Linking – what a mess if you don’t know what’s going on. Either linking is “IN” or it’s “OUT” according to what you read these days. Here’s the good news: Linking Works. Here’s the bad news: HOW It Works Has Changed! The good thing is you are going to pick up a linking tip today [...]

Many of you will remember the line from the movie Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come.” Many businesses apply this methodology to their business model. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve come across this misnomer in dealing with hosting and web design customers. They figure, “I’ve got a website [...]

Before you start reading this article I must warn you – everything that was written here is my own experience in link exchange. This article should not be referred to as official advice or proven techniques. I only want to share the experience of the helpful methods I used. When you started your website you [...]

A “template” is simply a design format which you can apply to all (or most) of the pages in your web site. The first advantage of using a “template” system is that it allows you to make your most important design decisions at the beginning, and then just focus on content. The second advantage is [...]

Once you’ve built your HTML pages, you might need them to do something a little more interactive on the client-side (that is, in the visitor’s web browser). How can you do that? Javascript is the answer. How Does Javascript Work? To add Javascript to your HTML, you simply insert it between tags (or refer to [...]

There are two ways that most people who create web pages do it: either they hire a professional web designer, or they use some visual HTML editing software. You could say that hiring a designer is like getting someone to make furniture for you and deliver it, while using an editor is more like buying [...]

HTML might seem like a simple language for web documents, and to an extent, it is – that’s what it was intended to be. If you know what you’re doing, though, you can do a lot more with HTML than you might think. This article should give you a few ideas on how to take [...]

The design industry in general is very sensitive to outside influences all the time, usually termed as “modern”, “innovative” or “trend-setting” etc. However, thankfully these influences affect the design areas outside the purview of web design, where the designers and artists tend to change their style, direction and outlook. In the web design world, we [...]

If your are a new web designer, you may face a common problem after uploading your web page to your web server. The problem is that the web page appear in the wrong location on your website, and will not be accessible when you type its address in the browser address box. There are two [...]

I know of two ways you can own a piece of real estate–you can buy one or, if you are the favorite of a rich relative, you may inherit a good piece of real estate. Developing this piece of real estate is another matter requiring on your part sizable investment in terms of money and [...]