Archive for February, 2010
How to add a caption to an image
Someone once asked me how to add a caption to an image. They were using an image in their article they had taken from another website and wanted to give credit for the image. It seems like a silly question, because you would think that there would be a caption field right within the image tag, but there [...]
In: General Computer Tutorials
How to make money with your website
Once you started your own website, you want to make money, of course! Well, there are a couple different ways you can make money with your site: advertising and selling goods and services. This article will just deal with the first way. See the article, Accepting Credit Cards on your website, for how to handle [...]
In: Getting Started
Making money with your website using affiliate programs
At this point in the game, you did all the hard work that is involved in starting up your own website. Now that you added some advertisements on your page, your hard work will pay off and you can just sit back and wait for the big pay day. I know that’s what I thought [...]
In: Getting Started
Free affiliate programs and advertisers for your website
Once your site is up and running, you will want to place advertisements on your website to make some money. One way to do that is to join an affiliate program, which allows you to choose from a bunch of companies who want you to display their ads. You can also join affiliate networks, where [...]
How to add Google AdSense to your website
Like they have with pretty much everything else, Google also cornered the market on internet advertising. They are an advertising network that will place rotating ads that are targeted according to the information on your pages. Make sure you actually have a website with content before signing up with AdSense, because they will not accept [...]
In: Getting Started
Google AdSense step-by-step set up instructions
If you have created an account with Google AdSense, this article will walk you through the process of setting up and configuring your ads.
For those of you who are new to this, you can find more information about starting your own site and making money with your site in the following articles:
Starting Your Own Website [...]
In: Getting Started
Other creative ways to promote your website
Let me restate that it is very important to do what you can to improve your search engine listings. But there are many other ways of drawing traffic to your site that are sometimes overlooked. Let’s take a look at those options.
1. Advertising
If you are willing to spend a little money, advertising on other sites [...]
Checking your website with multiple browsers on a single computer
In case you were not aware, your web page will appear slightly different in the different web browsers. There are a lot of browsers out there, including several versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera, among others. There are also different platforms, including Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Since the multiple versions of certain browsers can’t [...]
In: Getting Started
How to validate your web page
Although not an absolute necessity, validating your web pages is a good habit to get into to help ensure your web pages function properly in all web browsers and search engines.
What does validating your web page mean?
You validate a web page by using a program to check that your HTML and CSS code do not [...]
In: Getting Started
Important web design considerations
1. Don’t focus too much on appearance
From what I have found, most people focus too much on the appearance of their website. But, believe it or not, appearance isn’t the most important thing to look at when you are planning and creating your site.
I definitely don’t want you to think that appearance is not important, [...]
In: Getting Started
