The objective of this tutorial is to introduce Active Server Pages (ASP) to individuals who are responsible for developing, building, managing or maintaining a Web site. We will define ASP, differentiate between ASP and conventional HTML, demonstrate how to create and convert Web application pages to ASP, and demonstrate how to use ASP for further Web applications. This will involve using JavaScript or Visual Basic Script (VBScript) to write applications that can be run on an ASP Web server.
10-Minute Homepage Tune-Up
Is your site’s home page search engine friendly? Think so, eh? The vast majority of websites, even those belonging to Fortune 500 companies, are far from optimized. I use a simple four-step process to find the most common errors. Using this to do a quick tune-up on your homepage takes about 10 minutes, and it will pay off for years to come.
13 Best Marketing Tips for Small Business
I’ve been involved in marketing and direct marketing since…my God! Am I that old already? Anyhow, over the years I’ve been asked to give tips on marketing along with my specific advice. Here’s a short list of some of my best tips.
Selling Bookmarks for Profit
Everyone has passions and interests that they can cash in on, even if they don’t have the time to write an ebook. Where is this gold mine hiding? In your bookmarks, in your favorites file. Whetever you call it, there is money hiding there, just waiting for you to cash in on it.
The eBay “PowerSeller” Secrets to Save You From the 3 P’s
I’m just amazed that more people don’t realise it! Ebay has a secret that makes it THE best market in the world – offline or online! In fact it’s THE best market EVER. Do I sound enthusiastic about Ebay?! I do! good – I love it. Let me give you an example of why I love Ebay.
Digital Photography: File Size Matters
Are you just starting out using a digital camera? Did you just get your first digital camera over the holidays? Are you unsure of how to take the best photographs with it? Here’s one tip that may help end up with better results – set the file size setting on your camera to the largest file size possible.
10 Tips for Ezine Publishers
1) Many Ezine Publishers use too many styles of separators in their Newsletter. I recently saw an Ezine that used no less than 7 different separators:
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This confuses the reader and makes your Ezine difficult to read. Your Newsletter will look much smarter and be much easier to read if you use just one or two styles of separator.
After the Hack: How to Get Back to Business
More often than not, when your machine has been the victim of a cracker’s attack, the best solution is to completely reinstall the operating system, being sure to apply all relevant patches to the machine. In other words, go to your software vendor’s website and double-check all of the security announcements and patches… you may have been hit by a brand new exploit. I have many times been asked if a complete reinstall is absolutely necessary. The short and simple answer is “yes”.
3 Key Principles of Search Engine Strategy
It’s not hard to find good information on search engines… the hard part is telling the good information apart from the bad. Some of it is old, some of it is wrong, and a lot of it is just self-serving propaganda for someone’s product or service. My first commercial site, Website Promotion Central, boasts top rankings for very competitive keywords like “website promotion.” It’s become the 3rd most popular website promotion resource, according to DirectHit.
How to Boost Your Chances at Having a Successful Web Site
New Web sites are springing up online by the millions. However, when they don’t reach a level of success, the Web site owners assume that you can’t make money off the Internet.