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Why so static? The difference between static and dynamic websites
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Bobby Martinez A brief overview of the difference between static and dynamic web pages.
Read moreSetting Up Online Transactions
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Bobby Martinez Here’s a quick tip for a first time e-commerce project. If you plan to support real-time automated credit card transactions, you will be setting up a merchant banking account with a payment gateway (such as Authorize.net, LinkPoint, YourPay, etc.). If this is a new merchant account or a new gateway service, at some point the [...]
Read morePhoto Gallery Tools
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Bobby Martinez Thinking of adding a photo gallery to your web site? There are a plethora of great gallery management tools available these days, some for quite a low cost or even free. Sometimes the free tools are enough to get someone by for a while, such as Google’s Picasso or Photo Bucket. These member-based photo communities [...]
Read moreTech Tips: Put a Twitter Badge on Your Page
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Bobby Martinez Twitter is one of the hottest trends on the internet right now. For those of you not in the know, it’s what is called a microblogging service. It’s basically a page that stores any number of text updates, limited to 160 characters maximum. It’s almost like uploading SMS messages for everyone to see, allowing you [...]
Read moreHow to tell if your website server is down
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Bobby Martinez Are you asking yourself “Is my website down?” There are many, many different things that can cause a connection error between between you and your website. Just because you can’t load your website, it doesn’t mean that your web hosting server is actually down. If your web browser is displaying a connection error, try these [...]
Read moreHow to Make a Website: 3 Easy Step-by-Step Instructions
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Bobby Martinez You don’t need to be intimidated by the internet. It’s merely a collection of interconnected websites, and websites are actually very simple things. They are files that people can access through Internet Browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome. See? It’s not so scary when you break it down to its simplest [...]
Read moreHow To: Send Free SMS Text Messages
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Bobby Martinez Today we’re going to learn how you can send free SMS Text messages to other people’s mobile phones. In order to do this, we’re going to harness the awesome, unyielding, raw power service of win that is Google Mail (GMail). 1) If you don’t already have one, sign up for a Google Mail Account: Free [...]
Read moreHandle them carefully…
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Bobby Martinez “Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.â€Â -Pearl Strachan What’s in a font? In a world flooded with visual communication our senses are inundated daily by an incalculable volume of typography. For those unfamiliar with the term, typography is the study and application of communication through the media of words, letters, [...]
Read moreWhat’s in a Brand?
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Bobby Martinez So what can a design team do for your brand? Understanding this lies at the very heart of why design exists, and what designers actually do.
Read moreHow To: Turn a Photo From Color into Black and White For Free in 1 Minute.
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Bobby Martinez Easy, just use Photoshop, right? Sure, that would be the easiest way. However, Adobe Photoshop can cost anywhere upwards of a thousand dollars, so this isn’t something that just anyone can use. Most likely, you would have to be at a company, or a school, or have amassed a golden empire not unlike the master [...]
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