From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Good-looking photography is an important aspect of design. Here are a few tips to improve the photos on your webpages. you take the picture, try to place the subject off-centre. This technique will improve the composition. And frame the subject so it occupies the whole picture. make sure you have plenty of light. If necessary, use additional [...]

You could be forgiven for thinking our computer landscape is dominated by Microsoft and it’s products. But, believe it or not, there are other software publishers to rival Microsoft. Sun Microsystems publishes an office software suite equal to Microsoft office, and it’s free! OpenOffice runs on different operating systems and is open source software, so it’s free to download, [...]

It isn’t difficult to promote your website and get visitors, but it’s a lot harder to persuade them to visit often. When your site is ‘sticky’ visitors will want to return often. So, just how do you acheive it? It all depends on your audience, what they were looking for in the first place, and what [...]

What are site maps and why would you want to create one? A site map is simply another page, or pages, containing links to every page on your website, perhaps with a short description of the contents. So it’s like a book index, which lists every topic in the book. They can be useful to visitors, who are [...]

Typography is the art and science of using different typefaces to control the way the words appear on your website. If you use a PC-based wordprocessor, like Microsoft Word, you know you have dozens of fontstyles you can use.  However, you will find the Internet imposes severe restrictions on you if you plan to use myriad fonts. [...]