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Why every web site needs SEO
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | Author: Mike

Every site needs some form of SEO or advertising or else the web site is absolutly useless because no one will see it there. Now when I speak of SEO and advertising it can be as simple as adding some new content every few days or telling some friends about your site. Or as difficult and expensive as having someone completly optimize your website for search engines and purchasing PPC ads off of Google or Yahoo.

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CSS Positioning
Saturday, January 02nd, 2010 | Author: Mike

So this is a topic where a lot of people have many different opinions on the best way to do CSS positioning and so give you a little perspective as to how frustrating it can be. I saw an pie graph the other day that showed a layout of a Web Designers time spent on a web site and about 1/5 was “Time spent trying to get CSS position to work, then giving up and using tables” and this is such a true statement. I can’t tell you how many times that has happened to me. But by using tables you are flexible in your layout but not as flexible as using CSS positioning. The major benefit of using CSS is if you want to change the look you don’t have to change every page, just the CSS.

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New MikeNet PC Content Management Software
Monday, December 28th, 2009 | Author: Mike

Aside from being a Network Administrator, I absolutly love doing websites and I have my own little web site design business on the side. Due to possible ethical conflicts I am not going to list the company name here but if you Google I am sure you will find it.

With all that being said I also love creating Web Applications to make people’s life a little easier. I am currently working an Content Management System for web pages that is easy to install and easy to use. I am hoping to be done with this project in the next week or so since I am going to lock my self in my office until I can get it done. I am looking for some Beta testers that would be willing to try my CMS for me and in return you will receive a subscription to my newsletter along with a free copy of the full finished version of the CMS for your personal use.

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Building your own Web Server
Monday, December 14th, 2009 | Author: Mike

Creating web sites is fun and very easy to do just check out my previous articles on creating a web site. But to publish your web site you have to have either free web hosting, purchased web hosting or your own web hosting. Here we will discuss setting up your own web hosting server from home and the ups and down of doing so. There are also a few things that you should be aware of when you setup your own web server.

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Creating Facebook Applications
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | Author: Mike

Facebook applications are what keep most of us comming back to Facebook. Whether we are addicted to FarmVille, FarmTown, Mafia Wars or any other game you my play on Facebook. These are all Facebook applications and anyone who has knowledge of web prorgamming can take advantage of the facebook platform for their games or applications.

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Open Source Development with LAMP
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | Author: Mike

LAMP or Linux Apache MySQL and PHP is what open source web development is often refered to because all of these applications are open source there for they are free to download and use. All of the applications listed above are meant for create web sites or web applications and are very powerful programs. In this article we will go over each one, what it is and where you can get it. In later articles we will discuss installing these applications for use on your server.

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Favorite 5 Web Design Tools
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | Author: Mike

I have written a couple of articles describing different tools and I enjoy using and I like to include all of the free tools you can use. Well here are my 5 favorite web design tools that are absolutly free to use.

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Using CPanel or Control Panel
Tuesday, November 03rd, 2009 | Author: Mike

CPanel or Control Panel is a very powerful web application for maintaining and configuring your web hosting. It allows you to create, edit and delete files, email addresses, domain and subdomains. A lot of good web hosting companies like www.cheapasdirthosting.net provide this web application for your with no additional charge. Learn how to use this tool and what is provided in it.

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Beginning PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Pages Part 2
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 | Author: Mike

Part 1 of my Beginning PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Pages showed you how to access a MySQL server, access a database and even retrieve and write data to that table. In this article we will go a little deeper and discuss retrieving entries from the table and how to use them in a PHP document or documents. We will discuss how to create one page that can actually support an unlimited number of pages, if I have confused you with that last statement then just read on because it should all come very clear soon.

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Beginning PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Pages
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | Author: Mike

PHP and MySQL are two very popular and very powerful programs that can be used to create dynamic web pages. Using PHP and MySQL you can develop just about anything from web sites, content management systems and even web applications for business use. In this article I will show you the basics of creating a dynamic web page with PHP and MySQL.

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