The easiest and most effective way to eliminate unwanted text around your web forms is to use a snippet of CSS code.
[2003-08-29] Using ASP.NET to Make a Secure Site and Move Login Processing Out of the Page
A lot of us are tasked everyday to come up with ways of making our site, and other sites secure. Well if you're anything like me you don't want to have to rewrite login code 20 times a day. I'm going to show you how to make a secure site and have the login processing in a separate class. Let's get started.
[2003-08-28] Iterative Design -- The Power of Cascading Style Sheets
Sheets for Prototyping is an essential tool for designers. The ability to take a vision, quickly mock it up, and present it for critique and evaluation is critical to developing quality, usable designs. Prototypes are most valuable when teams can iterate quickly. Taking an idea, trying it out, discovering flaws, modifying the design, and trying it out again is the essence of an iterative approach to design.
[2003-08-22] Watermarks with Cascading Style Sheets
In the print industry the sign of quality paper is a company watermark or brand emblem. This same effect can be achieved for your company's web site using CSS. This effect is compatible only with MIE4+ and NS6.1+. Older browsers will simply not render the watermark.
[2003-08-22] Tracking Reader Behavior
Reader question: "I have placed photos and links to my books (on my web site) in my newsletter. Thanks to the tracking information I receive, I can tell who has clicked through to view the books. I was thinking that maybe in a month or so, I should send these few folks an email offering 20% off my books. Not mentioning that I know they clicked through, of course."
[2003-08-21] Inside Search Engine Strategies, San Jose – Day One
Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Strategies rolled into San Jose this week, bringing an unprecedented four days of search engine marketing advice (SEM) and news to more than 1700 attendees. If you still had reservations about the legitimacy of search engine marketing, one look at the impressive roster of exhibitors, sponsors and attendees would quickly dispel any doubts.
[2003-08-20] Create a Simple, Effective PHP Form for Your Web Site
If you have been struggling to set up forms on your web site using cgi, then definitely read this article. Installing a simple PHP form is much easier and faster than installing a cgi form and doesn't need any programming experience.
[2003-08-20] Top Five Sins of the Startpage Exchanges
Right now, these exchanges are generating more traffic to my site than any other single method ever has. They are a great tool, as any, in the right hands. They may not work next week, who knows, but that's the nature of the Internet.
[2003-08-19] Calculating the Cost of Content
In our enthusiasm to measure clickthroughs, pageviews and revenues, we seldom stop to consider the cost of our Web site content.
[2003-08-15] Let Your Visitors "Print This Page"
A fantastic way to remind your site visitors to come back and visit you is by offering them a quick way to print a page that they can read offline later at their convenience. I personally do this printing process myself, when I am limited to the amount of time I have to read information on a web site thoroughly.
[2003-08-14] Using Web DAV with IIS 5.0
The basic purpose of WebDAV is to provide file I/O through HTTP. This permits your to load, edit, delete, create subdirectories, and basically manage files located on the Web Server from the client desktop. Of course, MS has several products that already permit remote manipulation of remote websites.
[2003-08-14] Dealing With Duplicate Data From Form Submissions
We've received several requests for a method of verifying data submitted with a web page form is unique. So I made a kit that can be used to implement such a method, and give it to you in this article.
[2003-08-13] Turn Benefits Into Sales with Streaming Media
The "Wow" factor that accompanied the introduction of streaming media on the Web has long passed, and the technology now has to prove itself to marketers. Its' acceptance by advertisers, in conjunction with other rich media technologies, is on the upswing, but it's still not widely used to enhance commercial sites.
[2003-08-13] Spinning Text Meets Same Fate as Skip Intro
Practical Applications of 3D in Flash The early days of Swift 3D sort of remind me of the early days of Flash. People were so excited to finally have a great new tool to create cutting edge Web content, but were often struggling to find the best uses for that content.
[2003-08-12] The Secure Socket Layer
What is SSL? SSL, or Secure Socket Layer, is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) approved protocol designed by Netscape to facilitate the secure transferring of information over the World Wide Web. SSL works by authenticating the server's identity, along with the user's identity, and sending encrypted information through the channel, protected from prying packet sniffers.
[2003-08-12] Crossing the Great Graphics Barrier
One of the first hurdles in learning Web design is understanding the use of graphics. The greatest of programmers can come up against the graphics barrier and sometimes just fall flat. Even professional desktop publishers when faced with a "design for the Web" task, can make critical errors.
[2003-08-09] Adding Search Funtionality To Your Site
Having your very own search engine for your site will enable your visitors to quickly and easily find just what they are looking for, without having to navigate through numerous menus or wade through long lists of options. Your users can just type in a few keywords for what interests them, and within seconds they are shown to the exact pages on your website that are relevant.
[2003-08-08] Design Patterns -- An Evolutionary Step to Managing Complex Sites
When your organization's web site or intranet has hundreds of contributors, how do you ensure that every page is high quality and extremely usable? Especially, if these contributors have never designed a web page before?
[2003-08-07] Images for the Web
I've talked a lot about the need for speed. Specifically, the importance of your web pages loading quickly. Images are the number one culprit. Like a vampire, they are seductive and at the same time suck the life out of your site. (By the way, since this article deals with images, I will be using some as examples and this will cause the pages to take a while to load.)
[2003-08-07] Good Web Design: The Importance of Navigation
A well-designed website has many facets: gorgeous graphics, cool animations, drop-down menus, and of course, relevant content. Another important feature, often overlooked, is a good, solid navigation scheme.
[2003-08-06] ColdFusion Mad Libs – Part 2 of 2
Wow! You're back for more. I take it to mean you're ready to take the next step in your Mad Libs application (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, stop reading right now and go check out the ColdFusion Mad Libs Part 1 tutorial).
[2003-08-06] Stopping and Directing Web Spiders
Not all agents, (otherwise known as crawlers, bots, robots and spiders), that visit your site will be of benefit. Even the "good" spiders such as the ones Google sends out to index your site may visit places that you don't wish them to.
[2003-08-05] Online Activists' Lessons For Online Business
Over a 48-hour period, the online political activist site MoveOn.org, ran a groundbreaking online Democratic primary that netted 317,647 votes -- far more than actual turnout in many states' actual Presidential primaries.
[2003-08-05] 9 Near Fatal Flaws Most Links Pages Suffer From and How to Avoid Them
Trading links is critical to online success. Yet most links pages are defective! The worst ones can have nine near fatal flaws. How does yours stack up?
[2003-08-01] Duplicate content in the search engines
Reader question: If I have my web site www.depression-therapist.co.uk and then got another, such as www.depression-therapist.com or www.depression-anxiety.com would I be in effect causing search engines to think I am spamming, if both sites have the identical written content? Will they take one or both of my sites off their search engines? Or will I have to make BOTH sites different? I would be grateful for any thoughts on this.
[2003-08-01] Optimizing Gif images for the web - Part II
In the previous article on optimizing GIF images for the web, we learned a few basic things about the GIF image format - who developed it, the (Limpel-Ziv and Welch) compression algorithm it uses and how we can decrease the file size of a GIF image by removing unwanted areas and reducing the number of colors.
