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New article:
How to Install PrestaShop Shopping Cart on Your Website.
Are you selling goods or services on your website? Or perhaps you want to sell digital goods like ebooks, software, music MP3 files, etc, and don't
know how to get your website to automatically deliver the goods sold to your customers after they pay for it. The PrestaShop software
is a free (and open source) shopping cart program that you can install on your website to run your own online shop. This tutorial shows you
how you can set it up.
New article:
What's The Difference Between Liquid, Elastic, Relative, Fluid, Flexible and Fixed Layouts?
Where web design is concerned, I'm sure you've heard of things like a "liquid" layout, or a "fluid" one, or an "elastic" one, and so on. What
do all these terms mean, and which layout should you choose for your website? What are the consequences of choosing one layout over the other?
This
article attempts to answer those questions.
28 August 2009
New article:
How to Add Text and Image Links to Your Website in Serif WebPlus X2.
This fifth chapter of the
Serif WebPlus X2 tutorial deals with how you can make any text or image on your site into a clickable link. You can now link to
other pages, photos, PDF ebooks, and other files on your site, as well as link to other websites.
18 August 2009
New article:
How to Centre a Horizontal Navigation Menu Bar in Dreamweaver.
If you have inserted a horizontal menu bar into your site using Dreamweaver's built-in menu facilities, this tutorial may be of interest to you. It
shows you how you can centre (or "center") the menu bar on the web page (or in one of the columns if you have a multi-column site).
New article:
Do You Need a Web Editor If You Use Your Web Host's Free Website Templates?
This article tries to clarify some of the confusing terms used in webmaster jargon while answering a question asked by one of thesitewizard.com's visitors. It
also gives an important precaution to take before using any free web design template provided by your web host.
29 July 2009
New article:
How to Add a Navigation Menu to Your Website with Serif WebPlus X2.
The fourth chapter of the Serif WebPlus X2 tutorial series is now online. This chapter shows you how you can insert a navigation menu to your website
as well as how you can configure the navigation bar so that it has an appearance that suits your site design. (For those wondering,
Serif WebPlus X2
is a visual web editor for designing websites.)
New article:
How to Manage and Style Your Text Content in Serif WebPlus X2.
The third chapter of the Serif WebPlus X2
Tutorial Series deals with styling the text on your website using this visual web editor. This includes changing fonts, creating fancy text effects,
making your text bold, etc. And then there's the problem of what to do if you have a lot of text content. The article deals with how you can
accomplish all these while maintaining your website's usability.
3 July 2009
New article:
How to Use the Frame Blocking Facility (Anti-Clickjacking Defence) in Internet Explorer 8.
Internet Explorer 8 gives webmasters a new way to protect their site from being placed in a frame, and thus, hopefully, prevent clickjacking from
taking place. This article shows you how you can configure your website so that it takes advantage of IE 8's new feature.
29 June 2009
New article:
How to Add Images to Your Website in Serif WebPlus X2.
The second chapter of the Serif WebPlus X2
Tutorial Series is now online. This chapter deals with how you can add things like your website's logo, photos, product images, background images
and so on to your web page. It also introduces the concept of a stacking order to the objects on your web page. (For those who don't know,
Serif
WebPlus X2 is a point-and-click visual web editor that you can use to create a website.)
15 June 2009
New article:
How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form Script: Reducing Spam in Your Contact Form.
Is your mail box filled with spam sent by automated computer programs dumping junk into your feedback form? Are you tired of having to
wade through tons of ridiculous body enhancement suggestions replete with grammatical errors before arriving at your real email? This
article shows you how you can add a CAPTCHA facility to your feedback form in an easy-to-do way, to hopefully reduce the spam arriving through your
contact form. Note that this article is intended for the ordinary, non-technical webmaster, and can be implemented by anyone.
9 June 2009
The Feedback Form Script Wizard has been updated to
add the following features to the feedback form it creates: (1) The PHP feedback form script created by the wizard can now, at your option,
check to make sure that the comments/message field is not empty before submitting its contents. (Note: this is not exactly a new feature since it was
present in older versions of the script but was removed in recent versions. By popular request, the facility has now been restored
to the script.) (2) You can now make the wizard use either XHTML or HTML for the form code. If you don't know what to use, just leave
it at the default.
If you don't need the new features, you don't have to upgrade. As always, the script is free.
New Article:
What Does It Mean to Park a Domain Name? Domain Name Parking Explained.
In response to a query, this article explains what it means to park a domain name. It also covers situations where you may want to
park a domain name, and discusses why you may not want use your domain name registrar's parking services.
21 May 2009
New Article:
Serif WebPlus X2 Tutorial: How to Design Your Website with Serif WebPlus X2.
At the request of a number of visitors, I've now begun a new tutorial series.
Serif WebPlus X2
is a site builder and WYSIWYG web editor that allows you to simply drag and drop elements onto a page to create a website. This tutorial will guide
you through the steps of building a complete, fully-functional, multi-page website using the web editor.
12 May 2009
New Article:
Why Am I Still Seeing My Web Host's Default Page or a File Not Found Error Page After I've Published My Website?
This article attempts to address a problem where some webmasters publish their new websites using a web editor or an FTP program, only to find when
they visit their website, that their web browsers still show them their web host's default web page or an error page. It provides a checklist of things
to do in such a situation.
New Article:
How to Transfer / Move Your Website from GeoCities: Closure of GeoCities' Free Web Hosting.
The venerable GeoCities, born in the early days of the Internet, is closing. If your website is currently hosted there, you should start moving it to another
web host, free or otherwise. Since there are many things to attend to when moving a website, this tutorial gives you a step-by-step guide on how
you can move the site from GeoCities so as to preserve (as much as possible) your search engine position as well as your visitors. Don't wait too long
to get started. Some things, such as getting the search engines to recognize your new website, take a lot of time to resolve.
23 April 2009
New Article:
How to Create Hanging Indents in HTML and CSS.
A hanging indent is often used in bibliographies and probably also other places. The first line of a paragraph having
a hanging indent usually juts out to the left while the rest of the paragraph is indented. This article shows you two
methods that you can use to create such an effect using CSS and HTML.
21 April 2009
New Article:
How to Insert a Footnote or Endnote on a Web Page with Dreamweaver.
A visitor asked me some time back how he could insert a footnote or an endnote into a web page using the Dreamweaver web editor.
This article answers that question, and also deals with how you can create the special symbols associated with footnotes and put them in superscript.
At the same time, it goes further and discusses ways to improve the usability of a web page using footnotes.
New Article:
How to Make a Link Open in a New Browser Window or Tab in Dreamweaver.
In some rare instances, you may need a make a link on your website that, when clicked, opens the page being linked to in a new browser
window or tab. This article shows you how you can do this using the Dreamweaver web editor.
