Setting up a Blog

The simplest way to create a blog is to use an online tool to do it. These blogging tools offer you the interface for creating and editing the blog and for updating it. You provide the blog tool with your site name, your FTP details, password and login and it will publish the blog for you when you click the Publish button. It is all very simple. If you’re hosting your site on a service like Tripod, look for an in-house blog tool to do the work. Large hosting services often provide these services to their hosting clients for free. Read more »

The following article describes how to build a web site for a successful on-farm business, but the many of the same principles hold true for building any successful web site for online business. Read more »

Use this online tool to easily create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site. A favicon is a small, 16px x 16px image that is shown inside the browser’s location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up. It is a good way to brand your site and increase it’s prominence in your visitor’s bookmark menu.

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

Web safe color chart – 216 Non dithering colors

Colors are defined using a hexadecimal notation for the combination of Red, Green, and Blue color values (RGB). The lowest value that can be given to one light source is 0 (hex #00). The highest value is 255 (hex #FF).

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Just like web safe colors, you need to be aware of web safe fonts. These are fonts that are designed to be compatible across browsers, so your text will look similar.

Here is a list of web safe fonts:

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp