What is Twitter and how does it help me? Twitter is a micro-blogging service that let’s users post very short pieces of information (140 characters or less) to answer a simple question, “what are you doing?” The service has taken off like wildfire in the last year and is starting to make it into mainstream. [...]
One way to get the ball rolling in the promotion of your site is to create and submit a press release using an online press release service such as PR Newswire which will let you submit a release for a few hundred dollars. This fee will enable your release to get submitted to thousands of [...]
Once you’ve got your domain name registered and have selected a web hosting provider, its time to get going.
First you will want an HTML editor. You can actually create HTML pages in a basic text editor but that is for advanced users. You’ll have much better luck using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what [...]
A blog (short for web log) is simply a web site or part of a web site that lets people easily publish content. Blogs have evolved a lot in the last 5 or 6 years and there are now some blogs that are multi million dollar businesses and are have sophisticated capabilities. Blogger (now owned [...]
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and is simply a mechanism for transferring files from one computer to another over the internet. There is a more detailed description here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol if you are interested in the nitty gritty but for all intents and purposes the basics you will need to know are FTP is a [...]
When you begin the process of designing a web site it can be like a writer putting the first word down on a new book or an artist painting the first brushstroke. You don’t always know where to begin. I use 3 main philosophies to get started on a new site.
1) Most likely someone has [...]
What is Search Engine Optimization or SEO? Put simply, SEO is the art of organizing your content in such a way that it makes it easy for Google and other search engines to understand the pages of your site. For example if you have a site that reviews the latest in digital cameras, you would [...]