Drawing on the Web

Your business resides on your web site — it’s like the headquarters of an off-line company. Therefore, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible. Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation [...]

I am often asked which resources (books, etc.) that I recommend for people who want to create web sites. Many web hosts, such as Powweb, provide basic templates for easy creation of a web site. These can be your base for your very first web site, or can function as a quick way to set [...]

WordPress.org released version 2.1, codenamed Ella (for jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald) in mid-January. So far, I like the changes and improvements. Upgrading from the previous version was easy, although it required locking the site and deleting almost all the previous WordPress files and replacing them with the new versions of the files. This step was [...]

My web sites are all hosted on at a web hosting company that uses BSD, Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL and provides install wizards for lot of other free open-source packages. I have FrontPage Extensions 2002, the latest and final version that Microsoft has said they will release, available, too. I code my web sites at [...]

One of the most important things to do, after you get your site initially up and going, is to watch your web statistics. You want to know which web pages are getting visitors, which sites are referring others to you, which search engines are referring people to your site, what search terms they used to [...]

I found a neat web script that was released via the CorePHP blog recently. With the Easy PHP Reflections v1.0 script, we can make our web images have matching reflections below the image. Sure, we can pull an image into our favorite graphics editor and create the reflection, but this utility does it for us. [...]