Oct 3rd, 2009
About a month after I got my first connection to the internet I decided I wanted to build a website. I had no burning ambition to share information, I just wanted to see if I could do it. Bearing in mind I have the technical capabilities of your average goldfish and things weren’t so easy [...]
Aug 15th, 2009
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We’ve all seen the sites that make you think “Uh oh, amateur hour”. It’s easy for beginners to make some basic mistakes that give their sites an amateurish look. So how do you avoid giving that impression with your first website? Here are 20 tips to help you.
1. Look at lots of good [...]
Jul 28th, 2009
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Adding pictures and other graphics can lift your pages, add colour and life as well as make them easier to read. They can give novices to building webpages a real headache, though. Here is a simple guide.
The very first step to adding pictures is to make them the correct size for the space [...]
Jul 25th, 2009
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Whether your website is for your business, to give information on a subject you love or just because you want your own website, it is very disappointing if it doesn’t get an audience so it’s worth taking the trouble to get presentation and content right.