• The Ten Web Page "Commandments"

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    "What makes a great web page?"People ask me this all the time, though they often encounter difficulty boiling the question down to so few words.Every serious website operator wants to know how to create and maintain the best possible website that makes them the most money and builds the largest subscriber base!Read more…
  • Top Mistakes First Time Web Developers Often Make

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    So you are new to web design and development. You are thinking of creating a web site, well below are the top 15 mistakes created by first time web designers.Most people who are reading this will probably know these already but it was writting for those who don't know.Read more…
  • Your 1 2 3 Guide for Success on the Internet

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    When trying to create a successful website, there are three simple steps that you should take. By following these steps, you will not only make the building of your site a lot easier but you will also create a website that gets noticed by search engines and has many return visitors, and with return visitors comes the potential to earn money from your website.When you look at the most successful websites you will notice that they all have a couple of things in common, they are organised and not over complicated.Read more…
  • Starting an IT Consulting Business: The Importance of a Website

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    It is very important to have a website when starting an IT consulting business. It is easy to tell who is working full time at starting their IT consulting business and who’s not just by looking at their website, or lack thereof.Keep it SimpleDon’t go overboard on your website.Read more…
  • Skills You Need To Become A Successful Web Developer

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    There are a million of different articles, tutorials and e-books out there that want to tell you for just some bucks how to get rich on the internet in a short amount of time, for example by developing some websites full of spam and unoriginal content and slapping advertising on them. Most of those unfortunately do not work at all and most of them fail to realize or teach its readers that to run an internet business, just like for an offline business, some basic and general skills are required to have a chance at success.In this article I will now showcase three of the probably most important of such basic skills and tell you why you need to have them and how to train and attain them.Read more…
  • 8-Reasons All Non-Profits Need A Web Site

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    A nonprofit organization can take advantage of the Internet for at least eight purposes: publicitypublic educationfundraisingvolunteer recruitmentservice deliveryadvocacyresearchcommunication Let us look at brief examples of each of these uses in turn.PublicityGood sites gain attention. Attention or awareness is exactly what all non-profits need...Read more…
  • Pseudo Directories - Do They Really Increase Page Ranking And Keep You Organized

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    In This Article you will learn about Pseudo Directories, a simple tool that will not only keep you organized but when used properly can actually increase your ranking points because you will have file names that are extremely optimized for the Page Ranking Bots.Conventional Wisdom states you should use Sub-Directories to organize your web Pages. Unfortunately the Page Indexing Tools Penalize your Page Rankings when you Do this, Many of the Page Ranking Algorithms in use today deem that pages close to your Root are of a Higher Value then pages that are further away from your root.Read more…
  • 10 Quick Website Maintance Tips

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    1. Keep all your images in a subfolder. If your file is something.com/index.Read more…
  • Flash or No Flash?

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    Deciding on the way you want your web site to appear might not be a straight forward task, especially when one is not fully aware of the technology available today. One of these tools is called ‘Flash’, a programming language that allows you to have great audio and visual content on your site.Flash is a technology developed by Macromedia, a leader in web development tools.Read more…
  • How To Create True and Perceived Value for your Website

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    Creating true or perceived value, in the eyes of your potential customers, and indeed future members or subscribers to your website, ezine or newsletter, begins with YOU and ends with yourself also. The old adage “The Buck stops here” is certainly true when it comes to creating value. The whole ambience of your website and services should reflect a more personal approach, by making your visitor feel that they are the only person in the world you are talking to, they become embroiled, more involved, captivated and feel so much more important, just by you simply making them feel more relaxed in the friendly atmosphere you have created for them.Read more…
  • Remembering Your First Internet KISS

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    Do you remember your fist KISS; was it really how you imagined it would be? Well let me continue. If your first kiss was disappointing, was it through lack of knowledge of how a kiss should be, or was it simply your nervousness or anticipation of what was coming that made it such a flop.Read more…
  • Form Checking - Verifying Name Using PHP Ereg

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    One important use of Regular Expressions (Regex) is to verify fields submitted via a form. In this article, we attempt to write an expression that is able to verify the user's first name, middle name, last name or just names in general.The expression should allow names such as "Mary", "Mr.Read more…
  • Get Your Website Spidered 3 Times a Day

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    The holy grail of getting your website listed is getting your website spidered.Once the spiders from Google, MSN and Yahoo spider your site and find unique content, they know that your website bears watching. The trick is to get those spiders to come back often and find new content every time.Read more…
  • How to Check if a Niche Site Will Be Profitable

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    To be profitable, there has to be:a) Demandb) Good affiliate programs you can promote (also high bids at the Pay Per Click Search engines is a good indicator).To find out this information, I use Wordtracker and affiliate networks like Commission Junction.Let's take the example of two potential niches and see if they are profitable.Read more…
  • Build A Website: Website Development For Beginners

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    If you want to build a website yourself, you might be confused where to start. I started up my first website in November 2005 with no prior development experience and I now have 3 sites running, all of which I built myself.If you've done any research on the Internet you'll probably run into numerous websites that are trying to pull in 100 different directions telling you to buy this product and that product, telling you to do one thing after another, and you might be confused as to where to start.Read more…
  • The 46 Year Old Domain Virgin!

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    A very successful entrepreneur recently gave me an article from Business 2.0 talking about Domaining. As many of you know, I invest in oil wells and other things that give me passive income.Read more…
  • Introduction To Regular Expressions In PHP

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    In Linux and Unix, the syntax that is commonly used by many applications for specifying text patterns is known as regular expressions or in short form - regex. Regex is a very powerful technique to describe patterns and many programs use them to describe sequences of characters to be matched. Search programs such as 'grep' rely heavily on regex.Read more…
  • A General Style Guide For Numbers, Measurements, Dates, And Acronyms In Technical Web Content

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    Numbers Numbers followed by units of measure should never be written out. Bad: It was a one GB hard driveGood: It was a 1 GB hard drive Single digit numbers ( zero through nine) should usually be written out. Example: There were nine cables.Read more…
  • Common Mistakes: Functional Web Specification

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    Ineffective functional specification for Web projects such as Web sites, Intranets or Portals contribute largely to delays, higher costs or in applications that do not match the expectations. Independent if the Web site, Intranet or Portal is custom developed or built on packaged software such as Web-, enterprise content management or portal software, the functional specification sets the foundation for project delays and higher costs. To limit delays and unexpected investments during the development process, the following pitfalls should be avoided:Too vague or incomplete functional specification: This is the most common mistake that companies do.Read more…
  • Is Your Copy Trusted by Google?

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    As long as I've been an SEO copywriter, I never knew that Google had its own trust factor with relation to site pages and their copy. Yet, a recent column in the Google Librarian Newsletter did a wonderful job of explaining what Google is looking for in the way of copy. These are practices I've preached with fervor for years.Read more…

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