http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog Create your own website, learn the basics of graphics design and more... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:14:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, after 14 solid hours later and 2 different installs of the new Windows 7 operating system, I have learned some things that should come as no surprise, and I was hoping maybe, just maybe, they might get it right this time. And apparerntly not at first effort with my laptop, but after ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2009/10/22/reasons-to-not-upgrade-to-windows-7/ Godaddy is one the largest domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world. But gradually I will be phasing them out and NOT using them to host my websites anymore. Why am I dropping Godaddy?? Because they suspended one of my websites that I have had hosted at Godaddy for the ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2009/06/14/godaddy-suspended-my-account/ Microsoft Bing is now up and running. It's Microsoft's latest attempt at revamping the search industry and making a serious effort to actually compete with Google. My brief use with Bing so far as a search engine is actually pretty good. I like the graphics and the info boxes ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2009/06/01/will-bing-give-google-reason-to-be-concerned-in-the-search-game/ As of May 1, 2009, Amazon.com has stopped paying affiliates who send traffic to Amazon from PAID TRAFFIC search engine marketing. These are also called sponsored ads. If it's from Google, it's called Adwords, Yahoo has Yahoo Marketing, etc. This was a major strategy of some affiliates. Although ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2009/05/31/amazon-stops-affiliate-program-from-paid-search-traffic/ First of all, for those of you who don't know what affiliate marketing is, it's a way of making money by promoting another company's product on your website/blog. And now a days most websites have an affiliate program. Meaning you can literally promote stuff from big time companies ... http://www.designyourownweb.com/blog/2009/04/29/free-affiliate-marketing-video/ After nearly 3 years in the planning stage, I've just released a brand new web design course starting March 10, 2009. 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/2009/03/10/new-web-design-course-the-upstart-network/ 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/