Web Design For Idiots

Want to take your entire website and make it a fixed with and have it centered in the middle of everyone’s screen? Well, you should. The great thing about having a fixed width and centered site is that it will look exactly the same on everyone’s computer monitor. It’s a great thing, because fluid websites [...]

I recently wrote a tutorial on how to use FileZilla. The reason I wrote that tutorial first was because MOST people have FIleZilla, and the reason why is because it is free. However, if you have an Apple computer, you will be so much better off and you will save yourself so many headaches if [...]

So you decided that you want to start COMPLETELY from scratch and build your website/blog without the help of ANYONE. GOOD FOR YOU! But i bet you have no idea where to start. The easiest, most newbie way, is to start by using one large TABLE to hold your main content. A table is an [...]

I have ALWAYS struggled with creating a contact form, mainly because there are very few good tutorials out there on how to do it. Well, I finally found a good tutorial on how to make a contact form that WORKS. Now, you have to have dreamweaver if you want to follow this tutorial step by [...]

If you are new to web design, which most of you are, you might not know the power of the INDEX page. The index page is the page that a browser will default to when it opens a directory (remember, directory and folder are interchangeable in the web world). This is the reason why your [...]

So I have gotten a lot of questions regarding FileZilla and how to get your website or files from your computer to the internet. “I found your email through the wordpress.org forum for themes…do you happen to know anything about filezilla? I cant get it to work at all…it keeps saying connection established but then [...]

Learn what an SSL (secure socket layer) actually is, and what SSL does for your sales. Figure out the difference between SSL and a secure payment gateway. Get a simple, generic explanation of how to make your website meet the standards of today’s cautious e-buyer.

I think I found it. The perfect solution to teaching yourself HOW to make oscommerce LOOK good. We all know that the stock oscommerce will NOT turn your e-commerce business into a world dominating retailer. Its made to be a skeleton which you should build on.. The thing is, unless you are an expert coder, [...]

I have officially been working with oscommerce for 2 years now, and I started by learning the good old fashioned way – that is MAKING MISTAKES!! Thank god that I have the good frame of mind to backup my work before i even START thinking about making changes to my site.. But here’s the thing, [...]

Hah, i was in a forum today, trying to figure out this debocle with my shared SSL (secure socket layer). What i realized was, my website NEEDS to have a cookie in the users browser, but when you visit a SHARED ssl page, the domain changes, and since the cookie is only valid on the [...]