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Website Design Tips - Hypergurl tag:www.hypergurl.com,2008:/blog//1 2008-03-07T05:56:25Z Learn how to design a web site, improve an existing one and promote your site. Movable Type 3.33 Easily find all broken links in your website tag:www.hypergurl.com,2008:/blog//1.133 2008-03-07T01:13:28Z 2008-03-07T05:56:25Z

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Quick tip on finding out how many blogs listed with Technorati link to your website Have you ever been curious enough to wonder how many blogs link to your website? To find this out you simply need to visit: http://www.technorati.com/search/www.yourwebsite.com?sort=authority Change where I have yourwebsite.com to the name of your website url. For example here is a list of blogs that link to our site: http://www.technorati.com/search/www.hypergurl.com?sort=authority This can help give you an idea as to the popularity of your website. Over time, your aim should be to see the number of blogs linking to your website increase. If other webmasters...

Build your website traffic with free ebooks Back in 2001 we built an ebook called "How to make a website from scratch". It was put together using a free ebook creator and distributed on download.com as well as many other ebook directories. Our statistics today still show over 700 unique visitors per week coming to Hypergurl from the links in that ebook alone. Not bad considering it's never been updated since that time. Ebooks are a fantastic way to help build your website traffic. It doesn't matter what your website is about, you'll find an ebook category that suits the...

Recent updates for those who use Hypergurl web hosting services New Update! Customize Your Web Site Settings with Our .htaccess Editor. .htaccess is a text file containing commands that instruct Web servers how to behave in certain situations, providing a way for you to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. Our new .htaccess Editor enables you to customize certain web-site settings for accounts hosted on our Unix platform without having to learn complex .htaccess rules. If you currently use our Error Page Manager, Password Protector, Application Extension Manager or Open Directory Browsing tools, please note that these tools are...

Free wordpress themes and templates to use for your blog design If your looking to set up a blog on your website, one of the most popular free scripts available is called WordPress. There are two ways to set up this script. The first method is to download WordPress and install it yourself to your website host. The current stable release is version 2.2. However you do need to have some knowlege of how to install server side scripts. The second method, and the most easiest way to start your own blog, is to sign up for a webhost that...

Digital Photography Course The last month or so we've added so many digitial photography tutorials that I thought it was important to make a page that pulls them all together. I guess it can be thought of as a free online digital photography course. The technical side of the photography tutorials are useful for those with SLR digital cameras. For example, what is shutter speed, what's the difference between a fast or slow lens, and bulb modes explained. However lessons that discuss composition tips, lomography and travel photography could suit everyone, including those with compact point and shoot cameras. I...