Web Graphic Design

Adding, Fading effects to images (Image masking) with Fireworks MX NEW!
This is a simple article which can help you add some fading effects, we call it as Masking. Just read and practice this, you will get a nice image effect, called image masking.

Bending text effect with Fireworks MX
Ever tried to create a text and bend it in Fireworks? Here is a simple article which you may want to do.

Creating image borders with Fireworks MX
Here is a simple tutorial on a Fireworks image effect technique. You might have seen or might have thought about creating a border around an image, and to make it little more catchy.

Creating image inside text effect with Fireworks MX 2004
If you want to have an image inside a Text while creating fancy text, here is the article which explains how to do.

Creating image banners with Fireworks MX 2004
Learn here to make your top banners with more than one image and with some kind if effects.

Creating collage effects using more than one picture with Fireworks MX 2004
Merge images and bring nice effects for your banners, ads etc.,.

Developing tab stripe top navigation menu with Fireworks MX 2004
A simple but complete tutorial that helps you to make tab stripe menus for top navigation.

Developing preloaders in Flash NEW!
This is a step by step tutorial that teaches you to create a flash preloader application using Flash MX 2004 and Actionscripts.

Web Site Design

Creating dynamic layers with Interactive Image rollovers using Dreamweaver
A hands on tutorial on creating dynamic layers, and activate them while moving your mouse on roll over images. You might have seen this technique in many site, Now learn how Dreamweaver can help you to achieve this. See the demo here.

Creating rollover Images with Dreamweaver
This simple easy to follow up step-by-step article explains you to create simple rollover effects with Images and to spice-up your web page

Web Databases

Introduction to PostgresSQL
A brief introduction to the next generation open source database, PostGresSQL, a easy to use, licence free tool to develop databases and DB driven applications.

A to Z of stored procedures for ASP and VB Programmers HOT!
The article is indented for ASP and VB Programmers, who always write hard core SQL statements inside their coding, to communicate with database. If you read this article, Its time for you to learn and switch over into Stored Procedures.

Calling Stored Procedures from ASP.NET and VB.NET NEW!
Learn how to create and call Stored procedures in a .NET Environment, i.e Visual Studio. This is a three part tutorials teaches you to create and practice SPs with setep-by-Step methods. (Stored procedures - Primer | SPs for ASP and VB.NET | Tips on Stored procedures)

Website development

Web Development Life Cycle HOT!
Like traditional software engineering life cycle, web site development can also have a life cycle methodology to adopt certain standards. The article discusses the needs of life cycle steps in order to work efficiently towards a successful web site or web application development.

The Original "20 Reasons to Put Your Business on the WWW" - Stormy Knight , © net101 Article 2002
Many small business owners selling products or services are wondering why do they need a website. This 20 Reasons by Stormy Knight is sufficient enough to motivate them to own a web site and to explode the benefits from it.

Creating Interactive, Sticky web site
Gone are the days when we were developing brochure type web sites. If you wish your visitors to comeback, the site should be interesting. Here the author discusses some things to be considered when we change our web site sticky

Getting your web presence and reaching the global market
This article meant for small business owners trying to promote them through web to reach the global market in a cost effective way, companies which need some formal guidelines in their Internet promotional activities toward success, written

Getting business with your web site - Some practices to keep your web site effective
This article explains you to improve your web presence and to help you to get your web site as a business Gateway. Learn how to improve your web presence.in a simple format.

Web Marketing

Search Engine Optimization for Beginners a Macronimous.com © Article 1999
There are millions of users using search engines to find information from millions of sites. The chances of increasing your visitors is high if your site is positioned only in top pages in the search engines or Directories. This article teaches you prepare your site for search engines and helps you promote your site a straight forward way. The author has more than 4 years of experience with search engines and promotion. This is an updated version of the article written in the year 1998.

Website Return on Investment(ROI) Checklist
Do you have a website? Have you ever thing about what returns are you getting out of it after spending hundreds of dollars to develop it. Thanks to Debbie Mayo-Smith, she gives you a check list to ensure your ROI and the tips to improve your website towards success.

Increasing Link Popularity and Getting worthy inward links
This articles helps you to learn the straight forward and healthy ways to do a greater link building campaign, to get most back links and link popularity which many search engines expect to rank your site.

Practical SEO Techniques. NEW! Free E-Book teaches you the practical techniques used by SEO Experts.

Developing SEO friendly Ecommerce sites
Getting high rankings with database driven dynamic websites needs possible, but need much efforts. Learn the key elements involved in Developing and promoting a website with search engine friendliness.

Tracking and understanding site visitors NEW!
How to understand your site visitors? How to use your site visitor log and interpret them? Find here to how to play with logs.

Why SEO results are not Guaranteed NEW!
Why SEO results can not be Guaranteed? Why SEO results are keep changing? How to get a good SEO results?

Creating SEO friendly Flash sites NEW!
Learn how to create Flash websites which are Search Engine friendly.

Developing SEO friendly URLs with ASP NET 2.0 NEW!
We can develop SEO Friendly websites where the content is driven from the Database with a Content Management System which is developed using ASP.NET. We will learn to build a simple CMS driven site with no nonsense URL, which Search Engines invite.

Web Technology and Trends

Oncoming wave with web services.
Learn here the complete standards of web services from this article. It deals with all the details inside out. Identify the needs of web services and you can justify whether you need to develop/implement web services or not.

Web servers Demystified
Do you know how a web page will be appearing in your browser when you open it in a browser. Do you know from where the images or audio has been appearing in any web page. In this article you learn the what's behind a web site.

Web Programming

Making Web Application Development a Success : Things to be considered (Also Re-published in ProgrammersHeaven.com)
This article meant for small web application and web site development companies which need some formal guidelines in their development activities toward success, written in a simple format.

Secure password programming with .NET
This article takes you through the different ways how passwords are hacked, lists down the objectives of a secure password system, and finally explores how an effective password handling mechanism can be implemented with .NET

Developing Flash applications with ASP
A simple tutorial with step-by-step learning on how to connect make Flash based applications to interact with ASP programming- helping you to start and explore back-end database driven Flash.

Developing Flash applications with PHP
This is a simple tutorial with step-by-step learning on how to connect make Flash based applications to interact with PHP programming- helping you to start and explore back end database driven Flash.

Developing Pocket PC or Windows Smartphone Applications using .NET CE framework NEW!
This article is about pocket PC / windows smartphone applications developed in the .net environment.This is possible through the Compact Framework provided with the VS.net. It uses the SQL CE as the mobile database.

Creating Dynamic PDF files using HTML and PHP NEW!
This article explains how to create PDF files dynamically using PHP, from html file to PDF format using FPDF and HTML2FPDF PHP class libraries.

Writing Regular Expression with PHP NEW!
RegEx is a kind of language and if you have learnt its symbols and understood their meaning, you would find it as the most useful tool in hand to solve many complex problems related to text searches. This article shows lights on RegEx concept and use of RegEx with PHP. This article also provides an example of how to create a RegEx to find US Zipcode and Telephone number.

Command Line Scripting in PHP NEW!
PHP can also be run as a command line script like c, c++, java, etc. This article provides an introduction to command line scripting in PHP and emphasise on its significance in PHP applications.

10 Most Useful Firefox Extensions for Web Developers NEW!
Firefox extensions for web developers, which can be of great help or might end up with less help to them. On analyzing a few hundreds of extensions, we have chosen best ten on the daily usage basis, which might be most useful firefox extensions to the web developers.

Google Checkout Integration for PHP NEW!
Using Google checkout, buying from stores across the web becomes simple and also facilitates you to keep track of all the orders. This articles is about Google checkout and different types of integration methods in Google checkout using PHP.

Web Development - Best Practices

Extreme Programming - A short Intro!
By the time when you are reading this article you could have started hearing the word Extreme programming. There is a debate going on already whether extreme programming is good or not? Here I’d like to cover some of the key features of extreme programming and will give some links at the end; they can feed you enough for further reading.

Charging web development projects
Scope Creep, unless managed well can grow to be potentially disastrous. Variations in the scope of the project can have its impact over the successful delivery of the project.

Managing scope creep in web development projects
How to determine, what to charge the clients for web development projects? Should the charges be based on Value? Time or Results?. Here is a guideline to help you to how to do Charging.

Web development - Outsourcing

Seven tips for successful Outsourcing relationship
In long-term relationships, the key component for success of the relationship is best laid during negotiations, which lead up to the signing of the Service Level Agreement. Some of the common practices employed for a successful management of outsourcing relationship have been listed below. IT companies from India like countries are supporting such methods to improve their client relationship management.

Finding the right (outsource) development partner for offshore development. NEW!
If you are new o outsourcing or willing to keep a offshore development team to do your non-core development activities, this article can help you to find the right people.

Java development

J2EE Application servers on Desktop
Will the desktop applications be replaced by application server -based software? Vijay Mariadassou explains that there are several reasons that make it feasible and often desirable to use server-based software on desktops also.

Building User Interfaces for web applications using JavaServer Faces NEW!
A simple article on JavaServer Faces(JSF) explaining how to use them in building front end development for web based applications.