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A couple of incidents recently reminded me of two important principles when it comes to launching websites:
Firstly: KISS
Secondly: GIOT
KISS stands for Keep It Short and Simple
GIOT stands for Get It Out There.
Despite my best efforts, the project I’m currently leading here in HK is in danger of failing because of KISS – or the lack [...]
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A while ago I wrote about converting some of my websites to variable width.
My thinking at the time was that, for someone using a wide-screen monitor, the appearance would be better if the content expanded to fill a larger portion of the screen.
Having got a couple of them successfully converted I had second thoughts. I [...]
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I’m often amazed when I look at the source code of web pages, because creating a page that’s optimised for the search engines is so straightforward – yet so seldom done.
I’ve said repeatedly: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is not a black art, so don’t let anyone tell you it is.
All you need to know about [...]
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When you first start working online the amount of jargon and acronyms you see can be extremely off-putting.
Which is no different from starting any new type of activity, by the way, but for people who may be a bit nervous of technology it can be enough to keep you from getting started.
So let’s de-mystify one [...]
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Do I need to learn HTML and SEO? This was a question I saw in a forum today.
For people new to working on-line learning these new skills with strange acronyms can be daunting.
In another post I talked about how I tried to start my Internet business without a website because I didn’t want to learn [...]
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In this post I said that CSS is one of the codes or languages that have been developed to work with HTML, to improve the efficiency with which the fonts and styling of a website are defined.
So what is CSS?
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and it’s the way the themeing or styling of modern [...]
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Before I started building websites FTP was one of those terms that I heard but never understood.
In fact, I initially hoped I could run an on-line business without ever needing to build a website just so I didn’t have to deal with things like FTP
Well, I found out the hard way I couldn’t [...]
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A friend told me the other day that although he read all my articles he didn’t understand any of them. Not one.
Which gave me an idea …
Why not set up a new category and write a bunch of articles for people who are absolutely, completely new to the web (and possibly a bit nervous of [...]
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Why would you want to build a variable-width website?
Because the range of screen widths on which people browse the internet now ranges from around 12 inches to twice that size.
And if you choose to view your PC through your TV you could be viewing web pages on screens many times bigger than people were using [...]
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