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How to Choose a Good Domain Name
Choosing a domain name can be a big step for your business. If you choose a really bad one you can actually harm your business. While that's not likely, choosing a good domain name can be a great way to improve your brand and gain more customers. So learn how to choose a good domain name and avoid choosing a bad one.
Is .COM Really Better than .NET or .US?
Once you've chosen a domain name, you need to decide what top-level domain to use. Should it be a .com, .org, .net, .us or what? What are the advantages to .com versus .biz and so on. Which top-level domains (TLD) will help your company and which won't.
Free Web Template: A Polaroid or Instant Photo with CSS
This is the CSS for a fake polaroid photo layout.
HTML Tags
HTML tags are an important part of HTML. Learn the attributes and uses of XHTML and other HTML elements. This is a full library of XHTML elements, HTML tags, WebTV and other alternative browser tags and much more.
Web Design Glossary
A glossary of jargon terms used in the HTML and XML industry
Pros and Cons of Freelance Web Design
Freelancing is a tough job but there are some definite perks and drawbacks to being a freelancer. Learn whether you would like being a freelance Web designer or whether you should get a job as a corporate Web designer.
What to Write About
On the Web, content is what keeps people at your site, but sometimes it's hard to think what to write about.
What to Look for in a Web Designer
Finding a Web designer can be a daunting prospect. There are lots and lots of Web designers to choose from, so how do you make the right decision? And if you are a designer, how do you know if you're presenting yourself in a way that will get you hired. These are some tips for how to find a good Web designer.
Writing a Great Web Design Contract
The minimum Web design contract will have just the project description and the price agreed upon. But while that can work as a contract, it can leave you open to many different problems. By creating a contract with these things, you will have a contract that spells out, in detail, exactly what the client wants, what you will give them, by when and for how much.
Web Design Horror Stories
Everyone makes mistakes, it's a fact of humanity. But sometimes Web mistakes can be disastrous, and sometimes they are just funny. I have made some major mistakes in my time as a Web developer, and I'm sure I haven't made my last.
Prioritizing Web Projects
What to do when everything you're working on has top priority. How to prioritize Web projects.
What is a Namespace?
When you use multiple XML specifications in one document, you can run into collisiohs between the two specifications. XML namespaces tell the parser which specification to use for the element in question.
HTML Attributes
Learn more about the attributes associated with all the XHTML elements and other HTML tags.
Declaring XML Namespaces
XML namespaces clarify XML documents and allow you to use elements and attributes using the same name. By understanding how to declare an XML namespace in an XML document, you'll have a more effective document.
Encoding URLs
When you submit data to a Web form with the GET method, you are sending that data via a URL. But there are many characters that should not be included in URL strings. So if your customers include them in their form entries, you need to encode them. This tutorial explains the basics of URL encoding and has a list of the common characters that need to be encoded.
XHTML Challenge
Hidden on this site are several pages designed to test your knowledge of XHTML. The pages are in the form of a question, but the question isn't always obvious. Once you think you know the answer to the question, you should know the next page to go to. If you guess wrong, you'll be taken to my homepage, otherwise, you'll go to the next page in the challenge. Challenge your knowledge of XHTML.
Promoting Your RSS Feed
Creating an RSS feed is probably the easiest XML document you'll ever write, if you choose to write it from scratch. And once you have your feed, you'll want to promote it. It can be tempting to try to find custom icons and scripts to link to it, but the best way to promote your feed on your site is to link to it. This article covers various ways to link to your RSS feed, gives you sources for good icons to use, and shows you how to make your own icon for your links.
Finding the Perfect Web Editor
In my search for the ultimate Web page editor, I evaluated over 130 Web editors on 3 platforms. I looked at over 35 different features to determine which editor stood out as the best above all the rest. It took a long time, but I was able to determine which editors had the stuff and which didn't. I even gave each one a score and a star rating. This article discusses how I chose the best editors for building Web pages and which ones made the grade and which didn't.
How to Add an RSS Feed to a Web Page
Once you've built an RSS feed for your website, you'll want to connect it to the site with a link tag. It's best if you link the RSS off every page of your site, but you can also link it from just one or two pages - for instance, the pages that most make sense for that feed.
Getting Started as a Freelance Web Designer
Starting out as a freelancer can be scary, but if you plan for it sensibly, you will find that it\'s not as hard as you might have thought. These 12 suggestions will help you get ready to start freelancing, either full-time or part-time.
How to Use RSS on Your Website
RSS is a great way to promote your site and new site content, and a great resource for RSS feeds is a list of what's new on your website. I have started a what's new RSS feed for my About.com Web Design / HTML website that I maintain with a text editor.
Free Web Templates
These free Web templates will help you get the most out of your Web pages by doing the design work for you. You can manipulate these free Web templates to meet your needs, or just use the free Web templates as-is.
Free Web Template: Centered Single Column Layout Template
This is the XHTML for a centered single column layout.
Free Web Template: Centered Single Column Layout Template
This is the CSS for a centered single column layout.
How to Use Basic Web Templates
There are lots of free Web templates available, and most of them are very fancy, with images, scripts, and fancy colors and styles. But then you come along some plain ones. All these seemingly ugly ones have are basic shapes and positions for the layout, perhaps even just a wireframe or basic layout. You'd never want your page to look like that, so what good are these layouts? Learn how to use these seemingly ugly layouts to create fancy and creative designs that are all your own.