Ten Basic Concepts for the Newbie Webmaster
This article is for new Webmasters, who are not techies with long experience. Its objective is to save you time in understanding things the techies know at their core. If you have just decided that you want to host your own web site, but you don't have strong technical skills, keep reading. More ...
Sitemap Construction for Beginners
You wouldn't think of going on a vacation trip without a map or guide to refer to but many websites present a rich source of information without a sitemap. Your visitor needs a roadmap of your website if they are going to find what they are looking for and that is the primary job of a sitemap. More ...
A Day in the Life of a UX (User Experience) Designer
User Experience design comes down to sticking to a process. And the best process that I've found for problem solving is a process I learned way back in design school - it's called the I-D-E-A-T-E Design Loop. More ...
White Space in Web Design
Inexperienced designers focus too much on the text, images, and photos on a webpage design. Deliberately constructed white space, not to be confused with unconstructed or empty space, is often overlooked. More ...
Designing Professional Web Pages
If your Web site doesn't project a professional and polished image to your visitors, your credibility and that of your products and services will suffer. Image is everything, especially online where your competitor is only one mouse click away. More ...
Preplanning Your Website, The Secret To Success
I've known several people who put together a website, and within a month or two had to do major redesigns and rewriting of the copy. They wound up spending twice as much time as was necessary just because they didn't preplan. More ...
Real World Website Development Proposals
Writing a website development proposal is time consuming, but without one you are not likely to get the project. If do you accept a project without a proposal, you might end up very sorry. More ...
Dopamine Makes People Addicted to Seeking Information
Do you ever feel like you're addicted to e-mail or Twitter or texting? Do you find it impossible to ignore your e-mail if you see that there are messages in your inbox? These are all examples of your dopamine system at work. More ...
Big Data Cloud Providers
Cloud providers come in all shapes and sizes and offer many different products for big data. Some of the cloud providers that can be used for big data include Amazon, ATT, GoGrid, Joyent, Rackspace, IBM, and Verizon. More ...
How to Run User Testing Fast and Cheap
Teams don't often have enough time and resources for a proper user testing or replace it with customer feedback. That's why it is better to run even the simplest form of user testing to validate your product functionality before moving to the next development stage. More ...
Finding and Managing Quality Reciprocal Links - A Tutorial for The Newbie
It is important to restrict our exchanges to such sites because if we indiscriminately exchange with everybody and anybody we become what is known as a link farm and wind up being banned by the search engines. No one wants to be banned by the search engines. More ...
Website Landing Pages that Capture and Convert
One of the biggest mistakes that website owners make is the creation of website landing pages that are not designed for a single purpose and confuse the visitor by distracting them with unrelated messages and links. More ...
