Choosing a Domain Name
Choosing a good domain name is an important step in creating a website. If you already have an existing business, try to get a domain name that is the same or close to the name of the business. More ...
How to Learn the A to Z of Web Design
Most people just buy a WYSIWYG web page design tool like Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage so they don't need to learn anything. I recommend that you do NOT use a WYSIWYG web page design tool, but instead start out by hand coding web pages and web sites in a basic text editor. More ...
Tips and Tricks to Optimize a Website's Speed
An online shopper expects a website to load in four seconds. Websites are becoming complex and bigger with each passing day. This is leading to slower loading of websites and ultimately, decreased sales conversions. 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 ...
Maximizing ROI via Web Site Traffic Analysis
We are clearly well past the innocent "golden age" of the Internet. Darwinian economics have become the order of the day today. Any company worth their salt must maintain a web site as an information resource and/or to generate incremental ecommerce revenue. 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 ...
A Random Walk Down Web Street - Litter Revolution
The best way to learn how to start a business and design a Web site is to study how other people do it and see what works and what doesn't work. In this series of articles, I randomly choose a Web site to review. Today's Web site is litterrevolution.com. More ...
How to Transfer Your Web Site to Another Host Without Losing It
You want to change web hosts because you not happy with the services your host is providing. The response time for technical support is too slow. You make the decision to change web hosts. Now you are faced with the daunting task of switching web hosts without losing the files and beautiful design of your web site. How do you achieve this? Here are the steps you need to take: More ...
Your Own Name Servers
Registrars require at least two name servers. My site only had one. I could have defined two by asking my dedicated hosting company for another IP address, but this had a problem. The reason for requiring two name servers is redundancy. More ...
Reciprocal Linking Overload - Any old link back will do?
At one time it was extremely important to get as many sites linking to you as possible, so the Google bots see all of these sites linking to you, and think that your site must be of some importance because so many others are linking to it. More ...
Web Application Development Tools - What is a Web Application Stack?
A web application stack is a set of software and technologies that will work with each other power your web appllication. Most people use the LAMP stack. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL,and PHP. More ...
Finding a Reliable Web Hosting Company
We went through a nightmare recently when we changed internet web hosting companies and servers. Our sites were down for days on end and never worked right after the change. We lost tons of business and gained lots of wisdom in the process. More ...
