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New Article:
How to Create and Use Cookies in PHP.
Learn how to set, retrieve and delete cookies using PHP with this tutorial. Cookies are useful if you need to store user preferences or
if you want to implement a membership, user login or subscription system for your site.
6 May 2008
New Article:
How to Design a Two Column Layout for Your Website Using CSS.
If you're starting your website, or even just redesigning it, and are looking for a way to create a 2 column website using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS),
check out this article.
New Article:
How to Present Content First in a Multi-Column Table Layout.
How do you make your content come first in the source code of a multi-column website that uses a table for layout? Read this article
to find out more, including the reason why you might want to have your content appear before your navigation bar in the first place.
New Article:
How to Insert Meta Tags to Your Site in Dreamweaver.
Learn how to use Dreamweaver to add meta tags that can control how search engines display your site in the search results, control how the search engine
spiders index your page, disable the IE image toolbar and so on.
16 April 2008
New Article:
How Do I Edit an Existing Site under Dreamweaver, Nvu or KompoZer.
If you have a site designed by someone else, or one which you used an online site builder to create, how do you migrate it so that it can
be edited using the Dreamweaver, Nvu or KompoZer web editors? This tutorial takes you through the steps of editing your existing site under these well-known
web editors.
New Article:
How to Use Cookies in JavaScript. Learn how to set, retrieve
and delete cookies using JavaScript. Cookies can be used to store user preferences and other data specific to individual visitors on your site.
7 April 2008
New Version: A new version of the
Free Feedback Form Script Wizard has been released.
At the request of many users, I have added the facility where you can make the checking of the name and email fields optional for the PHP contact form.
Previously, if your visitors left the name or email fields blank, they would be sent to your error page. You can now change this behaviour if you don't
like it. Note that this option has only been implemented for the PHP version of the script (for now). This is the version that most users install
anyway, so it should benefit most people.
This is an optional update. There are no other changes, so if you don't want the new features, you
don't have to update.
4 April 2008
New Article:
How to Allow Your Visitors to Switch Between Alternate CSS Styles / Themes.
How do you add theme support to an ordinary website? CSS provides a method which you can use called alternate style sheets. Learn how to set up
alternate style sheets for your site so that your visitors can switch between different themes.
2 April 2008
New Article:
Should I Use a Temporary Domain Name Till My Preferred Domain Becomes Available?
If your ideal domain name is not available at the moment, but looks set to expire soon, should you use a temporary domain name in meantime?
This article discusses why this is not a good idea and talks about the related general principles in site promotion and choosing domain names that may not be
immediately obvious.
31 March 2008
New Article:
How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.5 from 2.3.3 or Earlier.
WordPress 2.5 has just been released. This article gives you a detailed step-by-step guide to how you can upgrade to the new version
from a previous one.
28 March 2008
New Article:
Should You Use Cloaked Domain Redirection to Point to Your Website?.
What are the problems if you use cloaked or stealth web redirection to point your domain name to your site hosted on a free web host?
This article discusses the issues involved and their solution.
26 March 2008
New Article:
Should I Display an Email Address on My Site or Use a Contact Form?.
The old reasons for displaying an email address or using a contact form no longer hold true the way it did before.
This article discusses the factors you should consider when deciding whether you should publish an email address or
a feedback form.
24 March 2008
New Article:
How to Change Table Border Colours in Nvu or KompoZer.
How do you change the colour of the border in a table in a standards-compliant way, that will work in present and future web browsers?
This tutorial shows you how to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) with the free web editors Nvu and KompoZer to do exactly that.
21 March 2008
New Article:
How to Remove Table Borders in Nvu and KompoZer.
How do you remove the ugly table borders in Nvu or KompoZer? Find out in this newest article in thesitewizard.com's
Nvu and
KompoZer tutorial series.
(For those who don't know, Nvu and KompoZer are free web editors that you can use to design your website.)
New Article:
How to Add Meta Tags to Your Website Using Nvu or KompoZer.
Looking for a way to manage the search engine robots indexing of your web pages, or to determine the description that appears under
your site's name in the search engine results? Can't figure out how you can add META tags to your website using the free web editors, Nvu and KompoZer?
Read this article for the answer.
14 March 2008
New Article:
Important Precautions to Take When Buying a Domain Name.
Are you thinking of buying a domain name? Read this article for some of the precautions you should take before
you buy, so that you don't end up in the same trap that others have fallen into.
New Article:
How to Add Navigation Menu Buttons to Your Website with Nvu (Video Tutorial)
Looking for a way to add a professional-looking navigation menu, complete with buttons that have mouse-over hover effects, to your website? This video tutorial
guides you through the entire process, step by step, using the free Nvu web editor.
5 March 2008
New Article:
Why Is My Site Not Ranking in the Search Engines?
Is your website ranking in the search engines for words or phrases that should list it in the search results? If not, take a look
at this article for some of the common reasons why a website does not show up in the results page and how you can fix the problem.
29 February 2008
New Article:
How to Get Search Engines to Discover (Index) All the Web Pages on Your Site.
Do you have pages on your website that seem to be omitted from the search engines' indices? Follow the tips in this
guide to make sure that the search engines know how to find all the pages on your website. The article also
gives you hints on how you can find out which pages of your website is indexed, and which not.
