront about the website’s financial situation. As for suggestions. If your website’s advertising already covers for hosting, you need to live to! Explain how the website might be your only source of income. Be selective in your advertising - Make sure that you cater to your audience when you select your advertisers. If your community consists of teenage members, advertisements with scantily clad college women might be a little inti... More About: Building , Online , Monetization , Communities
Building Online Communities - Balancing Monetization
2008-04-10 03:34:00 As communities grow larger, monetization starts to become necessary and tricky. You’ll soon realize that small changes, changes as small as a design tweak or navigation rearrangement, will start to unsettle a very vocal minority. These changes, can include monetization. As you incorporate additional advertising revenue streams, your returning users will appear to become agitated with ... More About: Building , Online , Monetization , Communities
Tips On Developing HTML Emails and Email Templates
2008-04-07 18:42:00 HTML emails are a whole different ballpark than HTML websites. Your approach will be different and your design will be different. For now, I’ll discuss more about the development part of it, then the design part of it. Your design should be no larger then 620 pixels. If possible, try using a fluid based layout. It ... More About: Web Development , Email , Templates , Tips , Emails
Quick Tip To Make Your Website More Sticky
2008-04-05 18:41:00 Even if you already have a related posts widget for WordPress which helps with your blog’s stickiness, there is another quick tip that may multiply the users that are coming to your site. In the blogosphere (yeah, I said it), stickiness refers to the likeliness of a visitor remaining on your website after he/she has viewed ... More About: Website , Quick , Make
Never Mind Banner Blindness - How About Image Blindness?
2008-04-02 03:24:00 Ever wonder why Google Adsense has been relatively successful? It usually features disgusting, ugly text links. How can that possibly perform better then a well-designed, message-full, impact-full banner? Image Blindness . An epidemic more severe then the banner blindness I spoke about in a previous article. In some cases, buckets, or images used for internal marketing ... More About: Mind , Banner
How To Do An Easy 3 Column Layout With Floats
2008-03-31 18:54:00 When I first started doing CSS-layouts (instead of table-based layouts), I found that a lot of the solutions offered on the web included hacks and tricks to satisfy all browsers. Since then, I’ve refined my own personal technique which works in all browsers and validates as both CSS and HTML. My method uses floats. Although floats ... More About: Web Development , Column , Easy , Layout
Double-Check Your Website Text - You Might Be Surprised
2008-03-26 17:40:00 In a few occasions, website developers are surprised when they receive emails months after a website’s launch complaining that their website’s layout is askew. What Can Happen? Here’s an example of what can happen: You have a 50px wide box. You managed to fit the word “crocodile” in the box perfectly (equal spacing on both sides and the ... More About: Website , Web Development , Double , Check , Text
Registration Forms - A Deal Maker Can Turn Into a Deal Breaker
2008-03-26 03:50:00 I have yet to meet someone who is absolutely thrilled at the sight of a registration form on someone else’s website. However, I’ve noticed that clients seem to forget their own hidden hate for registration forms on other websites when it comes to their own. Of course, they want the whole shabbang, user registration, profiles, ... More About: Breaker , Maker , Deal , Forms , Turn
Profitable Websites Are Hard Work?
2008-03-22 03:53:00 This may come as a news flash to some, but, if you’re looking to draw some sort of sustainable income from a website, it requires a lot of hard work. Hard work in terms of managing and updating the site and gathering the resources to sufficiently run it. After all, Rome wasn’t built in a ... More About: Work , Websites , Profitable
Estimates, Architectures and Wireframes, Oh My!
2008-03-19 17:36:00 In a previous article, I touched briefly on Site Architectures and Wireframes. In this article, I will outline how important they are to make sure projects stay on budget and so the client doesn’t get away with scope creep. Scope creep is where new features and new work is slowly done at the request of ... More About: Web Development , Estimates
7 Tips On Getting Those First Visits To A New Website
2008-03-18 01:40:00 Starting off any kind of website is tough when you don’t have another strong website’s traffic to leverage into your new website. So what is it that you can do to get that first big break? What can we do to make those first few visits stick? 1 - Start With Great Content - Your ... More About: Website , Tips
Building Online Communities - They Have To Be Maintained
2008-03-14 17:53:00 Like many organisms, online communities need to be maintained and catered to. Communities that grow old have the potential to go stale, recess or even vanish completely. What can you do to avoid this terrible scenario? Listen to what it is that the community wants and cater to them. These are your customers these are the ... More About: Building , Online
Getting Your Website To Work On Mobile
2008-03-12 18:00:00 We’re getting closer to an era where having a website compatible with mobile will play an important role in your success. That being said what does it take to make your website compatible for a mobile? The answer: not much. Mobile phone browsers come in different shapes, sizes and capabilities. You should be ready to accomodate the ... More About: Website , Web Development , Work
Banner Blindness And You
2008-03-10 17:38:00 Banner blindness is a phenomenon where users will naturally ignore advertisement banners, regardless of what they’re about or how relevant (or irrelevant) they are. For us publishers, it affects us because advertisers will be willing to pay less and less for an advertising method that does not work. Eye-tracking studies have shown that a user’s eyes ... More About: Banner , Blindness
One Thing To Try When Your Flash File Won?t Open
More articles from this author:2008-03-07 19:43:00 This has happened to me, I’ve slaved days over a single .FLA file, regularly saving back-ups. One day, the worst possible scenario… I can’t open the FLA file. (I was using Adobe Flash CS3) What eventually happened is that I could open another file, and it was only then that I was able to open up ... More About: Open , File , Adobe Flash , Thing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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