http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog Create your own website, learn the basics of graphics design and more... Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:47:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After nearly 3 years in the planning stage, I've just released a brand new web design course starting June 30, 2008. It's a 6 month interactive and extremely thorough online video class which will teach web design, graphics design AND internet marketing. Pretty much everything I know about what I ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2008/06/09/new-web-design-course/ According to Microsoft, they are ending their sales of Windows XP late June 2008. The product will be continued to be supported through April 14, 2009 and there will be extended support available until April 8, 2014. This includes all versions of windows XP. Microsoft also has new operating ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2008/04/17/windows-xp-will-no-longer-be-available-in-a-couple-months/ If you haven't already heard, there is a new tool floating around called Sketchcast. It allows you to use your microphone and your mouse / or tablet to draw and record audio at the same time. The result is a very easy way to generate a video on ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2007/09/29/sketchcast-is-worth-checking-out/ John Reeses latest addition to the web is something called BlogRush. It's a free tool that finds related content to your blog post and then in the BlogRush plugin suggests other blog posts to visit as well. There is no cost for the service, it is an easy way to ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2007/09/15/get-more-traffic-to-your-blog-for-free/ For those of you upgrading to the latest version of Dreamweaver, their new pre-existing CSS layouts are much improved. The CSS panel, which allows you to make changes to the CSS almost visually, is also much better. I do recommend the latest version of Dreamweaver. Especially if ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2007/09/05/dreamweaver-cs3-and-css/ What the heck is Free IQ?? It's Brad Fallons latest baby. For those of you who don't know who Brad Fallon is, he started a little ecommerce store about 3 1/2 years ago and turned it into a million dollar business in his first year. Only 3 ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2007/04/17/free-iq/ Today, I randomly checked the 'order page' from one of my websites and up came a box saying that this is a 'suspicious website' and that Microsoft does not recommend trusting this website. Huh?? My beloved site that is several years old, has tons of customers and is ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2007/01/04/microsoft-phishing-filter-is-full-of-crap/ About a year and half ago, I starting absorbing anything I could from these 2 guys making MILLIONS online with very simple websites and a very simple strategy. Their names are Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins. Since then I recently finished my second course with Brad Fallon and ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2006/08/30/free-video-from-2-guys-making-16000-per-day-online/ A lot of people have wanted to know how to add audio to a website. And recently I ran across a great tool that makes that process ridiculously easy. It's called Impact Web Audio by Gary Ambrose. In just 5 minutes you can be adding audio to ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2006/08/28/how-to-add-audio-to-your-site/ I own a bunch of websites. Seems to be a fun hobby, building more sites. On one of my sites I sell a certain item and it's really good, high quality and actually pretty cheap. But I couldn't figure out why I was hardly getting any sales. ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2006/08/21/tracking-web-traffic/