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 ...
Home Page Essentials - Miss These and You're Missing the Mark
The home page is usually the first thing people see upon entering your site. If it doesn't grab them, or contain certain information, many people won't venture past it ... and might just leave your site altogether. More ...
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 ...
Top Five Design Tips
Great graphic design looks effortless, but it requires lots of attention to details. Think back to an eye-catching advertisement, publication, or flyer you saw recently. Do you remember why you liked it? Perhaps it was something specific like the use of a cool graphic or font. Or, more likely, the layout and the words worked together to create an eye-appealing, memorable message. More ...
Excuse Me, May I Borrow Your Passwords?
The web site password authentication process is chock full of security flaws. And wherever there are security flaws, there are scads of both real and wannabe hackers trying to exploit them. More ...
Five Useful Design Sites for Creating Content
Not all of us are gifted designers or even have an inkling as to how to design anything, let alone gorgeous content. Never fear, here are five sites that will help you design content online and for free! More ...
Ten Tips for Choosing a Good Domain Name
What makes a good domain name? Well, it's a subjective issue, of course, but here are ten tips to point you in the right direction. 1. Good domain names are easily memorable and easily typed. Generally this means keeping them short. 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 ...
What's Wrong With My Website?
I ask myself that question about once a month. My website looks fine to me, but what are other people seeing? And what are the Search Engines seeing? Here's a checklist of ten ways to keep your website at peak performance. More ...
Five Ways to Enhance Your Website User Experience
Never put before flashy visuals and fancy design before functionality. In order for a website to succeed it needs to have great content and an easily accessible design that people will find familiar. 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 ...
