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Tips on Increasing eSubscribers
One way to increase your hits is to e-mail out a daily or weekly newsletter pointing back to the newest parts of your site. These are some techniques you can use to increase your subscription rate.
Securing Netscape in the Public Library
via Camworld.
Very useful tips that help describe ways to secure Netscape Navigator: Disabling shortcut keys, Lock-in by IP address, Kiosk mode, automating the clearing of the location bar and more.
Get a Job
HTML and passion won't get you a good job building Web sites. One of many very readable articles exploring the business of Website building. Why hadn't I discovered this Aussie Lighthouse before?
Planting Seeds in All the Right Places
Building awareness of your web launch. When you launch a new site, one of the first things you need to do is tell people about it. <ahref> article.
10 Questions on E-Commerce
Get up on the technology, standards, and regulatory climate of today's online businesses. Converting your run-of-the-mill Web site into a moneymaking online retail store or a cost-cutting distribution operation.
Make $$ with your site
Tips on merchandising, payment, ordering and fulfillment, infrastructure, inventory, service and support.
Products are important, but there's no substitute for carefully planned site navigation, a fully thought-out ordering and fulfillment process, procedures to ensure customer satisfaction, and fanatical quality assurance.
Misbegotten Rules of Web Design
Rule-making for web design is insidious. It encourages the notion that one can do an acceptable design without wrestling with the difficult questions raised by the total context in which a site exists
Checklist for Web Site Development Agreements
More practical information for your contracts.
Articles for Website Designers and Site Owners
Written by an attorney and aimed specifically to Web Design work. Independent contractor agreements, giving up your rights, fair use, transfer of rights, derivative works, use of music, more...
The brand called URL
At the heart of the Web are two important lessons about your career: You are your most important product, and everything about you gets more valuable when you use technology to leverage it.
Introduction to PHP
PHP is very similar to Active Server Pages, but it runs also on Unix servers, its Open Source (free).
Writing an effective RFP
There are several ways to structure an effective RFP. Here is a useful guide.
Globalize your website
How do I make my site internationally friendly and to what level? Although U.S. residents may make up the largest single group, they represent less than 50 percent of wired people.
E-Commerce Tutorial
Think about all the issues that need addressing before you can put together a successful online business plan (in five lessons). from Webmonkey.
Search engine registration script
Script to register you page in popular search engines. Beware that the script is a JavaScript running on your PC and not at the server. This means that it matters what kind of browser you use. It's tested with the browsers Netscape 4++ and Internet Explorer 4++ on the Windows platform.
Via Billy's log.
Accounting for success
Are your fees enough to keep your web-building business alive? Do you need to allocate your time more efficiently? Learn more useful details about running your web shop.
Why your business will fail if you ignore the web
Tony Powell makes websites, and he has a good idea how to sell you on one. Read, assimilate, extend, then go out and get yourself some business.
Web newsletters are hot as low-cost promotion tools
With practically no production expenses, all companies — no matter the size — can utilize e-mail newsletters to bolster their brand.
IBM HotMedia
As much as I dislike Java, this is a great tool. For those (very rare) occasions when you need some sort of multimedia in your page (sound, video, 360° photos, etc)and you can't count on plug-ins. Download at no cost!
Setting fees and getting paid.
Article from A List Apart, the great resource for people who make websites. While you're there, do not forget to join the discussion list.
Dump Truck
Download this! Neat utility for promoting your web pages to search engines
Be a freelance web builder
Advise on working from home, what to charge, tax matters, contracts, finding clients...
philosophe.com
Quality control for web development.
The Perl you need to know
There's no way around it, you HAVE to learn Perl.
Hiring web people
You develop websites? this is what your potential customers will be looking for. Be prepared.
Here's another guide.
How to set Rates for web development work
From the geek's guide to Internet business success.
E-Storefront Options for Small Businesses.
E-Commerce on the cheap. Good alternatives for small businesses wanting to get their feet wet doing business on the web.
Sending Search-Engine Traffic to Your Site.
via Webmonkey:
Good guide to having search engine bots crawl, index and rank your site.
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