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30-Jul-2007
Browser Usage
It depends where you look for your statistics, but the general consensus seems to be that the various versions of Micros...
30-Jul-2007
Image File Types
There are three main different kinds of image file which are suitable for use on the web: GIF, JPEG and PNG. When you're putting images on your website, which file type you decide to use will depend on the purpose for which you intend to use the image. GIFs ...
30-Jul-2007
Access Keys
Website accessibility is very important. Making sure that your website is accessible to motor- and visually-impaired users is prudent as well as virtuous: it is best not to exclude any group from using and enjoying your website. Access keys were introduced to allow ...
30-Jul-2007
The Benefits of PHP Includes
If you have only a small website of seven or eight pages, it will be easy enough to just put your navigation list on every page manually. However, if you need to change something, you'll have to go back to every page and make your changes. This can be very time consuming eve...
30-Jul-2007
Should You Be Using HTML Email?
The use of html email is a matter of some controversy. On the one hand, many businesses claim that html email is indispensable to their marketing strategy; on the other, ever since its inception, we...
27-Jul-2007
The Lesson of The Death of Framed Websites
The idea of html frames was originally thought up to solve navigation problems for larger websites with hundreds of pages and a lot of content. They didn't help – in fact, they created more problems ...
27-Jul-2007
A Threat to the Ubiquity of Flash?
It's hard, nowadays, to imagine the internet without Flash. For better or worse, Adobe's latest acquisition is ubiquitous online, in the form of advertisements, splash screens, animated elements an...
27-Jul-2007
Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable vector graphics, or SVG, is an XML markup language which describes two-dimensional vector graphics or animations. Like Flash, SVG renders graphics by following mathematical instruct...
26-Jul-2007
The Three-Click Rule
You may have heard of the three-click rule of web design, which states that users of your website should have to click no more than three times to access the information they want. Marketing Web Website Design
26-Jul-2007
The Basics of Web Design
Nowadays, with easy-to-use GUI web design packages so freely available, everyone seems to think he or she is a web designer. Yet many elementary (and some might even say common-sense) design points often...
26-Jul-2007
How People Look At Your Website
When you write content for the web, you should know that people read a screen differently from the way that they read a page. Perhaps because information is so freely available on the web, and competition is so intense, people spend a lot less time looking for what they want,...
19-Jul-2007
Multiple Domain Names and Web Forwarding
Supposing you want to protect your brand and catch all the traffic that's meant for you by registering several versions of your domain name: mywebsite.com, mywebsite.co.uk, mywbesite.com, and so on. If mywebsite.com is your primary domain name, you can make all of your
18-Jul-2007
Separating Content and Design
Recently, with the interest in standards-compliant websites, the separation of content and design has become a priority for many web designers. There are two main reasons for this, and both make good sense for the designer and the business owner and the site visitor. <...
18-Jul-2007
Site Maps
A site map is a page of your website from which all other pages are linked. Usually the links to your pages will be grouped under headings and subheadings, with the home page at the top and then directories and subdirectories of pages listed underneath. Having a site map on ...
18-Jul-2007
Organise Your Site with Subdomains
A subdomain is any domain which appears to the left of a second-level domain in a URL. For example, the "things" in "http://things.mystuff.com" is a subdomain, as is the "www...
17-Jul-2007
Meta Tags and Search Engine Optimisation
If you've looked into optimising your website for search engines, you'll probably have heard of meta tags. Thes...
16-Jul-2007
The Benefits of Compliance with Web Standards
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has produced a series of recommendations for accessibility and usability of websites. Put simply, the aim is to make sure that websites are usable for as many visitors as possible. The Multimedia Programming and Coding Website Design
16-Jul-2007
The Trouble With Flash
Flash website design is extremely popular, and Flash certainly has a rightful place in site design for certain functions. However, whilst the explosion of all-Flash or Flash-"enhanced"...
12-Jul-2007
The Google Blacklist
An important element of web design is fine-tuning sites so that they are attractive to the critical eye of the search engines' spiders. There is a growing army of search engine optimisation specialist...
12-Jul-2007
Designing Sites for Ecommerce
An ecommerce site can be a valuable expansion to your business. Your site will be available to customers all over the world at any time of the day or night, and as well as a valuable marketing tool in its own right, it can also add considerably to your sales and even outstrip...