If you are thinking of creating your own web site but do not have the budget to do so, let me show you how to create your own web site with the cheapest ways available

without breaking your bank account!

To create a web site requires 3 components as follows:

1. domain name registration (this is the web site address that we use to locate a web site e.g. www.microsoft.com)

2. Web design for the site

3. web hosting for the web site design

(although there are other ways to shorten this process, I will not be covering here because the main purpose of this article is to help you create a web site with the lowest cost

possible)

Domain Name Registration

Register your domain with www.hostway.com or www.godaddy.com for under USD$10 per year. Sometimes you can get a domain cheaper whenever there is a promotion.
Hostway.com offers one of the cheapest domain name registration services available online globally.
Alternatively, you can register your own domain name with www.godaddy.com, the number 1 domain registrar in the world.

It is very simple to register a domain. Just go to www.hostway.com or www.godaddy.com and search for the domain that you want to see if it is available.
If the domain name is not taken up, simply follow the on-screen instructions to buy the domain for yourself. You will need your debit or credit card to buy the domain.
For alternative payment modes, please check with the respective domain name registrar.



Web Design for the Site

Now, it is time to create your web site design. Do not be intimidated by the thought of it because creating a web site is as easy as using Microsoft Word. The web design

software nowadays offer you WYSISYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) mode of design. The most popular web authoring software will be Microsoft Frontpage and Macromedia Dreamweaver

but they will cost you a big hole in your pocket to purchase them.

Fortunately, there are many FREE web design software available on the market now which are totally free to download and use for your web site. Some recommendations are

http://www.nvu.com and http://www.evrsoft.com. Go ahead and download them, play around with them, and choose the one you prefer.

If you want to learn more about HTML, go to http://www.w3schools.com for tons of online tutorials but it is not mandatory to do so now before you can start to design your

web site.

Or if you prefer, you can engage a professional web designer do the web site design for you.

Web Hosting for the Site

After your domain name has been successfully registered and your web site design completed, you will need a web hosting plan to upload your web site design onto a web

server so that people can locate your web site when they typed your domain name into a browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox etc. There are tons of web hosting providers on

the Internet if you do a search online.

We do not recommend free web hosting services available online because they will create lots of trouble for you as you go along marketing your Internet business or web

site. Also, it will look unprofessional for your web site with those sponsored ads all over your own web sites.

If cost is a major cost to you, you can try out this cheap web hosting (USD$1.00 per month) company http://www.3ix.org/sys/aff.php?aff=1768
Alternatively, if you are looking for value-for-money hosting, then please visit http://www.bluehost.com/track/donaldlim/goart
Common requests when creating a web site: If you need free and quality graphics/images for use on your web site, go to http://www.sxc.hu
To shorten the development process, I highly recommend you to go to http://www.dynamicdrive.com where you can find and download for free scripts that you can use on your web site!

Last but not least, if you need to accept online credit card payments but you do not have the budget to get a merchant account, you can try http://www.paypal.com, an

online payment gateway trusted by more than 100 millions worldwide.


Please take the time to check out the above resources if you are serious about Internet Marketing or starting a new Internet business. The resources above have easily save

you a few hundred dollars for your startup costs for your new web site.

Your domain name is the center of your Internet identity. So what type of things should you take into consideration when choosing the name that will represent you on the Web? Jumpline.com offers these 8 handy tips.

1. Keep it short
Although some places allow you to register a name with up to 63 characters, you have to keep in mind that people need to be able to remember it, and easily type it into their browser. Try to register the shortest name that your customers and visitors will associate with your Website. The general rule of thumb is, keep it under seven characters if possible. (Not including the suffix.)

2. Dot What?
There are many different extensions available right now. For businesses, we recommend a .com suffix. It is the first extension that most people try when searching for a Website. Also, since it is one of the oldest extensions, .com shows that your business has been around for a while and that you have a well-established presence on the Web.

3. Avoid Trademarked Names
There are two really good reasons for this. First, it’s not very nice. We have all heard the stories about the zany guy who thought ahead and bought "some-huge-multi-million-dollar-company.com" and sold it to the company for enough money to retire on. But, remember that those companies, like yours, have spent lots of time and money creating their brand, and what goes around comes around. Also, companies are no longer opening their pocketbooks to get their names back. They are calling their lawyers.

4. Register Your Domain NOW
Domain names are being snatched up faster than candy at the St. Patrick’s Day parade. You must register soon unless you want to get stuck with "the-domain-name-that-no-one-wanted.net". You do not have to have a Webmaster or an ecommerce department or a Web design consultant or... Heck, you don’t even need a Web page. Just get out there and register before you loose the opportunity to get the name you really want.

5. One May Not Be Enough
Sometimes, it isn’t a bad idea to register several similar domain names. If you have "yourname.com", register "yourname.net" so no one else takes it. You can register your full company name and a shorter, easier to remember version. Some people even register common misspellings of their company’s name. (You don’t need a separate Web page for each. Several domains can point to the same Website.)

6. Character Types
Just a reminder. Domain names can only use letters, numbers, and dashes. Spaces and symbols are not allowed. Also, domain names are not case sensitive.

7. Ask Around
When you have settled on several available name choices, see what your friends and clients have to say. A name that may make perfect sense to you may be too hard for other people to remember. Is your domain easy to say? Is it hard to spell? Do you have to explain why you chose the name?

8. Don’t Shell Out Large Amounts of $$$
At one time, companies were able to get away with charging reservation fees plus a "mandatory" $70 InterNIC fee. Recently, it was decided that other companies should be able to compete to sell domain names. This has lowered prices dramatically.

And remember, if you think that if you have found the right domain name, but you're not quite sure if it's the one... register it anyway before someone else does!

Here are 30 of the Best Fonts / Typefaces that every designer must own sorted by alphabetical order. There are 15 serif fonts and 15 sans-serif fonts. These fonts will last you your whole career!

A brief description of what each font is best suited for is provided however are not limited to this.

There are some top free cool fonts that are downloadable in this collection and some that come with your operating system… the others are not so free but they sure will help you improve your typography! They include original PC, Mac and Truetype fonts.

You may also be interested in How To Choose A Font or the Top 5 Typography Resources of all time. Also don’t forget to subscribe!

15 Serif Fonts
What does serif mean?

1. Adobe Caslon
Magazines, journals, text books, corporate communication.



2. Adobe Garamond
Textbooks and magazines



3. Bembo
Posters, packaging, textbooks.



4. Bodoni
Headlines, text, logos. (I couldn’t get big preview for this font.)



5. Clarendon
Dictionaries and headlines.



6. Courier
Tabular materials, technical documentation, word processing.



7. Excelsior
Newsletters, Reports, Proposals.



8. Lucida
Low resolution printing, small point sizes, reversed out half tones.



9. Minion
Limited edition books, newsletters, packaging.



10. Perpetua
For displays with fine lettering, long pages of text, chiseled text.



11. Sabon
Books and corporate communication.



12. Stempel Schneidler
For displays and fine publications that need a legible text type.



13. Times New Roman
Newspapers, magazines, corporate communication.



14. Trajan
Books, magazines, posters, billboards, anything to do with the ages or religion.



15. Walbaum
Magazines, journals, text books, corporate communication.





15 Sans-Serif Fonts
What does sans-serif mean?

1. Akzidenz Grotesk
Large Signage, all purpose for print media.



2. Avenir
For books with large amounts of text



3. Bell Centennial
For listings and very poor printing conditions.



4. Bell Gothic
For very small amounts of text that contains large amounts of information.



5. DIN
For signage, posters and displays.



6. Franklin Gothic
Newspapers and where available space is limited.



7. Frutiger
Large signage, all purpose font for print media.



8. Futura
Large displays, small text in books.



9. Gill Sans
Signage, all purpose font for print media.



10. Helvetica
Large or small text, all purpose type figure.



11. Meta
Text, number, especially corporate communication.



12. Myriad
Large displays, all purpose media.



13. Trade Gothic
Newspapers and classified ads, advertising, multimedia.



14. Univers
Packaging, signage, text books.

15. Vag Rounded
Instruction manuals and print advertising.



Source: From the book “30 Essential Typefaces for a Lifetime” by Imin Pao and Joshya Berger. A history of typography is also found in this book as well as more information on each font and the designer.

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Google Analytics Tracking Module is a simple module for Joomla! 1.0.x. and Joomla! 1.5 (legacy mode) used for inserting Google Analytics tracking code to the Joomla site as a module.

This module makes it possible to add the tracking code before the closing body tag in template, which is recommended by Google. Module tracks all pages of Joomla cms including 3rd party components.

Module track also Virtuemart transactions. Supported payment methods are at the moment: Paypal, Cash on delivery, credit card and purchase order.

Features

The use of ssl is optional
subdomain tracking is optional
user tracking with __utmSetVar is optional
VirtueMart E-commerce Tracking
Setting Joomla! registration as a Google Analytics goal is optional

How will the Web of today evolve into the Web of tomorrow? The way we think of web development -- as HTML pages on a server being accessed by desktop browsers -- is about to change. The way we'll access the Web, the way we replicate and accept data, even the formats in which the data is passed, are all changing.


I'm not a betting man, so don't put all your chips down on one of my predictions, but this article details how I see the Web trending in the coming year. Much of this technology is available now, but it's used among small pockets of smart, revolutionary people. As they cut their teeth on these new ideas and products, the technology will make its way to the masses. It's my prediction for 2008 that these innovations will become understandable, both commercially and socially, and easy enough for anyone to use and access.


Some of these predictions already exist today for the alpha-geeks who are riding that cutting edge of technology. There are many ideas on that leading crest, and though some will fall away, others will prosper. This list represents the nine items I see emerging into the mainstream and becoming more mature in 2008. They'll move from the hands of the alpha-geeks to the lives of everyday people.


1. Facebook Plateaus, and No One Cares



Social networking sites aren't going to disappear, but I think the most popular, Facebook, won't continue on its current trajectory. If you look at the graph of MySpace vs. Facebook popularity below
If we compare several popular social network sites -- Friendster and Hi5, Facebook and MySpace -- on the graph below (or online), we see that trend again: a slow start, substantial growth, and then a plateau. And 2008 will see either a new competitor enter into this crowded field, or the social networks will begin to chip away at each other's customers. Facebook seems to the biggest on the block so, everyone's championing the under-dogs. With recent privacy blunders, a general lack of trust in Facebook, and campaigns run to encourage users to close their Facebook pages, many users are beginning to realize that the best social network is just the Web itself.
Alexa Traffic Report for various popular social networks (click to view image)
In this last graph (which you can also view online), we see a comparison of the various social networks with Blogger.com, a free blogging platform.
Alexa Traffic Report for various social networks compared to Blogger.com (click to view image)

The Blogger.com platform alone is bigger than the biggest social network. If you add all the other free blogging platforms -- Wordpress, LiveJournal, and so on -- to the mix, you can see that the hype of social networks just doesn't compare to that of individuals with their own blogs.
As people get tired of fighting with corporate advertising, and money-hungry companies who are all too happy to put their own interests ahead of their customers, users will move to their own blogs and web sites. Social networks might be good for finding old friends, but so are search engines. If you want to get in contact with an old friend, blog his or her name, or try searching for your own name -- you might just find that an old friend is looking for you.


2. Data, Data Everywhere ... and Not a Drop to Drink



O is the new i is the new e. Years ago, when traditional technology started to move online, it be came e-everything -- e for electronic. Email, Ecommerce, eMachines -- you've heard 'em all. Then Apple started to make iMacs, and i was the new e. I stood for Internet, then the iPod appeared and i didn't really stand for anything. 2008 is the year of the O. O is for open. Open will be the hot buzzword: OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and more.
In this new era of openness, data ownership will become an issue. Most people are unaware of the rights they have -- or lose -- when dealing with social network sites. Think about the comments you make, and the images you upload, who owns those? You spend months and years adding all that data. It should be yours, but this is not always the case.
Data portability is another key issue associated with open data. When you join a site, you should ask yourself, "how much of my data can I get back out?" It's your data, your words, and your property. You should have the right to take all that with you if you leave. You spend valuable time and effort building it up, but guess what? Often, it isn't yours -- if you quit the site, you can't take it with you. This situation is known as vendor lock-in, and 2008 will see more of these walls begin to come down.
Before you join yet another site, demanded that you can quit at any time and take everything with you. Sites that honor your rights will excel, and sites that don't are doomed to collapse under the weight of their own unhappy customers.


3. Pull is Dead! It Was Killed by the Push


Services like Twitter, Jaiku, and others make it easier and easier for us to generate data almost in real time. That's both a blessing and a crutch. We want that data to be open -- to be able to freely move around -- but at the same time, we don't want various services requesting our RSS feed every 10 minutes and killing our bandwidth.
When a service requests your HTML, RSS, or any other file, that action's called a pull -- the service is pulling the data from your server to theirs. Pulling is pretty easy and straightforward, but the requester has to keep asking the source to see if the file has changed. This alone doesn't require a lot of bandwidth in cases involving a small group of clients and vendors, and caching is not important. But pull doesn't scale to the size of the Internet when you're dealing with near-real-time data. Can you image what would happen if a site like Facebook pulled your Twitter feed every 10 minutes? Now imagine millions of Facebook customers pulling millions of Twitter feeds every 10 minutes. Even if nothing's been updated, the service needs to make the pull request to find out, and that amounts to tremendous bandwidth usage!


The solution to this problem is to PUSH data between federated systems. A push system allows the customer to inform other sites only when an update is available. So instead of Facebook polling Twitter every 10 minutes, Twitter pushes an update to Facebook only when something new is added. The by-product of this approach is a huge bandwidth savings and a reduction in the delay between services. Previously, Facebook could be as much as 10 minutes behind your Twitter account, but with a PUSH system, Facebook is informed of the presence of new data at the same moment that the post is made to Twitter. Another advantage of this approach is that you can PUSH to multiple services at once. So when you update your Twitter feed, you could inform your Facebook/MySpace page, your Jaiku, lifestrea.ms, and other accounts, thus saving bandwidth exponentially.


The other byproduct of a push system is that it requires us to federate the systems and agree on a standard end-point and format. This promotes data portability and the strange side-effect of mixing and matching systems. I personally like Flickr for my photos, but some of my friends use Picasa. In a federated system Picasa could push an alert to Flickr to indicate that my friends have added images. Then, in my Flickr stream of friends' photos, I'd see images that were hosted not by Flickr, but by Picasa -- and vice versa. This scenario allows each person to use the system they're familiar with, and at the same time, interact with friends on other systems.
One group working to solve this problem is the team creating Instant Syndicating Standards. In 2008, more groups like this will emerge to tackle this problem.


4. It's a Bird, it's a Plane ... What is That Thing?


Be on the lookout for the introduction of more nontraditional connected devices. Cell phones or expensive PCMCIA cellular cards used to be the only truly connected mobile devices, but now, more and more devices will use cellular technology, but they won't be phones that we recognize. The new Amazon Kindle has a cellular modem built in, which allows it to phone the Amazon mothership so you can download more ebooks. It uses a traditional cellular connection like a regular phone, but it isn't a phone you could use to make a regular call.
The cellular world is morphing into something new to facilitate this evolution. We can see already that the iPhone is not just a phone -- it's a small computer with a cellular/WiFi "always on" connection. Nokia has been building similar dedicated WiFi devices for awhile, with its N770, N800, and N810 Internet tablets.


Even telecoms are getting into this new market. In the US, Verizon agreed to open device and software access to let any device that meets its specs onto the company's network. As such, any home-brew hardware hacker can now begin to build something that connects to the Verizon network and passes data around. This facility allows for even more non-traditional devices to benefit from the existing cellular infrastructure.
Companies like Nabaztag have been working along these lines for awhile. In 2008 we'll see more hybrid devices hit the mass market. People will become aware and rethink what they use to "be connected".
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Design ShardBlake Poutra works for a company called You Design It that focuses on t-shirt screen printing and maintains a t-shirt design blog. Bump It! Vote It! Save It! Save It! With the abundance of t-shirt design sites such as Threadless and Design By Humans, it’s easy to trendspot themes that are popular. Each site and its community has their own taste and it makes gaming the vote a lot easier.
Here is a list of our top 5 design trends that are sure to give you a few extra votes in t-shirt competitions:
SkullsT-Shirts with skull designs are arguably the most popular theme on the internet and in retail. Something about death just gets designers and t-shirt lovers united.

Skull T-Shirts
TreesTrees are one of the most symbolic pieces of design and probably the reason for their popularity. They can equate to life, growth, green living, reunion, and much more.

Tree T-Shirts
BirdsBirds definitely win the versatility award for having the ability to range from cute to scary and from large to small. They can be the focal point and make the whole design or just be an accessory and play a small part in the big picture.

Bird T-Shirts
SplatterSplatter is a pretty simple effect that can be useful for the majority of t-shirt design concepts. There are many resources on the internet for photoshop brushes and vectored image packs with splatter to add to a t-shirt designer’s toolbox.

Splatter T-Shirts
FloralFloral artwork is another wildy popular component of t-shirt design because of its all-purpose usability. It usually sits in the background and can act as polish for the featured portion of the artwork.

Floral T-Shirts
As with anything else, what is hot today can be cold tomorrow but these 5 design elements and concepts have been in high demand for some time now. Our guess is that with the increasing amount of platforms for t-shirt design, these design elements will reach saturation at a faster rate than ever before.

Id like to thank Blake for taking the time to post on design shard and id also like to say the Arbent team made a great guest post about designer tees

Manga Studio Debut 4.0 is your all-in-one solution for stunning, ready-to-publish manga and comics.
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Complete artistic control. Sketch original art with a mouse or tablet, scan in existing art, or import
artwork or graphics to get started. It's easy with Manga Studio Debut! Design with attention to detail. Choose from over 2,300 professional-grade screen tones to add dimension,
depth and character to your art. Invigorate your drawings. Easily color and fill your Manga or Comic using the integrated color set,
advanced shading tools, and pattern brushes. Bring your Characters to Life. Pre-designed word balloons allow you to quickly add dialog to your
creations. Apply special effects. Add focus and speed line effects in seconds to express motion or moods. Publish your work. Output professional quality manga for print or web in various file formats. Manga
Studio Debut exports jpg, bmp, psd, tga*, png*, tiff* and pict* files.Get fast results. Perform complicated tasks with a single mouse click. Double your productivity by reusing
design elements in a flash! New and Updated Features Manga Studio Debut provides a fun straightforward way for you to start creating your own comics today. NEW! Beginner's Assistant and dynamic help. With Manga Studio's built-in Beginner's Assistant interface commonly used tool palettes are grouped
together. Dynamic help offers instant access to information about tool palettes and menu options. Getting
started has never been easier. NEW! Color Palette. Color your artwork using the integrated color tool set. Choose from preset colors or create your own and
add custom effects to your artwork. NEW! Built-in Word balloons. Add word balloons with ease by dragging and dropping any of over one hundred preset, editable word
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Here are eight ways to succeed at failing…
Mistake 1: Operating without a clear vision. If the team doesn’t know what direction they are heading, it’s hard to know when they’ve made a misstep. With a clear, unified vision, everyone
on the team can instantly detect a failure and make the necessary corrections to the course.

Mistake 2: No introspection after each failure. There’s a natural desire to quickly move .. something bad occurs. However, it’s important for the team to resist that urge and stop to ask, “What
just happened?” and “What can we learn from this?”

Mistake 3: No communication of learned lessons. On larger teams, small mistakes (and some bigger ones) may escape attention by those team members who aren’t directly involved. It’s
critical the lessons from the failure are communicated across the entire team, so everyone has a chance to learn.

Mistake 4: No time allocated for iteration or experimentation. The mantra, ‘Ready, Fire, Aim’ only works when repeated. Teams exhibiting excessive optimism without planning for failures
find themselves backed into a corner when something does go wrong. As in the Amazon approach, leaving time to iterate and experiment will give the best results.
“Experience is the name everyone gives their mistakes.”

Mistake 5: Inflexible platform. We frequently hear comments such as “We’d love to try that, but we can’t make our content management system do it.” Teams that lock themselves into a
platform that doesn’t give flexibility will have trouble reacting when a failure occurs. Teams that build on a flexible platform (and have the skills to take full advantage of that flexibility) are
in the best position to recover from a failure.

Mistake 6: Building too much before a feedback cycle. Too much code locks teams into a direction that’s hard to change. The best teams get feedback early in the cycle using a variety of
quick prototyping tools. They don’t start coding until they’ve collected substantial user feedback to know they are heading in a solid direction.

Mistake 7: Not instrumenting the design. Many teams don’t think about how they’ll tell if the design is working. They launch without measures in place. The best teams conceive and build in
their instrumentation from the start of the project. We’ve seen some that start with the measures as part of their vision.

Mistake 8: Not enough depth in feedback. “Was this helpful? Y/N” is an interesting question, but what does it tell the team? If a large percentage say no, what should the team do differently?
The best teams ensure they are going deep when collecting feedback from users. (For example, Netflix combines both live site A/B tests with in-lab usability testing, so they can see design
issues from both a quantitative and qualitative viewpoint.)

How do you view / handle failure?
I would love to hear your experiences, as well as your thoughts on failure, and how it can hurt or benefit.

Web Design

Obsessing about forms

While for years we have seen galleries and top lists showing off homepages, lately there is a trend of best of comment form or search form design. We’ll see more of it 2009. I predict whole websites only dealing with forms. Usability and marketing experts and even books like Web Design for ROI have stressed the importance of proper form design.

Internet Explorer 6 support

With the market share of IE6 finally below 20% more sites will stop supporting it which will result in even more people switching due to experiencing problems with it. This will make way for overdue developments in website design which were previously unsupported.

Light weight websites

Light weight small website designs will return. With the huge success of netbooks and smartphones websites will become smaller again both in pixel and byte size as not everybody will want to create several versions for each viewer, even with different stylesheets.

Blogging a Must

While 2008 was still a year you had to convince people in business to blog in 2009 blogs will be standard and those not having one will simply fall behind. With social media and blogs being even on the forefront of a successful presidential campaign business owners who are just aware of the Internet solely offering storefronts and static pages full of corporate and sales gibberish will lose like McCain did.

Original post by Tad Chef.

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1. Bad Search
2. PDF Files for Online Reading
3. Not Changing the Color of Visited Links
4. Non-Scannable Text
5. Fixed Font Size
6. Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility
7. Anything That Looks Like an Advertisement
8. Violating Design Conventions
9. Opening New Browser Windows
10. Not Answering Users' Questions