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Guides

How to get your webpages onto the web - This guide will take you through the steps required to move your site from your computer onto the World Wide Web for all to see.

Setting up a home development server - A complete guide to installing Apache, Perl, PHP, MySQL and phpBB.

Planning your site - Planning is vital if you want your site to work. Find out how to plan properly with this quick guide.

Headlines Syndication - Complete guide to creating an RSS file and how to submit your headlines.

File Structure - how to build an organised directory structure for your site.

Image Toolbar - how to enable/disable the image toolbar.

Search engine tips

The Meta Tag - some general search engine tips.

Frames - Some tips that might help your ranking if you use frames.

SSI - search engine tips when using server side includes.

Tips

Navigation woes - Does your navigation work?

Beware the popup killers - have you tested your site to account for them?

Back it up and do it again - never lose your site again.

Beginner tips - learn to walk before you run.

Assume nothing test everything - some common sense tips.

Quick tips - some website building quick tips.

Spam blues - how to deal with email spam.

Discussion

Verisign Hijack .com and .net typos - This is not a web development issue but one I thought might be useful information especially if you have kids that use the net. .

Site Optimisation - ISP bandwidth restrictions, are you ready for them?.

Submitted Articles
1. Innovative user interface design
2. Usability testing with children
3. Mobile & handheld usability testing - why it matters
4. Preparing your CSS for Internet Explorer 7
5. Focus groups - how to run them
6. Beyond guidelines: Advanced accessibility techniques
7. Designing websites for older users
8. Web accessibility and learning difficulties
9. Internet Explorer and CSS Issues
10. How to improve your search engine...
11. User-centered design
12. 8 guidelines for usability testing
13. Using the Web Accessibility Toolbar
14. Improving usability for screen reader users
15. The problem with automated accessibility testing tools
16. Separate text-only version? No thanks!
17. SEO : Increased Usability
18. Build up links to your website
19. Web accessibility for screen magnifier users
20. CSS Shorthand Properties
21. Tell me what you do!
22. CSS hacks & browser detection
23. Writing effective ALT text for images
24. A higher search engine ranking
25. Increased usability
26. Ten accessibility blunders
27. Linking out is good
28. Ten usability blunders of the big players
29. Planning a usable website: A three-step guide
30. Writing effective link text
31. OOP in JavaScript
32. How disabled users access the Internet
33. Ten CSS tricks you may not know
34. Benefits of an accessible website - part 2
35. Benefits of an accessible website - part 1
36. Choosing Effective Domain Names
37. RAID – A Layman’s Guide
38. Web accessibility: The basics
39. Web accessibility myths
40. CSS - same link text - different colours
41. Applying CSS to forms
42. Ten ways to speed up the download time of your web pages
43. Beyond Web usability: Web credibility
44. CSS and round corners
45. Web usability: The basics
46. Dont submit your website
47. Web accessibility and the law in the UK
48. Quick Guide to Writing for the Web
49. Accessibility Quick Tips
50. Getting Your Business Online - Part 3
51. Getting Your Business Online - Part 2
52. Getting Your Small Business Online Part 1
53. How to beat spam
54. Windows or Linux Hosting. Which Is Right For You?
55. Changing Web Hosts? Step-By-Step Guide.
56. Avoid Hosting Mistakes!
57. Bandwidth Or Data Transfer - Which is Which?

Resources

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