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How htaccess Can Help Your Site
In: Design
8 Jan 2010If you host your website on a Linux server (most web need Linux instead of Windows), you have the ability to create an .htaccess file. An .htaccess file is placed at the root level of your domain, and can be configured in many different ways to override specific global settings on the server. This comes [...]
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- Tags: configurations, htaccess, htaccess file, server
Create A Font From Your Handwriting
8 Dec 2009This is one of the cooler things I’ve come across in awhile. For absolutely free, you can go to FontCapture and create a font in your own handwriting. If I only had a scanner around here…I’d “write” this post in my handwriting! Although on a side note, WordPress currently doesn’t accept fonts…so I’d have to [...]
One thing many web designers (from us novice WordPress users all the way to experienced programmers) often forget to do is check how their sites perform in other web browsers. Sure, that new page design works fine on your computer, but how will it work when someone tries to view it using a completely different [...]
SQL Basics, part 1
In: Design
8 Oct 2009So what the heck is SQL? SQL stands for Structured Query Language, and is used to communicate with databases. In other words, SQL is the standard language for relational database management systems. Two primary examples of how this occurs is to update data on a database, or retrieve data from a database. Most database systems [...]
9 Free Tools To Improve Your Website
In: Design
21 Sep 2009If you’re running a web site you need to know how it is doing, in particular how you’re performing against your competitors, and where you can improve.
These useful tools will help you to monitor and (hopefully) improve the performance of your site according to generally recognized web site marketing criteria.
SEOmoz Trifecta Page Strength Tool
If you [...]
Tips For Designing an E-Commerce Site
In: Design| E-Commerce
1 Sep 2009If you’ve decided to start selling products or services on your web site, there are certain considerations you must take in to account. Getting people to visit your site is one thing; getting them to spend money on your site is something entirely different. The key thing to keep in mind is simplicity. You must [...]
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- Tags: Design, E-Commerce, shopping cart
Top 5 Free Blogging Tools
28 Aug 2009The following four sites provide great free software and tools for a blog, and are the most commonly used by bloggers on the internet. The sites are listed alphabetically, and are not ranked individually. Happy Blogging!
b2evolution
Blogger
LiveJournal
Tumblr
WordPress
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- Tags: Blog
Adding YouTube Videos To Your Site
In: Design
24 Aug 2009While surfing the web, you may have come across sites that have YouTube videos on their site. If you’ve never designed a web site before, you may have assumed that there is quite a bit of work involved with posting videos directly on your site. But, you know what they say about assuming!
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- Tags: video, YouTube
Basic Site Design Guidelines
In: Design
20 Aug 2009When you start off designing your web site, your number one goal is to create a product that will keep people coming back. Getting visitors on your site is good, but getting them to be frequent visitors is better! During the design process, it’s often easy to get overly focused on your content and to [...]
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- Tags: Design
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