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Photography Is Powerful: Maximise Its Potential 2008-05-31 14:02:45 Images are powerful and have a big impact on the viewer. Whether it is on a website, on TV or in a physical photograph - they have a big effect regardless of how they are viewed.
This presents an opportunity, you can harness the power of photography to increase the strength of the emotions your visitors feel. The [...] Read more:Potential
Quality Web Hosting Can Help Your Web Design 2008-05-22 08:01:59 A fast website is important for users, so you obviously want your website to load as quickly as possible. For this a good web host is required. Having a web host with loads of diskspace and bandwidth can help your web design.
You should be comparing your website to your competition at all times, and not just in design terms. [...] Read more:Hosting
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Seeing PHP Errors Is A Visitor Killer! 2008-05-14 13:45:40 As soon as I see a big PHP error message on a website I leave straight away. It means something isn’t working and the webmaster obviously isn’t on top of everything. Always concentrate and do everything you can to avoid errors on your website.
When installing new designs in the past I have had PHP errors on [...] Read more:Errors
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New Free Unlimited Image Hosting Provider Launch! 2008-05-12 04:13:10 Today we are pleased to announce our new free unlimited image hosting service is now live. The service allows you to upload images and host them on our website, absolutely free (forever!).
Using the service is super easy. Simply visit the minisite, browse, select and upload - wait a few seconds and the job is done! [...] Read more:Hosting
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Learning Basic HTML and CSS Has Big Benefits 2008-05-04 13:27:39 I am not qualified in any kind of computer coding or programming, in fact I’m not formerly qualified in anything! The truth is you don’t need to be to run a successful online business. There are plenty of people who are qualified and have the ability to create the website you want (and need to [...] Read more:Basic
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A Major Benefit Of Using Wordpress Is Design 2008-04-22 13:09:23 Wordpress is brilliant, if you aren’t already using it you should seriously consider it for your next website. Even if you aren’t setting up a blog it works great as a CMS. Not only is it SEO friendly (with the help of plugins) and super easy to use and maintain, but it is also great for [...] Read more:Major
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Web Design Is The Fun Part Of Webmastering 2008-04-12 12:00:41 Tinkering with CSS often gets on my nerves, often because I can’t achieve the effect I want to! Trying to sort one tiny little thing out for an hour isn’t fun, and you are left feeling like you haven’t actually achieved anything when you’ve finally sorted the problem out.
Aside from the little moments like this [...] Read more:Web Design
New Free Image Host Coming Soon 2008-04-03 05:40:41 We are putting together a new ‘free image hosting’ service to help expand our existing main website and blog. It will be much the same as other free image hosts although it will be faster loading and have less adverts than most competitors. The script for the service is just being completed now and will be live on [...] Read more:Coming Soon
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Compromise Design Purity To Stand Out From The Crowd 2008-03-06 08:41:05 The web is a busy place, millions of websites all competing for visitors within their niche. Getting visitors to remember your site can be done by promoting RSS feeds and constantly referring to your site as WhateverYourNameIs.com, as well as many other methods. With the web being such a busy place it is important that your design [...] Read more:Compromise
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Don’t Let Your Web Design Slow Growth & Development 2008-02-21 08:24:57 The main website is now receiving around 15,000 unique visitors a month, and continuing to grow. I also have new features (unique & good quality of course!) to integrate into the site. The problem is the current design! It is a very pretty looking site with the big image of a sunset, but the navigation bar at [...] Read more:Development
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Need Stock Images To Help Your Web Design? 2008-02-08 10:25:08 The right images on a website can really help complete a design in style. No matter what the nature or style of your site design there are always plenty of images you can use absolutely free (or though you may have to credit the photographer). On our main site we previously only listed 4 providers [...] Read more:Images
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Regular Changes Or Once Over For Design? 2008-01-22 09:05:16 Are you constantly tweaking your website or do you do a redesign/series of changes and just leave it? Is it wise to always be messing with the design? Ive been putting together plans for existing websites to continue there development and I started thinking about whether constant changes are better than making lots of changes at [...]
Easy Navigation Is Critical Part Of Web Design 2008-01-15 06:04:20 When designing a website there is lots to think about, and one of the most important parts is how users will navigate around your site. Users love simple navigation, it means they have to think less and can surf quicker. If you want users to stay on your website for a while then easy navigation is critical.
Navigation
To [...] Read more:Web Design
Start Off 2008 As You Mean To Go On 2008-01-08 05:18:49 Whatever your targets are for your business in 2008 make sure you start off as you mean to go on. If you begin the year getting out of bed late and putting off jobs you need to do on your website then you are heading straight on for a year where your business either fails or doesn’t [...] Read more:Start
Have A Merry 2007 Christmas! 2007-12-18 07:05:09 Just wanted to wish everyone a MerryChristmas
! I hope 2007 has been a good all-round year for your business and yourself. Send out the year with a bang by enjoying Christmas and seeing in the New Year in style (I think everyone says that!) Then you will be fresh for 2008 and the challenges [...]
Add A Friendly Face To Your Website! 2007-12-05 10:12:55 The first ever article we wrote for the articles page on our main website was titled ‘Add A Friendly
Face To Your Website’, we published it at the start of 2007 and it was picked up by many web design forums and websites. If you haven’t yet read it we recommend you do. You can [...]
Basics Of Website Design - DON’T DO’S! 2007-11-28 06:52:37 This is the first proper post of our blog, so we will start at the very bottom with the basics of web design. There are many things you should and shouldn’t do when designing your website or blog. This post highlights a few of the basics that you should avoid doing on your site.
Don’t use background [...] Read more:Basics
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Welcome To Our New Web Design Blog 2007-11-19 08:06:07 Thanks for visiting our new web design blog. This weblog is an extension of our popular FreeStockImages.net service, where we review providers of royalty free stock images as well as recommend webmaster resources and link to articles and videos with web design tips.
This blog will be on exactly the same topic of web design. We [...] Read more:Web Design
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Integrating The Design Of Separate Areas Of Your Website 2008-07-23 08:38:23 The majority of my websites have different areas, even if it is only the main website and then a blog on a subdomain. I have recetly been considering the designs I use on different areas of different websites I have, and whether or not I should integrate the designs so they look the same or [...] Read more:Integrating
Removing Valuable Advertising Space For Design Sake 2008-08-06 08:43:44 When designing a new website or redesigning an old one an important part is advertising space, how much do you need to include, where abouts is it going to be located and will it blend or stand out?
I have been faced with this dilemma a few times recently, the cold hard fact is that I need to [...] Read more:Advertising
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Encourage Users To Use Google Chrome To Help Your Website! 2008-09-05 05:00:25 I’m sure you’ve heard about GoogleChrome
by now, it is the new web browser from Google to take on the mighty Internet Explorer. I downloaded it yesterday and have so far found it nice to use - nothing amazing just nice.
One Killer Advantage
It is simple to use and looks good, but the best advantage [...]
What’s Best For This Blogs Design - 2 Columns Or 3? 2008-09-04 08:42:01 First off, welcome to the our new look web design blog (the sidebar isn’t quite complete yet - sorry!). The old free template has gone to be replaced by a new design matching our main website.
During the change we faced a dilemma, to go with 2 columns or 3? What is best for you, the [...] Read more:Blogs
Hate Spam? Stop It With Anti Spam Filtering Services 2008-09-23 04:07:22 A big part of webmastering is email; sending it, receiving it and keeping space in your inbox. If you miss important emails then it can be costly, very costly if the sender has a time limit on a reply from you!
You may think it sounds stupid that you might miss an email, but this is [...] Read more:Filtering
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Microsoft Announces New Toolbar To Download 2008-09-22 15:57:51 A couple of weeks ago I mentioned Google Chrome, well now Microsoft
has gone and released a new MSN toolbar - and it appears quite complex to use.
You can do lots of things with the toolbar which appears to have some kind of a flip function so you can switch between what you are doing. [...] Read more:Download
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Get Cheaper .Com Domains & Improve Ecommerce Sales 2008-09-14 13:15:51 I’ve stumbled across some great content today and thought it is well worth sharing.
Cheaper .Com Domains
If you want to save yourself money on domain registration (who doesn’t?) then this forum post on NP provides codes for Godaddy, long-term it can save you lots of dollars so worth bookmarking. I’m not a regular on NP so have only [...] Read more:Improve
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Need Customers To Find Your Offline Location? 2008-10-05 11:53:53 If you run an offline business like a restaurant or hotel and you want customers to be able to find your location easily there maybe a solution called Schmap.
The solution allows a website - say for a restaurant, bar or other business - to serve a map and contact details perfectly formatted for iPhone visitors. [...] Read more:Location
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Search And Win On 123RF Stock Photography Website! 2008-09-29 09:10:12 123RF is the leading supplier and distributor of royalty free stock images and low cost rights-managed images. They currently have a contest running where you can win a Wacom Bamboo or 20 123RF credits, to win all you have to do is search for images on their website as you normally would!
It is a great [...] Read more:Search
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Improve Your Web Design With Moving Animations 2008-11-04 08:40:35 We have yet another new and quality section on our main website, it’s about using Moving
Animations on your website! Animations really help set your website apart from competitors and improve the visual appeal when visitors first land on your website.
Animations aren’t used enough by webmasters in my opinion. For a start they don’t make [...] Read more:Improve
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