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How to Create Bulleted Lists (Unordered Lists) for Your Web Page with KompoZer Unordered lists are useful if you want to place a list of loosely related items on your web page. This article shows you how to do this using the free KompoZer web editor.

How to Point Multiple Domain Names to One Website: And How to Avoid Search En... Find out why you might want multiple domain names pointing to your website and how to do it correctly so as to avoid the problems that it might have on your search engine rankings.

How to Create a Bulleted List (Unordered List) for Your Website in Dreamweaver This article deals with how you can create one of those lists with bullet points preceding each item using the Dreamweaver web editor. It's very handy if you want to list things but don't want to use numbers since that would suggest some sort of sequence or order to the items. (And yes, I use this type of list a lot on thesitewizard.com.)

The Decline and Fall of Internet Explorer 6: Implications for Webmasters Yes, Internet Explorer 6 is finally dying. While webmasters and security pundits the world over breathe a sigh of relief, this article deals with some of the practical aspects of that demise where webmasters are concerned.

Should You Choose a Linux or a Windows Web Hosting Package? Is There Such a T... Those who are thinking of starting a website will have noticed that some web hosts advertise Linux packages, others Windows, still others FreeBSD. Should you choose a Linux web host or a Windows one? What if you have a Mac? When do you need a Windows web host and when a Linux or FreeBSD? This article attempts to answer these questions.

How to Solve the Error Message from ReCAPTCHA about Using JavaScript-Free Ver... Another frequently asked question (FAQ) has been added to the How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form Script: Reducing Spam in Your Contact Form tutorial. This one deals with the error message from ReCAPTCHA about using the "JavaScript free version of reCAPTCHA" in a browser that has JavaScript. Note: if you do not already have a contact form on your website with CAPTCHA support to filter out spam, read that article for an easy way to do this.

How to Redesign a New Website without Affecting the Old Site Until the New On... If you have an existing website and you want to redesign it from scratch using Dreamweaver, how do you go about doing it without overwriting the current one while developing? This article describes the procedure, and shows you not only how to defer the publication of your newly redesigned website, but also how you can test your site offline while working on it.

How to Move Your Dreamweaver Files to a New Computer Have you upgraded to a new computer and are wondering how you can transfer your Dreamweaver website files and site definition from your old system to the new? This article shows you how you can do it in a quick and easy way, without losing any work and without having to redo anything.

How to Pop Up a Tool Tip Window for Your Images Using Dreamweaver When you move your mouse over the images of some websites, you'll probably have noticed that a tool tip window pops up. This article shows you how you can create that effect for your site using Dreamweaver. It also addresses the question some visitors ask about why the ALT text does not show for their images. (The question rests on mistaken assumptions about the ALT text.)

Is There a WYSIWYG Editor for PHP? Or Should I Use PHP or HTML for My Website? This article answers a few questions that I have received from visitors about PHP and HTML, in particular, about whether to choose PHP or HTML for their site, and whether there is a visual editor for PHP. On the way, I try to clarify the meaning of those terms in order to sort out the confusion surrounding those words.

How to Put a Clickable Email Address on Your Web Page Using Dreamweaver For webmasters (especially those running businesses) who want to put an email address on their website, this article describes how you can make that email address into a clickable link.

How to Install PrestaShop Shopping Cart on Your Website Are you selling goods or services on your website? Or perhaps you want to sell digital goods like ebooks, software, music MP3 files, etc, and don't know how to get your website to automatically deliver the goods sold to your customers after they pay for it. The PrestaShop software is a free (and open source) shopping cart program that you can install on your website to run your own online shop. This tutorial shows you how you can set it up.

How to Make Your Links Change Colour When the Mouse Hovers Over It Using Drea... If you're fascinated by how a link is highlighted when you move your mouse over it on some sites, including thesitewizard.com itself, this article teaches you how you can create the same effect for your website using Dreamweaver. It also shows how you can change the default colour ("color") scheme for your unclicked and visited links, add/remove underlines, etc.

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Will I Have to Continue to Pay a Fee to Keep My Domain Name After I Buy It? C... This article answers some questions newcomers have about registering a domain name, namely whether they have to continue to pay a fee to keep the domain name, whether they can change registrars and whether they can terminate a domain name if they don't want it any more.

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Web Design Software Pick of the Week: ColorBlender Finding color palettes can be a lot of fun, and with this tool you can create a palette and then email it to someone else to have them modify it. You can choose each color in the palette directly or have the tool give you a "blend" based on a color you

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PayPal Virtual Agent Fail I probably should have paid attention to the fact that Sarah was virtual and not real.

The 5 Digg Tools You Need These are the 5 Digg tools you need. Are there more? I doubt it!

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Weird Google Indented Search Results Have you seen these strange Google search results that show multiple indentations?

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The ICANN meeting that almost never was Last week Nairobi successfully played host to the Internet community during the 37th Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN), growing Nairobi's profile as a centre for conference tourism. This was despite initial fears that terrorists

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ICANN to reconsider .XXX proposal The proposal for a .XXX global top-level domain is back on the agenda following the deliberations of an ICANN review panel. As long ago as 2004, domain registry ICM applied to ICANN to operate the .XXX global top-level domain (gTLD). The idea was to

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Internet body delays decision on .XXX domain name The adult entertainment industry is going to have to wait a while longer to see whether it gets its .XXX domain name. The board of ICANN, the international regulatory body for Web addresses, on Friday delayed a decision until June on whether to create

ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Papua New Guinea (.PG) MARINA DEL REY, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced in a press release that it has signed an exchange of letters with the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) manager for .PG, the Papua New Guinea University of

ICANN Board Meeting Spoiler Alert For those participants that have been working rearranged hours and participating remotely in connection with ICANN's Nairobi meeting, here is a chance to sleep in. While ICANN Board tea leaf reading is not an exact science, there is a great deal of

ICANN's Board Decisions in Nairobi Will Determine Its Credibility and Respect... Today is the morning of the most revered Thursday in the ICANN meetings calendar?The public forum. It is tradition personified. It is the day when the show and the showcasing really begin. It is the stage and the choreography of the open microphone

ICANN Takes a Wrong Turn on New TLD Contracts - "Post Signature Revision Proc... The pen is mightier than the word...or should be. When ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate-Thrush --­ an accomplished attorney?said last year that he wouldn't let one of his own clients agree to a contract that could be unilaterally changed after it was

Google stars for bookmarking Google is replacing SearchWiki with stars in Google search. The stars sync with Google Bookmarks, so you can get access to them wherever you go. Once you star something, it shows up above the search results: Pretty cool. But I discovered an extra little tip. If you go to Google Bookmarks, you can find a bookmarklet [...]

Clarifying a couple points [Just as a reminder: everything below is my personal opinion. I haven't sent it to anyone else at Google for a review, etc.] Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google’s Arrogant Leaders. The two assertions that used my comments as material were “Google’s wealth means Google [...]

Start an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video. The short version looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI#t=31m08s The “#t=31m08s” takes you to 31 minutes and 8 seconds in a video. I just found out that you can also start embedded videos at a certain timestamp. To do it on an embedded [...]

Calling for link spam reports Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we’d like to ask for linkspam reports from you. If you’d like to tell us about web sites that appear to be using spammy links (e.g. paid links that pass PageRank, blog spammers, guestbook spammers, etc.), here’s how to send us [...]

Leaving the iPhone I’m three weeks into a new 30 day challenge: no iPhone. When I got a Nexus One in December, I spent a few weeks carrying both phones around in the pockets of my jeans. It took a little while to adapt to Android, but I’m very happy with my Nexus One and I don’t plan [...]

My speaking plans for 2010 Last year I tried to limit my travel but still ended up making about ten (!) trips in 2009. This year I’ve resolved to travel less for work. Right now, here’s my current speaking/travel plans for 2010: March 2-4, 2010: SMX West, Santa Clara, CA. I’m doing a “Ask the Search Engines” panel. May 19-20, 2010: Google [...]

Finding the best cell phone carrier Okay, someone tell me if this device exists (or build it!). I want a device where I can pay $10-15 to get a gadget in the mail. The gadget would sit in my pocket for a week wherever I go. The device would record cell phone signal strength for each of the four major U.S. [...]

Blog to Book? I recently went looking for some software to make a blog into a book. Here’s what I found: - Lulu will take PDF files for a book. Blogbooker.com will try to create a PDF from a blog. Unfortunately, my blog made BlogBooker choke (I have 991 posts from my blog) — even when I excluded comments. - [...]

Chrome support for Greasemonkey Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked. At the time, I wrote a note within Google that said Whoa. I just clicked on a Greasemonkey script in the latest dev version of Chrome (4.0.266.0 on Linux). Chrome offered to install the GM script, [...]

Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches: Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters. Now, [...]

Are Yahoo Buying Links? I’ve been away a while again, so to quickly answer a few of the usual questions – No I am not dead, no the site is not for sale and yes I am still trying to write here, although only when I have time which is not a lot at the moment unfortunately. Anyway, I don’t [...]

Using Clients To Rank For SEO This is another subject I have been meaning to discuss that I haven’t seen debated a huge amount openly even though everyone in the industry is aware of it. Simply checking the UK agencies ranking for ‘SEO’ (as an example) it’s very easy to spot that some of them are using their own clients as a [...]

Big Geo Problems Still Exist In Google UK SERPS It was back at the start of June that a number of SEOs spotted a change in the Google UK search results where by US sites seemed to be ranking unusually high for queries in Google UK. Geo filters have always been fairly strong in Google UK for generic phrases for obvious reasons and many, [...]

Bing So Microsofts new search engine brand Bing is live in the UK. I think some negative matching might be required for Bingo PPC advertisers. :-)

Googles Disappearing Blog Post Phenomenon This is something I have been meaning to discuss for a longtime and is not something that I have really seen anyone talk about much. I noticed this quite sometime back when Google started crawling and indexing new blog pages within minutes and ranking this content very quickly in their search results. Crawling and indexing content so [...]

Linkfromdomain Command ? Much Underused I still love the linkfromdomain command on Live.com. Like MSN / Live (perhaps Kumo?!) search platform, it’s often forgotten about. But actually it still has much value for SEO. Here are 3 quick reasons why - 1) Check Your Outbound Links – You can’t always control who links to you, but you can control who you [...]

This Site May Harm Your Computer Looks as though Google has a bit of a problem today because it’s labeling every site with the ‘this site may harm your computer‘ warning accross all it’s SERPS. This seems to be on Google.co.uk and Google.com. Oops. Even for their own sites.

Hyves Subdomain Leak & Analysis So if you missed it yesterday Mediadonis posted about a very strange subdomain trick that he and others claim allowed anyone to check if a domain was penalised in someway by Google (from selling links or loss of pagerank from other ‘malicious’ means). Google have since this morning stopped this from working, but the basis was [...]

How To Use Match Types For Maximum Return As noted by Barry over at Seroundtable, apparently Google is now recommending that you do not have multiple match types for the same search phrase. So for example, you shouldn’t have the keyword ‘golf clubs’, set on broad, phrase and exact match types. Broad -   golf clubs Phrase – “golf clubs” Exact -   [golf clubs] Now I haven’t heard [...]

Adwords In Google Search Suggest ? Scary Google have started testing Adwords ads within Google suggest, like this example below from Search Engine Land - Normally Google do not charge for clicks on new advert testing like this which is good news. But for me it’s quite scary how far they are taking the expansion of where they show their adverts. At the top [...]

Tips and Tricks on Using Twitter for Business Twitter marketing efforts start strong and more importantly stay strong.

How to Use Facebook as a Branding Strategy for Your Business The article author walks you through setting up and using Facebook to help drive people to your website.

Google's SEO Report Card - Information Nuggets or Fool's Gold Sifting through Google's SEO report card to see what informational nuggets are hidden inside.

Killer Campaigns Volume Four - The Color of Branding Good Web videos are not as much about making a sale as they are about making contact to re-enforce a message and a brand.

39 Free or Low-Cost Tools for Marketing Your Small Business Online Help round out your small business marketing toolkit with this list of the most popular low-cost or free small business marketing tools.

Ten Top Tips for Video Marketing Your Online Business How to stand out in the crowd on video channels and search engines.