Tag: Web Source
Ten Secrets for Getting FREE Advertising
Posted on Jul.16, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
The opportunities for getting free advertising for yourproduct or services are only limited by your imagination andenergy. There are so many proven ways to promote withoutcost it’s truly mind-boggling! Here are ten proven methods. 1. Write an article relating to your area of expertise andsubmit it to all the publications and media dealing in thatrange of interest. Become your own promoter and writer. Getthe word out by establishing yourself as an expert on thattopic and “tag-along” everything you write with [...]
What’s Wrong With My Website?
Posted on Apr.12, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
I ask myself that question about once a month.My website looks fine to me, but what are otherpeople seeing? And what are the Search Enginesseeing? Here’s a checklist of 10 ways to optimizeyour website for peak performance:
1. Browser Compatibility
The first thing is to look at your website throughother people’s browsers. I do this regularly and I’vesometimes been shocked at what I saw!
ANYBROWSERhttp://www.anybrowser.com
2. Broken Links
About 5% of all links on the Internet are broken. Asite that contains broken links gives a [...]
Web Standards Part 1 : What are web standards?
Posted on Mar.16, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
There is a lot of talk about web standards within the web
community but to business owners talk of web standards is like
double-dutch. This article will give the low down on what these
technologies are and how they relate to your web business.
When we refer to web standards, we are referring to open
standards primarily used on the World Wide Web. These standards
are laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
The W3C is a consortium that produces the free software
standards”recommendations,” as they [...]
Is Your Website’s Copy Up to the Mark?
Posted on Feb.25, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
The Internet is a relatively new medium. What works for you in your printed offline brochures and advertising materials may or may not work on your web page. If you have already invested either time or money or both in your website you should carefully scrutinize the written words on your pages to see if they can really deliver a return on your investment. Here are five important questions to ask to when making a review of your websites copy.
1. [...]
HTML Forms — Back to the Basics and Beyond — Part Two — Advanced Forms
Posted on Feb.16, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
In part one of this series we focused on setting up a basic form on your website. We discussed the Form Element Attributes and began the Form Element Properties. In part two of this series, we will continue with the Form Element Properties and move on to some more advanced form options.
If you missed part one, you can find it here:
http://www.web-source.net/html_forms1.htm
In part one of this series, we went over Text boxes, Hidden, Password and the Checkbox Form Element Properties. [...]
HTML Forms — Back to the Basics and Beyond — Part Three — Form Tips & Tricks
Posted on Feb.15, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
In part one of this series we focused on setting up a basic form on your website. We discussed the Form Element Attributes and began the Form Element Properties.
In part two of this series, we continued with the Form Element Properties and moved on to some more advanced form options.
In part three of this series we will focus on some great tips and tricks you can use to spice up your forms.
If you missed part one, you can find it [...]
Use JavaScript to Dynamically Update Your Website
Posted on Feb.08, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
If you’ve been on the Internet for a while, you’ve probably seen numerous examples of JavaScript use. JavaScript is a powerful scripting language used to create special effects on your website, but did you know it can also be used as a very powerful web design tool?
Have you ever joined a new affiliate program or created a new publication that you wanted to add to your existing navigational set up, but dreaded having to manually add the links to every [...]
Web Source Web Design Tips – Resizing Your Images
Posted on Dec.10, 2008, under Web Design No Comments
The IMAGE tag is used to display images on your web page.
You can resize your image within your HTML by changing the
HEIGHT and WIDTH values. To retain your images original
characteristics, make sure you adjust the height and the width
equally. In other words, if your original graphic dimensions are
height 50 and width 100, to reduce your image to one half the
size, you would change the height to 25 and the width to 50.
This technique works best with .jpg images, as .gif [...]
Web Source Web Design Tips – Creating A Customized Marquee
Posted on Dec.04, 2008, under Web Design No Comments
The MARQUEE tag is used to scroll text across a web page and is
only supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer.
You can change the background color, width, the number of times
your message will scroll and the speed that your text scrolls,
by adding the following attributes within your MARQUEE tag.
BGCOLOR=”#CCCCCC” – background color
LOOP – Determines how many times the text will scroll. -1 is
indefinite and will continuously scroll. You can set this to
whatever you’d like.
SCROLLAMOUNT – Determines the speed your text will scroll.
WIDTH [...]
Syndicate Your Headlines Using RSS
Posted on Dec.04, 2008, under Web Design No Comments
RSS is quickly becoming the standard choice for delivering
syndicated web content. Have you ever wondered how some of the
large content sites deliver their headlines? Or, have you ever
wanted to display news headlines, but didn’t want to display the
standard “Content Provided By…” info? Or, have you ever wanted
to syndicate your own content? RSS may be the answer you’ve been
looking for.
RSS stands for Rich Site Summary. It is a XML format
specifically designed to share content. Netscape originally
developed RSS to drive channels for [...]
