Managing Networks

Check out CISCO's Network Magic for managing network printing/file sharing, etc...

Not sure if it's needed or not for $49

http://purenetworks.com/product/pro.php?src=lbcnmar?src=lbcnmar

Form Submissions -- tips for the next step

I need to figure out how to do this -- one of many next steps!!!!

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There are two ways to handle form submissions. Either you have the form data sent to you by e-mail, or you have the data put into a database on the Web server. You can only do the latter if your Web server has that capability and you've already created tables to store the data from the forms. That's requires a special account, database design skills, and an intermediate language like PHP or ASP.NET.

That leaves you with the e-mail option. So you want to ask your webhost if they have a script that you can use to have the form data sent to you by e-mail. And if so, how should you set up your "form" tag to use that script.

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Plus, password protected tutorials:
http://www.easykiss123.com/easy-setup-of-login-registration-and-password-protected-areas-on-your-website/

Web Design Magazines

Web Design magazines:

Before and After: http://www.bamagazine.com/

www.alistapart.com

www.456bereastreet.com

www.websitemagazine.com

Rounded Corners

A whole list of rounded corners and other things:
http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000044.php

Cool Website Design

A clean, crisp website design! Cool idea!
http://www.kyleschaeffer.com/?p=31

His tips for where to learn how to do this are:
March 5th, 2009 at 9:27 am

The absolute best site that you can use for web design tutorials is w3schools.com. They have a huge selection of tutorials ranging from basic HTML and CSS to JavaScript, XSL, MySQL, and server-side scripting in ASP or PHP. This site is a WordPress/PHP site; you’ll find that PHP.net is the best resource for any type of PHP programming. Hope this helps.

Sliding Door Menus

Love the look of these menus -- called sliding doors. They use CSS:

http://www.couchandassociates.com/index.php

And here are a couple sites that show how to do it...
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/
(actually, this website is called "A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites" and has some cool stuff on it! His topics for many articles include:

Topics
* Code
* Content
* Culture
* Design
* Process
* User Science

Search Engine Optimization

A couple good blog items with links for checking SEO... probably worth checking out on a couple of my websites that it's important for...


http://www.dailyseoblog.com/2008/06/15-free-seo-tools-to-check-keyword-density/

This website has several cool SEO tools (free) -- including keyword suggestions and clouds based on what the search engine sees. The specific article talks about 10 mistakes that people make for SEO:
http://www.webconfs.com/top-10-seo-mistakes-article-24.php

A good article to think about some other tips:
http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archive/2009/02/03/optimizing-your-very-large-site-for-search-part-3.aspx

For example:
Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals

As with sports skills, no matter how good you get, you need to ensure that you have your fundamentals down. There's no difference in the world of RIAs. Your site needs to provide:

* Unique page titles
* Detailed meta page descriptions
* Quality body copy (e.g. timely, relevant, well written)
* Descriptive H1 tags (one per page)
* Discoverable navigation
* Informative ALT tags

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Use keywords in the urls.
Use metatag of title on every page.
Make sure the content matches the keywords.
Check out the tools in the above website to see what's being pulled together.