- Expert Optimization: Five Tips for Optimizing JPEGs in Photoshop CS2
- Sep 30, 2005
- These days, no Web visitor has the time or patience to wait for slow-loading graphics. In the time it takes to load a large, beautiful photograph, a user can be long gone! But you don't have to abandon photographs altogether; Tanya Staples covers quick techniques for dramatically reducing the file size of those JPEG images while maintaining the finest of details.
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- Make Easy Money with Google Starting with Content
- Sep 30, 2005
- Determine what your Web site's going to be about before you start building it to ensure you create compelling, AdSense-friendly content. Author Eric Giguere offers up tips on finding the topic for your site that's most likely to do well and make money in Google's popular AdSense program.
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- Using AdSense for Content to Rent Ad Space to Google
- Sep 30, 2005
- Ever the advertising pioneer, Google offers website owners the chance to rent ad space to Google with its simple but sophisticated program called AdSense for content. Eric Giguere provides the details in this article.
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- What's New in Dreamweaver 8?
- Sep 30, 2005
- After years of using Dreamweaver, Matthew David is excited by the latest version's new features for designers and developers. He covers his new favorites in this article.
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- Need to Find Something Online? Here's the Key to Effective Searches
- Sep 23, 2005
- Choosing the right keywords is the essence of effective searching. But coming up with good, unique keywords is actually just half the battle. You also need to know how to enter and combine keywords, taking advantage of the basic search tools offered by the major search engines. Some search engines have a different set of instructions depending on whether you're using their simple or advanced versions. But certain general concepts apply across the board and these concepts are all covered here.
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- Set Up a Basic Web Page in Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Sep 23, 2005
- Never built a Web page before? No problem. Author J. Tarin Towers walks you through creating a simple Web page in Dreamweaver MX 2004 that uses tables, links, images, and text. She also shows you how to adjust properties of a page, including the title and page background, as well as how to select and use colors in Dreamweaver.
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- World Usability Day: "Making it Easy" for Technology Users
- Sep 23, 2005
- Technology should work. And it shouldn't make you feel stupid. That's the goal of this year's first annual World Usability Day on November 3, 2005, with more than 50 events planned in 26 countries around the globe. Participants will include everyone from schoolchildren to government leaders. Garth Buchholz tells you what to expect.
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- Starting Your Own Blog: How to Choose the Right Blogging Tool for You
- Sep 9, 2005
- Blogs, blogs, blogs. Seems like they're everywhere these days. But with so many blogging tools out there it can be tough to pick the one you need to get started. Molly Holzschlag helps you out by helping you pick just the right blogging tool for you.
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- Developing ASP.NET Applications with Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Aug 26, 2005
- Did you know that Dreamweaver allows you to build web applications that leverage J2EE, ColdFusion, and Microsoft .NET, among others? Matthew David introduces you to the exciting world of developing applications built on ASP.NET.
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- Integrated Web Design: The Meaning of Semantics (Take I)
- Feb 18, 2005
- Nearly every web designer is guilty of forcing line breaks, creating tables that don't hold tabular data, and a host of other egregious HTML sins. Now that CSS is around, Molly E. Holzschlag slaps our hands and explains why we should pay attention to each element's content, not just its looks.
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- What's Acceptable Search Engine "Spam" Technique?
- Jan 21, 2005
- While there are certainly some shady practices that you can use to "cheat" your way into a better page rank from search engines, some practices that are marked as "spam" can actually be quite innocent. Dave Taylor provides two examples of perfectly innocent web design elements that have been called "spam" by pagerank purists.
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- The Right Way to Link To Pages On Your Site
- Jan 14, 2005
- What is the best way to code internal links throughout your site to optimize your visibility for search engines? In some cases, like weblogs, the difference between a relative link and an absolute link can mean a significant difference in searchability.
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- Three Ways to Adversely Impact your Google Pagerank
- Jan 7, 2005
- There are plenty of tips you can use to increase your pagerank, but some of these can actually backfire, hurting your page's score. Find out what you might be doing to hurt your search engine visibility in this article by Dave Taylor.
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- How Does Google Figure out What Pages are More Relevant? Pagerank
- Dec 30, 2004
- Dave Taylor helps you understand Pagerank, a critical first step in increasing the visibility of your website in Google searches.
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- Untold Mysteries of CSS
- Dec 23, 2004
- Molly Holzschlag looks behind the curtain to show you how three untold CSS mysteries can be put to use to assist with diagnostics during development, savvy global styling, out-and-out hacks, better design flexibility, and accessibility.
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- Redesigning a Big Umbrella of Websites: The Informit CSS Overhaul
- Nov 5, 2004
- Informit and its many sister sites, all divisions of the Pearson Technology Group, recently united in one code base. How does a huge conglomerate of independent web sites become one system of technologies that works for everyone? Meryl K. Evans tells the tale.
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- Styling a Photo Collection Using CSS
- Aug 13, 2004
- Eric Meyer walks you through a web page design project to present a collection of photographs for sale.
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- Integrated Web Design: Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified
- Aug 6, 2004
- In this installment of Integrated Web Design, Molly Holzschlag teaches you all about positioning schemes.
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- Integrated Web Design: Seven Deadly Markup Sins
- Jul 9, 2004
- If you're in Web design and development, you're using something to mark up your pages. But despite all our growth and knowledge, some nagging problems remain. Molly Holzschlag helps you hone in on the most common markup mistakes and shows you how to repair them with ease.
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- Positioning Web Elements in the Background Using CSS
- Jul 2, 2004
- There is only one way to get a smooth translucency effect in Explorer for Windows, and Eric Meyer shows you how in this article.
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