There are about as many ideas as there are people when it comes to choosing a color scheme for your website. But being the logical minded person I am I figure I'll share some of the tips I use when selecting color schemes.
To start, you really should choose a color scheme when you launch your…
When you get a WebStarts Pro Plus account and build a website, you'll have access to custom email addresses powered by Google Apps. This is a great solution for businesses of any size because you can create up to 50 custom addresses to give to your employees or co-workers. Another great thing about having…
As the Internet grows, more and more information is being created. A large amount of content is being added through forums. For this reason, it only makes sense why somebody would want to add a forum to their free website. A forum is an online, organized place where people can collaborate on different topics.…
Selling products on the web is quite a bit more tricky than selling them in real life. There are several factors you must overcome when compared with selling something face to face. There are billions of pages on the internet. What's going to make your pages stand out from the crowd? Here are a few…
When you build a website, you want to have as many visitors to your website as possible. Many people assume that if you have a website, then people will visit it. This is not the case and I'm hear to tell you that you want to stand out as much as possible when you…
Google has recently announced 'Google Places'. This is not a completely new feature as it was formally called the "Local Business Center" but it brings improvements. Among the new features are_ the ability to indicate service areas for traveling services, a new way to advertise using 'tags' in your local listing, a free photo shoot…
Google Buzz is a revolutionary new social networking tool. Many people compare it to both facebook and twitter. Everybody who has a google account, has a buzz account and all you have to do is start using it! Read about it at google.com/buzz if you do not know about it. If you create a…
Twitter is a great service to use for many reasons. The most important reason, when you create a website, is for search engine ranking. Everyone wants to get to the top of the search engines and Twitter is a great way to supplement existing search engine optimization techniques. You can use this method to…
Wufoo.com is a great form building service that allows you to create drop downs with custom fields, radio buttons, check boxes, file upload buttons, and more advanced features. When you build a website with WebStarts and you want to integrate some of these custom features, wufoo.com is the way to go and it is completely…
Flash is simply incompatible with tons of computer users out there. Out of all the reasons you should not use flash, this one may be the most important because a lot of people on the web simply can not view flash. As a web designer, you always want your website to appear the same to…
Your domain name is fundamental to the online presence of your business. That being the case it's important to protect and nurture that investment. After all, nobody wants to create a website and promote a brand just to see it go down the tubes. Today I'm going to share with your three reasons why…
We're going to talk about loading times. Even though internet connections are getting better and better, websites are getting more and more efficient. This doesn't necessarily mean that sites are becoming smaller and smaller. This means that websites are able to use more things that matter like pictures and videos as long as the rest…
Today WebStarts is proud to announce the another new feature to help your website get better search engine rankings. The newest tool let's you quickly and easily add ALT tags to each of your images. Search engines can only read text so when they encounter an image they don't typically know what the image is…
Flash websites can be good looking if they are done properly. This is why many people are led to believe that they need a flash website. I'm here to make sure that you know the truth about flash on your website and why you should NOT be using it.
The first reason I want to mention…
Today we released a new and improved video player. The video player is better looking than the old player. The controls disappear when the mouse cursor is moved away from the video and reappear when the cursor is placed directly over the video. This provides a cleaner and less intrusive way for your website visitors…
