March 7, 2008

Easily find all broken links in your website

What is the easiest way to find all the broken links in your website? Broken links found within your website not only frustrates your visitors, it also runs the risk of having it penalized or removed completely from Google Search engine. This is seen clearly by reading Google's Webmaster Guidelines. The slow way to check for broken links is to load each page in your browser and manually click each link to see if it opens. Of course this takes a lot of time, making it a very inefficient process. An easier way, is to use free software that can...

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Posted on March 7, 2008 1:13 AM | | Comments (0)

March 6, 2008

currency converter using google to convert currency

How to convert currency using Google search Here is a handy tip for anyone that needs to convert between currencies. It's now easy as pie to use Google search to convert American USD dollars to any other currency. All you need to do is search something similar to: one dollar in AUD In Google search terms, this means what is one American dollar in Australian dollars, which returns something similar to the desktop picture shown below: You can also use this term 5 american dollars in Australian money, which will result in: With the examples above, I have noticed you...

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Posted on March 6, 2008 11:42 PM | | Comments (0)

February 13, 2008

Future of RSS feeds going strong FeedBurner and Google

Google has acquired FeedBurner - The advantages of this for webmasters The future of RSS feeds, seems to be still going strong with Google recently acquiring FeedBurner. For those who don't know what FeedBurner is, it consists of free tools to help webmasters better manage their RSS subscription feeds. Not only does it help website publishers to promote and deliver their RSS feeds, it now helps them to monetize on this traffic as well, with Google allowing tools to implement Google Adsense to their feeds. This is where Google aquiring FeedBurner will be to the most advantage for those that...

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Posted on February 13, 2008 12:58 AM | | Comments (0)

October 15, 2007

Free Flash tutorials Macromedia Adobe lessons

Free Flash tutorials We now have a good collection of free Macromedia / Adobe Flash tutorials and lessons to help you get started with this fantastic animation program. If you don't already have a copy of Flash, you can download a trial version from: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ The first tutorial you'll want to follow, is one that explains the toolbars and how to use them: How to use Flash Professional 8 tools. Note: if you own a different version than Flash Professional 8, many of the tools don't change between versions. Therefore the lesson listed above should be helpful in teaching you...

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Posted on October 15, 2007 2:12 AM | | Comments (3)

September 4, 2007

crop image photographs to fixed print sizes

How to crop images and photographs to specified (fixed) print sizes When you resize an image in Adobe Photoshop, often you can't change both width and height without one effecting the other. Yes, you can click on Image / Image size, and untick contrain proportions. However this usually results in a photograph that looks distorted. A solution to this problem is to crop to a specified size using Photoshop crop tool. How to crop to a specified size? 1. Choose the crop tool on the left hand side toolbar. 2. Now along the top toolbar, type in a width and...

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Posted on September 4, 2007 7:52 AM | | Comments (0)

August 22, 2007

next internet millionaire web reality show Joel Comm

The Next Internet Millionaire, web reality show hosted by Joel Comm Joel Comm, an Internet entrepreneur is set to start one of the webs first reality shows called The Next Internet Millionaire. This online reality show will see 12 contestants compete for cash and prizes, while at the same time learn important entrepreneurial skills to helping them become Internet Millionaires. After watching the first episode it certainly is interesting. It views similar to Donald Trump's television show The Apprentice. All twelve contestants have been somewhat successful with online ventures on their own. For example Charles Trippy has a popular UTube...

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Posted on August 22, 2007 1:49 AM | | Comments (0)

Improvements to domain central

Update for Hypergurl Hosting Clients Domain Central is now easier to use, especially when managing multiple domains! Select several domains and make changes to all of them at once. Now you can: • Create groups for domains and classify and manage them by name. • View domains by group or in one consolidated list. • Sort by domain name or expiration date. • Search for individual domains by domain name or expiration date. • Select multiple domains and apply the same change to all of them at once, including: o Set Contact Info o Refresh WHOIS o Enable/Disable Domain Privacy...

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Posted on August 22, 2007 1:45 AM | | Comments (0)

August 11, 2007

monitor resolution standards for website design

What monitor resolution should your website be created for nowadays? When I first started in design over ten years ago, the trend was to create a website that suited a monitor with display settings of 640×480 resolution. Soon after 800×600 became the standard resolution that many designers still create websites for nowadays. However, if my statistics are anything to go by, many of these sites can now be safely updated to at least 1024×768, yet still be within an efficient range for the majority of their visitors. Displayed below is a screen shot of my statistics showing what monitor resolutions...

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Posted on August 11, 2007 12:31 AM | | Comments (2)

August 5, 2007

SLR Photography Guide

Keeping website / graphic design content separate to photography articles While we think it's important for website developers to take their own photographs for use on their sites, we also recognise that not all photographers create websites. For this reason, we have decided to continue our photography articles over on their own domain at SLR Photography Guide. We will still update developers who use this website on useful articles we've added to the photography guide. For instance we have plans in the near future for adding an article on product photography for designers who have online stores. Recently we've added...

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Posted on August 5, 2007 1:13 AM | | Comments (1)

July 25, 2007

Most popular free web master tools

Top 10 popular webmaster tools available for free at Hypergurl While going through our visitor statistics recently, it was clear to us what webmaster tools are being used most frequently. Listed below are the top 10 most popular tools available at Hypergurl that help webmasters build their websites. 1. Coming in at number one is the color match utility that is useful for helping you choose website colors that match perfectly with each other. 2. Our second most popular page is the one that lists over 50 free javascript generators to help you create everything from buttons and navigation menus...

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Posted on July 25, 2007 4:10 AM | | Comments (1)

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