If you have a website and occasionally look at your site traffic logs, you may notice visits from robots with funny names like Slurp, Scooter, or GoogleBot. These automated programs are search engine robots that crawl the Web looking for …[Continue]
Royalty-Free Graphics
Royalty-free photographs for your website do not have to be expensive. PD Photo offers thousands of free, public domain photos. IstockPhoto has 85,000 royalty-free photographs and illustrations with prices starting at just fifty cents per image….[Continue]
Add e-Postcards to Your Site
It’s fun and easy to send e-postcards to friends and family. And if you have a homepage, it’s just as easy to create e-postcards (using original artwork, photography and poetry) that your visitors can send. Here are two free hosted …[Continue]
Favicons
Ever notice the tiny icons that display in your browser address bar or favorites list for some sites? They are called favicons (short for “favorites icon”) and you can easily make one for your homepage with a graphics editor or …[Continue]
PowerPoint Tips
When creating PowerPoint presentations, keep in mind the distance your audience will be from your screen. Sign painter’s use this rule of thumb: a one-inch letter is readable from 10 feet, and a two- inch letter is legible at twenty …[Continue]
News Tickers
If you have your own website, and would like to add news headlines to it, there are several sources of free news tickers that are very simple to use. Here are three popular ones: 7am Ticker, MSNBC Newsstand and Moreover….[Continue]
Learning HTML
If you are learning how to create HTML web pages, viewing the source code of existing pages is a great tool. Both Netscape and Internet Explorer make this available under View. If you are an Internet Explorer user, and you …[Continue]
