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The blog is about redesigning websites and features thoughts, ideas, tips, etc. It is aimed to help business site owners and web masters to make their websites more efficient.
Budapest, Hungary, - December 14, 2006 – NetSib announces new version of NetworkShield Firewall 2006 for Windows 2000/XP/2003, the new generation corporate gateway firewall. NetworkShield Firewall 2006 is a new generation corporate gateway firewall, which protects the network from external and internal attacks, provides Internet access to users and offers enhanced traffic monitoring and counting features. [...]
In case you didn’t notice, MSN Search has gone different. So what does it bring us? The good Advanced menu Now with “Advanced” options you can filter your search results not only by domain and language, but also by country. You can filter by country by using the ‘loc:’ modifier with country code, such as “loc:AR”. But the nicest thing [...]
Sure, there may be a lot of articles on how to choose a web designer and that may seem trivial as well. But how do you work with the web designer to get what you want as quickly as possible? Let’s see. Define what exactly you want First of all, you need to define what you want [...]
Fluid (or liquid) design has gained a lot of attention since web designers started using CSS for web sites. Sure, why not. But what is a liquid design for a site owner? First of all, why is it called fluid?. A design is called fluid (or liquid, flexible) when the width and the height of the page [...]
There may be numerous reasons to redesign, but it all comes down to one thing: the site has to be changed. But how must it be adjusted and what to do to achieve that? Let’s see. Define site problems Before doing anything, you need to define the reasons for redesigning your website, such as: low amounts of traffic low [...]
Redesigning a website is something inevitable. You think of it from time to time and try to postpone it to have a really good reason to redesign. Most probably, you really have no idea how to redesign. So how do you tackle the beast of redesigning your site? Since the Dark Ages of the Internet (especially [...]
Hello there, fellow readers. I am going on a vacation for two weeks so don’t be surprised if you don’t see a couple of posts in the remaining of August. If you have joined the blog only recently, you may find something posted a while ago interesting, such as: Redesigning a site with CSS to improve business Redesigning sites [...]
Generally, you may as well leave the decision of how many columns you need on your site to your web designer. But, still, you need to know whether you’ll be going in the right direction. Here is what you need to know. Column layout is the aftertaste of use of tables for layouts. This technique is [...]
It is generally accepted that anything that appears below the fold is invisible to the website visitor. Does this still hold true? A recent research by UIE revealed that users scroll if there is a clue that there is something below the fold. But should we now forget the ‘above the fold’ rule and format our pages [...]
Recently MyNeatSite has officially become a Microsoft Small Business Specialist (as seen on our homepage). As one of MyNeatSite is a Microsoft Certified Professional, our company is entitled to be certified for Microsoft Small Business Specialist. This ensures that at least one of us has a total understanding of small business and can apply his knowledge [...]
It is not unknown that web designers need to create an Internet Explorer only layout in addition to a web standards compliant one. Is there an easy and efficient way to create an IE-only layout without confusing or turning away those who use other browsers? Surely, such a way exists and it is called “conditional elements”. The [...]
Apart from simply recognizing the need to market your product or service to the physically-challenged people and making your site accessible, you may as well rejoyce to know that Google Accessible Search can now give higher ranking to your accessible website. Basically, Google currently values sites with simple markup that degrades nicely with images (and probably [...]
If you want to start using CSS but don’t know where to start, this may be the right place for you. Read how you can start using CSS below. Introduction Basically, CSS is the code, inline, internal or external, applying to the HTML code of the webpage. The beauty of the code is that it allows applying [...]
As you may have already noticed, we have switched to presenting full posts in our RSS feeds. Does anyone find that inconvenient or otherwise unpleasant to deal with? If so, please leave us a comment. If possible, tell us why you prefer full posts over excerpts. Does anyone like the full posts in their RSS aggregators? If [...]
Learn what CSS is and why use it from this tutorial and redesign your site with CSS. CSS background CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet(s). This is a technique, lately acquired world-wide recognition, to design quick, user-friendly and good looking sites (a mix hard to come by when using tables). It is used to separate presentation (positioning, [...]
Sure, designing a site for all browsers takes time, efforts and, sometimes, nerves. Is there an easy way to create cross-browser compatible designs with the least possible amount of effort? There are web standards, such as HTML and CSS, and there are web standards compliant browsers. By following the technologies to the letter ((x)HTML/CSS), you can [...]
There has a lot been said about download speed of websites and how it affects website visitors. But since the connection speed researches are out-dated now and some have broadband, does website download speed matter at all? There have been a lot of studies on the influence of download speed on the visitors. Some are really dated, [...]
MyNeatSite is inviting site owners, willing to learn how converting their site to CSS will improve their speed and efficiency, to enroll their sites’ URL to take part in the research. Why take part in this study? - you will learn how exactly converting your site to CSS can make your site load faster - your site will [...]
Nearly every web site owner considers whether he or she should link to external sites or not. There may be many reasons for doing or not doing so, but usually the lack of knowledge outweighs any unknown benefits and the decision is made not to outlink. Can there be something else added to the matter? As [...]
In this tutorial we’ll review the process of creating 3D buttons with CSS. The buttons are based on text only (no images) with CSS styling. See an example below: Submit The markup The HTML markup is pretty straight-forward: <a href="#">Submit</a> CSS markup is pretty simple as well: a { text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; border:3px solid; padding:2px; border-color:#6cf #2af #2af #6cf; background:#9df; } a:hover { border-color: #2af #6cf #6cf #2af; } Explanation Here is a lowdown [...]
Website accessibility is generally considered something obscure, distant and unimportant to spend your time on. Apart from being a legal requirement in the US, UK and Europe (will be soon), accessible websites have quite a number of advantages in terms of business performance. First of all, accessible websites are made accessible to people without or with [...]
A recent research by the Wichita Psychology University analyzed the influence of text-align and page layout (1, 2 and 3 columns) on visitors’ reading speed and comprehension. For instance, the obvious results were that two-column full-justified text is read with almost the same speed than one-column left-justified text but a lot faster than one-column full-justified text [...]
There many ways of how you can find a web designer: a referall, a job site, a freelance site, by searching or surfing. But what to you value the most in the designer that you decide to choose one over another? Of course, there may be numerous factors: - experience - skill level - also takes web standards, usability [...]
There are literally dozens of small businesses on the Internet, each trying to outcompete the others. But an equally hard component of establishing a solid small business is budget deficiency. How can a small business site owner set up a website for $3000? Clearly, there are lots of challenges in front of many small business website [...]
A thread, started at Cre8asiteforums, allows a chuckle or two for seasoned search engine and web development practicioners. Have you had your moments in the real life when your SEO background creeps in?
We spend so much time optimizing the sites to get higher rankings that sometimes it is hard to distinguish what or who we do it for: for the search engines or for the people? If for the former, then this will not be as effective as the latter. If the latter, then why is it [...]
Kevin Ryan has a nice article on social search and possible changes it may bring to how marketers understand how their potential customers search. The contemporary search model has it that people search for general things first, then narrowing down to more specific. Social search, in turn, starts focusing not only on keywords the people used [...]
The ministers of 34 European countries have met together to focus on improving access to information to more people. This includes improving websites accessibility and also increasing broadband reach. -ensure that all public websites are accessible by 2010, -by 2008, put in place actions in the field of digital literacy and skills to reduce gaps for groups [...]
There is a lot to do for promoting a website: write content, fix page titles, write meta descriptions (for the people, not the search engines), add title attributes where necessary, make sure the site is search engine friendly, submit to some directories, promote the site using other techniques, etc. But does a single person has [...]
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