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Whenever you want people to enter data and send it to you, you need a web form. Whether the data is as simple as a username and password or as complicated as a full address form, the basic principles remain the same.
The Tags.
Form tags have always been a troublesome part of HTML, simply […]

Logos are difficult to design if you don’t think they are, then the chances are that you have a bad one. Every website needs a logo, and you should lavish a lot of time and attention on yours.
Your Logo is Your Face.
When visitors happen across a website that they haven’t seen before, […]

A website’s navigation is one of its most important parts. Sure, your users mostly come in through search engines now instead of via your homepage, but how can they get from whatever page they’re on to any other page they might want to go to? The limited space available at the top and sides […]

Advertising on the web is big business again, but idea behind the revival is quite strange. Back in the dot-com boom days, all ads were graphical, as it was assumed that this was the best way to get people to click through. However, modern ad companies, led by Google’s AdSense division, have found that text […]

You might have tested your website on every computer browser you can find, but nowadays thats just not enough. Nowadays the web is getting more and more mobile its being used on mobile phones, PDAs, and all sorts of other small devices that can be used on-the-go. You need to allow for these visitors […]

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 […]

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 […]

If you feel like you know quite a bit about web design now, but youd really like to explore the details a bit more, then this is the article for you. As web designers are, by their nature, very likely to be web users and website owners, theres a wealth of information and discussion forums […]

When you’re developing a website, you need to see it in action on a real server, to see how it will work. While you could upload your pages to your web host every time you make a change, this quickly gets time-consuming and tiresome. Wouldn’t it be great if you could have a little test […]

If you want people to come to your website more than once then you need to remind them, from time to time, that you exist and give them the latest news about what’s changed and what’s been updated. One of the best ways to do this is to collect email addresses and use them to […]

More websites are starting to offer RSS feeds, and more users are making use of RSS readers instead of visiting every website they want to read individually. But what is RSS, why is it getting popular, and most importantly what can it do for you? Read on.
What is RSS?
RSS stands for ‘really […]

One of the best ways to collect information about your visitors and let them interact with your website is to register them that is, give them a password they can identify themselves with next time they visit. Unfortunately, people are sick of going through registrations, and won’t do it unless they have a very […]

Before you can start a website, you need to come up with a domain name. The domain name is the name of your site on the web the ‘www.yourname.com’ that people will type in their browsers and see at the top of every page of your website. Obviously, it’s important to choose a good […]

Thanks to the nature of open source, almost anyone can write a programming language and get a significant number of people to use it: and plenty of people have. Two of the newest and fastest-growing players when it comes to open source web languages are Python and Ruby. Neither of them were web languages originally […]

Multimedia on the web is often seen as a bad idea: it breaks the flow of textual information, makes your bandwidth costs spiral out of control, and annoys visitors who aren’t expecting it. Used properly, though, multimedia can enhance your website to no end, putting you light-years ahead of your competitors.
The Principle of Least […]

There’s something you have to realise about the way users interact with articles. To put it simply, they don’t just want to read them: they also want to print them out, and send them on to their friends, family and colleagues. If you can make it easier for them to do this, then your site […]

Before you can consider the finer points of your design, you need to make the big decisions. Few of these decisions are more important than what colour scheme your website is going to use. If you choose the wrong one, your site will be, in the worst cases, completely unreadable.
Pay Attention to Contrast.
First […]

PHP is the most popular scripting language on the web, and the reason for that is how easy it makes it to create dynamic websites quickly. If you’re already a programmer, you’ll be able to learn the basics of PHP in about five minutes, and if you’re not then it probably won’t take much longer.
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When it comes to web design in fact, any kind of computerised graphic design Photoshop has been the standard for years, and remains the market leader. But just what is so great about it?
Photoshop’s Features.
Photoshop was originally designed for print graphic designers, and it shows: the selection of features available […]

Perl is, let’s face it, a programming language for people who know programming. It’s extremely different from PHP: you can’t really just pick it up and use it. Perl bears a lot of resemblance to C and Unix shell scripts, if that means anything to you if it doesn’t, you should probably steer clear […]

If you have products to sell, then your number one reason for starting a website is likely to be promoting them. Have you considered, though, that you could sell your products directly, online? This is e-commerce basically like a much better version of mail order, where the descriptions can be any length and your […]

Here’s a question: how can you make your website wildly popular overnight? The answer to the question is ‘offer free downloads’. Everyone loves to get something for nothing, and downloading is as old as the Internet itself but it never declines in popularity.
Screensavers and Wallpapers.
Wallpaper is an ideal thing to offer as […]

One sticky point with many websites is this: they have absolutely terrible search engines. It does make sense, in a way, as searches are complicated to program for, and it takes time to write or implement a search engine on your site. Still, if you do search badly, it’s worse than not doing it at […]

There are few more important factors in your website’s success than the people who link to it. But why are links so important, and how can you get more people to link to you?
Built on Links.
The early web was built on links: if people wanted to go to websites other than the ones […]

You may have heard of a server system called LAMP, and wondered what it is. Well, the answer is that LAMP isn’t any one thing on its own it’s actually a combination of four technologies. Together, the LAMP technologies form the most popular overall server system on the web today.
Which technologies are they? […]

JSP stands for Java Server Pages. The idea of JSP is to allow Java code to be embedded in HTML this is done uising XML tags. JSP allows you to dynamically add content to your pages, and also offers the facility to send Java to the web browser easily.
The Lack of Functions.
Most […]

While many websites seem to assume that everyone lives in America and speaks English, most of the world, oddly enough, doesn’t. If you want your website to be successful internationally, you need to make your content available in languages other than English.
Machine Translation.
A good first step in taking your website international is to […]

When you want to put graphics on your website, you’ll face an unexpected problem: what format should they be in? On their own computers, many people save pictures in Windows’ default BMP (bitmap) format, but the files it creates are simply much too large to put on a website they’d take about a minute […]

Despite Microsoft’s dominance of everything to do with computers, their web server software sits on a relatively low 20% market share, thanks to the popularity of Apache. However, 20% of millions of servers is still a pretty substantial number of servers, and so IIS (Internet Information Server) can’t be written off that quickly.
IIS and […]

Once you’ve chosen your web hosting, you’ll often find that you’re given a set of passwords and technical details, before being left to more-or-less figure it out on your own. If you haven’t started a website before, that can be a daunting experience.
Point Your Domain at Your Host.
The email you received should have […]