Archive for the 'Web Design' Category

Intelligent Paths Make Websites Friendlier.

Published on February 22, 2008 in Web Design. 7 Comments

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Killersites.com is an old site, nearly 12 years old now!

Over that time (as we added more articles and tutorials), our directory structures and file naming styles changed as conventions changed. So now I have a huge mess to clean up.

… There is a lot of information buried in killersites.com that people just don’t find.

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Fortunately, over the last 12-13 years of building websites and web applications, I’ve been able to figure out the best way to organize a website:

In this article, I discuss how to create an easier to maintain, more user friendly website by way of using intelligent paths.

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So what are ‘intelligent paths’?

I’m talking about URL structures of course! So that means a few things:

  1. Building a SENSIBLE website directory structure.
  2. Using meaningful words in page names and directories.
  3. Using lower case text for page and directory names.
  4. Using dashes between words in both page and directory names.

… Let’s go over the details.

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Dreamweaver CS3 Video Tutorial - building a web page.

Published on February 22, 2008 in Podcast | Videos, Web Design and dreamweaver. 2 Comments

I’ve released part 2 and 3 of my videos on building your first web page with Dreamweaver CS3.

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Video: Building a web page with Dreamweaver CS3

You can get quick access to all the Dreamweaver CS3 videos on this page:

Dreamweaver CS3 videos

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com

FREE Dreamweaver CS3 Video Tutorial

Published on February 20, 2008 in Podcast | Videos, Web Design and dreamweaver. 1 Comment

Hi,

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I just released a new video tutorial on Dreamweaver CS3. In this video (part 1 of 3) I walk you through the process of building your first web page with Dreamweaver CS3.

This video targets people new to Dreamweaver and people new to web design.

The video: Build a web page with Dreamweaver

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com

Free Dreamweaver CS3 Video Tutorials

Published on February 8, 2008 in Web Design and dreamweaver. 9 Comments

After a few years of (I must admit) pure laziness, I finally started to work on a new set of Dreamweaver CS3 video tutorials.

… But, to be fair to myself, I wasn’t in a hurry to upgrade my Dreamweaver MX videos since the differences between CS3 and MX are really minimal … most of the changes are ‘under the hood’.

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What is new about Dreamweaver CS3?

Dreamweaver CS3 is Adobe’s first official release of the software (Adobe just bought Macromedia) and so Dreamweaver CS3 now has the Adobe look and feel that is consistent across all their products including, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3 etc …

Beyond that, the following things stand out:

  • Better CSS support.
  • Better FTP and site management tools.
  • Ajax support with the Spry framework.

… There’s more for sure, but those are the things that stand out for me.

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CPANEL Video Tutorials

Published on January 23, 2008 in Web Design. 1 Comment

Hi,

I just released a few CPANEL video tutorials that are targeted at people who are new to this popular web hosting management software.

What is CPANEL?

CPANEL is a web based program (runs in a web browser) that hosting companies provide to clients so that clients can easily edit things about their web hosting account:

  • Add and remove email addresses.
  • Set up MySQL databases.
  • Create secured directories using something called htaccess.
  • Set up FTP accounts.

… And a lot more.

You can find the collection of videos here:

CPANEL videos

So far, this is what I have up:

- Setting up email with CPANEL
- Using File Manager in CPANEL
- Uploading web pages with CPANEL
- Setting up MySQL with CPANEL

If you have any suggestions regarding any other topics, let me know.

Stefan

www.killersites.com