Basic Ajax Tutorial
From the Mozilla development center comes the very first lesson in learning Ajax. If you are interested this is a good place to start. AJAX = Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. AJAX is not a new programming language, but simply a new technique for creating better, faster, and more interactive web applications. AJAX uses JavaScript to […]
What Color Is Your Text?
I hadn’t even noticed this until I read Aycan Gulez’s post called “Has Your Web Designer Ever Heard of Contrast?”, but it’s true. More and more designers are using different colors for text, mostly some shade of gray. I agree that having a page that looks good to the visitor at first glance is important, […]
Is Your Website Helping You?
I read a very good post on Wordpreneur.com written by Simon Hillier who is a copywriter and Internet marketer based in Sydney, Australia titled “Is Your Website Copy Doing Your Business More Harm than Good?”. I read the post about what the content on your site says and how it’s presented and thought these are […]
Designing With Color
Since I’m not a very color oriented person I am always looking for help in that regard. My wife is a makeup artist and is very good at it and always is willing to help me out, but I still tend to be not as good as I would like. So when I find a […]
How To Pick A Domain Name
Probably the very first thing that you do when setting up a website it to pick a domain name. That is Whatever.com or Whatever.org or Whatever.whatever What used to be a very simple process is getting harder and harder every day as more and more names are being used up. Because of this there have […]
Can You Really Make Money With Adsense?
Before I put the Google Adsense ads on my pages I wondered if there was any chance that I could make any money with it. So many questions ran through my mind. Am I too late for this? Will my traffic support this? Will the ads actually be relevant to my content? Will people click […]
What is Success?
Sometimes I wonder why I put myself through this. Working for myself is sometimes more than rewarding, but sometimes it’s as aggravating as hell. I’ve run into people who couldn’t be nicer and always willing to help you out and also people who want everything for nothing. Since I’m still relatively new at this I […]
More Good CSS Tools
From Smashing Magazine a modern magazine for web-designers and developers comes a very extensive List of CSS Tools. I have tried many of these tools and find them to work well and to be very useful. It never hurts to simplify your work if you can. More…
Resources For Beginners
A section of my site that gets quite a bit of traffic is the “Start Your Own Website” section. Also most of the questions that I get asked are about how does a beginner start their own website. A List Apart publishes articles written for working web professionals, but when I saw their section geared […]
Wild SEO Claims
I was reading this post and thought, I have had almost the same experience. A client who had a site built by someone else proudly showed it to me and wondered why it wasn’t getting any help from the search engines. Their site used JavaScript for navigation, not Flash, but the idea was the same. […]
