Before you start building a website or blog consider your options
When I first started designing web pages, it was relatively easy — and vanilla boring.
More than ten years and a dozen books later, web design is much more complex today, and a lot more exciting. (Learn how to create a website)
Improve your results in Google
The best way to make your site search engine friendly is to design your site so that it’s easy for search engines to ‘read’ your pages.
That means doing things like adding alternative text behind your images and using the Meta description tag. In this tutorial, you’ll find a few Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips and discover the features in Dreamweaver that will best serve your SEO efforts. (Learn more about SEO.)
Compare Ecommerce Options
At the low end, you can add a simple shopping cart to your website quickly — and with no upfront costs — if you use Google Checkout or PayPal.
At the high end, you can spend tens of thousands of dollars to set up an ecommerce program like Magento with a fully integrated inventory and sophisticated tracking systems and analytics. (Learn more about ecommerce options.)
Here are three traffic reporting services you can use on any web site. Get all the details with Google Analytics www.google.com/analytics Google Analytics is one of the best traffic counters on the web — and it’s free! You just add a little snippet of code to your Web pages, and Google tracsk your visitors, creating […]
Read MoreCreating responsive designs is the best new thing in web design, and Adobe’s new Fluid Grid Layout system is a great place to start in Dreamweaver CS6. The new Fluid Grid Layout option is available from the File menu, and it’s a new category in the New Document Window. As you develop your designs, keep […]
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When adding shopping carts and other eCommerce services to your site, you can choose from many options. Familiar brands, such as PayPal and Google, have made major efforts to migrate their online commerce technology to the mobile platform. And a crop of new companies are emerging, with dedicated mobile services that include everything from m-commerce […]
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It’s a shocking scenario: You create a page design that looks just perfect in your favorite web browser on your own computer. You publish it on the Internet and tell all your friends. And the next thing you know, your cousin in Iowa and your friends in Brazil are telling you that it looks terrible, […]
Read MoreWhen I first started designing web pages, it was relatively easy — and vanilla boring.
More than ten years and a dozen books later, web design is much more complex today, and a lot more exciting.
Read MoreEven if you’re feeling pressured to get a Web site online fast, you’ll save time in the long run if you take a little time to develop a plan first. The World Wide Web isn’t going anywhere. Even if you have to get your site online as quickly as possible, your goal should be to design a […]
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They all create HTML pages, don’t they? So what’s the difference? Well for one thing, they don’t all create web pages the same way, and two of the programs listed here aren’t even being updated and supported any more (hint: GoLive and FrontPage are officially out of the running). So which program is right for […]
Read MoreThe advantage of a blog is that you can start your blog site with all the dynamic functionality prebuilt for you. Seemingly all you have to do with most blog programs (including Blogger, WordPress and Typepad) is set up an account, and then add your own words and pictures. Most people find blogging as easy […]
Read MoreWhen you create a new style in Dreamweaver using CSS features, you will need to choose which type of style you want to create and which ‘selector’ you want to use. Understanding (and remembering) the differences between the various types of style selectors can be a challenge. That’s why I created this short tutorial on […]
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