Techie Resources
How much technical know-how is enough?
There are many turnkey solutions for building web sites so that you don’t have to learn web design and coding to have an Internet business. On the other hand, understanding the technical aspect of a site is good for optimizing and improving it, even if you outsource the work. These resources can help you get familiar with what is going on under the hood and to stay on top of technical trends.
Techie Resources
18 Alternative Ways To Use Wordpress
Wordpress is more than a blogging system. It’s a web publishing application that, with a little technical knowledge, can be used for an entire web site. This article is written by a young Internet entrepreneur.
Demoz Open Directory Project
This is the largest human-edited directory of the Web. You can submit your site there and if it is accepted, it is supposed to increase the site’s quality ranking. Look, it can’t hurt.
Expert Village
This site has over 100,000 videos on topics ranging from coding HTML to how to throw a frisbee. If you want to learn how to create your own website, forget about the frisbee videos.
Hosting Tutorials
If you want to learn how to get the most out of your web host, you’ll like these tutorials. That’s all this site is about!
lynda.com
This training site is a great resource. It has a multitude of excellent online tutorials on most technical subjects and software applications related to web design, graphic design, web programming, etc. You pay a monthly subscription rate and get access to all the courses.
Smashing Magazine
This online magazine has lots of articles, resources and how to’s regarding web design, traffic conversion, etc.
Tech Crunch
This site started out as a blog and morphed into a network of technology sites that keep you up to date on new Internet products and companies that are having an impact on the Internet.
Useit.com
Leading usability expert, Jakob Neilson’s site is packed with information on user interface, usability, and such. So, why is this the ugliest site you’ll probably ever see?
W3 Schools
This is the premiere site for learning how to code and program web sites. There are free tutorials on HTML, the key scripting language that creates a web page in your browser. There are also tutorials on CSS (cascading style sheets), which defines how to display the HTML. More advanced coding tutorials include PHP, SQL, JavaScript and more.
Web Design From Scratch
This site covers all aspects of building websites, from basic design to graphics to coding tutorials and usability. The author also sells his inexpensive and highly-recommended eBook called Save the Pixel, which you can download at the site.
Webmaster World
Listings of important news to those who make web sites. It includes lots of Google news important to AdSense and AdWords. There is both free and fee-based content.
