9 hidden gems at Newbie Website Design

Blogs have a lot of posts — A LOT of them — and Newbie Website Design is no different. Unfortunately, most people don’t have the time to go back through the pages and pages of older posts looking for the “hidden gems” of great advice or even writing genius. To help those with limited time to hunt for the good stuff, I’ve gone through the past posts and hand-picked some of the most popular from times gone by. Enjoy!

Internet forum behavior
A short and funny video about how to behave on an Internet forum.

Create a strong, secure password
Learn the right way to create an extremely hard-to-crack password.

Technology for country folk
A humorous look at some common techno-lingo.

4 Classic navigation positions
Learn about the 4 classic navigation positions as well as how to choose which is best for your website.

WYSIWYG or not to WYSIWYG?
A quick look at why beginners to website design should avoid using visual WYSIWYG editors.

Learning from “Your Logo Makes Me Barf”
Learn what not to do when designing your logo with some “slap-your-forehead” examples.

Make My Logo BIGGER Cream!
A humorous video that pokes fun at bad graphic design plus a few lessons you can pull from it.

Boxes – the building blocks of websites
A visual guide to help you uncover just where the invisible boxes of a website’s design are located.

Cleaning up an all-centered website
Find out how to fix the most common mistake made by beginners to website design.

What is Internet Marketing?

In these bad economic times, many people are looking into making money online in an attempt to earn a little extra cash to pay the bills, replace a lost job, or become an instant millionaire (like so many info products claim their system will enable you to do.) Yet, when one finally decides to dive into the Internet marketing arena, many questions arise:

• What are the different ways I can make money online?
• Is it easy to make money online?
• What does real Internet marketing entail?
• Do I have to be adept at making websites?
• Must I make my own product?

And the most important:

• Where do I begin?

If you have been asking yourself any of the above questions, then your prayers have been heard — for, here are answers:

Read on…

You actually DON’T visit websites

Many people believe that they actually “visit” websites — that somehow their browser magically shows them what appears on that website’s computer screen.

But the truth is very different…

Imagine for a moment that your best friend just came back from a one-week trip to Hawaii. You’re anxious to hear about the adventures, see the photos, and hopefully get the authentic souvenir Hawaiian shirt. You rush to the phone and make the call. “Sure” your friend says enthusiastically. “I’ll be right over!” In a few short minutes your doorbell rings. Behind the door your friend stands with a menagerie of photos, odd yet wonderful tiki-trinkets, and the much anticipated multicolored Hawaiian shirt.

This is exactly how surfing the Internet works (minus the Hawaiian shirt.)
Read on…

Create a strong, secure password

You can’t survive the online world without secure passwords. Extremely nasty people (whose own mothers wouldn’t even love) have the desire and the means to crack your passwords. Once cracked, any personal information hidden behind those particular passwords is wide open. And you know that those nasty people only have nasty intentions on their minds.

That’s why it is VERY IMPORTANT to create very hard-to-crack, strong, and secure passwords.

But how does one go about creating such a password?
Let’s find out how…

Read on…

Technology for country folk

I’m pretty sure that when I first entered the Internet scene many moons (and a few ice ages) ago, the terminology that I heard floating around conjured up images just like the following:

(Click on the images to enlarge)

PS,
If you happen to know the source of these comics please let me know!

What is a Social Bookmarking Website?

You may have heard of Facebook, or maybe even Stumble Upon. Possibly the name “Technorati” floated within your aural range as well. Then someone told you about social bookmarking websites – and the only things you can think of are:

• What IS Facebook?
• What IS Stumble Upon?
• What IS Technorati? AND…
• What IS a social bookmarking website?

They are all good questions. Here are the good answers:

Read on…

Inside Rosalind Gardner’s affiliate accounts

Back in the day when I first became interested in Internet marketing I stumbled across Rosalind Gardner. I purchased her e-book, The Super Affiliate Handbook, just to see if what she was teaching could actually be done. At the time I figured it would be wasted money — you know, another overly hyped-up e-book on how to earn a living on the Internet.

Three years later I’m still thanking my lucky stars that I bought her e-book. And to this day I still follow all of her new materials as well. Her e-book, more than almost any other, is responsible for my current online success.

While viewing some of her YouTube videos today I came across one that rang true for me. You see, there are many scam artists out there on the World Wide Web that use Photoshop to fake the “proof of earnings” images you see on their websites. Maybe they actually only earn $100 a month. But with a little bit of editing they can make it look like they earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. (Sneaky little cheaters!)

The video made by Rosalind Gardner is an actual, real-time tour through some of her accounts. You can see her earnings in their complete, unedited glory. What is even more impressive is that this video was made a few years ago… so one can only imagine what she is making now through Internet marketing.

Here’s that video for your enjoyment:
Read on…

What are these tiny icons?

At the end of every post on Internet Newbies, there is a list of “little tiny icons”. These icons are a way to quickly and easily accomplish the following:

• Link to a social bookmarking website
• Add to your favorite RSS Reader
• E-mail the post to a friend
• Print out the post using your printer