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46 eBooks, Tools and Scripts for Web Marketing and Design

computer_teacher — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:05:11 +0000

For those looking to increase their web marketing and web development skills, here are 46 eBooks, Tools and Scripts from two different web marketing/development sites. These cover development technologies (HTML, Javascript, Flash, PHP, Web Design) and marketing ebooks and tools to increase your web presence and revenue.

Way Creative Media provides these 32 web design, development, and marketing ebooks and tutorials:

HTML Guide
HTML Course
HTML Security Report
Javascript Book
Flash Web Applications
Cold Fusion MX Creating Web Service
PHP Manual
CGI Programming
Graphics and Webpage Design
Web Page Design
How to Create Adobe PDF Files for eBooks
Service Sellers Masters Course
Inside the Minds of Winners
Instant Internet Empires
Web Development Tools Guide
Certificate Of Reprint And Duplication Rights
Secret Ebay Marketing
1001 Newbie-Friendly Tips
Ezine Empire
Marketing Miracle
Web Marketing Explained
The Greatest Marketing Secrets of the Ages
Saving Money On Rights
The Perpetual Traffic Generator Manual
Wake Em Up
Ezine Ad Profits
Pay Per Text
Getting your business online
Internet Marketing and Web Site Promotion
99 Sites you should bookmark
Make your content presell
eBay Secrets

Azam Marketing offers 7 Free Webmaster Tools, Scripts and eBooks and 7 more on this page. Here are the names of 7 of them:

- Profitable Keywords
- Website Audio Player
- The AdSense Report
- Make Your Ebook Sell Like Crazy
- Marketing Toolkit
- Secrets of Top Affiliate Marketers
- 10 Simple Steps To Authoring A Best Seller

24 Web Design Tutorials

computer_teacher — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:40:18 +0000

Here are 24 Web Design and Development Tutorials, hosted by visualwebz.com (click on the Tutorials tab). These cover understanding what web design is and planning for your web site; Joomla and Drupa web content applications, HTML, search engine optimization, computer basics such as file organization, data storage, hardware components, and data communication. These web design tutorials are all in pdf format.

Web Design 101:
- Starting a Website
- Basic Rules of Website Design
- Website Design Termonology
- Rate your website design
- Introduction to HTML
- Dealing With Web Developers

Web Development Tutorials:
- Joomla vs Drupal – CMS
- Joomla Extensions
- HTML5 vs older versions of HTML
- HTML 5 – Without Plug-ins
- HTML 5 – Canvas Drawing

SEO Tutorials (Search Engine Optimization):
- Directory Submission
- Basic SEO Steps
- SEO Site Structure Requirements -
- White Hat SEO vs Black Hat SEO
- SEO Tool - SEO Doctor
- Search Engine Ranking via nofollow
- 404 Website Error Page
- Have you done a website evaluation?

Computer Science 101:
- File Organization
- PC Components
- I/O & Storage Media
- Architecture of CPU
- Data Communication

15 Web Design Guides

computer_teacher — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:07:18 +0000

Here is a new post I just published on our sister site, intelligentedu.com/blogs, titled 15 Web Design Guides and eBooks. It describes and links to 15 web design documents that will help you with planning and designing a web site. Topics covered include presentation, layout, site management, intelligence/analytics, search engine optimization (SEO), usability, interactivity, social networking, and marketing. All of these are in pdf format.

70 FrontPage 2003 Tutorials

computer_teacher — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:39:52 +0000

Here are 70 FrontPage 2003 Tutorials, from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. These FrontPage tutorials will show and teach you how to use this Microsoft web development tool, covering the following features and topics: font options, standard toolbar buttons, text formating, paragraph formatting, horizontal lines, browser previewing, inserting files, bullets and numbering, working with images, forms, and tables, colors, frames, cascading style sheets (CSS), frames, and clip art.

FrontPage Environmentincluding

FrontPage Basics

FrontPage Lists

FrontPage Links

FrontPage Images

FrontPage Colors

FrontPage Forms

FrontPage Tables

FrontPage Image Maps

Maintaining a Web Site

FrontPage Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

FrontPage Frames

FrontPage Managing Your Web

Inserting Clip Art

15 Web Publishing Tutorials

computer_teacher — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:21:26 +0000

Here are 15 Web Publishing help pages and tutorials from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. These will assist you with learning how to create well defined and attractive web pages and sites.

6 Web Design and Development Posts

computer_teacher — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:38:30 +0000

The following are six web design and development posts which I have written in the past few weeks on our other blog at Inteligentedu.com. These are execellent training and learning materials for the topics covered.

2 Web Design Tutorials for Programmers

Here are two Web Design Tutorials: Design for Developers and Web Design for Programmers, hosted at New Auburn Personal Computer Services. These two Web design tutorials will help you to create successful web sites and web applications, along with getting you familiar with the process and tools involved with developing a functional and attractive site/application. The first tutorial is illustrated using presentation slides, and the second one is illustrated as an e-book. Both tutorials are in pdf format.

Design for Developers (224 Kb, 34 pages)
This course is meant to be a hands-on experience. The goal is to get you familiar with the process and the tools involved in developing a functional, attractive site or application. Various hands-on examples are illustrated using the help of Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and CSS.

Web Design for Programmers (2.48 Mb, 83 pages)
This tutorial explains you about basic color theory, learning how to choose colors, basic typography, learning how to choose fonts, basic layouts, how to mock up a site in Photoshop and basic XHTML and CSS. Also covered are building a logo that can scale using Illustrator and building a mockup of the site in Photoshop.

Free Training to Learn Flex in a Week

Here are Adobe’s free video training Flex in a Week Courses, at Adobe Developer Connection, which will greatly help you learn and use Flex. To maximize your learning, we recommend that you view the videos and complete the exercises in the order in which they are listed. Adobe Flex is a must see application if you’re building cross-platform, rich Internet applications and making extensive use of Flash. It provides a software development kit and an IDE to help get you on your way. These Flex tutorial courses show you how to get the most out of Flex for building rich, complelling, and interactive web applications.

4 JavaScript Tutorials

Here are 4 JavaScript Tutorials at syger.it. All the scripts in these JavaScript tutorials are available for download as two compressed archives Scripts.zip and AspScripts.zip. These JavaScript tutorials are designed to provide an overview, with coding examples, of the some of the power of the JavaScript programming/scripting language. They are not just aimed at the developer who works on code for the browser or client side, the tutorials contain presentations to classic ASP developers, in an attempt to move them away from VBScript and towards JavaScript, for web application development.

44 JavaScript References and Code Examples

Here are 44 excellent JavaScript References and Coding Examples, at psoug.org. JavaScript is the scripting language of web, and is used in millions of web pages to add functionality, validate forms, detect browsers, and much more. You can use these 44 JavaScript examples to help you to become a better JavaScript programmer, and by reading and using these you will learn how to code its many features and functions, thereby increasing your JavaScript skills.

218 PHP Code Examples and References

Here are 218 excellent PHP Code Examples and References at psoug.org. If you want to learn the basics of PHP, then this PHP code library will help you greatly. These code examples will also help you increase your PHP skills and become a better PHP programmer. PHP-enabled web pages are treated just like regular HTML pages and you can create and edit them the same way you normally create regular HTML pages. Many pieces of functionality are covered by these PHP code snippets.

2 Ruby Tutorilas and 3 Ruby on Rails Tutorials

Here are 2 Ruby Tutorilas and 3 Ruby on Rails Tutorials located at the LUG Villafranca Programming Course website. These Ruby and Ruby On Railes tutorials give you an excellent grounding and understanding on using Ruby and Ruby On Rails to build web applications. Ruby On Rails is an open source Ruby framework for developing database-backed web applications. You will need to download and install the Ruby Interpreter, and you will also need to install Ruby on Rails. In addition, these tutorials use RMagick version 2.0.2, which is explained in this FAQ, and SQLite 3.1.2.1, which is explained in this How-to. Windows users will need both the .exe and .dll versions of SQLite. The Ruby on Rails Wiki page also gives helpful information for SQLite. Source code is provided for all of these tutorials. Also, the whole programming course, which includes JavaScript tutorials, can be downloaded as pdf which is 2.28 Mb and explained in 125 pages.

HTML and CSS Tutorials and References

computer_teacher — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:55:15 +0000

Here are several HTML and CSS Tutorials and References, located at cherokeered.com, that can server as learning resources for most everything HTML and CSS, which are the most common technologies used in developing web pages. These HTML and CSS tutorials are categorized so that an aspiring web designer, a budding designer, and an advanced designer can all find training materials to suit their HTML and CSS learning needs.

HTML Tutorials:
The HTML beginner’s tutorial teaches you the essentials, and the intermediate guide adds a few nuts and bolts. The aim of the HTML advanced tutorial is to show how to fully exploit the features of HTML and how to optimize it for accessibility.

- HTML – Beginner
- HTML – Intermediate
- HTML – Advanced

CSS Tutorials:
These CSS tutorials describe and explain CSS at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Included here are also double rollover and javascript rollover tutorials.

- CSS – Beginner
- CSS – Intermediate
- CSS – Advanced
- CSS – Syntax
- CSS – Background Styles
- CSS – CLASS + ID
- Double Rollover via CSS
- JavaScript Rollovers: How have multiple links change a single image

CSS and HTML Resources:
These learning resources from around the web provide further instructions and tips on creating, coding, and designing web pages using HTML and CSS.

- HTML Dog
- SUNY Albany: Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
- CSS Box Model
- Cascading Style Sheets and Dreamweaver
- A List Apart
- Dynamic Drive
- Style Gala: CSS Layout
- Web Design 101: Floats
- CSS Techniques Roundup – 20 CSS Tips and Tricks
- CSS Tutorial
- Guide to Cascading Style Sheets
- Test your web design in different browsers

Web Design Tutorial

computer_teacher — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:31:43 +0000

Here is an excellent Web Design Tutorial, at The University of South Dakota. Some of the aspects covered in this Web Design tutorial include the drafting of the contents of the page, including the header, the body, the font, color and its accessibility. Also included are tips on various types of sites that can be created, and their requisite colors, balance, levels of navigation, and management of information. This web design tutorial is in pdf format, is 11 pages in length, and has a file size of 500kb.

Contents of Web Design Tutorial:

Purpose of Tutorial

Website Development

Page Content
- Responsibility
- The Header
- Body
- Outline Style
- Font/ Font Color
- Website Content
- Top
- Down Design
- Active Voice
- Accessibility

Designing the Site
- Type of Site
- Balance
- Contrast/Color
- Navigation
- Management Information

Web Development Tutorials using Microsoft Technologies

computer_teacher — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:14:36 +0000

Here are several Tutorials and Articles on Web Development using Microsoft Technologies, at Microsoft Developer Network, covering various web development topics and techniques using Microsoft. ASP .NET is a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft Corporation to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. These Web Development Tutorials cover web development using ASP .NET, HTML and CSS, Internet Explorer Development, Internet Information Services, Scripting, Server Technologies and Silverlight.

ASP .NET Web Applications
ASP .NET is a unified web platform that provides all the services necessary for the user to build enterprise-class applications. This tutorial explains about web development using ASP.NET, the Visual Web Developer and Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern which is an architectural design principle that separates the components of a Web application.

- Web Development with ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer
- ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC)

HTML and CSS
HTML, an acronym for HyperText Markup Language, is the one of the most popular markup languages that is used for web pages. This tutorial explains the topics of new features of Internet Explorer, HTML, DHTML Behaviors and Data Binding and CSS in detail.

- What’s New in Internet Explorer?
- HTML and DHTML Overviews and Tutorials
- HTML and DHTML Reference
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- DHTML Behaviors
- DHTML Data Binding
- Scriptable Editing
- Web Multimedia
- HTML Applications (HTA)
- Accessibility
- Technical Articles and Columns

Internet Explorer Development
This tutorial explains various methods for developers to add functionality to Microsoft Internet Explorer and thus allowing to enhance the user interface. As Internet Explorer’s component architecture is based on Component Object Model (COM), there are many different ways to extend its capabilities.

- Internet Explorer Architecture
- Browser Extensions
- Content Extensions
- Hosting and Reuse
- Globalization
- URL Monikers
- Security and Privacy
- Technical Articles and Columns
- Book Excerpts

Internet Information Services (IIS)
This tutorial details out Internet Information Services 6.0 and 7.0 which is a set of Internet-based services for servers created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows.

- Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Development
- Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 SDK
- Internet Information Services Extensions
- Technical Articles

Scripting
A scripting language is a programming language that allows some control of a single or many software application. This tutorial explains about various Microsoft windows scripting technologies like JScript, VBScript and various Windows Script Components, Host and Interfaces.

- Microsoft Windows Script Technologies
- Technical Articles, Columns and Books

Server Technologies
This tutorial explains some of the server technologies that are used in the industry like ASP, Indexing Service, Sharepoint Products and Technologies and Silverlight.

- Active Server Pages
- Indexing Service 2.0
- SharePoint Products and Technologies
- Site Server

Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback that characterizes Rich Internet Applications. This tutorial deals with the various features of Silverlight.

- Silverlight 3 Beta
- Silverlight 2

50 Ways to Become a Better Designer

computer_teacher — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:15:08 +0000

Here are 50 Ways to Become a Better Designer at computerarts.co.uk. These tips and techniques explain aspects and practices of good design and how one can become a better designer and Photoshop user. They explain key points that a designer should be aware of while creating his design, such as colors, fonts, shading, gradients and channels. The tools used to create designs and some of its options are also discussed in detail. A few tips and tricks of good designers are also given, which discuss shortcuts and quick steps to use in design creation to simplify the work of the designer. This compilation is from 17 leading designers who work in print, video and on the web.

50 Ways to Become a Better Designer:

- 01 ROUGH COMPS
- 02 METAPHORS
- 03 FROM WORDS TOPICTURES
- 04 BRAND THINKING
- 05 KEEP YOURBRAINSTORMS REALLY SHORT
- 06 USE A SKETCHBOOK
- 07 GET AWAY FROM YOURCOMPUTER
- 08 JOIN A FORUM
- 09 TAKE A SHOWER
- 10 SPECS!
- 11 KEEP A LIBRARY
- 12 WEB STANDARDS
- 13 KEEP IT CURRENT
- 14 KEEP IT SIMPLE
- 15 RECORD YOURACTIONS
- 16 SAVE, SAVE, SAVE!
- 17 STORE YOUR ASSETS
- 18 COLLABORATE
- 19 GET IT RIGHT FIRSTTIME
- 20 PRACTICE ALWAYSMAKES PERFECT
- 21 ALPHA CHANNELS INPHOTOSHOP
- 22 BUY MORE RAM
- 23 GRADIENTS INPHOTOSHOP
- 24 MORE LAYERS
- 25 AIRBRUSH INILLUSTRATOR
- 26 EVIL FLASH
- 27 NAME CONVENTIONS
- 28 GROUP LAYERS
- 29 FORBIDDEN FRUIT
- 30 THINK ON PAPER
- 31 WALK AWAY
- 32 ACROBATICS
- 33 KERN!
- 34 BACK TO THE BRIEF
- 35 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
- 36 PRINT FINISHES
- 37 ADDING TEXTURE
- 38 BE PREPARED
- 39 A LITTLE SHADING
- 40 BULGING EYES
- 41 READ AND RE-READ!
- 42 BE SPECIFIC
- 43 DON’TRELY ON THE SPELLCHECKER!
- 44 STICK TO THEBRIEF!
- 45 WORK WITH CLIENTS
- 46 STICK TO WHAT YOUKNOW
- 47 DON’T ASSUMEANYTHING
- 48 JUSTIFY YOURACTIONS
- 49 DESIGN HISTORY
- 50 MANAGEEXPECTATIONS

158 Web Design Tutorials

computer_teacher — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:28:27 +0000

Here is my second post on Metamorphosis Design for the remainder of their 158 Web Design Tutorials that teach important aspects to understand and note when creating a website. First and foremost, this involves web site design, followed by browser compatibility, cookie creation and usage and domain registration. These web design tutorials and articles also highlight the most common mistakes that a web designer makes and how to avoid them. Also included here are tutorials on working without frames, creating site maps, font usage, search engine optimization, colors, and how to polish up a website. For beginners, some of these web design tutorials and articles explain how to start your own website. Here are the first 150 web tutorials at this site.

158 Web Design Tutorials:

- Congratulations! You’ve Gotten the Visitors to your Site – Now, can they find what they’re looking for?
- Contact Methods
- Contingency Design
- Cookies: How to Improve Your Website AND Learn From Your Visitors
- Create custom error pages and keep your visitors!
- Create Stickiness with Streaming Media
- Creating A Quality Web Site Design!
- Creating Your First Business Website
- Creating Your Own Website
- Creating Your Own Website For Free
- Cross Browser Compatibility
- Designing A Successful Web Site
- Designing Above the Fold
- Designing Professional Web Pages
- Designing with Style
- Designing your Web Site for ALL Browsers
- DesignSmarts: Got Flash? If Not, Your Online Business Could Be Suffering!
- Develop and Host Distributed Applications on Your Apache Server
- DO FRAMES AFFECT YOUR PROMOTION AND MARKETING EFFORTS ?
- DO-IT-YOURSELF WEB SITES: THE PROS AND CONS
- Do This One Thing to Create a Powerful Product-Selling Web Site
- Do This One Thing to Quadruple Web Sales in Just One Month
- Do visitors leave YOUR site feeling confused?
- Do You Really Need a Web Site?
- Does The Color of Your Site Matter?
- Does your homepage work?
- Does Your Site Qualify for a Web Site Award?
- Domain Registered? Now What?
- Don’t Count Your Hit’s!
- Dot Your T’s And Cross Your I’s
- Effective Small Business Web Sites On a Budget
- Elements of Graphic Design for Your Website
- Elements of Interface Design
- Email tips and tricks
- Enough “stuff”!
- Find a Hidden Fortune in Your Website ‘Stats’
- Finding the Errors on Your Site
- First Impressions
- First Impressions : Do-It-Yourself?
- Five Checks for Web Pages
- Five Common Web Design Mistakes
- Five Pieces of Information You Must Include on Your Website to Generate Sales
- Fix My Website: Practical Graphics
- Fix Your Website Or Say Goodbye To Sales
- Flash Deadly Sins (that can kill your web business)
- Flash Design Does It Really Deliver What Is Promised?
- Flash Design: Is it all it’s cracked up to be?
- FLASHY WEB SITE DESIGNS ARE BAD FOR BUSINESS
- Focus Your Web Site… Or Get Out Of Business
- Follow Up –Is reciprocal Linking Dead
- Fonts For Your Web Site
- Four Easy Steps to Establishing a Website
- Frames and Tables
- FRAMES or NO FRAMES?
- Get FASTER Download Times By Making BIGGER Web Pages!
- Get Your Own Web Site
- Give Your Graphics A Professional Look without the Price
- Good web Design: External Links
- Good web Design: Site Maps
- Good Web Design: The Importance of Navigation
- Graphics for the web: Animated GIF Format
- Graphics for the web: JPG and PNG Files
- Graphics for the Web: Plug-Ins
- Graphics for the web: The Most Common Formats
- Graphics Optimization
- Headlines: Your Big Opener
- Hiring a Professional Designer
- Home Page Essentials: Miss These & You’re Missing the Mark!
- Homepages
- How Active is Inter-Active?
- How do I get my business on the internet?
- HOW FRAMES AFFECT YOUR PROMOTION AND MARKETING EFFORTS?
- How I Got Number One Position In Yahoo/Google and Altavista…On My First Attempt!
- How I Slashed The Load Time For My Website By 200-300%…And So Can You, For Yours!
- How to Avoid Sloppy Web Site Copy
- How to Avoid the 12 Common Web Design Mistakes
- HOW TO BUILD A SUCCESSFUL WEB SITE
- How To Build Your First Web Site!
- How to choose a Website Designer
- How to Choose, Register or Transfer a Domain Name
- How to create a great website
- How to Create an Effective Navigation Structure for Your Site – Part 1
- How to Create an Effective Navigation Structure for Your Site – Part 2
- How to Design a PopUp Window to Boost Opt-Ins
- How To Design A Search Engine Friendly Website
- How to Design and Setup a Website
- How To Design Your Website For Maximum Sales
- How To Double Or Triple Your Page Views?
- How to Easily Create a Search-Engine Friendly Navigation Menu For Your Website
- How to get more hits on your website?
- How to get your own Website for under $15 a year in 3 Simple Steps
- How to Get Your Visitors to Create Content for Your Website
- How to Get Your Visitors To “Tell A Friend”
- How to Jazz up Your Site with Quality ClipArt
- How To Keep More Of Your Visitors
- “How To Keep Your Visitors 10 Times Longer On Your Web Site”
- How To Look At Your Site With Buyer’s Eyes
- How To Make Sure Your Visitors Don’t Come Back!
- How To Make Your Customers Accept All Charges
- How to Make Your Homepage Flow
- How to Make Your Site Sell
- How To Make Your Site Visitors Do What You Want Them To Do!
- How To Make Your Website A Profit Powerhouse!
- How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 1
- How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 2
- How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 3
- How To Put An Everyday Business Online
- How To Retain More Of Your Visitors
- How to Set up Your Own Personal Website, without Spending Any Money
- How To Set Up Your Own Website
- How to Transfer Your Web Site to Another Host Without Losing It
- How to Use Keywords to Optimize Your Site for Search Engines
- How to Use Meta Tags for Search Engine Optimization
- How To Use PDF Files On The Web
- How to Use Pop Ups Without Annoying Your Visitors
- How To Use Viral “Refer-A-Friend” Promotions To Increase Traffic And Sales
- How “User Friendly” Is Your Site?
- I Wouldn’t Start From Here!
- Small Business Q & A: If You Build It, They Will Come? That Totally Depends On You
- I’m Here. Now What?
- IMAGE IS EVERYTHING – ALMOST
- Importance of Color in Web Design
- In Praise of Raw Code
- IN SELLING THE SIZZLE, DON’T FORGET THE STEAK
- Inconsistent Design
- Increase Sales with Easy-To-Read Web Pages
- Increase The Effectiveness Of Your Website In One Simple, Easy Step
- Increase the Efficiency of Your Web Design Business
- Increase Your Freelance Sales With an Online Resume
- Increase Your Sales By 25% By Implementing One Small Change
- Independent Consultants Take Over Web Design
- INITIAL FACTORS OF WEB PAGE CONSTRUCTION
- Interactive Features
- Internet Marketing Tools – Graphics Basics
- Internet Privacy: Creating A Privacy Policy
- Internet Tip – Honor Your Viewers
- Is a picture really worth a thousand words?
- Is There Benefit to Green in Web Design?
- Is Your Site A Post-It Note Or Super Glue?
- IS YOUR SITE AN INTERNET BULLY?
- Is your website ‘Dressed for success’?
- Is Your Website “Killing” Your Online Business?
- Is your web site ready for its visitors?
- Keep ‘Em Coming Back for More
- Keep Visitors Coming Back Over & Over! Offer Them What They Want!
- Keep your navigation simple!
- Keeping Your Pop-Ups – and Your Audience
- Keeping Your Site Current
- Learn From Their Multi-Million Dollar Mistakes!
- Learn the Language of the World Wide Web
- Learning Tools
- Leave Those Links Blue!
- Let Your Little Website Shine, Part 1
- Let Your Little Website Shine, Part 2
- Let Your Little Website Shine, Part 3
- Let Your Little Website Shine, Part 4
- Let Your Little Website Shine, Part 5
- Let Your Little Website Shine, Part 6

150 Web Design Tutorials

computer_teacher — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:48:59 +0000

Beginning and Advanced HTML Tutorials

computer_teacher — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:37:34 +0000