Internet Layout

A truly shocking number of web designers are unfamiliar with the basic principles and elements of design. Having never been through any formal design education, many just go with what they think ‘looks good’, with very mixed results. If you’re going to design a website, you’ll do much better if you have some idea of […]

There’s a craze on the web at the moment, and that craze is named AJAX. What’s that? Well, according to some people, it’s a technology that’s going to redefine the web.
What Does AJAX Stand For?
AJAX means ‘Asynchronous Javascript and XML’. Adaptive Path came up with the term in this essay: http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php. However, […]

One way to get a good income stream without doing anything that looks very much like advertising is to add affiliate links to your content. They’re just links, they don’t annoy anyone, and you can choose where you do and don’t want to put them. Sounds ideal, doesn’t it? Read on…
How Does Affiliate Linking […]

Does your website have scroll bars? It might not seem like an especially important question, but it is. In fact, when it comes to website usability, the question of scrolling is one of the most vital ones out there.
Do Users Like to Scroll?
One of those eternal questions of web design is whether users […]

Since many people who design web forms have never designed any form of any kind in their lives before, it’s hardly surprising that plenty of the results could do with a little improvement and if you’ve spent any time on the web, you’ll know just how annoying bad forms can be. In this article, […]

If you don’t have a website, then you might not realise all the great things they can do for you. Maybe you think there wouldn’t be any point, because your business is too small or maybe you don’t even have a business! Perhaps you think it’d be a lot of work for little reward. […]

If you’ve looked around at a few websites, you might have noticed that many of them look absolutely terrible. In many cases, this is because they were produced in the early days of the web’s mainstream popularity, but they haven’t been maintained or updated since. The chances are that their creators have never even looked […]

HTML is a relatively simple language, but that doesn’t stop people from having problems with it. Why is that? It’s mainly because, while the HTML tags themselves are easy, creating an HTML document that works as intended on a web server requires you to know a few extra things that aren’t often explained. Here, then, […]

When you’re selling things, you need people to be able to pay you. Sure, they could send you cheques in the post, but that’s not really convenient or scalable, is it? No, to do business on the web, you need to be able to accept card payments electronically and, luckily for you, it’s never […]

Promoting your website can be a daunting task: it feels like there are thousands of ways to do it, but all of them take a lot of time or money for no guaranteed return. To help solve this problem, I’ve compiled a list of ten easy ways to promote your website.
1. Advertise in the […]