Building Online Communities
Wednesday December 31, 2003
When you create an online community, you give people the sense of belonging. They'll want to return to your site.
Using Style Classes and IDs
Tuesday December 30, 2003
You can use CSS across multiple tags or multiple styles across one tag.
Web Design Careers for Students
Monday December 29, 2003
Becoming a Web designer is getting easier as schools take up the challenge of teaching their students career-skills in high school and even grammar school. This is a far-cry from ... Read More
Using CSS Site Wide
Monday December 29, 2003
The primary strength of CSS is to make your site consistent. This article shows you how.
Using Cascading Style Sheets
Saturday December 27, 2003
Learn the syntax of styles and some of the commonly used attributes.
Beginning Cascading Style Sheets
Friday December 26, 2003
CSS can help you control the look and feel of your site, with ease.
A New Year's Resolution
Thursday December 25, 2003
Make the resolution to build or improve your Web site. These tips will help.
Creating a Great Web Page
Wednesday December 24, 2003
With this checklist of items, you'll create a page that is well formed, and user friendly.
Speeding Up Your Web Page
Tuesday December 23, 2003
Tips to make your Web site download faster and keep your readers happy.
Behind the Scenes at Web Design/HTML @ About.com
Monday December 22, 2003
New Article Business Web sites are often built and maintained in a very different fashion from how you build and maintain your personal site. There are a lot more programs, ... Read More
Content is King
Sunday December 21, 2003
The content of your Web site is what will keep you and your readers interested in it. If you don't have good content, then all the fancy graphics and snazzy ... Read More
Choosing Graphics Tools
Saturday December 20, 2003
One of the more interesting parts of Web page design is the graphics, and in order to add pictures, graphics and photos to your Web site, you need a graphics ... Read More
Why Not Take a Web Development Class?
Saturday December 20, 2003
Did you know that there are a bunch of free Web development classes offered at About? In fact, my site offers four: XHTML, CSS, XML, and HTML Forms. Plus there ... Read More
Choosing an HTML Editor
Friday December 19, 2003
How you're going to write your Web page depends upon a lot of things. You need to consider how much you're willing to spend as well as what type of ... Read More
How to Find a Hosting Provider
Thursday December 18, 2003
When you're starting out to build a Web page, one of the first things you need to think about is where you're going to host that page.
Using Cutting Edge Web Technology
Wednesday December 17, 2003
It can be fun to use the most current effects on your Web site. Here are 4 questions to think about before adding new technology.
Build Your First HTTP Cookie
Tuesday December 16, 2003
It's fairly easy to add cookies to any Web page. This article also covers more about what cookies can be used for.
FrontPage Tutorials
Monday December 15, 2003
New Tutorials Over the weekend, while I was taking breaks from my two finals, I wrote some new FrontPage 2002 how tos. While these were written in FP 2002, I ... Read More
What are HTTP Cookies
Sunday December 14, 2003
HTTP cookies allow you to store information about and for your customers directly on their computer. This allows you to personalize Web pages, create dynamic sites, and more.
Boosting Your Hits
Saturday December 13, 2003
There are lots of ways to get people to come to your Web site, but keeping them coming back over and over can be harder. These are some tips for ... Read More
Random Web Design FAQ
Friday December 12, 2003
These are some of the questions that I would get a lot in email. They are not necessarily related, but they all are related to Web design and development.
Make Money with Pornography
Thursday December 11, 2003
CNN reports on a school for entrepreneurs who want to make money in the porn industry on the Web.
CNN.com - Web school teaches porn site how-to - Dec. 11, ... Read More
Creating Better Links
Thursday December 11, 2003
Links are the way that people find information on a Web site. Links also are often given higher ranking in search engines like Google. But "click here" is not a ... Read More
Testing in IE Just Got Easier
Wednesday December 10, 2003
It is now possible to install Multiple versions of Internet Explorer in Windows. I haven't tried this myself, but just the thought makes me grin. It's always hard to test ... Read More
Navigating Web Pages
Wednesday December 10, 2003
Navigation is a key part of your overall Web site design, and designing good navigation can be more difficult than you think. There's more to it than simply plopping a ... Read More
Rewriting the Web Design Site with Web Standards
Monday December 8, 2003
New Article It is possible to take a site that is completely non-standard HTML and convert it to XHTML. It also reduces the file size as well. I did it ... Read More
Writing Well for the Web
Sunday December 7, 2003
I have a number of writer friends, but only a couple who are really good at writing for the Web. Writing a magazine article, short story, or book is very ... Read More
Five Easy Steps to Starting Your Web Page
Saturday December 6, 2003
Sometimes I really get stuck about what to write about. There's so much to cover on Web design and development and yet writer's block can hit periodically (actually, I like ... Read More
Getting a Job as a Web Developer
Friday December 5, 2003
It may surprise you how I became a Web Developer. I didn't study Computer Science and I'm not a graphic designer. In fact, I taught English as a foreign language ... Read More
Anti-alias Information
Thursday December 4, 2003
It's not every day that fights break out in the Web team (right Stephan?), but when we had to decide whether to use aliased or anti-aliased fonts on our site ... Read More
Xara Webstyle 4
Wednesday December 3, 2003
New Review A really easy tool for creating Web graphics, banner ads, photo albums, and entire themed Web pages in just a few minutes. Xara Webstyle 4 is easy to ... Read More
XML Explained
Wednesday December 3, 2003
XML can be scary to the uninitiated, but it's really not as hard as you might think. And these questions can help you to understand it better.
I Know HTML, Am I a Webmaster?
Tuesday December 2, 2003
What makes you a Webmaster? There are as many different definitions of the term as there are people out there. When I got the job title of Webmaster, I could ... Read More
Promote Your Web Design Business
Monday December 1, 2003
If you're looking for a place to promote your Web Design business, perhaps you want to look at the
Web Page Design for Designers - Web Design Directory. Listings are free ... Read More
DHTML Menus - For All Browsers
Monday December 1, 2003
New Article DHTML menus are a great way to improve the navigation of your site. In my last article I explained how to create standards based menus. But they only ... Read More