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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Graphic design using color
- Color is everywhere and conveys a message even if we don't realize it. While this message can vary by culture it pays to know what colors "say" in your own corner of the universe, and even what color means to your target market. If you don't think that color speaks just complete this sentence, "red means ---- and green means ?" even a child will know what red means stop ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to create a stunning drop capital effect on your web pages
- Drop Capitals are frequently used in many newspapers, books and magazines in the offline world. You will frequently see the large capital letter sinking down into the first paragraph of articles, stories and chapters in the majority of publications you come across. The drop capital gives the page a nice finishing touch, and certainly adds a more professional looking feel. Online, the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Making good websites that stand out
- Websites, there's literally billions of them out there in cyber-space. How many of them do you go to and just think this is boring, bland, or hard to use? It seems like too many to mention. So what makes a good website? I reckon it's about interaction. You've got to make the visitor interested. You've got to grab their attention. Many sites use plenty of bright and shiny gimmicks to attract you, b...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Your website copy could be letting you down!
- A professionally presented business website is a powerful and essential marketing tool: it's the first thing prospective customers will look at before they decide to contact you. If the copy on your website is not written to an acceptable standard, it may be losing you customers. It's not enough just to have amazing graphics and imagery: you need the words to make it complete. Is the spelling corr...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Xhtml - kicking and screaming into the future
- XHTML, the standard, was first released back in 2000. Roughly five years later we begin to see major websites revised to use this standard. Even the favorite whipping boy of standards-compliance punditry, Microsoft, presents their primary homepages, msn.com and microsoft.com in XHTML. Standards compliant XHTML sites are still the minority. The reason is simple. When the W3C released the new standa...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Writing for people and for search engines
- So you've decided to get a website that's optimized for search engines. You're no dummy. You want your website to show up any time a search is conducted in your area of expertise. Who can blame you? But wait. Be prepared for twists and turns ahead.
The Bible says, "My people perish from lack of knowledge." This is also true in the technical world of search engine marketing. Your lac...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Why thunderbird is the best email client for your family or office
- Nowadays, most of us have so many email addresses, it's hard jusy to keep track of our own, let alone manage those of our family and colleagues as well. Throw newsgroup sunscriptions and multiple storage folders into the mix as well, and it's a management nightmare.
Mozilla Thunderbird, my email client of choice, solves this problem effectively and easily with Profiles.
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Why google indexing requires a complex blend of skills
- If it was easy, everybody would be doing it. Getting a company's name and products, or services, onto the first page of a genuine Google search isn't a trivial piece of work. In fact, there are four distinct skills that a search engine optimiser needs to possess. Most people possess one or maybe two of these skills, very rarely do people posses all four. In truth, to get to all four, people who ar...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Website buying guide checklist
- Can you really get a website even without knowing anything about code, and without paying a fortune? Find out.
The days when websites were primarily distinguished by their code are long gone. Nowadays, the web is a true publishing medium that favors well thought-out ideas. You can get a professional-looking website online in minutes with many website building services and software. ...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Using anchor text effeciently
- One of the most underused things by Newbies in regards to linking is "Anchor Text". This is the visible text showing in a link.
The prime mistake Newbies make is to put their website name into the Anchor Text. Unless your website contains your keywords this is a waste of a perfectly good link. Remember that Google puts a very big importance on those Anchor texts and they should alwa...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Top search engine ranks, part 2- mastering the secret- explained
- In the first part of this series on ranking at the top of the search engines, we discussed diversifying your Internet marketing efforts. We introduced several methods including RSS feeds, Link Popularity, Article Marketing, Blogs, and physically altering your pages to make them more target-able for select keywords. All of these share the key of great content in order to unlock success.
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Top paying keywords: how to increase your pay per click returns
- There is no doubting the success of Google's Adsense program. Even Yahoo! and Kanoodle have joined in on the game, offering to join publishers with advertisers. Given the right circumstances, its a win / win situation for both.
There have been many sites that promote Top Paying Keywords and how if you add these keywords you can instantly improve your Adsense revenue. However, if you...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - The top 3 photo editing software
- More often than not, Adobe Photoshop CS comes in one's mind when photo-editing software is mentioned. Next to that are Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator CS. Adobe Photoshop is an effective and useful program that is used by many, to mark a design that is considered as a cut above the rest. Adobe Photoshop CS is used to create a high impact design that depicts creativity and innovation. There a...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - The tools and features of adobe photoshop
- Adobe Photoshop is one of the world's leading graphics editing programs, developed by Adobe Systems. Available on Mac OS or PC, Photoshop is used as one of the leading image design programs for the World Wide Web. The most recent version of Photoshop, or Photoshop CS2, "bridges" between other Adobe products such as Image Ready, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, and Encore DVD to produce profes...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - The three principles of html code optimization
- Just like spring cleaning a house, the html code of your web pages should get periodic cleaning as well. Over time, as changes and updates are made to a web page, the code can become littered with unnecessary clutter, slowing down page load times and hurting the efficiency of your web page. Cluttered html can also seriously impact your search engine ranking.
This is especially true ...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - The five steps of e-commerce
- You set up a retail business, you advertise in your local newspaper, you get customers coming into your store, and you receive payment at the cash register. Create an online store, and...how do you get customers? How do you receive payment? The concept is the same, but the steps are different.
Step 1: Create your website
If you don't have web design skills, you can hi...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - The changing face of web and search engine marketing
- A few years ago, search engine placement was arranged by your average Web designer and/or Webmaster. The Webmaster would simply submit a site to search engines manually or use rudimentary software that was widely available.
Keyword relevance was largely a matter of link popularity and the Webmaster assigning a simple keyword meta-tag to each page of your site. The system used to wor...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - The best web design programs
- Who doesn't own a webpage nowadays? If you're thinking about spicing up your webpage or (heaven forbid) move your webpage off that blogging host, consider some of these web design programs that will make mastering the art of html a breeze (well, not exactly, but with these WYSIWYG?What you see is what you get?tools, you'll be a designing maniac in no time).
Dreamweaver MX...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - The best web design and graphic software is available in academic software versions
- Macromedia's Studio 8 Suite Academic Software Package
Macromedia Dreamweaver
My first choice for HTML editors is Macromedia's Dreamweaver. It has an easy to use, intuitive user interface and state of the art design tools. With a customizable user interface, you can work the way you need to. Although the student software doesn't come with manuals, Dreamweaver has excel...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Streamline your website pages
- Squeezing the most efficient performance from your web pages is important. The benefits are universal, whether the site is personal or large and professional. Reducing page weight can speed up the browsing experience, especially if your visitors are using dial-up internet access. Though broadband access is the future, the present still contains a great deal of dial-up users. Many sites, ecommerce ...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Seo content distribution linking for newbies
- The new buzz on the internet is all about getting one-way links by distributing content to other sites in exchange for backlinks. As with every other SEO or website promotion technique ever devised, there are plenty of newbie myths about it that can ruin your chance for success before you even start.
Newbie Myth 1: The "Duplicate content penalty."
Some webmasters worr...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Search engine optimization and the industry
- Although the internet may be a wondrous piece of engineering and a work of art in progress is it is also an important and powerful industry. The internet represents an unparalleled opportunity for work. Web designers might as well be the modern equivalent of the gold miners of the Old West. They are searching for riches and traveling until they find their fortune. However web design skills are onl...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - San francisco web development - tools
- "Web development encompasses many stages i.e. Planning, Analysis, Web design, Implementation, Promotion and Innovation. Each of these stages requires use of different sets of tools and professionals with varied skill sets.
Planning and Analysis don't require as many software tools as the experience of the web master or project director. They need working knowledge with all aspects o...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Review: swish
- Are you in a busy office and need to get web design jobs with complex text effects done immediately? Want to speed up your productivity but avoid working until Saturday afternoons breaking up text and hand tweening? Then, SWiSH, the new standalone tool that creates great font effects and more by David Mitchie, presented during the Flash Forward 2000 conference, is for you!.
So what'...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Review: real world camera raw with adobe photoshop cs
- Photoshop CS is no doubt the most momentous Photoshop progress which complements digital photographers. Real world Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS discusses exciting new features for general users, web designers, video editors and digital photographers. This book is authored by Bruce Fraser.
Bruce Fraser is a noted author having co-authored the penultimate Photoshop resource book...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Revealing the firefox secret used by top web developers and power-browsers
- Profiles are one of the best kept secrets around regarding Mozilla Firefox (my browser of choice).
In the role of web site designer, I find it useful to have Firefox set up with various Extensions for helping test compliance, keep track of Google Adsense earnings, checking PageRank and Alexa rating, etc...
However, when I am simply surfing the internet, I don't want t...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Press release mx8 - heralded as the most perfect computer system with click instant performance and x800!
- MX8 - Heralded as the most PERFECT Computer System with Click Instant Performance and x800!
World's Proven Most Powerful and Fastest Computer - MX8 with Pentium 4 3400MHz E (EXTREME EDITION Blows away Apple's G5) and 500GB SATA-X Hyperdrives. No other computer proves to be as fast, convenient or complete as Michael's Computers MX8 Tower
Marina Del Rey, CA July 9, 2004...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Page rank purgatory - simple things you can do to keep your web site out of search engine hell!
- Are Meta Tags Really Dead?
Right in their Guidelines Yahoo Tells You that Meta-Tags are Not Totally Dead and Buried
(The Below Information was Taken Directly From the Yahoo Help File http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basics-18.html)
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Oakland, san jose web design company
- "In today's world, websites are not just the clout of major companies alone. Web presence has become affordable for smaller businesses, organizations and even individuals. Having a website helps build and expand business, increase sales or offer services by reaching out to the people who seek it. And contrary to what you may think, it is not enough to just have a website created and uploaded; main...
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- 2007-04-06 22:43:42 - Need a website? you have 3 options
- When it comes to building a website, most individuals and small business owners think you either have to do it yourself or hire someone to do it. Web builder software is often the better option for this group by far.
Even if you're a seasoned web professional, you should know what web builder software can offer private individuals and small businesses. Designers regularly waste time...