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Web Design And Business Related Topics
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Topics will include but are not limited to: Web design, Company branding, Photoshop, CSS (cascading style sheets), SEO (search engine optimisation), Internet marketing, Javascript, Java, MySQL, Databases, PHP, Ruby on the rails, Dreamweaver, XHTML, photoshop, website statistics, web hosting, affiliate programs and more.
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New Website Design Articles
CSS Articles
What is CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)?
Explanation of what CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is and examples of CSS files.
Website Design Articles
Common mistakes that will turn visitors away
Explains the most common mistakes that new website developers make in terms of designing a website.
Help on choosing website colours
When designing a website, colours are often overlooked and though of as unimportant, colours however are very important for a website and this article explains why.
How to create a favicon.ico
If you look just to the left of your url bar you will usually see a very small icon related to the site your are viewing, it's usually the website logo or similar. They also show up in your bookmarked sites, on the tabs in tabbed browsers, and as the icon for Internet shortcuts on your desktop or other folders in Windows.
Building the perfect homepage
As a website owner you will no doubt be aware that your site and homepage are great ways to attract new custom to your company. Despite this however it is amazing how many homepages actually don'tinclude enough of the right information that a new visitor will need to know.
Internet Marketing Articles
Effective internet advertising
Free internet advertising is one very important method for promoting your products and services to thousands of free ads. You've probably found this article because you did a search for "free advertising" on an internet search engine.
Pay per click advertising tips
Pay per click advertising (PPC) is the internet marketing process of paying for clicks to your website, this article gives tips on how to get the most out of pay per click advertising.
Guide to directory submissions
Submitting to directories is a great way to build links and increase your search engine rankings. In semi-competitive industries it can produce great results. If you add article creation and social media marketing into the link building equation then you can achieve great results for any industry.
Internet Marketing During The Economic Downturn
The current state of the economy is by many assumed to be the worst for a long time, numerous companies are going out of business every day because of it and it doesn’t seem like a week can go by without the mention on the news of another large company falling victim to the economic downturn.
Business
Starting an online business
Millions of people dream of starting their own online business, whether the reason is to have more free time, no boss, more money or all of these.
Starting an online business however is not easy and will take a lot of work, here we run through some of the basics to get you set on the road to financial freedom.
How to successfully navigate your business through an economic downturn
Tips and help on how to keep your business alive during an economic downturn.
Website Statistics Articles
What are website hits?
Many people when viewing the stats of their website believe "hits" to be what constitute a person actually visiting the website, this though isn't entirely correct, here we answer "what is a website hit?"
Web Host & Domain Articles
Tips for choosing a web host
Choosing a web hosting company isn't easy and it's hard to know what company is best to go for, this article looks at the things you need to take into account when deciding on what web hosting company is best for you and your website.
Choose a good domain name
One of the first things to think about when starting a company is a company name, after all this is the name that people will need to identify and recognise. However if you are building a website to promote or do business with then you should think about the domain name at the same time. Many companies think of a great name for a company but then perhaps can’t use it as the domain name as it is perhaps already taken or too long for a domain name.
Affiliate Program Articles
Help on choosing an affiliate program
An affiliate program is a good way to gain a little extra income by advertising another companies products or services on your website. It is however difficult to know what affiliate company would go best with your websites theme and target audience. This article explains what affiliate programs you should be looking for and what you should avoid.
Search Engine Optimisation Articles
Make your website search engine friendly
Trying to get your site displayed well in search engines is a task that most people will never master and will take many years for most to fully understand, the main reason being search engines are constantly changing the way they index websites and thus your website may one day be top ten and the next be outside of the top ten.
SEO copywriting
SEO Copywriting, or to give it its full name, search engine optimization copywriting or search engine copywriting, is the technique of writing the viewable text on a web page in such a way that it reads well for the surfer, and also targets specific search terms. Its purpose is to rank highly in the search engines for the targeted search terms.
Advanced website link building
A single site owner can submit dozens of articles for syndication receiving an inbound link from each article in return for the free use of content. They can also watch other sites post the content virally to keep their sites fresh, as well.