Recently I ran across an ad for Yahoo! Widgets. I’d actually never heard of them and was apparently in the dark. Not too hard to do considering the billions of web pages out there. So I clicked on the ad. I love a great mystery!
Anyway, I bravely downloaded and installed Yahoo! [...]
Web Hosting is getting cheaper these days. Long gone are the days you’d have to pay $20 per month for a decent web host. In fact, for most websites, all you need is a basic web hosting account. And if you’re paying more than $10 per month, I’d say you’re getting robbed. [...]
We’ve added 4 more video tutorials. These tutorials combine the GIMP (free graphics image editing software) and Nvu (free web page designer) to put some finishing touches on the earlier videos we offered.
These tutorials show step by step how to design a header image using the GIMP, how to insert that header image into [...]
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s a way of syndicating (sharing of content among different web sites) information of all sorts. This information can be news feeds (like CNN or CBS News) or can be from a personal blog (like this one). The language used to create RSS Feeds is called [...]
A blog is really slang for web log. But now it’s closer to a household term than slang. Amazingly, even our 9 year old knew what a blog was. She said it was a diary. Not bad for 9. And she’s right, but there’s really more to it (as always). [...]
Also just released are our GIMP video tutorials. We have 10 video lessons that go over the basics of how to use the GIMP. We’ve covered the tools, the dialogs, the file types for the web and much more.
The Gimp video tutorials are ALL free and are designed for people who have never [...]
Our brand new Nvu video tutorials are now up and running. They are designed for the beginner in mind and teach the classic table layout. There are 9 video lessons right now that go through step by step how to design a website using the free web site editor Nvu.
We also offer [...]
Soon to be launched in full, Design Your Own Web has already completed tons of tutorials using the free editors Nvu and the GIMP, with much more on the way!