Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Pushing HTML Beyond Its Intended Use by Pamela Upshur

The following represents examples of what I call "pushing HTML." In most cases, the HTML elements either do not or would not include keyword content, or the specific HTML is included on a Web page in spite of the fact that it is not needed or used by the Web page. It is not inappropriate to have an input type HTML statement on a Web page as part of any number of scripts, and it is not inappropriate to include keywords in such a form field. However, in "pushing HTML," some Web marketers include hidden form fields, for example, on pages where it is neither functional nor part of the Web page design. As such, it is just a hidden HTML statement stuffed with keywords. Below is a laundry list of the remaining HTML statement that can, but probably shouldn't include keywords.

# Keywords contained in an input type hidden statement (now widely considered spamming by search engines).

# Keywords included in the head statement, as a homemade HTML tag of sorts.

# Keywords improperly included in the ALT text of background images. The background of a Web page doesn't ordinary contain ALT text. However, since ALT text is generally not weighted very heavily by search engines, including your keywords in your ALT tag is unlikely to produce results better than including keywords in any ALT tag on the document.

# Keywords improperly included in a font tag

# Keywords in the comment tags

# Keywords in the NO FRAMES tag of a Web page

# Keywords in the image tag

# Keywords included in a style tag.

While these are acceptable places to include keywords, you may be spamming, according to some search engine, if the page wouldn't ordinary contain or need this HTML as part of its design.


About the Author

Pamela Upshur is the owner of Upshur Creative.

Upshur Creative combines fresh, contemporary, fully functional turnkey websites with the best PHP scripts and databases to create the largest and most comprehensive turnkey collection for entrepreneurs.

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How to create photo gallery website by Mike Toh

How to create photo gallery website using Adobe Photoshop.

1. Prepare your photos by rotating, cropping, resizing and color correcting.

2. Places the photos you want to include in the gallery in a folder on your hard drive.

3. Choose an empty folder or create a new one to use as a destination folder for the files created by the Photo Gallery command.

4. Open Photoshop. Choose File > Automate > Web Photo Gallery to open the photo gallery dialog screen.

5. Next to Source, click the "choose" button and select the folder containing your images.

6. Next to Destination, click the "choose" button and select the empty folder from Step 3.

7. In the Site Name field, type a title that will appear on all the pages of your gallery. This is the text that also appears in the title bar when the page is viewed in a Web browser.

8. In the Thumbnails section, choose a size for the thumbnails. The choices are: Large (100 pixels maximum), Medium (75 pixels maximum), and Small (50 pixels maximum).

9. The Resize Gallery Images section is only required if you want to change the dimensions or compression setting for the full-size images. If you already prepped your photos in Step 1, this section can be left alone.

10. Click OK in the photo gallery dialog. Your Photo Gallery should automatically launch in your Web browser.

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About the Author

Someone who loves to take anything related to photos.

Learning Basic HTML Is Not As Difficult As You May Think by Web Monster

Are you a beginner struggling to learn basic HTML? Or maybe you have a template that you want to make changes too, but you are not sure how to proceed, well this article is just for you. Many people are put off building their own website or changing templates because they think that learning HTML very difficult. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Others also believe that creating your own website means purchasing expensive software. Yes there are many different programs out there that can be used to create a website for you, but basically you can do it all for free if you are willing to spend a little time learning the basics of HTML.

All over the Internet you can find websites offering template that you can download to your computer and add your own content too. Some of these templates are better than others, but even if you do find a high quality template, you still need to know some basic HTML otherwise website will have exactly the same design as everyone else who downloaded that same template.

Like everything else in life learning basic html just requires the right information.

So many times I have been asked by visitors to my HTML for beginners website how do I make my words bold? Or how do I make my text bigger? Using simple tags before and after the text involved will do this.

Here are some more Basic HTML Tags to get you started: -

<*b>Types the text in bold.<*/b> This tag will make your words appear bold.

<*i>This should be italicized.<*/i> This will give your words an italic look.

<*u>Underline this text.<*/u> This text will be underlined

<*hr /> This forms a horizontal line. ___________________

<*font color="######">Change color.Text here<*/font> This will change the color of (1) word. This (######) should be placed with the code for the color you want to use. For example if you wanted your words to be red the signs would be replaced with #ff0000

So your code will now look like this and your text will be red <*font color="#ff0000">Change color.Text here<*/font>

<*small>This should be in small.<*/small> Make your text small

Combining Basic Html Tags

Perhaps you may want to combine some of the basic HTML codes above. Lets say you want to make your text bold and italic. This is what your code will look like.

<*b><*i>Text in bold and italic<*/i><*/b>

Notice we have put both the bold tag <*b> and the italic tag <*i> together to give us our bold and italic text. These combinations can also be applied to color. If you would like to make your text underlined and green, this is how the tag should appear.

<*u><*font color="#00ff00">Change color of 1 word.Text here<*/font><*/u>

In all of the above code the * should be removed to make your code work correctly. The * is used to allow you to see the actual code but must be removed when placed on your site.

These are just some of the simple things you can do to change the look and feel of your website. To learn more why not check out some of the online basic HTML tutorials to get you started and in no time at all you will be past the basics of HTML and onto pro HTML coding.

About the Author

Basic HTML is not difficult to learn. Visit Web Monster at his brand new blog http://html-code-for-beginners.blogspot.com to learn more about basic HTML coding.

Promoting Your MLM Business by Carlos Sano

A professional network marketer does not sell, he promotes.

Promoting is not selling; you simply put your offer in front of pre-qualified prospects and let them decide to choose your product. But you already laid down all the reasons why your prospects should choose your product or business opportunity. When you look at a traditional market, you see a display of different items, all arranged in a buy-me fashion to invite the prospects to make the purchase.

In the same way, we should show our business opportunity to our prospects, and let them see the benefits; what’s in it for them. The pressure to get people in our down line turns us into salespeople, and people don’t like to be sold. People want to choose by themselves what’s in their best interest, not yours. If you are considering the Internet to promote your business opportunity, here’s an analogy I thought of when I started to promote on the Internet. Imagine a street or place full of people (prospects); that’s your physical scenario.

Now imagine a platform where millions of people interact on a daily basis, chatting, e-mailing, blogging, reading, searching, watching videos, shopping, the possibilities are unlimited. This is your virtual scenario when you see the potential of the Internet and what it can do for your business.

The network marketing industry and the Internet have combined themselves as a perfect marriage. Automation is at the heart of the network marketing industry and the Internet is the king of automation. Technology will never replace the pleasure of a face-to-face conversation, but it can facilitate that initial contact needed to get there.

About the Author

This article was written by Carlos Sano. Carlos is a Professional Network and Internet Marketer. He believes that timely information, thin-slicing and ongoing improvement is the key to success in the Internet and Network Marketing business models. Get the complete complementary eBook entitled: How To Speed Up And Grow Your M. L. M. Business at http://www.yesispossible.com