This section will help you to discover how to create an effective website. The tutorials are grouped under 4 main headings: TECHNICAL, DESIGN, MARKETING STRATEGIES and SOFTWARE. They cover all aspects of web page design from how to make your Website more visible to creating and using flash buttons. The tutorials originate from the following sources:
- Ones that I have created
- Ones that FGD visitors have created
- Ones that I have found on other sites
The ones that are stored on other sites appear here as links only. I have made every effort to ensure that all tutorials accessible from this site are easy to follow, appropriate and informative. If you feel that a tutorial is of poor quality, please contact me.
If you would like to add your tutorial to our collection or provide us with a link to a tutorial on your site, please use the Tutorial Submission Form locate at the bottom of this page.
| Javascript | Adding Favorites - Bookmarking Code Getting visitors on your site is great but the trick is for them to return ideally with ease, with so much competition on the web you need to offer visitors this option without them having to trawl through the web looking for you (because they wont!). Adding a Favorite/Bookmark code to your site is a vital piece of code, which enables the visitor to add your site to their Favorites or Bookmark depending on their browser, all for FREE. |
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| Javascript | Adding a Search Box Learn how to add your own Search Box powered by Google to your website via a simply installed script. The search facility can either search the web or the web and your site or just your site all for FREE. |
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| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a fantastic tool to add layout to your website's. It can save you a lot of time and it enables you to design website's in a completely new way. CSS is a must for anyone working with web design. This tutorial will get you started with CSS in just a few hours. It is easy to understand and it will teach you all the sophisticated techniques. |
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| HTML | HTML HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a computer language devised to allow website creation. Website's can then be viewed by anyone else connected to the Internet. It is relatively easy to learn , with the basics being accessible to most people in one sitting; and quite powerful in what it allows you to create. It is constantly undergoing revision and evolution to meet the demands and requirements of the growing Internet audience. This tutorial will help you understand and insert HTML into your web pages. |
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| DHTML | DHTML Dynamic HTML is a technique of creating web page interaction and design elements by using a combination of the static markup language like HTML, JavaScript, CSS and/or the Document Object Model. Learn more about DHTML and get code, all for FREE. |
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| File Types | File Extensions Usually 3 letters, a file extension comes after the "." in a file name, and identifies the type of file. For example, in "index.htm," .htm is the file extension, and it identifies the file as an HTML document. |
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| Java | Applets Java Applets can run in a browser using a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), or in Sun 's AppletViewer. Applets can be used to created many objects from animation to slide shows. Learn about applets and get loads of FREE samples. |
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| Web 2.0 | About Web 2.0 The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Web 2.0 is a perceived or proposed second generation of the web. This is were the web has evolved and improved over time and now offers better and more up to date services like blogs, wiki's, social networking sites etc. |
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| Tips | Top 25 Design Tips Make sure you run through this vital checklist of the top 25 website design tips to make your site search engine and visitor friendly. |
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| Graphics | Formats Because of the web's reliance of bandwidth and the fact that image files contain so much information, Web graphics are by necessity compressed, different graphic file formats (GIF, JPEG, PGN) employ varying compression schemes, and some are designed to work better than others for certain types of graphics. |
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| Widgets | Adding Web Bling Learn to make your website stand out from others add FREE Web Objects (Widgets) to your website including Hit Counter, Forum and Tell A Friend scripts all for FREE. |
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| Web Design | Creating your Website Find out what you need to create and publish your own website with advice on web authoring tools (Dreamweaver, Kompozer etc.), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), FTP's (File Transfer Programs), Assigned web space and lots more all for FREE. |
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| BannerAds | Make and insert a GIF Banner Ad Swapping your own website banner with other site's is becoming the fastest way of getting your website noticed, learn how to create, insert your own website Banner and get the code needed to display a link to it on your website, all for FREE. |
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| Profit-making | Making Money with your
Website Find out how it is possible to make money on the internet in several different ways with no actual advertising costs incurred, including all the tools you need to process secured payments online for FREE. |
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| Search Engine Optimisation | Optimising your Website Learn about how to optimise your website in conjunction with search engine rules, get FREE webmaster tools to help you analyse your site to gain maximum performance. |
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| Marketing | Marketing your Website Marketing is the most important aspect to your website's success. You can have an impressive site but without people visiting it all your hard work is in vain. To generate online sales you need to have a marketing plan, which will raise awareness of your products and drive traffic to your website. Learn how to Market your website FGD style for FREE. |
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| Flash | Creating & Inserting Banners Swapping your own website banner with other site's is becoming the fastest way of getting your website noticed, learn how to create and insert your own website Flash Banner without having to download or use any software, all for FREE. |
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| Flash | Creating and Inserting
Flash Buttons Adding animated Flash buttons and menus to your website can enhance your site and make it look professional, learn how to create and install flash buttons into your web pages without having to download or use any software, all for FREE. |
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| Flash | Intros First impressions count and creating your own Flash Intro (Introduction) will go a long way to keeping that visitor and potential customer interested in your website. An Intro is a piece of animated content usually displayed at the beginning of a website, that is specifically prepared using Adobe (Macromedia) Flash. Learn how to create and install flash buttons into your web pages without having to download or use any software, all for FREE. |
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| Photoshop | CS3 Learn how to use Photoshop for FREE, with this great animated help-book, which will dramatically speed up the learning process. Tutorials are illustrated with moving screen shots that show you around Photoshop. Visual learners will benefit from seeing Photoshop in action as opposed to listening to lectures or reading wordy texts, to download for FREE click here. Alternatively, if you would like to see a FREE online tutorial click here. |
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| Converting to PDF PDF (Portable Document Format) is an Adobe PostScript standard file format that is very popular on the web because it preserves the graphical look of a document, unlike HTML, which adapts itself to different browsers and has limited support for fonts. Learn how to convert Applications (Word, Excel) to PDF format, for FREE. |
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| Favicon | Change the Address Bar
Icon A great way of getting your website to stand out is to change the default browser icon which appears in the address bar, to your own site's unique icon. This can be easily be achieved and is FREE to do. |
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Terms of submission- FGD will only link to or display a tutorial that matches the quality and theme of the ones currently displayed or linked to.
- Any tutorial submitted that is the subject of dispute over true ownership, will be removed.
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