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Web Site Workflow – Part 1

May 10th 2010

I have busy designing a new site lately.  While doing this I thought it would be interesting to document my  work flow. As always this is in note form giving you a general overview of what to do. If you require more detail on any stage then please comment and I will answer. Part 1 – [...]

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Making a Multi Page Web Site in Fireworks

April 5th 2010

This tutorial assumes you have already created a web page with navigation. – Open the Page Panel and right click on your page. Then select “Set as Master Page”. – Click on each nav button in turn and set the link in the Properties pane (index.html) – Right click on the Master Page in the [...]

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Firefox Web Tools

April 5th 2010

The Firefox web browser can be a superb tool for web designers.  A number of add ons are available to allow sites to be analaysed and coding techniques tested.  No good web designer should be without it.  Here is a list of must have add ons : Firebug : Link FireFTP : Link YSlow : [...]

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Installing and using Postnuke

September 15th 2009

    A step by step tutorial, to install and configure a Post Nuke content management system website (CMS). This article includes installing postnuke customisations. Preparations 1. Create the domain on your host server with php support. Preferably in the root directory. 2. Create the mysql database on your host and note the name, user [...]

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Web page meta tags

August 9th 2009

META Tags can be used for excluding content from search engine crawlers. It is also used when you cannot upload a robots.txt file. Its purpose is to keep content out of search engine indexes.  They should be added between the HEAD section of your page(s) in question: (no)index determines whether the crawler should index this page. [...]

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Web site redirection

July 28th 2009

This articel tells you how to Redirect a website or webpage to another domain location or page : Purpose for use : • You are using optimising the index.html page for search engines • A web page no longer exists so you are redirecting it to a new page. • Directing a .co.uk domain to [...]

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