Common Landing Page Optimization Terms
Landing page optimization terms such as conversionand SEO may look familiar but remain a mystery to you. Before trying to optimize your landing page, get to know some common landing page optimization terms [more…]
Landing Page Optimization For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Landing page optimization means that you strategically craft your landing page — with images, layout, language, and links. By optimizing landing pages and the consumer experience, you can turn good search [more…]
How to Plan Pages for Your Web Site in iWeb
iWeb is the Web site creation and editing application included with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Every properly designed Web site has a purpose: to inform, to entertain, or to provide downloads or contact information [more…]
How to Publish Your iWeb Web Site
After you finish with a new iWeb site, Mac Snow Leopard makes it easy to get your masterpiece on the Web. You can publish your site by using your MobileMe account or publish to a separate server maintained [more…]
Add Searching Tools with Regular Expression Operators in JavaScript
The regular expression mechanism adds extremely powerful searching tools to your programming. Here are some of the most commonly used regular expressions as they are used in JavaScript. [more…]
How to Create an Effective Home Business Web Site
Your home business’s Web site may look great, but if it’s not helping you sell more products and services, it’s a waste of your time and money. Here are some tried-and-true ways to build a Web site that’s [more…]
Quick Steps for Planning a Web Site
If you’re designing a Web site yourself, you may be tempted to jump right into the design. However, scoping out what you need your site to do lays the groundwork for all the Web design work that follows [more…]
Web Sites to Help Do-It-Yourself Web Designers
Use this handy reference to find Web sites to help you with the many aspects of Web design. Next to each Web site name is its address, which you can click to point your browser to that site. [more…]
Tips for Building a Website for Your Local Business
Regardless of what local online advertising channels you ultimately choose to employ for your business, it’s safe to say that if you don’t have a strong Web site, achieving local online advertising success [more…]
Tips for Designing a Web Site
Use these tips to make the content of the Web sites you create as appealing as possible. The goal here is to use a simple, clean design for your content, and to make all your pages as consistent as possible [more…]
The Seven Rules of Web Site Design
Use these rules to improve the basic design of the Web sites you create. Studies have shown that simple, clean designs are the best for drawing and retaining visitors. You want to give visitors to your [more…]
Finding a Web Server to Call Home
You say you’re not sure exactly what kind of Web site is right for you, and you want to see all the options, from a tiny storefront in a strip mall to your own landscaped corporate park? You’re in luck [more…]
Tips for Designing a Successful Mobile Web Site
As you begin thinking about how best to design the mobile version (or versions) of your Web site, consider the unique challenges of the mobile Web. Here are some key considerations to keep in mind as you [more…]
Choose a Mobile Web Design Strategy
Your approach to designing a mobile Web site depends on your site content, your resources, and your audience. The following tips can help you understand the possible mobile Web design strategies and pick [more…]
Navigating the Moodle Interface
Moodle is very easy to navigate. Each new course is set up with a default course front page as shown here, to which you (as the instructor) can make changes. This course front page is what you and your [more…]
Finding Moodle Resources on the Internet
Moodlers around the world are a great bunch of people who love to help and share their knowledge and resources. So when you become an expert or find something that has really worked for you, share it with [more…]
Moodle Shortcuts
The following table lists some of the most common Moodle editing shortcut keys you can use in the Moodle HTML editor in WYSIWYG view. (WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get; it’s the default [more…]
Moodle For Dummies Cheat Sheet
This Cheat Sheet takes you on a tour of the Moodle interface, explaining modules and tools along the way. You also find a list of Moodle resources (with links) that can help get you started Moodling, provide [more…]
Finding WordPress Theme Resources
Why reinvent the wheel? WordPress has an active development community that has created free and commercial themes that are available for download and ready for you to customize for your next WordPress [more…]
Choose a Theme and Page Template for Your iWeb Site in iLife '11
A theme defines the look of the Web site you create in iLife. Each time you add a new page to your iWeb site, you choose the page's template. Every iWeb theme offers templates designed for specific purposes [more…]
Valid Versus a Well-Formed XML Document
In XML, a valid document must conform to the rules in its DTD (Document Type Definition) or schema, which defines what elements can appear in the document and how elements may nest within one another. [more…]
Rules for Creating Document Type Definition, or DTD, Elements
Basically, you prepare and use a Document Type Definition (DTD) to add structure and logic, making it easier to ensure that all essential features are present — in the right order — in your XML document [more…]
Basic XML Schema Declarations
An XML Schema document is built of a series of declarations, which gives very detailed information and makes sure the information contained in the XML document is in the correct form. [more…]
Common Reserved Characters in XML
Some entities are reserved for internal use in XML and need to be replaced with character references in your content. These five commonly used internal entities are already defined as part of XML and ready [more…]
Browser Support for XML and Style Sheets
Web browser support for XML and style sheets — CSS and XSLT — is varied and sometimes less-than reliable. Research your options for web browsers so you know which browsers support which requirements and [more…]









