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Interview: ICANN Official On The Domain Name Infrastructure
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers, or ICANN, coordinates the domain name system globally. ICANN was created in 1998 to perform various Internet administrative tasks previously...
Green Commerce Is Good Commerce
There are a lot of reasons why online retailers should start seeing green in a whole new way: Conserving energy and supplying environmentally sound products and services is good for the environment...
Video: SEO Update
In February 2006, Contributor Stephan Spencer, founder and CEO of search-firm Netconcepts, critiqued the search engine optimization efforts of Discountflies.com, following a request from that...
Video: SEO Website Update
In January 2006, Contributor Stephan Spencer, founder and CEO of search-firm Netconcepts, critiqued the search engine optimization efforts of Balancedlifeproducts.com, following a request from that...
Video Tutorial: Script.aculo.us Effects
Script.aculo.us is a JavaScript framework that is built upon the wildly successful Prototype JavaScript libraries. Script.aculo.us allows web designers to create engaging user interfaces quickly and...
Video Tutorial: Tabbed Content - Part 2
Tabbed content appears more and more frequently in web pages, and is an interesting way to simultaneously save page space and effectively present information. In part two of this two-part tutorial on...
Holiday Book Ideas For Etailers
As the holiday season draws near, it seems a fitting time to share some book ideas — ones for your own reading pleasure or as gifts for your favorite etailer.
While there wasn’t any...
Video Tutorial: Tabbed Content
Tabbed content appears more and more frequently in web pages, and is an interesting way to simultaneously save page space and effectively present information. In part one of this two-part tutorial on...
Video Tutorial: JavaScript Tooltips
You've probably seen those useful "tooltips" text boxes that are displayed on some websites when you roll over a specific link or graphic. These typically serve several purposes. Most likely, your...
Video Tutorial: Validating A Form With JavaScript
In form validation two common questions often arise. The first is how do you ensure once you've asked for an email address on an online form, you actually get one? The second is how do you make...
Convention(al) Wisdom: The Best Pay-Per-Click Seminars
One fortunate thing about being in the pay-per-click industry today is that there is easy access to a lot of useful and high-quality information. Whether it is magazines (such as this one), blogs,...
Earn An Ecommerce Degree
Many online entrepreneurs may feel like they have earned an ecommerce degree from the school of hard knocks. However, for those interested in a more traditional education experience, there are degree...
Learning Bookkeeping Basics
Poor financial management is one key contributor to why more than 50 percent of small businesses fail in the first five years of existence, according to the Small Business Administration.
Because...
Boosting Your Programming Skills
If you're tired of calling your web design firm every time you want to make a minor tweak to your site, there are online courses you can take to boost your knowledge in HTML, JavaScript, cascading...
Video Tutorial: Rounded Corners with CSS
Rounded corners present a unique challenge to website designers, particularly when using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create layouts that are search engine friendly and scalable. In an attempt to...
Video Tutorial: CSS Design, Part Two
In the conclusion of our two-part video tutorial on CSS layout and design, we will take the layout we created in the beginning of this tutorial and begin to apply graphics and other visual stylings...
Video Tutorial: CSS Design, Part One
Designing search engine friendly websites can be intimidating, particularly for designers who are just learning how to use CSS formatting. One of the most intimidating aspects to learning CSS design...
Video Tutorial: Choosing the Right Image Format
Choosing the right image format for publishing images on the web can be tricky. After all, you don't want to spend hours and hours cleaning up a product image and making it look irresistable to your...
Video Tutorial: Removing Backgrounds from Product Images
Look, we aren't all great photographers, and even those out there that do manage to take spectacular photos still need to clean up their images a bit before putting them online. Product images can...
Tutorial: Gaining Control of Search Engine Spiders
Most of us are familiar with the term “search engine spider” and at least understand that they have something to do with how search engines index websites. The purpose of this article is to help...
Does A Proxy Server Keep Me Anonymous On The Internet?
No. And that is that. Unless you are a very talented hacker, there is no such thing as anonymity on the Internet. A common misconception about anonymous proxy servers is that they allow you to surf...
How Is An Atom Feed Different From An RSS Feed?
An Atom feed is very similar to an RSS feed in that it is a lightweight XML format allowing for easy syndication of web content. In fact, most RSS readers and news aggregators will be able to read...
Google Analytics' Security Warnings
The subject of security warnings with Google Analytics is one that has been frequently brought up by our readers, and was something that I ran into when I launched the last Practical eCommerce...
What Can Digg.com Do For My Online Business?
Digg.com is probably best called a social networking news site. The idea behind Digg.com, and other sites like it, is that users submit web pages they have bookmarked or "dugg." After a certain...
Video Tutorial: Eliminating Dynamic URLs with Mod_Rewrite
Get started using Mod_Rewrite to clean up your website's dynamic URLs with this video tutorial presented by Practical eCommerce's online director Brian Getting. We'll look at using simple...
Video Tutorial: Creating an RSS Feed
Learn how to create a simple RSS feed in this tutorial by Practical eCommerce's Online Director Brian Getting. Walk through creating the XML file needed to establish a syndicated feed, and a look at...
Welcome to the New Practical eCommerce
Practical eCommerce is changing, growing and improving.
Our new website is bigger, more interactive and completely free. This follows from user recommendations and from dynamic changes in the...
How to Waste $4,000
How do you waste $4,000 in a few weeks? Patrick Coughlin knows. In fact, most ecommerce owners can attest to mistakes they made during the early phases of launching their new business.
Coughlin...
Need a Stocking Stuffer?
If you're anything like me, your focus dwindles over the holidays. So instead of providing you with tips that you don't have the energy to use, I thought that I'd briefly review some of the books...
Get To Know Your .htaccess File
A valuable tool many web developers either don't understand or aren't aware of is the .htaccess file. The file is available only to websites hosted on servers running the Apache web server, which is...
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