Being clever nerds that you surely are, I’m sure you’ve guessed that the video has something to do with the web design business.

… You guessed correctly.

This first video provides an introduction to a course that will guide you in starting and growing a home based web design business. That means the course is targeting web designers who have little to no business experience at all.

Some of the topics the course will cover:

• How to start a business.
• How to create web design contracts.
• How to charge clients.
• How to get your first clients.
• How to streamline the web design process to make it much more profitable.

… This is just a small taste, but I think you got the picture.

Check out my first video and send me some feedback … does it suck, was it interesting … or boring!

Everybody lives with colors all around them, and everyone views their surroundings in a different light, as well as in different colors. Both men and women coordinate their clothing together according to colors and patterns, although some people do it MUCH better than others. If you have never seen anyone coordinate their clothes badly, then you are probably the one who chooses bad color schemes for your outfits (sorry). If this is the case, either steer clear of design or use the color combinations used in the color combining list above. Even for those of us who do a great job at combining colors within our designs, we all have those days where our brains just aren't working right. When I am having one of those days, I usually go to CoolHomePages.com or other similar pages and find sites that implement great color schemes. However, for the purposes of this article, I decided to collect these color palettes into one list...as I did above. This might be helpful to you, but if it isn't, below this article you will find a long list of other resources for combining colors. Even if you are a great web designer, every designer should implement color scheming tools and inspiration files to help them on those 'nothing is going right' kind of days.

Are you having problems thinking of new color combinations? Do you wish that you could have a reference file for evaluating new color combinations when designing websites? There area many helpful tools and websites out there that list good combination colors but wouldn't you prefer to look at designs implementing these colors? I would. I have created about 45 different simple designs implementing workable color combinations, and I will add to this list at regular intervals. So bookmark this page, and come back when you are in the process of designing a website. Designers may send to me hex numbers and I will create thumbnails ( like the ones below) from these color combinations and add these to our list. An added benefit, Everone who adds a good color combination to this list will have there website listed (only if you want to). If you would prefer to send to us your own thumnail or a link to a website, you can do this instead.

In this article, you will find designs created with workable color combinations. Each picture includes hex numbers so that you can try them in your designs. On the next page, you will find a guide to choosing beautiful color schemes for your website designs. Enjoy and feel free to comment on these designs color combinations.

It is necessary that you prioritize your website's content to find the most important content. The more important the content, the more necessary that it will be to make these items colorblind-safe. The most important aspects of a website are navigational text (includes image and button text), menus, headers, and subheaders. Make sure that these items are very high in contrast...this means that you should either make these items black and white or opposite ends of the color saturation pole. However, I suggest black and white as the best possible contrasting colors for these critical page elements. Also, with articles and other large format pieces of copy, using dark text on a white background is essential in my opinion. Maybe I'm getting old, but I am sure that we have all read an article online and landed up with a huge migraine headache because the yellow text on blue background was too much for our eyes to take. If you don't want to use black and white for text, then after laying out the page, ask yourself, "Does this text Contrast Well With the Background?!" Use as much color as you want in the surrounding parts of the page, as long as it doesn't take away from the contrast of the text.

Usability is an integral part of any website and is just as important as accessibility and search engine friendliness. So many websites are shooting themselves in the foot with poor usability by making it difficult for users to navigate, access material, and even purchase products. Why then, do so many websites simply ignore the usability principles set out? Is it lack of knowledge, awareness, or skill? We're going to be looking into the possible reasons for poor usability in this article.

Social design is a subset of design that focuses on the social lives of users. It deals with the activities, behaviors, and motivations of people who work and play together through software interfaces. In the early days of the Web, most sites were read-only, focused on providing information to a single person at a time. Then the Web became read/write, allowing people to save information but still mostly for them acting alone. Now, we're seeing a tremendous amount of social software that allows many people to collaborate and share what they're doing with others. Designing for this social world is social design, and that's what we're talking about here at Bokardo.

Why website usability is often overlooked

TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2007

Usability is an integral part of any website and is just as important as accessibility and search engine friendliness. So many websites are shooting themselves in the foot with poor usability by making it difficult for users to navigate, access material, and even purchase products. Why then, do so many websites simply ignore the usability principles set out? Is it lack of knowledge, awareness, or skill? We're going to be looking into the possible reasons for poor usability in this article.

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How to install phpBB

TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2007

phpBB is an open-source (free) fully featured bulletin board and forum. It's one of the most popular forums due to its features, price, additional modules, and the massive community of helpful developers and users. This tutorial goes through the basics of installing the bulletin board from scratch onto your website.

Posted May 1, 2007 08:32 AM | Comments (2) | Permalink | Send to a Friend

Sending e-mail from PHP using mail()

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2007

A very simple tutorial to send an e-mail directly from a PHP script using the built-in mail() function. Great for processing forms or just to debug an application.

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Our fight against spammers continue...

MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2007

Form spammers are one of the most annoying things facing website owners and developers. These are the guys which create automated bots to fill in your forms with spam, in the hope that it will be posted on your website. Thankfully, there are ways around this!

Posted Mar 26, 2007 07:36 AM | Comments (1) | Permalink | Send to a Friend

Search engine optimisation (SEO) tips and tricks

TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2007

Search engine optimisation, or SEO as it's commonly known is a vital part of any website development project. Nearly 75% of your website visitors will come from search engines, so it's never been more important to make sure your website is ranked effectively. This article discusses some of the techniques used to optimise a website and explain why it's important to keep it honest and not try to fool the search engines...

Posted Mar 13, 2007 06:39 PM | Comments (2) | Permalink | Send to a Friend

How to create a secure user login with PHP and MySQL

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2007

Almost all modern web applications contain a login of some description. Whether you give your visitors benefits from being a registered user or run an online store, a login form is essential. This article describes one of the many ways to implement this facility using PHP and MySQL. The login process checks for an invalid email address or incorrectly entered password and uses user data stored in a MySQL database.

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Top Tips for Generating In-Bound Links (IBLs)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Aside from having a search engine friendly website the most influential factor to gaining better organic results in search engines is by obtaining in-bound links (IBLs). In other words, we want other relevant websites to link your website. Be prepared for long nights crawling the web in search of websites to approach. Thankfully, there are a few things we can do to make this very important search engine optimisation (SEO) job easier...

“Because the Internet is so new we still don’t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that’s what we’re used to. So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the web. Imagine trying to apply any of those criticisms to what you hear on the telephone. Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‘trust’ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. For some batty reason we turn off this natural scepticism when we see things in any medium which require a lot of work or resources to work in, or in which we can’t easily answer back – like newspapers, television or granite. Hence ‘carved in stone.’ What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust – of course you can’t, it’s just people talking – but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV – a mistake that no one who has met an actual journalist would ever make. One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’.”

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