When your site or application grows beyond what can be supported with shared or even VPS hosting, perhaps it’s time to look for a dedicated server. Countless companies provide dedicated hosting, and the features of their offerings can be difficult to untangle. In this week’s article, Khurram guides us through ten different entry-level plans and points out their pros and cons to help you make an informed decision.
2010-01-29T00:37:24+00:00
Read more »Dalhousie Public Schools at BADHANI from a very humble start established the school at Badhani, India. Whatever a boarding school of today should be exists at BADHANI.
Read more »Web development frameworks enable you to build highly functional applications very quickly, and are increasingly seen as a must for any new project. Python-based Django bills itself as “the Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines,” and after following along with Akash’s crash course, I think you’ll have to agree!
2009-12-22T04:59:32+00:00
Read more »The most interesting new casual games related to the hidden object genre. View pictures, download games absolutely free and start playing.
Read more »In this final installment of his Data Visualization with Flex series, Toby builds on the work from the first two parts to take our visualization to the next level. The final product allows you to visualize how often various tech key words are used on the SitePoint forums, and how they are connected. Even if you’re new to the series, it’s worth having a look to see the visualization in action!
2009-12-17T06:20:05+00:00
Read more »Have you upgraded to a new computer and are wondering how you can transfer your Dreamweaver website files and site definition from
your old system to the new? This article
shows you how you can do it in a quick and easy way, without losing any work and without having to redo anything.
Want to create a customized blog, without having to deal with the complexity of Wordpress? Introducing Jekyll, a web site creation engine with a sophisticated templating system that’s dead simple to use. In this article, Simon Pascal Klein shows you how to use Jekyll to create a feature-rich blog quickly and easily.
2009-11-23T06:41:41+00:00
Read more »Adobe’s Flex can be a fantastic tool for visualizing data. In this first installment of a three-part series, Toby gives us some general theory on data visualization, and shows us how to extract meaningful data from an application and import it into Flex.
2009-11-19T01:10:11+00:00
Read more »For webmasters (especially those running businesses) who want to put an email address on their website, this article describes
how you can make that
email address into a clickable link.
Making sure you’re properly paid for your work is one of the biggest challenges for a web freelancer or small business owner. In this article, Chris describes seven danger zones where you could potentially lose money, and explains how to avoid doing so.
2009-11-16T05:55:43+00:00
Read more »Web design agencies are particularly susceptible to growing pains: if you don’t watch out your costs can rise faster than your revenue. In this article, Sandy offers some great tips to keep your agency’s margins healthy as you grow.
2009-11-12T11:36:47+00:00
Read more »Designer, speaker, and author, Mark Boulton spoke to SitePoint recently while in Sydney for Web Directions South. In this interview, Mark speaks on matters typographical, and clarifies that rumor about Comic Sans.
2009-10-27T23:36:32+00:00
Read more »I'm sure you've seen those websites (including thesitewizard.com itself) where if you hover your mouse over a link, the link is highlighted or changes colour (or "color") in some way.
This tutorial shows you how you can accomplish this for your website using the free web editor KompoZer.
The first step to creating a top-notch form is to plan ahead: conduct research, look for inspiration, and draft wireframes. In this excerpt from our brand new release, Fancy Form Design, Jina Bolton shares her tips for building a solid foundation for elegant and functional forms.
2009-10-29T12:07:55+00:00
Read more »The fourth chapter of the Serif WebPlus X2 tutorial series is now online.
This chapter shows you how you can insert a navigation menu to your website
as well as how you can configure the navigation bar so that it has an appearance that suits your site design. (For those wondering,
Serif WebPlus X2
is a visual web editor for designing websites.)
If you're fascinated by how a link is highlighted when you move your mouse over it on some sites, including thesitewizard.com itself,
this
article teaches you how you can create the same effect for your website using Dreamweaver. It also shows how you can change the default colour ("color") scheme
for your unclicked and visited links, add/remove underlines, etc.
Are you selling goods or services on your website? Or perhaps you want to sell digital goods like ebooks, software, music MP3 files, etc, and don't
know how to get your website to automatically deliver the goods sold to your customers after they pay for it. The PrestaShop software
is a free (and open source) shopping cart program that you can install on your website to run your own online shop.
This tutorial shows you how you can set it up.
If you have inserted a horizontal menu bar into your site using Dreamweaver's built-in menu facilities, this tutorial may be of interest to you. It
shows you how you can centre (or "center") the menu bar on the web page (or in one of the columns if you have a multi-column site).
Browser support for CSS3 is continually improving. In this article, Alex walks us through a few of the coolest CSS3 properties supported in the latest development release of Firefox (3.6 alpha).
2009-09-29T14:00:00+00:00
Read more »Testing your web site in all the current versions of Internet Explorer on separate PCs is no one’s idea of fun. In this article, Craig shows step-by-step how to run IE6, IE7, and IE8 simultaneously using Windows 7 XP Mode.
2009-11-10T10:38:16+00:00
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