Web design knowledge base

This web design knowledge base is here to help you answer all your web design questions.

General

 
Things to consider when getting a website
Pre-website questions
Agencies versus freelancers
Why most web projects fail
Should you make your website in Flash?
Things that can get in the way of a good website
How to make your company easier to contact online
Online portfolio tips
Pointless or potentially dangerous website features

Design

 
Web design versus print design
Web design inspiration
Can you use any font/typeface on your website?
What if you don’t like your web designer’s concept of your website?
How to add photos to your website
Your website looks pretty but…

Development

 
Should you get your website built overseas?
Should I make my website myself?
Should you use an open-source CMS to power your website?
The importance of a test site
Spam prevention techniques
The benefits of a bespoke website

Website FAQs

 
Why won’t a web designer work on my website?
Why have your website in your web designer’s portfolio?
Should you get a friend or family member to build your website?
What’s the difference between a web page and an email newsletter?
What’s the difference between a Windows and a Linux website?
Can you upload video to your website?

Search engines/marketing

 
How to effectively use search engines to promote your website
Why can’t I see my recently launched site in Google?
When is the next PageRank update?
Is SEO automatically included in a website quote?
10 SEO techniques that WON’T help your website’s rankings
Do you need to pay to SEO your website?
How a content management system can ruin your search engine positions

Hosting and emails

 
Should I backup my own website?
What’s the difference between a domain name and web hosting?
How to buy shared hosting from Clook
How to spot spam emails: the obvious and the not so obvious
Why do I have to pay for web hosting?
Should you send email newsletters out from your own computer?
How to create a good email signature
How to backup your website and database with cPanel
Should you use a web company who email you out of the blue?
Hosting packages explained
The dangers of cheap web hosting
Things to consider when creating a HTML newsletter

eCommerce

 
eCommerce explained: How to sell online
Things to consider when getting an eCommerce site

Domain names

 
How to choose a domain name
The benefits of buying multiple domain names for the same website

How-tos

 
Send an email attachment with PHP
How to change your web designer
How to get a web designer to work with you
How to build a good content management system
How to make a user-friendly website
How to spot a good web design portfolio
How to make a website easier to navigate

Business/money

 
The true cost of cheap websites
Why do web design quotes differ so much?
Why are there no prices on my website?
The importance of a website in a recession
Will I have to pay for updates to my website?
Why do I have to pay a deposit to start my website project?
How and when will I have to pay for my website?
The importance of a web design contract
Should you disclose your web design budget?

Blogging, writing and website content

 
Write it right: how to add words to your website
The benefits of having a blog on your website
What you should blog about
Things you should know about your site’s WYSIWYG editor
How to add a good contact form to your website
How to make your website’s text easy to read
How to write tutorials that add benefit to your website
Who is responsible for the text on your website?

Resources for other web designers/developers (web design knowledge needed)

 
JQuery vertical align function
Getting file information with PHP
Blurred reflections in Photoshop
Simple JQuery sliding FAQs
PHP format file size
View source code using PHP
Get the size of a MySQL database with PHP
Output MySQL variables to a table
Glossy metal text in Photoshop
JQuery: What’s the difference between height, innerHeight and outerHeight?
How to set up Synergy on Mac OS X and Ubuntu
Generate a country drop down using PHP
 
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