Jul 8 2008

PPC (Pay-Per-Click) Advertising

PPC advertising or pay per click advertising is a form of advertising that uses the traffic of search engines to generate traffic to websites. Pay per click means exactly what it sounds like. For every visitor who visits your page via a paid advertisement, you pay a certain amount, generally between 10 to 50 cents.
When [...]

Jul 7 2008

Website Design: Resolution Issues

Especially for new webmasters, the size of your layout simply matches your computer’s resolution. However, this isn’t a good practice as is is possible that the majority of your site’s visitor’s use a different screen resolution.
When I first started, 800*600 (pixels) was the standard size for website layouts. However, the standard resolution nowadays is 1024*768, [...]

Jul 5 2008

Cross Browser Platform Compatibility

Compatibility between browsers isn’t as big of an issue nowadays. But it still is important to check that your site appears the way you want it to in the major browsers, especially if your site receives a lot of traffic. Below is the table of the market shares of the major browsers from the reputable [...]

Jul 4 2008

1&1 Offer: Free Web Hosting for 1 Year

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Happy Independence Day! Fitting with the holidays, I received a notice in a newsletter today that 1&1’s Home and Business Pro web hosting packages are free for one year.
Who doesn’t love free hosting?
However, as with most free deals, there is a marketing motive. The minimum term is two year and the setup fee is [...]

Jul 3 2008

Website Design

Website design is often confusing for people attempting to create their first website. Often, premade layouts for blogging softwares or CMS (content management systems) are sufficient and don’t require much change.
However, many people eventually want to create their own layouts. Below are several basic components of web design.
Layout
Proper positioning of each aspect of your website [...]

Jun 7 2008

BlueHost: Affordable Web Hosting

Bluehost is the webhost of choice for many webmasters.
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I’ve personally used Bluehost for a few years and never had a problem with them. They are well established and have a reputation of being reliable and provide competitive offers. Because they only offer one product, they have the ability to focus on that product and [...]

Jun 4 2008

Web Hosting

Time to look for web hosting. You have two choices, Free or paid.
1. Free Hosting
Free hosting is everywhere but usually with a catch. Many of the better free hosting websites close down after a short while, while the well established free hosting providers have paltry features. Still, for a personal website for family and friends [...]

Jun 3 2008

Preparation for Website

So now that you have dragged yourself to create that new website you’ve been wanting, what do you need to get started with your website?
1. Purpose/Idea
The most important thing you need to create a successful website is a central idea/purpose for you website regardless of whether it is a personal website, shopping site, group site, [...]

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