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12 September 2012
New article:
How to Change the Fonts and Text Colour on Your Website using BlueGriffon.
Find out how you can change fonts, use bold and italics as well as modify the colour of your text on your website using
the free BlueGriffon web editor.
3 August 2012
New article:
How to Add Pictures and a Logo to Your Website Using BlueGriffon Web Editor.
Find out how to insert
images and a website logo to your website using the free BlueGriffon web editor. This is the second chapter
of the BlueGriffon tutorial
series.
11 May 2012
New article:
BlueGriffon Tutorial: How to Create a Website with the BlueGriffon Free Web Editor.
BlueGriffon is a free and open source WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") web editor. Unlike the other free
web editors around, this one contains an up-to-date engine that supports the modern HTML and CSS constructs used on
the Internet today. Find out how you can use this web editor to design and create your own website in this
BlueGriffon Tutorial.
30 March 2012
New article:
What Banks Need to Know Before Getting a New Domain Name.
I was interviewed by the American Bankers Association's Bank Marketing Magazine on the things
that banks need to be aware of when they get a new domain name. An edited version of that
interview is now available online.
26 January 2012
New article:
How to Add a Contact Form (Web Form) to Your Website Using Dreamweaver CS5.5.
Find out how you can add a feedback form to your website using the Dreamweaver CS5.5 web editor. This is the final chapter
of the Dreamweaver CS5.5
tutorial, so if you are considering
creating a website with this
editor, the complete tutorial is now available online.
12 January 2012
How to Make / Create Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide (Updated).
Find out how you can create a
website with this complete beginner's guide written in plain English. It takes you through all the steps of making
a website, including designing the site, putting it on the Internet, collecting credit card payments and putting advertisements.
9 January 2012
New article:
How to Efficiently Manage a Multi-Page Website with Dreamweaver CS5.5.
When you create a website,
you not only want an easy way to design multiple pages, but you also want a way to
automatically
update all the pages on the site should you make a change in the original design. Find out how you can
get Dreamweaver to do this tedious and mundane work for you in this article.
16 December 2011
New article:
How to Reserve a Domain Name. Do You Need a Web Host if You Want to Reserve a Domain for Future Use?.
How do you go about reserving a domain name for a future website? Do you need to get a web host or do some other
special thing? This article answers those questions.
30 November 2011
New article:
How to Customize the Navigation Menu on Your Website with Dreamweaver CS5.5.
A website's navigation menu is the set of buttons on every page that links to important pages on the site. Learn
how to customize
this menu with the Dreamweaver web editor to add, delete, and modify the buttons as well as to change their colour
("color"). This is chapter 6 of the Dreamweaver CS 5.5 tutorial.
18 November 2011
New article:
How to Change Your Words and Images into Clickable Links in Dreamweaver CS5.5.
Find out how to make
images and text into clickable links using the Dreamweaver CS5.5 web editor. This is chapter 5 of the
Dreamweaver CS5.5 tutorial.
7 November 2011
New article:
How to Change the Background Colour and Set a Background Image for Your Website in Dreamweaver CS5.5.
Learn how to change the background colour ("color") of your website, or if you prefer, use
a picture as the background with the Dreamweaver CS5.5 web editor. This is
chapter 4 of
the Dreamweaver CS 5.5 Tutorial.
25 October 2011
New article:
How to Change Fonts, Text Size and Text Colour in Dreamweaver CS5.5.
Find out how you can change fonts, put text in bold or italics, underline words, and change the text size or colour ("color")
using the Dreamweaver CS5.5 web editor. This is
chapter 3 of the
Dreamweaver CS 5.5 tutorial series.
15 September 2011
New article:
What's the Difference Between a Content Management System (CMS), a Blog, a Web Editor and an Online Site Builder?
Are you wondering whether to use a CMS, a blogging program, a web editor or a site builder to
create your own website?
Or perhaps you're confused about the difference between all these things. If so,
this article
may be just what you're looking for.
16 August 2011
New article:
How to Add a Site Logo and Other Images to Your Website in Dreamweaver CS5.5.
Learn how to insert pictures, photos, a website logo and other images into your website using Dreamweaver CS5.5. This is chapter
2 of the Dreamweaver CS5.5
tutorial series.
21 July 2011
New article:
Dreamweaver CS5.5 Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS 5.5.
As many of you already know, the newest version of the well-known Dreamweaver web editor has been released.
Learn how to use this editor to create a website with this tutorial,
Dreamweaver CS5.5 Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS 5.5.
12 July 2011
New article:
How to Create Automatically Numbered Lists, Bullet Point Lists and Definition Lists in HTML.
Learn how to create lists that are automatically numbered by the web browser, bullet point lists as well as
definition lists in HTML. This is chapter 3 of the
HTML tutorial.
16 June 2011
New article:
The HTML Tags that Deal with Text.
If you have always wanted to learn HTML, but have found all the various guides available too
intimidating, give this series a try. It's designed for the layperson, and explains everything in plain English.
This newest article
is chapter 2 of the HTML
Tutorial for beginners.
18 May 2011
New article:
HTML Tutorial - Learn to Design a Website using HTML.
Are you thinking of creating a website by directly writing HTML code? Or perhaps you are experienced in using
a visual web editor, but have decided that it's time you learnt ("learned") more about the underlying code your website
depends on. This systematic HTML tutorial
will take beginners who know nothing about HTML all the way to being able to create a functioning website by directly coding in
HTML and CSS.
26 April 2011
New article:
Should I Learn HTML or Just Use a WYSIWYG Web Editor? Pros and Cons of Using a Visual Web Editor vs Learning HTML.
Do you lose something by not knowing HTML? Should every webmaster learn HTML or is it enough to just use a
visual (WYSIWYG) web editor? This
article addresses that question.
11 April 2011
New article:
How to Insert Text (or Images) Beside Your Site Logo in the Header with Dreamweaver CS5.
If you want the title of your web page to appear at the top of your web page next to your site logo,
and don't know how to make it work using Dreamweaver CS 5,
this article
shows you how.
9 February 2011
New article:
How to Restore or Reopen the Properties Panel (or the CSS Styles or Files Panel) in Dreamweaver.
Have you accidentally hidden one or more panels in your Dreamweaver window, such as the Properties, CSS Styles or Files panel,
and don't know how to restore them? This article shows you how to
reset the layout of your
Dreamweaver window to its original state, so that you can continue to
create your website using the
interface that you're accustomed to.
26 January 2011
New article:
How to Add a Feedback Form to Your Website with NetObjects Fusion 11.
Find out how you can add a feedback form (or contact form) to your website using the NetObjects Fusion 11 web editor.
A feedback form allows your visitors to send you an email message simply by filling in a form on your site.
This is the final chapter of the NetObjects Fusion 11 tutorial.
14 January 2011
New article:
How to Link to Other Websites and Add New Web Pages to Your Site with NetObjects Fusion 11.
This 4th chapter of
the NetObjects Fusion 11 tutorial shows you how you can add new pages to your website and
link to other websites (as well as to other pages on your own site).
3 January 2011
New article:
How to Change the Font, Text Size, and Colours of Your Web Page with NetObjects Fusion 11.
Modify the fonts, size, foreground and background colours of the text on your web page with this
3rd chapter of the
NetObjects Fusion 11 tutorial. The tutorial also shows how you can change the fonts used on your banner (site logo)
and navigation menu.
20 December 2010
New article:
How to Add Images and Logos to Your Website with NetObjects Fusion 11.
This second chapter
of the NetObjects Fusion tutorial deals with how you can add pictures and photos to
your own website,
change the banner that is at the top of the page to your own logo, as well as how to solve the problem of elements
that appear to be wrongly positioned after you publish your page.
29 November 2010
New article:
NetObjects Fusion 11 Tutorial: How to Create a Website with NetObjects Fusion 11.
This tutorial teaches you how
to design a website the easy way using the NetObjects Fusion 11 visual web editor. No mucking with HTML or CSS code needed.
Just start with one of the large number of website templates that come with this web editor and customise ("customize") it to your
heart's content.
11 November 2010
New article:
How to Switch Between the Liquid and Fixed Layout Templates in Dreamweaver.
Changing your website from a liquid layout to a fixed layout, and vice versa, is easy with the
Dreamweaver web editor. This article shows you how you can do it in one place, with the editor automatically
taking care of updating all your pages to the new layout without your having to redo everything manually.
27 September 2010
New article:
Should You Get a Domain Name with Spaces or Dots In Between to Improve Readability?
I was asked by a number of visitors whether they should separate the words in their domain name with spaces or dots, or just get
a domain name where the words all run into each other. This article attempts to clarify the misunderstanding in the question,
suggest alternatives and answer the underlying question.
7 September 2010
New article:
How to Centre a Background Image or Photo on Your Web Page Using KompoZer.
If you have ever added a background image to your web page, and found that by default, it repeats itself on the page so that
copies of the image fill the entire browser window (like the tiles on a floor), this article is for you. It shows you how to
disable that tiling effect, and centre
("center") a single copy of the image in the background using the free KompoZer web editor.
25 August 2010
New article:
How to Rescue Your Website from the Clutches of a Bad Web Designer or Bad Web Host.
Is your website stuck with a bad web host or a bad web designer, who is refusing to return your site to you, and leaving it
to languish? Here's help on how
to regain control of your website and move it elsewhere without their cooperation.
9 August 2010
New article:
How to Create Rounded Corners for Your Box Borders in CSS.
Tired of putting retro rectangular boxes with right-angled corners on your web pages? This article teaches you how to create boxes
with rounded corners to enclose your text and/or pictures, giving it a more modern look. And you don't even need to do tedious things like
slice images: the tutorial uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to accomplish the job.
5 August 2010
Another frequently asked question (FAQ) has been added to the
How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form Script:
Reducing Spam in Your Contact Form article. This one deals with how to solve the problem of the ReCAPTCHA service rejecting
your CAPTCHA test after you move your site to a new domain.
