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Graphics for the web: The Most Common Formats
One of the early problems on the net was how to display graphics. The first browsers only displayed textual information - the modern browser with it's images, multimedia and plugin's did not exis

HOW FRAMES AFFECT YOUR PROMOTION AND MARKETING EFFORTS ?S ?
The following article outlines the Pros and Cons of using frames with a deeper look at how they might affect your promotion and marketing efforts. When designing a new website, one of your firs

DesignSmarts: Got Flash? If Not, Your Online Business Could Be Suffering!
As a Worldprofit designer, I find myself surfing the web in my spare time to keep up with the latest and the greatest on the World Wide Web. One thing in particular that I like to keep my eye on

TRANSLATING YOUR WEB
Considering that 43% of Internet users cannot read English, translating your web site into a foreign language is a powerful way to promote your business. But getting your web site translated ca

This is why YOUR website isnt making you any money!
Read this report and you'll know why your website isn't making you as much money as you want it to. The reason isn't war, recession, or bioterrorism either. It's a series of "garden variety" prob

Five Core Elements to a Successful Website
It seems to me that many of you who are new to building websites are having trouble figuring out exactly what makes the difference between a website that's effective and one that doesn't produce

How To Retain More Of Your Visitors
Did you know that most of your visitors probably never go beyond your homepage? And a lot of them leave within ten seconds of hitting your homepage, NEVER to return again? These are wasted visi

About Us Pages in Small Business Websites
The Internet has been heralded as "the great equalizer": on a browser window, any company, no matter how small, can look as good as a large company with a long history of quality and service. Thi

Website Backgrounds: 5 Cool Tricks for a Professional Look
Most websites feature white backgrounds. Or they sit on a navy or gray background -- but most of the screen is still white, like a page of paper set against the darker background. Occasionally, y

Improving your websites usability
Web usability is perhaps the most important factor in any web design. This is the driving factor that keeps your visitors coming back to your website. Given below are a few points that you need

I Have A Web Store...... So What?
Just because you put up a web store doesn't mean people will come, take a look and then give you their hard earned dollars. The most successful e-commerce sites have systems in place that entice

Why Robots.txt?
I am sure that a lot of you have heard of the file named robots.txt (also called a "robot exclusion file") before. But what does this file really pertain to? Basically you can think of a robots.

Free Websites For Healers: One Womans Thank You
It was on the night of December 24, 2001 when Maggie Wahls realized she could stand up for the first time in over a year. Maggie had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and had become an invalid in

The Next Marketing Tool: Design
Design sells. It’s something that all of us know, but few of us consciously acknowledge. There is an age old adage that warns people not to “judge books by their cover.” In other words, we should

Building websites using web templates
Gone are the days when you had to rely on a web-designer to design your websites. New technologies with innovative ideas have brought out a new variant to this trend in the form of ready to use w

Part II - Planning A Website
This is the second article I have written about how to plan a website. You can find part I at http://keepitsimplewebsites.com/planawebsite.cfm or type in Regina Stevens next to the "Author Name"

YOU NEED SSI RIGHT NOW!
I learned of SSI (Server Side Includes) long before I built my current site. Since it seemed the only way to go, I checked it out once again for the new site to be. What SSI amounts to is crea

Stop Driving Your Visitors Away!
Your web site may contain flaws or glitches that are driving your visitors away! Such a thought is enough to give the most laid back webmaster a migraine. How can you uncover and fix any problem

Are you cross-browser compatible?
The question of cross browser compatibility is a common topic among Web developers. Should you or should you not make your website cross-browser accommodating? The answer is yes and especially if

How designing a helpful website can kill product sales!
Think you need an "interesting" website, with lots of valuable content, interactivity, and frequent updates -- to keep visitors returning? Think again! Enticing visitors with lots of free conte

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