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Which forum script to use
Forums are good. I'm not going to turn this article into a propaganda article about why forums are cool because you've probably had that rammed down y...

Index vs. Default filenames
If there was such a time, it would be known as a simpler time when every default file had one name. Sure there would still be millions of extentions -...

Finding your font
When designing a website, the last thing you want to do is pick the wrong font. And by the wrong font I of course mean Times New Roman font. When p...

4 website dont's
There are somethings that you should never do when building a website. Here are a few of them. 1. Underlined text Underlines are for links - not r...

Printer friendly pages
There is nothing like reading an article on the website and finding it one of the best you have ever read – you immediately want to show to it other p...

Interview: Richard Dickinson
Several months ago Richard Dickinson began designing websites and has now worked on several sites accross the Internet. We thought it would be good to...

How to fill your homepage
So you have this great new site design filled with information. You have pages and pages of content and all sorts of special navigation systems instal...

Picking a width for your site
So you've designed your perfect homepage. The only problem is that it doesn't fit on anyone's screen but yours. Suddenly you are finding you have to r...

Protest sites legality
A lot of people are using the internet to speak out against the companies that they object to. From the global protest sites such as www.stopesso.com ...

Initials and why to avoid them
Just look around expired domain lists and domain auction sites and you will probably find an advert for "rare 3 letter domains." However, there is a r...

Does my biz need dot biz?
Until now companies had it pretty easy. You choose a .com domain although if you were a British company you may have had to choose between a .co.uk as...

Making your domain memorable
When choosing a domain name or any web address for your website it is important that you get a memorable and snappy domain so people can remember it. ...

New domain extentions - good or bad?
Back in the old days you could pick between all 3 domain extensions, .com, .net and .org. And each one would cost you £100 a year or over. Now you can...

Is your expired domain worthless?
Buying expired domains can get you valuable visitors and an already strong standing in search engines and website directories. However if you pick the...

Insensitised clicks - waste or wonderful?
A lot of advertising offers pay for click advertising via insensitised clicks. This means the visitors are encouraged to click the link. For instance ...

Designing your banner
I have read a few articles on designing advert banners and they all say similar things. And from the experiance I have gained from designing my banner...

Banner orientate your content
If your in a banner exchange, the more banners you serve up, the more your banner is going to be served up. So maximizing your banner impressions is v...

Big Website Networks
I was inspired to create some kind of report about major website networks. I am not really sure why. Or what use it brings. Or even how biased it was ...

Get people to brand for you
You are always looking for ways to increase your brand name and credibility. But you don't need big advertising campaigns to do this. The best way to ...

Joining a web ring
Exchanging links with other sites can booth your traffic with targeted visitors. However going round each site you want to exchange a link with can be...

Getting targeted visitors from TopSites
TopSites are sites which will list your website for free. However if you want them to send you traffic, you have to send them traffic. The way it w...

Selecting good moderators
At the heart of any good community are the forum moderators. This rag tag band of warriors battle against the tides of spam, abuse and unclean languag...

Chat options roundup
So you are looking to add some kind of chat room to your website? There are many solutions to the problem and everyone will tell you that their sugges...

Running forum competitions
If you're trying to encourage people to post on your forum, then running a competition can encourage people to begin a whole new posting schedule brin...

Welcoming new visitors
When encouraging community building between users and getting people to feel loyal to your site, you need to be able to welcome new visitors and make ...

Search engines and the future
When I first started to come online there were many major search engines - Google was still coming along but back then it was the good old days of Yah...

Dust domain to domain reality
Your first question when opening this article will be, “so what’s with the title?” The truth is I don’t really know, I just thought it sounded cool. A...

Writing robots.txt files 101
It’s great when you first get search engine crawlers creeping all over your site. However sometimes you get them indexing content that you don’t want ...

Get Google indexing dynamic content
Having the world’s largest database of information is fantastic – if people know about it. But unless you get the message out there people are not goi...

Search engines do work
I never really considered search engines brought much traffic to a website; however now my opinion has begun to be altered. First of all I want to tak...

Get dynamic content indexed
A problem which many webmasters face is how to get search engines to index dynamic content. Although search engines these days are happy to index dyna...

Are Meta tags old hat?
In the last centaury Meta tags used to determine whether your site was a shattering success or a complete failure. Everyone was talking about them, te...

Paying for search engine listings
Almost all search engines offer premium services for people who are willing to pay for it these days. Many offer all sorts of options such as pay per ...

Creating your own media kit
If your going to sell advertising from your website you need a media kit. This can range for a page of information to an entire site such as MSN Advan...

Worfolk Online Community Stats October 2004
Welcome to Worfolk Online’s October 2004 report on the Community and Forum stats gathering information from across the Worfolk Online network about ou...

Selling your own Ad Space
So you have tried the banner exchanges, the affiliate programmes and getting a 3rd party to sell your advertising for you and its not working? Perhaps...

What ad companies don't want
Most advertising companies have fairly strict guidelines about which sites will be accepted into the network and which sites will not. This is also tr...

Selling your script
If you have written some scripts and you are thinking about selling them then here's a few tips on how to do it. If you get it right you can make a lo...

Accepting online payment
One of the major decisions when setting up your online business is who to accept payment from your customers. The better and more customisable your me...

Don't start with a product
A lot of online businesses fail - and there are as many reasons for this as failures themselves. There is no one core reason. However there are severa...

Buy customers not traffic
All across the net you can find websites offering to send you large amounts of traffic - banner adverts, pop ups, expired domains, the list goes on. E...

Java Junky: The unstoppable pop up
People hate pop ups because they are really really annyoing. They also have a lot of problems. A lot of people use pop up stoppers, and if you are usi...

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