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17-Apr-2012
4 Attributes of a great Domain Name
Starting a new website can be a rewarding and exciting experience. There are unlimited possibilities; whether you need to get your business online or you want to start a blog about your new hobby. But the domain name is what will define your site. It’s what people type into ...
10-Apr-2012
4 Ways to Improve Your Website
Everybody can make a website nowadays. There are so many great tools, many of them free, which can help even the most timid technophobe create a great website to go with their domains. From the t...
27-Feb-2012
CMS Series: Volume 4: Joomla Special
So now you know what a Content Management System is, how to choose the right one and have already looked at Wordpress in detail. Now it’s the turn of Joomla. Another fantastic CMS offered as a One-Click app on your Domainmonster.com web hosting. Joomla offers more experienced ...
22-Feb-2012
CMS Series: Volume 3: Wordpress Special
As you have learned already in this series of Monster Articles, the advantages of using a Content Management System are massive. What we need to do now is get our heads down with a particular Content Management System and look at why you would choose this CMS, what it is used ...
21-Feb-2012
CMS Series: Volume 2: Choosing a CMS
CMS are incredibly useful to the modern web designer, as referred to in part 1 of this series. However, with so many of them out there, choosing which...
20-Feb-2012
CMS Series: Volume 1: What is a CMS?
If you have been researching how to build your website you have probably heard the term “CMS” which stands for Content Management Systems. These are systems which allow you to manage the content on your site, fairly self-explanatory. They have revolutionised web design for the...
19-Jan-2012
Choosing your Domain Name
You’ve decided to create a website, you know what it will be about and you may have even started writing the content. But what will you call your site? Choosing a domain name
12-Oct-2007
More Great Firefox Add-Ons and Themes
New Firefox add-ons, themes and plugins are always being added to the list. Here are a few of the best: Add-Ons Speed Dial gives you an O...
08-Aug-2007
Domainmonster.com Meshcards
Mesh Cards Team Just registered a domain name with Domainmonster.com? Why not get some free Domainmonster.com business cards which display your new domain name? Tell your friends, family and colleagues about you...
03-Aug-2007
HTML Tutorials
W3Schools is a great website with a wealth of information and tutorials for web designers and developers. On the left hand side of the website, you'll find links to all their tutorials in various different categories....
01-Aug-2007
Google Webmaster Central and Tools
Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central is a page with links to various Google services designed to help webmasters make
31-Jul-2007
Spreading the Word: Designing a Readable Site
Do you ever get the feeling no one is reading the copy you have spent hours writing for your website? You're probably right: people don't read the vast majority of information they come across online. Persuading them to stick around is one of web designers' and copywriters' ...
31-Jul-2007
Using Alexa for Traffic Information
Alexa's most well-known service is its free traffic information graph generator, which can give you a variety of traffic information about any domain. There are several features of an Alexa graph which indicate different things ab...
31-Jul-2007
File Sharing and Peer-to-Peer Networks
Peer-to-Peer Networks A peer-to-peer (P2P) network is one which does not distinguish between clients and servers: each "node" in the network is equal, and serves as both client and server in relation to other nodes. In practical terms, that means that wh...
30-Jul-2007
Choosing a Media Player
Because Windows Media Player comes pre-installed with Windows operating systems, many people use it by default, without considering other media players and the benefits they can offer. There are so many features available with various media players that you will probably deci...
27-Jul-2007
Search Toolbars: A Comparison
The three search giants – Yahoo!, Windows Live Search (formally known as MSN), Google – have all, over the last few years, released their browser toolbars. They differ from one another considerably, so when reading my comparison, bear in mind the features that will be most ap...
25-Jul-2007
Firefox Add-Ons
So you've decided, after reading about the benefits, to download and install Mozilla Firefox. Once you've familiarised yourself with the features of the browser, you might want to have a...
25-Jul-2007
Why Firefox?
Depending on whom you ask, Internet Explorer users make up between 60% and 80% of the market share in browser usage. You might be wondering what all the others are using. A significant proportion of those eschewing Internet Explorer have adopted Firefox, the most popular bro...
25-Jul-2007
Alternative IM Clients
MSN Messenger (or Windows Live Messenger, as it has now confusingly been renamed) springs into most people's heads when they think of instant messaging. Most people probably know that there are IM protocols other than the Microsoft-run .NET Messenger Service (colloquially kno...
24-Jul-2007
The Web Accessibility Initiative
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is a branch of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which aims to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web for those using all kinds of user agent...