The Various Technologies That Go Into a Website
The Internet is amazing, I think we can all agree on that. But have you ever sat down and thought how on earth a website actually makes its way to your computer?
Spinto - A Website Creator Both Newbies & Developers Can Like
Ah, the joy of creating a new website! Seriously, one of the greatest things about the web is how easy it is to start something new. There are numerous tools letting users easily create their own websites, such as Sidengo and Wix (which, incidentally, no longer requires Flash). Many of these tools are aimed at new users creating their first websites. Spinto is a new service that tries a different angle.
Breezi Lets You Design An Amazing Website Without Writing One Line Of Code
Breezi won’t let you build a whole website in minutes. This is not because it’s any less good, but because there are way more options to take advantage of. Breezi is a full-fledged HTML5 website editor, which lets you control every little aspect of your website, design it just the way you want it to be, and get beautiful results.
Take Your Fonts Out On a Date To See If They Match With Type Connection
Whether or not you take an active interest in typography, I’m sure you’ve seen something like this before. A document whose writer (or, worse still, its designer) tried to be overly creative, and did some horrible font matching. I don’t just mean "used Comic Sans MS" (the perennial "awful font" everybody loves to hate), but even if the writer or designer used "sane" fonts, they don’t always go together.
How To Build Your Own Website In Minutes Without Any Coding Skills
As the Web grows, and it does so dazzlingly fast, the need for a web presence is becoming more pressing. In many parts of the world, you simply must have a web presence in order to succeed, market yourself and make yourself known. For some people this is easy, they just go and build themselves a beautiful website. But what about the rest of us?
How to Fix Small Annoyances on the Web With Stylish [Firefox & Chrome]
Web designers have an almost impossible job. They need to come up with one design that pleases everyone. When talking about a service like Gmail, used by countless millions of people all over the world, you can really drop the "almost" part – it’s just impossible. Even if a redesign is well liked by most people, there will always be users who really don’t like the new look.
PageEdit: A Real-Time WYSIWYG Page Editor [Chrome]
People who use Chrome or Firefox for web development purposes know that there are some very good tools available for each browser that make developing pages a whole lot easier. From Firefox's Firebug extension, to Chrome's built-in web development tools, developers can quickly and easily edit the code they see on a page and have the changes appear instantly, allowing them to determine what works and what doesn't.
How to Set Up a Proper 404 Error Page on Your Wordpress Blog
The humble 404 has been with us since the tubes that make up the internet were first plumbed in.
Why Websites With Dark Backgrounds Completely Suck [Opinion]
You're reading MakeUseOf right now, a website which primarily uses dark text on a light background. Which is as it should be. That bar across the top with light text on a dark background, and the section at the bottom which hardly anyone reads, are fine because they're just small parts of the site. Any more and I would have to give my bosses advice on how to improve the look and feel of the site as a whole.
Setup A Proxy On Your WordPress Site To Bypass Filters & Firewalls
Everyday the onslaught to our freedom and censorship of the internet continues to escalate, but you can help. If you want to ensure certain sites remain available, then look no further than a new, free Wordpress plugin called RePress. It allows you to quickly and easily setup a web proxy without complicated programming.
How to Make a Chat Bot for Your Site or Business
The difficulty with connecting with so many people across the world is time zones. You may want to be available to interact with your readership or to do business with potential clients, but at some point, you have to sleep. Enter the chat bot. A chat bot can serve as your front desk "digital secretary" when you aren’t available to accept IM requests.
How To Determine a More Accurate SEO Ranking For Your Site
Search engine optimization. It's a controversial topic these days. Lots of professionals have their own opinions about what constitutes a good SEO strategy. Some people insist that a solid keyword strategy is the only thing that matters, while other SEO pundits lambast the "keyword" contingent. I've been involved in this field long enough now that there are three solid truths in the SEO field, at least as of today.
Check Out The Features Of The New & Improved Google Analytics
Google Analytics is the most popular website analytics platform for website owners today. There are certainly others to choose from, such as the three open source tools Danny wrote about, the free analytics tools Rich wrote about, or the eight live analytics tools that Dave covered. Regardless, no other analytics tool has seen the adoption rate that Google Analytics has.
Create a Really Useful Personal Information Dashboard Page With Google Sites
Creating webpages used to be such a tedious process. Aside from the hassle with deciding where to publicly host the page, you needed to learn HTML and then figure out how to program the page so that it didn't look like some amateur threw it together. These days, there are countless websites that will let you create a webpage in mere minutes, without any knowledge of HTML whatsoever.
A Guide To Setting Up Your Own Podcast Website & Feed Using Wordpress & Podpress
I recently had the opportunity to become part of a podcast which I’m sure you’ll hear about soon enough - and it's all fairly new ground for me. As the only one with enough bandwidth to host, and clearly the most experienced of the group in Wordpress ninja-ship, I also took it upon myself to setup the necessary protocols that make an actual podcast, as opposed to being just audio files posted on a blog.
How To Edit Thousands of Wordpress Posts With Just One SQL Command
Growing a blog takes years, and a whole lot of pain and struggle. Then there are the major transitions, when you realize that you have to make some major changes, and it's going to take a whole lot of work. There are a number of major changes I've had to make on my own blog, but one of the most difficult was that I had used a certain manual method to insert Google ads into my blog articles.
Using Facebook Insights To Better Understand Your Blog Readers
A big part of blogging is understanding your reader base. What is it that your readers are interested in? What type of articles do they prefer? What blog posts are they more likely to share with all of their friends? Getting a good understanding of your readers is a big part of growing any blog. It gives you the insight to focus on those topics that the audience within your niche find most valuable and interesting.
3 Ways to Integrate Google Plus Into Your Blog
Well, I finally caved in and adopted Google Plus. It wasn't willingly - with most new fads, I like to wait it out to see if, like 90 percent of most new and exciting online phenomena, it fades away into the ether of cyberspace. In the case of Google Plus, I was instantly reminded of so many other failed projects in the past - Google Wave, Google Video Player, Google Notebook....the list goes on and on.
Create Webpages Five Times Faster Using the Bluefish Editor [Cross-Platform]
Websites are now powered by blog platforms like WordPress, or WYSIWYG editors like Kompozer, but the bottom line is that most hardcore web designers will always find it necessary to pop open a text editor to tweak the style a little bit here, or to realign the template a bit more there. I think that text editors are going to be around for a very long time.
5 Of The Best Interactive Media & Web Awards For Some Cool Design Inspirations
If you look at it positively, envy can also inspire creativity. Awards of various hues and colors are the perfect platform to catch a bit of both. The best that get awarded set benchmarks which the herd tries to follow. Next year, there’s going to be someone who races ahead of the herd and becomes a winner. If you are a web designer or simply learning all about it, it pays to keep an eye on some of the best web awards that are dished out. Who knows, you might vie for it one day.