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News, Rants and Case Studies for Web Design Professionals
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Note: This newsletter is supported solely by advertisers like the one
below. We stand 100% behind every ad that we run. If you ever have a
problem with a company that advertises here please contact us and we will
try to get it resolved. - Matt Mickiewicz |
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A Picture is
Worth a Thousand Words... Even on the Web
Camtasia Studio is a screencam software product for generating
Flash movies for the Web. Whether you want to post video
tutorials, product demonstrations or help files, Camtasia Studio
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- Designers - Show off your work to potential clients, such as
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All you
have to do is click, and record in order to produce Flash
based movies that will help anybody understand anything.
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Hello
Tribuners,
I goofed last week, and as a result the links to the articles we published
didn't work. Within minutes of sending out the issue, I started getting
emails from readers telling me about the problem....
After all was said and done, I received and replied to several hundred
emails. It's great to know there are so many watchful eyes out there! If
you tried the links, but didn't email me, I've republished all the
corrected links in this week's issue. Give them another ago.
By the way, if you're running Windows, be sure to run "Windows
Update" this week. Two major security holes were found in the suite,
allowing anybody to run malicious code on your computer.
Matt Mickiewicz
tribune@sitepoint.com
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What's New on SitePoint...
Using The Tabular Data Control
By Premshree Pillai
The Tabular Data Control is an ActiveX control that's built into
Internet Explorer. Premshree explains what it does, and how to manipulate
it in JavaScript.
Full Story
Practical Web Design - Pop-Ups: Malign or Maligned?
By Mike Tuck
The lowly pop-up's had some bad press, but is that any reason to
sideline this handy functionality? Mike explains just what the popup can
do, and how you can use it to make your site more enjoyable for
visitors.
Full Story
Web Application Development – A Guide to Success
By Caesar Fernandes
Web applications are the way of the future! Jump aboard the
bandwagon as Caesar explains the Web App development process from go to
woah.
Full Story
Case Study - Building a Business... Twice!
By Matt Mickiewicz
What happens when you have to leave your freelance business behind,
and start a life in a new town? Why, you start a new business, of course!
Matt finds out how this Web service supplier got his brand known - in two
countries!
Full Story
Forget Ad Sales - Sell Search!
By Evan Britton
If you haven't signed up as a distributed PPC search partner, you're
missing out on serious revenues. Evan explains how distributed search
beats online ads hands-down - and how you can reap the rewards!
Full Story
Great Homepages Really Suck
By Cameron Moll
Does your homepage suck? The answer to this question could have a
huge impact on whether your visitors click past the homepage, or hit the
back button. Find out why Cameron recommends your homepage pull instead of
push.
Full Story
Get Started with Dynamic Data in GoLive
By Richard Tisdale
Build database-driven forms and a dynamic directory, and allow
customers to edit their own information on your site. Too advanced for
you? Not any more! Richard guides you through the process with Adobe
GoLive.
Full Story
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Web
Developers: Here's the Key to Maximizing Client
Profitability...
Unless you're offering web hosting to all of your web design clients,
you aren't maximizing your profit potential. Build a recurring income
stream of hundreds or thousands of dollars a month by utilizing Virtual
Private Servers (VPS).
VPS allow you to host multiple Websites, under one account, for a single,
affordable, monthly fee. With guaranteed server resources, multiple
control panel options, including server, account, and reseller
administration, PHP/MySQL support, and Frontpage Extensions,
you can't go wrong.
Find the ideal VPS package for your needs
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Editor's Perspective
Contextual Advertising -- There's More Than Google
Recently in this space I wrote about how Google was taking ads placed
through their "AdWords" program, and syndicating them onto other
content sites on a revenue share basis. In essence, Google is entering the
ad network space, though in a very exclusive sense -- the minimum number
of monthly impressions a site owner has to achieve in order to join the
syndication program is 30 million.
Google isn't the only one trying to increase their revenue through
ad-syndication. If you're an advertiser on Overture, your ads also appear
on a pop-under window launched by Gator whenever someone performs a search
at Yahoo! or Google, or another major search engine. Unfortunately for
Overture advertisers, there is no way to opt-out. And soon, your ads will
appear on syndicated content sites as well.
Overture is now planning to go head-to-head against Google's AdWords
Network. With the recent acquisitions of Inktomi and AllTheWeb, Overture
has access to vast databases that describe what hundreds of millions of
Web pages are about. Overture is now able to match an ad to the content on
any given page. It's expected that Overture's contextual advertising
product will be released in the second half of this year.
IndustryBrains.com is another network that pay-per-click text ads on the
search results pages of content sites. This network targets
"business/technology" sites such as PC Magazine, MacWorld, and
Tom's Hardware. Because they don't have a database that describes the
content of each page, they are unable to target ads onto non-search
results pages.
Not to be left out in the cold, About.com also offers
"ContentSprinks" -- text ads which appear on over 350 content
Websites: http://www.sprinks.com/faq/index.htm#contentsprinks .
Each of these PPC networks is worth a look: whether you're an advertiser
(small or big), or a publisher with plenty of traffic to spare.
Tool: Monitor Your And Your Competitor's Rankings
Keep track of new competitors and ranking changes at Google the easy way.
http://www.googlert.com is a service that runs daily searches on any
keywords you specify, and emails the results to you.
If you have any extremely important rankings on Google, this is a great
way to ensure that you're automatically notified if new competitors appear
on the first page of search results, bumping you off.
An even better way to monitor your rankings on Google and every other
major search engine is WebPosition. First Place Software, which has been
putting out versions of WebPosition for as long as I can remember, does an
excellent job not only of monitoring rankings, but helping you achieve
them. Check it out.
Hot Discussions at the SitePoint Forums
Background Color - Use GIF or Specify #?
http://sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=98867
In 7 years online I've never seen one like this! (Flash Site)
http://sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=100308
What .NET Host Do you Use?
http://sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=92426
Keeping track of clients/customers?
http://sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=99729
What do you think of this SEO technique? ...and other questions.
http://sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=98394
Until next week I remain,
Matt Mickiewicz
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Script of the Week...
"Document Juggler is a PHP application that creates dynamic
MySQL-based help, reference and documentation pages, on any topics.
Main features:
- submit, update and manage documentation tree hierarchy;
- create multiple documents threads;
- full control and flexible removal, update and editing of your
documentary system;
- add pictures and html to your dynamic help pages.
A demo version, on-line help, and developer's page is available on the
site's homepage."
Script Name: Document Juggler
URL: http://ddtstudio.de/site/index.php?pg=1.1.1
Know of a good script that should be Script of the Week?
Let me know!. If your
suggestion is used we'll publish your URL in this newsletter, which
reaches 51,000 interested subscribers.
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Download of the Week...
Are you a
speed freak? If so, listen up!
Every time you go to a new Website, or a Website you haven't been to in a
day or so, your computer needs to locate the server again using DNS. Each
DNS request can take anywhere from 50 milliseconds, to a second or
more.
AnalogX FastCache is a caching DNS server that runs on your local machine
and handles any DNS request that your computer makes, from Internet
Explorer to your favorite FTP client.
Once a query is made, FastCache will override the normal timeout for the
item with one that you specify. So, instead of saving a query for a couple
of seconds, FastCache can save it for a couple of days. The result?
Quicker access to Websites.
Program Name: FastCache
URL: http://analogx.com/contents/download/network/fc.htm
Know of a good utility/program that should be Download of
the Week? Let me know!. If
your suggestion is used we'll publish your URL in this newsletter, which
reaches 51,000 interested subscribers.
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Help Your Friends Out
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