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[2003-06-30] Two Easy Ways To Optimize Your JavaScript
Many web sites, even those owned by people we all think of as gurus in the Internet marketing business, have large blocks of JavaScript code at the top of their web pages, sometimes running to dozens of lines of code.
[2003-06-27] Reader Response to Search Engines and Font Tags
In a recent SEO Corner, a reader asked Shari Thurow how search engines are affected by various body elements. Web designer Lee Roberts offers some additional comments to her response.
[2003-06-27] Great Homepages Really “Suck”
Where would we be today without vacuums? Think about it: The vacuum is a brilliant invention. It sucks up your household dirt and puts it exactly where you want it to go - off your floor and into that little bag. A successful homepage acts exactly like a "digital vacuum" - it sucks users in, away from the homepage, and straight to important content within the rest of the site.
[2003-06-27] Design Peeve Reader Survey
I asked you what your pet peeves were, and you let me know! Several of you made pointed comments about iEntry sites (I'll see what I can do there, but no promises). Thanks for all the great input. Now let's find out what really irks you when it comes to site design...
[2003-06-27] How to animate a banner using Adobe ImageReady
This article covers step by step guide to animate a banner which has been created in Adobe Photoshop.
[2003-06-23] How to create WAP Pages in ColdFusion
Using of ColdFusion to create dynamic WAP pages is much easier than using other languages like PHP, ASP or JSP (a very hard one!). In fact, ColdFusion is a very good for one new to the WAP world to learn how to create dynamic WAP pages because it is very easy to learn.
[2003-06-20] Damashi Peer Review Results
Find out what readers had to say about the Damashi in this DevWebPro peer review. Read the reviews and pick up some tips for your own site - you may be making some of the same errors!
[2003-06-20] SEO Corner: The Search Engine Marketing Cycle - Part 1
Reader Question: I am in the typical quandary of the Internet small business owner. I am trying to find a submission/optimization company that will do a good job for us at a reasonable price. We have found that the sales go up for about a three-month period when we take on a new service, then the sales level, then they fall. We are not opposed to paying a reasonable monthly fee, but we need a company who will actually be concerned about long-term results without us having to think about it and remind them.
[2003-06-20] How Web Designers Are Sabotaging Their Clients
One of the things that pains me the most as a search engine marketing (SEM) professional is how so many business owners are having their web site's ability to attract targeted visitors compromised by their own web development company.
[2003-06-20] Creating an Effective Pay-Per-Click Campaign
Optimizing your website for the 'traditional' search engines can be a daunting task, and one that many people are either unable or unwilling to attempt. Fortunately, pay-per-click search engines (PPC SEs) allow us to specify exactly what key phrases we want to be listed under -- for a price.
[2003-06-19] Focus And Consistency
Question: Could you take a look at my web site, PellaCAD, and make your two strongest suggestions (more if you have time)…I'd sure appreciate your professional opinion! - Pete Naschke
[2003-06-19] Organizing a Dual-Language Site
Question: I am an avid reader of Website Notes newsletter. We have a very heavily visited website of Pakistan's national daily. The design of the web site is very lifeless and disorganized (please have a look at http://www.jang.com.pk). The problem is that this page is gateway to two newspapers websites one out of them is in English while the other in Urdu (local) language. Could you give your suggestions (some URLs or your own comments) on how can we make this home page more attractive, user-friendly, comprehensive yet compact; and meaningful. We also need to have latest news update ticker in both languages (it's a demand) and a lot of stuff that's available on the website but is not presented on the home page. - Asif Lateef
[2003-06-18] Cookies, P3P, and IE6
Since the majority of web users now use IE6, you need to understand how Internet Explorer deals with cookies.
[2003-06-17] Lacking Local Customers
My main problem is that I get few orders from within New Zealand. Most of my customers are from overseas, which is great, but why am I not reaching my local market? - Jean Books'n'Print
[2003-06-17] eCommerce Site Advice
Hi Jim, I know you are busy so I'll make this short. Would you if you have time, look at my web site and tell me what needs to be changed if anything. I have no one else to look at it that has your knowledge. The URL is http://www.theholistichorse.com. - Ruth Ann
[2003-06-13] A Simple Web Search Engine
Every user expects a search engine on any Web site they visit. Unfortunately, search engines are extremely complex to develop. They require massive amounts of resources and time to implement. Today I'll show you how to use a MySQL (or any SQL database) to create your own basic search engine.
[2003-06-13] 5 web design tips you can't live without
The web design world is filled with excitement and experience, creativity and skill. Often, experienced web designers utilize a set of solid, proven techniques that others may not notice. Let's take a look at a few of these techniques and how you can implement them into your own site quickly and easily.
[2003-06-13] How to make non-text elements accessible - some notes
Making non-text elements, particularly images, accessible is fundamental to accessible web design; even if you attended to this issue alone, you would make a big impact on the accessibility of your site.
[2003-06-12] Paint Shop Pro Tutorial - Cutout Text
In this tutorial, we're going to look at Paint Shop Pro's Cutout effect, and show how you can use it to produce some nice cutout text. The text will be used as a template to "cut out" part of an image.
[2003-06-11] J2ME - Using Ant with J2ME
What is Ant Apache Ant is an open source Java based build tool under the Apache Software License. Essentially Ant is to Java like make is to C/C++. It helps you to proficiently organize your code from build, test, deploy and execute. As well assist in multiple levels in debugging or optimization, custom packaging and is easily configurable when interfacing with 3rd party tools such as obfuscators. More infomation on Ant can be found at the Ant website, http://ant.apache.org.
[2003-06-11] SEO Corner - Search Engines and Font Tags
Question: Since Netscape handles the spacing around heading tags (<H1>,<H2>, etc.) differently from IE, I have been forced to use large font tags (<font size="6">) and bold them, so I can keep the spacing consistent, cross-browser.
[2003-06-09] SEO Corner - Attributes, Variables, and Search Engine Visibility
Question: Do search engines read information contained in JavaScript variables, the page head, and in the page body? Do search engines follow JavaScript links?
[2003-06-07] What's Really Hot in CF MX
So you're a ColdFusion guru and you thought you'd seen it all. You've mastered the ColdFusion 5 tags and functions completely, and you know what you can, and more importantly, what you cannot do with ColdFusion. You also were a little anxious when Macromedia took over, and some of you sigh at the loss of Spectra and try to keep the community going. So what's next? What's in the new ColdFusion MX for us gurus?
[2003-06-06] Search Engine Friendly PHP Pages
When writing scripts, it is extremely important to have to ability to transfer information from one script to another. A common method to do this is with the
[2003-06-04] New Generation Web Design Annoyances
Web is a constantly changing medium, so does web design. Designers like to experiment from time to time. Some of the results may be attractive, but do they really add to the overall value of a design, or are they there just to decrease usability? I believe the latter is true for the following five design decisions.
[2003-06-03] Keep Your Website Up-To-Date
In almost every business publication there are articles telling us how, as a small business, we need to have a website. This is very true! The Internet is where most people go to find a product or service that they are interested in or may have heard about. And, if your business is capable of serving customers throughout the globe, what better way to keep your information available to that huge target audience than an Internet presence?
[2003-06-03] Alternate E-Commerce Solutions
Over the past several years, the Internet has emerged as a breakthrough technology that has and will continue to transform the way we live and communicate, and especially the way we do business.
[2003-06-03] Brewing Trouble
Admit it: When you're faced with a lengthy checklist for testing, you're tempted to skip steps. Some of the items aren't really necessary, are they? They might be so obvious that there's no need to include them in the list. In this week's column, Elisabeth Hendrickson offers some advice on constructing useful checklists that are brief but complete.
Many web sites, even those owned by people we all think of as gurus in the Internet marketing business, have large blocks of JavaScript code at the top of their web pages, sometimes running to dozens of lines of code.
[2003-06-27] Reader Response to Search Engines and Font Tags
In a recent SEO Corner, a reader asked Shari Thurow how search engines are affected by various body elements. Web designer Lee Roberts offers some additional comments to her response.
[2003-06-27] Great Homepages Really “Suck”
Where would we be today without vacuums? Think about it: The vacuum is a brilliant invention. It sucks up your household dirt and puts it exactly where you want it to go - off your floor and into that little bag. A successful homepage acts exactly like a "digital vacuum" - it sucks users in, away from the homepage, and straight to important content within the rest of the site.
[2003-06-27] Design Peeve Reader Survey
I asked you what your pet peeves were, and you let me know! Several of you made pointed comments about iEntry sites (I'll see what I can do there, but no promises). Thanks for all the great input. Now let's find out what really irks you when it comes to site design...
[2003-06-27] How to animate a banner using Adobe ImageReady
This article covers step by step guide to animate a banner which has been created in Adobe Photoshop.
[2003-06-23] How to create WAP Pages in ColdFusion
Using of ColdFusion to create dynamic WAP pages is much easier than using other languages like PHP, ASP or JSP (a very hard one!). In fact, ColdFusion is a very good for one new to the WAP world to learn how to create dynamic WAP pages because it is very easy to learn.
[2003-06-20] Damashi Peer Review Results
Find out what readers had to say about the Damashi in this DevWebPro peer review. Read the reviews and pick up some tips for your own site - you may be making some of the same errors!
[2003-06-20] SEO Corner: The Search Engine Marketing Cycle - Part 1
Reader Question: I am in the typical quandary of the Internet small business owner. I am trying to find a submission/optimization company that will do a good job for us at a reasonable price. We have found that the sales go up for about a three-month period when we take on a new service, then the sales level, then they fall. We are not opposed to paying a reasonable monthly fee, but we need a company who will actually be concerned about long-term results without us having to think about it and remind them.
[2003-06-20] How Web Designers Are Sabotaging Their Clients
One of the things that pains me the most as a search engine marketing (SEM) professional is how so many business owners are having their web site's ability to attract targeted visitors compromised by their own web development company.
[2003-06-20] Creating an Effective Pay-Per-Click Campaign
Optimizing your website for the 'traditional' search engines can be a daunting task, and one that many people are either unable or unwilling to attempt. Fortunately, pay-per-click search engines (PPC SEs) allow us to specify exactly what key phrases we want to be listed under -- for a price.
[2003-06-19] Focus And Consistency
Question: Could you take a look at my web site, PellaCAD, and make your two strongest suggestions (more if you have time)…I'd sure appreciate your professional opinion! - Pete Naschke
[2003-06-19] Organizing a Dual-Language Site
Question: I am an avid reader of Website Notes newsletter. We have a very heavily visited website of Pakistan's national daily. The design of the web site is very lifeless and disorganized (please have a look at http://www.jang.com.pk). The problem is that this page is gateway to two newspapers websites one out of them is in English while the other in Urdu (local) language. Could you give your suggestions (some URLs or your own comments) on how can we make this home page more attractive, user-friendly, comprehensive yet compact; and meaningful. We also need to have latest news update ticker in both languages (it's a demand) and a lot of stuff that's available on the website but is not presented on the home page. - Asif Lateef
[2003-06-18] Cookies, P3P, and IE6
Since the majority of web users now use IE6, you need to understand how Internet Explorer deals with cookies.
[2003-06-17] Lacking Local Customers
My main problem is that I get few orders from within New Zealand. Most of my customers are from overseas, which is great, but why am I not reaching my local market? - Jean Books'n'Print
[2003-06-17] eCommerce Site Advice
Hi Jim, I know you are busy so I'll make this short. Would you if you have time, look at my web site and tell me what needs to be changed if anything. I have no one else to look at it that has your knowledge. The URL is http://www.theholistichorse.com. - Ruth Ann
[2003-06-13] A Simple Web Search Engine
Every user expects a search engine on any Web site they visit. Unfortunately, search engines are extremely complex to develop. They require massive amounts of resources and time to implement. Today I'll show you how to use a MySQL (or any SQL database) to create your own basic search engine.
[2003-06-13] 5 web design tips you can't live without
The web design world is filled with excitement and experience, creativity and skill. Often, experienced web designers utilize a set of solid, proven techniques that others may not notice. Let's take a look at a few of these techniques and how you can implement them into your own site quickly and easily.
[2003-06-13] How to make non-text elements accessible - some notes
Making non-text elements, particularly images, accessible is fundamental to accessible web design; even if you attended to this issue alone, you would make a big impact on the accessibility of your site.
[2003-06-12] Paint Shop Pro Tutorial - Cutout Text
In this tutorial, we're going to look at Paint Shop Pro's Cutout effect, and show how you can use it to produce some nice cutout text. The text will be used as a template to "cut out" part of an image.
[2003-06-11] J2ME - Using Ant with J2ME
What is Ant Apache Ant is an open source Java based build tool under the Apache Software License. Essentially Ant is to Java like make is to C/C++. It helps you to proficiently organize your code from build, test, deploy and execute. As well assist in multiple levels in debugging or optimization, custom packaging and is easily configurable when interfacing with 3rd party tools such as obfuscators. More infomation on Ant can be found at the Ant website, http://ant.apache.org.
[2003-06-11] SEO Corner - Search Engines and Font Tags
Question: Since Netscape handles the spacing around heading tags (<H1>,<H2>, etc.) differently from IE, I have been forced to use large font tags (<font size="6">) and bold them, so I can keep the spacing consistent, cross-browser.
[2003-06-09] SEO Corner - Attributes, Variables, and Search Engine Visibility
Question: Do search engines read information contained in JavaScript variables, the page head, and in the page body? Do search engines follow JavaScript links?
[2003-06-07] What's Really Hot in CF MX
So you're a ColdFusion guru and you thought you'd seen it all. You've mastered the ColdFusion 5 tags and functions completely, and you know what you can, and more importantly, what you cannot do with ColdFusion. You also were a little anxious when Macromedia took over, and some of you sigh at the loss of Spectra and try to keep the community going. So what's next? What's in the new ColdFusion MX for us gurus?
[2003-06-06] Search Engine Friendly PHP Pages
When writing scripts, it is extremely important to have to ability to transfer information from one script to another. A common method to do this is with the
GET convention. Search engine Web spiders, however, tend to ignore pages whose URL contains GET method parameters. If you're not sure what a GET method parameter is, here's an example of a URL with GET method parameters:
[2003-06-04] New Generation Web Design Annoyances
Web is a constantly changing medium, so does web design. Designers like to experiment from time to time. Some of the results may be attractive, but do they really add to the overall value of a design, or are they there just to decrease usability? I believe the latter is true for the following five design decisions.
[2003-06-03] Keep Your Website Up-To-Date
In almost every business publication there are articles telling us how, as a small business, we need to have a website. This is very true! The Internet is where most people go to find a product or service that they are interested in or may have heard about. And, if your business is capable of serving customers throughout the globe, what better way to keep your information available to that huge target audience than an Internet presence?
[2003-06-03] Alternate E-Commerce Solutions
Over the past several years, the Internet has emerged as a breakthrough technology that has and will continue to transform the way we live and communicate, and especially the way we do business.
[2003-06-03] Brewing Trouble
Admit it: When you're faced with a lengthy checklist for testing, you're tempted to skip steps. Some of the items aren't really necessary, are they? They might be so obvious that there's no need to include them in the list. In this week's column, Elisabeth Hendrickson offers some advice on constructing useful checklists that are brief but complete.
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