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Although there are a number of ways to make HTML look nice with divs tables borders backgrounds and other styling images do play a big part in how your site looks not to mention that adding images within your content is an important way to convey ideas. So, what types of images can you use? […]

As a web designer or hosting company it is great to offer professional services to your clients but referral programs are also a good way to make money and provide a better solution. Most shopping carts will require some type of simple payment solution and there are a variety of merchants out there that can […]

Good Typography is important for every webpage. When your visitor reads your site they want the text to be presented in a way that is easy to read and is highlighted or styled to bring emphasis and guide the reader. In lesson 2 we saw that there are basic mandatory tags that must be included in every […]

Fantastico De Luxe is an application installer that comes with cPanel. The software provided is a variety of different packages, scripts and templates that are useful for developing a website. The benefit is that your customers can use code that has been reviewed to work well with most installs and most of the featured products […]

AT&T Labs has a really neet demo site that you should keep in your bag of tricks. Their Text-to-Speech Demo Site allows you to convert your text into a .wav audio file that you can include as a voice over in your videos or audio files. Simply add the text that you want spoken into […]

As designers we often have customers with specific demands and although we do our best to provide cross browser compatibility there are so many browsers and platforms and versions that it can be difficult to get everything perfect. Well to help Browsershots.com has set up a series of computers with different browsers and they will […]

If you run an Amazon Store from a script then you should make use of Browse Nodes to retrieve your content from their directory. Browse Nodes are how Amazon sorts their products. They are assigned IDs to categories within their database. The worst thing about working with Amazon’s Database is that they don’t seem to […]

BlueLituium is a topsites ad network that is now owned by Yahoo. They serve websites that have the highest visitor rates mostly sites like Ebay BestBuy but if you think your site can serve up enough unique visitors then you can probably cut a pretty decent deal on your ad space. They work with all […]

Ad companies provide a variety of different sizes and formats to allow webdesiners freedom while laying out pages but what are the best placement strategies for gaining the most profit from your ads. First we should look at the basic layout of 90% of websites. For the most part every website will have Header / […]

If you are a website designer that would like to offer hosting services for your clients you will need a way to let your customers signup and pay for accounts. If you only have a handful of clients you can probably get away with doing the work manually but once you get past about 25 […]