archive for: October, 2008

Photoshop For FREE!

Free?? Yes. Photoshop… not quite but holy crap it’s close. At first glance Sumo Paint looks a lot like my old friend Adobe Photoshop; layers, text, shape tools, swatches, shading and stroke effects,  bezier tools, pretty much everything you’d expect from a drawing tool. After playing around for a very short time I found it [...]

No Follow Links and Do Follow Links

A nofollow link is one that will not be followed by a search engine robot/spider. This is accomplished by placing the rel=”nofollow” attribute in an anchor tag. This can be useful when you are optimizing a website and do not want to give the destination website credit for the backlink.
However, in many cases you do [...]

Hosting and Domain Names

Setting up hosting and reserving domain names is that whole other realm that you will need to be familiar with if you intend to make a website.
A few terms you will become familiar with:

Host
Server
Domain
Domain Name
Domain Name Server

Host: What is a host? A host is really just a computer running web server software. I suppose it [...]

FTP – File Transfer Protocol

FTP, SMTP, HTTP, IDE, KFC, what the… In 350 years the entire English language will look like assembler code… a large string of 1,2, and 3 letter acronyms with weird punctuation. In the meantime, File Transfer Protocol or just FTP is one of the foundation blocks of the mechanics behind the internet. Its the programming [...]

The 301 Redirect and Why I Need One

The 301 redirect solves many problems that are associated with websites that have changed servers or changed hosting companies. The 301 redirect will … redirect… the incoming traffic to the specified web address. Pretty simple, one file takes care of the entire site however, that is not why I’ve called you here. One of the [...]

No Such Thing As a Website

That’s right, there is no such thing as a website, no HTML, no HTTP, no Web Design. Websites do not exist, you can’t hold one in your hands. You can hold a computer or a disk drive but that is not the web site.
Looking at the computer screen we see images, lines, shapes and colors [...]

Automatic Copyright Year Updater

Have you ever given your websites a once over and all of a sudden noticed your footer has a copyright 1996 All Rights Reserved? Ack, what if you have 20 or 30 web sites? Do You have to go through each one and update the footer every year?
Try this
Copyright © 2008
<script language=”JavaScript”>
[...]

How to Make a WordPress Blog

Another how to make a WordPress blog article… talk about redundancy on the internet. Still, according to my “research”, there does seem to be a growing need for Web Design Tutorials as well as a surge in Blogging.
So what is a blog anyways? A weB LOG is a website. It is written using a server-side [...]