Web hosting providers often proclaim their uptimes in bold letters all over their marketing materials. They want you to know that they have 95% uptime, 99% uptime, even 99.9% uptime or better! But what does that mean for you the consumer? Learn more about uptime in this uptime article. And share your thoughts about the importance of uptime.

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• What is Uptime in Web Hosting
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If you're trying to build an XML Sitemap for your website, you may find it tedious at best and frustrating at worst. The great thing about sitemaps is that you can pick and choose exactly which pages you want the search engines to spider, but if you have a lot of pages it can be very time consuming. There are a lot of XML sitemap generators available. XML-Sitemaps.com provides a great service, especially for smaller sites. They will map up to 500 pages for free from their online tool. And if you want to spend just $19.99, you can get the PHP script to generate sitemaps of up to 50,000 pages, with gzip support and the ability to create several different kinds of sitemap.

• Find out more about XML-Sitemaps.com
• Learn about other sitemap generators as well as help with creating a sitemap and what an XML sitemap is.
• Do you use Google XML Sitemaps? Why or Why Not?
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One of the most frustrating parts of learning Web design is all the jargon that you have to learn. While you can browse through a glossary most people don't want to do that. And one of the more confusing terms in design is the spacing between lines of text. In print this is called leading, in CSS it's called line-height, but most people just think of it as line spacing. Learn how to affect your line spacing with CSS and the line-height property.

More About CSS Line Spacing

• CSS Line Spacing
• CSS Style Property: line-height
• What is Leading?
• Adding Space to Web Page Text

Creating a great design is more than building something that you like. I've been to websites where the design is more than building something that you like. I've been to websites where the graphics were so horrible that I couldn't stay. Designing with sound sometimes drives me away, especially if there is no off button. I don't know that I've ever left because of layout, but I wouldn't be surprised. Have you ever left a site right after you got there because the design or layout forced you to leave? What design techniques do you hate?

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