Online Web Tutorials

Creating your first website can be both fun and rewarding. Using HTML seems easy enough so you build your site around it. The problem you may have is that their is only so much you can do with this language. You need PHP on your website to make it more functional. But PHP seems so hard to understand. A PHP tutorial for beginners would be nice to have but is it really worth the effort to make the chance to PHP?

The good thing about PHP is that you do not need to make your entire website from PHP. You can use it in conjunction with your HTML. Certain applications like collecting e-mail addresses allows you to send the visitor straight to the page you want without you having to e-mail the link to them. This helps make you site automated. That means you do not have to step in every time someone subscribes to what you are offering. They can download stuff easier, submit comments that displays on your website instantly and more.

Depending what you want your site to do it is not necessary for you to use a PHP tutorial to build a site with. You can download scripts that you particularly need but the problem with that is you may not be able to adapt the code to match your website. By having some type of PHP tutorial for beginners you can create codes that perfectly match your website making you look more professional.

You do not have to worry about it not working on your visitor’s PC because it works on all operating systems and most web servers out there. Your visitors should have no problems when they land on your site.

A PHP tutorial is best if your site is a membership site. Your members will be able to navigate your site and upload and download software as well as send messages to other members without you having to do a thing. This will save you both time and money.

I could go on all day about the benefits of having your own PHP tutorial to build your website with but I think you get the idea. For beginners, this is the best thing to have so you do not make mistakes that end up costing you a potential customer. You only get one chance to make a good first impression so do it right.

DNS in a nutshell

As I said above, DNS is a translation service from computer readable names, to human readable names. The theory is similar to a phone book, or directory assistance, which translate phone numbers to names. The DNS system is distributed across the whole Internet, virtually every Internet provider has two or more DNS servers, most hosting companies do as well, and a lot of large businesses, ie Microsoft, Dell, HP all have their own servers. (of course, having 30,000+ employees, they probably have their own directory assistance too).

Every single person on the Internet uses DNS, 99% of them without even knowing. Every time you go to a website, you do a search of the DNS system to find the location of the site. Every time you send an email, your ISP’s mail server does a DNS search to find the mail server for that domain. As I said, DNS works on a distributed basis, no one server holds the records for every single domain. There are a lucky 13 master servers, that contain a list of which DNS servers handle which domains, when you look for a domain that your ISP’s DNS server does not know, it asks the master servers, which DNS server does know about this domain, then it asks that DNS server for the information it needs, before passing it back to you.

Changing DNS Servers

When you change hosting providers, the normal procedure is to also change your domain’s delegation to the new hosting providers DNS servers. This procedure, known as redelegation, is best, as it means one company handles everything for you, and if they make a change to the location of your website, for instance moving it onto a faster server, they can also update the DNS records straight away, so no one notices. To find out who your domain is delegated to, you need to do a ”whois search”. A whois search will not show you where your website is, but it will show you which DNS servers know where it is. Customers of Anchor should always see ”’ns1.anchor.net.au”’ and ”’ns2.anchor.net.au”’ in their whois information. If your domain is currently with another company, and you need to bring it to Anchor, you need to change that information. Generally, this is done through a web page of the company that you registered the domain with, it is a simple change.

Once the change is made, depending on the type of domain, it can take up to 3 days for the rest of the Internet to notice you have moved. (The same as when you move house, it can take quite a while for other people to realize). The reason for this is explained in the next paragraph. Suffice to say, for a period of 3 days, some people will see the new site, some people will still see the old one. Some email will go to the new server, some will go to the old server. This is avoidable through careful planning, and a week long changeover.

Buzzwords & Geek words, translated!

Often when talking about DNS, the words (and abbreviations), ”’TTL”’, ”’Cache”’ and ”’Propagation”’ come up, but what do they mean? In plain English, the DNS server responsible for your domain has a file with all the information about your domain in it, and when another DNS needs information about your domain it is pulled from this file, along with a TTL value. TTL stands for ”’Time To Live”’, and it is the maximum time a foreign DNS server can store this information locally, without asking if it has changed (the process known as caching). When you redelegate your domain from one DNS server to another, the amount of time it takes depends on the TTL value in the old server. If this value is high, which it generally is (around the 1 day mark) then any DNS server that has requested information on your domain in the past 24hrs will still see the old records; once the TTL period expires the servers will then see the new details.

Additionally for ”’.com, .net, .org”’ domains, no server will see the change until the DNS system reloads at midnight, USA time, whilst the ”’.au”’ domains are updated instantly. This process of waiting for all the Internet to see your move is called propagation. As I said above, there is a way to speed up the process, and that is to redelegate a week early with your new hosting company copying the old records, with a very low TTL, (ten minutes or so), and then when you are ready for the website and email to go to the new server, changing them on the new DNS server. This means the whole Internet will see the change in 10 minutes, regardless of the domain name (note, some ISP’s do not confirm to the standard for DNS caching, and may not update instantly).

So what does a domain record look like


@ IN SOA ns1.anchor.net.au. hostmaster.anchor.net.au. (
2004030401 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum
@ IN NS ns1.anchor.net.au.
IN NS ns2.anchor.net.au.
IN MX 50 smtp1.anchor.net.au.
IN MX 100 smtp2.anchor.net.au.
IN A 202.4.234.122
smtp IN A 203.98.94.10
www IN CNAME @
ftp IN CNAME @
mail IN CNAME smtp
pop IN CNAME smtp
pop3 IN CNAME smtp


That looks scary! What does it all mean?

Lets breakdown the file one line at a time


@ IN SOA ns1.anchor.net.au. hostmaster.anchor.net.au. (


This line, the Start of Authority, states that ns1.anchor.net.au is the domain server responsible for your domain, and that
hostmaster@anchor.net.au is the contact for this server

Skip the next 4 lines: ”’Expire, Retry, Maximum and Serial”’, as these are not important in this situation


86400 ) ; Minimum


The value of minimum is the TTL, ie the length of time, other servers can cache the information for your domain


@ IN NS ns1.anchor.net.au.


The third column on this line, NS, means nameserver, this line means that your server is listed in ns1.anchor.net.au (and below that in ns2.anchor.net.au). NS lines give a list of all the nameservers responsible for your domain.


IN MX 50 smtp1.anchor.net.au.


Again, the column after IN is important, (all your records should say IN), MX stands for Mail eXchange, and MX lines are a list of servers that handle your email, the number after MX is the priority, the lower the number, the higher the priority


IN A 202.4.234.122


On this line, A means Address. All A records are direct translations of names to numbers. If the line starts with a word, that is a host name, ie ”’http://www.yourdomain.com.au”’. If it doesn’t have a word, it means just ”’yourdomainname.com.au”’. If it has a * it means every subdomain of ”’yourdomainname.com.au”’ that’s
available.


mail IN CNAME smtp


The final record type is CNAME, whilst this stands for Canonical Name, it is often easier to think of it phonetically, ie; See-Name. As thats what it means, in this case, the record tells computers looking for mail.yourdomain.com.au to go look for smtp.yourdomain.com.au instead.

Now don’t you feel enlightened?

Do I have to have this? It all seems so complicated

If you want people to see your website, and email you, you must have DNS records. It is unavoidable. However as I said at the start of this article, you only need to have an understanding of the top level of the system, ie, when I redelegate, it takes 3 days, my email will be scattered. You do not need to understand how the entire system works, that is the job of your DNS administrator (often called hostmaster), who is typically your web hosting company.

Can I do this myself?

If you have a static IP address and a permanent Internet connection you can host your own DNS, and if that doesn’t make any sense to you, you are probably better off letting someone else handle it. You may notice in a whois search that most domains have 2 DNS servers listed, and some have up to 10. This is for redundancy: if one server dies, but the others are still working, then your website and email are unaffected; but if you only have one server, and it goes down for whatever reason, then your email and website are offline too.

Building a website is an often overlooked topic in the deluge of ebooks out there on how to start a business. But maybe you just want to build a simple website where you can put up a few photos and share them with your family and friends. Recently, a friend of mine needed a website to display his resume online. Or, maybe you just want to build a website to sell online and make enough residual income for a car payment.

With the right tools, building a website can be a step by step process and is much more simple than many people might think. It’s definitely not something to fear any longer. If you can get online and read this article, you can certainly build a website. You just need a little instruction.
Here are a few tips for getting started.

* Have an idea on what you need the website to do. Will it be for family photos, a resume, your journal entries, or do you want to put up products for sale, or work with affiliates and sell their products? Keeping this in mind gives you an idea on how complex building the site will be.

* Find an easy web building tool. This step is key. I’ve built numerous websites and have tried many of the tools out there. Some cost big bucks, some charge monthly fees before you even begin building, but I’ve found that the best, and easiest tool, is actually free. Tripod, owned by Lycos, lets you build your entire site before they charge you a penny. If you don’t like where you end up, you can start over and try again, all for no cost. If you like what you’ve built then the only cost is for a domain name (includes hosting fees) and removes any advertisements from your site. Simple as that.

* Find people like you who can help get you started and that you can talk to along the way. I didn’t have this chance when I got started, but it would have helped me drastically. With the advent of social networking sites, you can easily find a community where there are others like you who are in the same position, or willing to coach.

Thanks for coming,
Audry Grant

If you want to succeed in online business, you’re going to need a website.? At some point, you’ll probably want to own and operate multiple sites, but you’re journey to success will start with that first web property.? If you want to see results on your first efforts, you’ll want to create a solid site.? One of the best ways to do that is to follow quality website building tutorials.

Sure, you could make this aspect of your business into a “do it yourself project’.? Who knows, if you’re already particularly skilled or happen to have tremendous luck, you might even come out with a great site.? Most new online entrepreneurs, however, will benefit from substantial guidance.? A step by step plan for the creation of a site can be a great way to get your new moneymaking plan off to the best possible start.

First, quality tutorials can save you a great deal of time. They can provide you with the shortcuts that produce good sites in record time and can save you from going through a long process of trial and error.? Why reinvent the wheel on your own when you can lean on some quality instruction to get things done far more quickly and easily?

Second, learning from an expert resource can? supply you with design instruction that will insure your site meets user norms and expectations.? The web is a fast-changing place and what you may dig up or know in terms of site building information may be structurally sound yet outdated.? Reliance on a new tutorial resolves that problem.

Third, unless you’re a design pro, you can benefit from quality instruction.? Most of us don’t really have that “expert eye” when it comes to assembling a website.? Our perspective on what “works” and doesn’t work in a visual sense may not really align with best practices.? If you’re working with a pro blueprint, you’re far more likely to create a winning site.

Ready to build your website?? Remember, you want it to be good, if not perfect.? It’s going to be the “headquarters” for your online business and the hub for a great deal of activity.? If you’re not an expert in site design and creation, use some of the great available website building tutorials to help you devise the ideal site for your specific needs.

If you are looking for a dreamweaver 8 tutorial then you will have realized that this is not one of the easiest to learn programs. It can be especially daunting if you haven’t got any experience in writing web pages.

There are a couple of worthwhile sets of tutorials available which I will talk about a little later on but by simply performing a web search for dreamweaver tutorials you will also come across several snippets which might be of use. There are many written tutorials and some video tutorials that will show you a few of the basic aspects or functions of dreamweaver.

What is really needed when trying to learn how to build a website using dreamweaver is a structured collection of tutorials. A course of lessons which will take you through from the very start and hold your hand as you work through the website creation process step by step.

If you do not download one of the recommended dreamweaver courses mentioned on our website you should be looking to master some of the basics at least and will need to find tutorials on the following;

Basic website management Text formatting Use of tables Creating Hyperlinks Use of Graphics How CSS works Templates

There are as I mentioned before, a couple of systems available that will teach you from the most basic level to extremely high proficiency levels where you can be building complex websites with hundreds of pages in a matter of just a few hours. The recommended systems are listed on our website and a link is available to these at the end of this article.

Dreamweaver as you may be aware contains a powerful WYSIWYG editor. WYSISYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, meaning that basically you can type in material and images into your web page just as you would a word processing document and view it exactly as it will be viewed in a web browser online.

All of the work you do in dreamweaver eventually gets translated internally into legible HTML code which is read by all web browsers. Although it is not necessary to have any knowledge of HTML to be able to create web pages in dreamweaver it is very useful to understand what dreamweaver is doing and how it is creating the code. A basic knowledge of HTML will definitely improve your fluency with the program when building more advanced websites. A good place to get a general basic knowledge of HTML in a short time is the webmonkey website.

If you really need a Dreamweaver 8 Tutorial then I highly recommend checking the link below for the two courses on offer.

Website design tutorials provide an effect means for a person to learn the fundamentals of website design. Most people find this form of instruction to be easy to follow and flexible. The student has the added benefit of being able to learn at his own pace. This allows the student to take more time with the difficult or more challenging subjects.

Website Design Tutorials offer an hands on approach to learning the subject matter. Each step in the learning process is progressive and builds upon the preceding step. You can also skip over modules and concentrate on the subjects that interest you the most. For example, if you have already mastered certain subject you can skip pass these subjects so that you can focus you attention on the more advanced topic

Web site design tutorials usually can be downloaded as either a video or as a text documents. In either case the information is very easy to access and download to your computer. The format that you ultimately select will depend largely on the style of learning that is more comfortable for you. The videos offer a very convenient format as most videos combine the audio with the visual. This helps to reinforce the learning on two different levels. The video format allows the student to actually see the concepts being applied. The video has become a popular learning tool because many people are visual learners.

The advantage of the video format is that the student can actually see each step being complete. This type of direct observation helps to make the process and procedures very clear in the students mind since he can actually see the processes being performed. Thus nothing is left to the imagination and the student has a clear example of how the process is preformed. Most of the video tutorials also have written study plan which the student may download. This helps the student to summarize the materials and keep them fresh in his mind.

The student is encouraged to perform each step exactly like it is demonstrated in the video. This type of learning also stresses the process of repetition. This is important since most skills are learned through repeating the process over and over again until the skill is mastered.

Web design tutorials are usually available at the very beginning or basic level as well as for the most advanced level.

More free tips on graphic web design tutorials.

It doesn’t really matter how technical or intelligent you think that you are – the truth is that building a website is complicated business. There was a time when you could just slap up a little hand-coded HTML and call it a website, but that just won’t fly anymore. If you are online and want to do real business, then you have to present yourself in a professional fashion and you need a proper website to do that. One way you can get yourself online quicker is by using a full website tutorial to get you over some of the hurdles of website development.

You may think you are too smart for a tutorial or some kind of online assistance, but think again. If there were a way that would get you online faster, cheaper, and with less hassle on your part, why wouldn’t you choose it? A full website tutorial takes you through all of the steps from choosing a server to uploading your files. You will learn all the basics of color and design, font choice and navigation structure, without having to learn the back-end side of it.

A full website tutorial can also help you to take a more critical look at some of the websites around you. By looking deeper at what you are seeing, you may find elements of other sites that would look great on yours, and by understanding the technology behind it, you would be able to replicate it. The internet, after all, is a big artist’s gallery, and we are all borrowing from each other all of the time.

Designing a website without the proper assistance in this day and age is simply foolish. Get all the help you can and you will be able to get your website up quicker, and start making profits much faster, too.

I’m often asked about ways to create eye popping web sites. Fortunately, it’s actually pretty easy BUT you have to know how to use Photoshop. The basic steps are simple and I’ll outline them for you.

Most people don’t know that you can use Photoshop to do web design. They just think of it as a graphics editor and that it is for working on images that would display inside a web site. The fact is though, you can create the whole website with Photoshop.

First, you have to split the site up into three main components. The header, the content, and the footer. The reason you do this will become evident eventually.

You then think about the size you want for the site. A good rule of thumb is around 600-700 pixels wide. The length of the site (vertically) will change depending on your content, which is why you create the header, content area, and footer separately.

Using the enormous amount of tools available in Photoshop, you create the actual graphics of how you want the site to look. Add images to the header, create dazzling text, all of that.

Make sure you leave a nice empty section in the content area. The initial Photoshop file will be around 400-500 pixels high, to allow space for a header and footer, and an area in the middle for content.

You then use the Slice Tool (located in the flyout for the crop tool) to draw slices on the finished Photoshop composition. This lets you specify how the images should be sliced and lets you pick the area for content.

If you cut it right, the content area will grow as your content grows, meaning the template you’re making will work for any amount of content.

Then you will save the file in the native PSD format, so that you can edit it later, and then save it again using the option Save for Web and Devices…

This will bring up a dialog that allows you to make selections based on quality and image type. You want JPEG and at least 80 on the quality.

Pick your location for the files and Photoshop will cut your graphic into pieces, based on your slices, and assemble those pieces with an HTML file.

All that is left is to open the HTML file in an HTML editor and add your content in the appropriate section. You will then have a beautiful, eye popping web design, done almost entirely in Photoshop.

Here’s a tip: When you open the HTML page, make sure to center the layout and change the background color to match that of your new website.

There are several things crucial to your success as an internet marketer. and one of those is having your own professional looking ?web page.
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My advice is to disregard, any other information you have heard or read saying that you do not need a website, the facts are … you do! Simple as that, I know because I tried marketing without a web page and found that I had no way to build a client list or any way in which to develop a relationship with the people who purchased the products I was selling. I have no idea how much business I lost because I didn’t have a website!
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The truth is that every time you sell something for a merchant and remember, you have done all the work – he is collecting the name and email address of the person you have sent to him on his web page, cutting you out of the loop for many future sales.
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You can eliminate this by having your own web site -?you will be able to add an opt-in box to your website and by puting yourself in a position to build your own client list, you will be setting yourself up for success, and in time you will be able to make money online or at least a good living.
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There are many excellent and free tutorials on how to build a web page, I learned how to make my own website with a free tutorial which took me by the hand and walked me through every detail step by step, of how to to build a website, and I still use these tutorials today.
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There are other reasons why you need a web page, here are three more:
Your visitors can find you, The more visitors who find you … the more money you make. No visitors … no money…no business.
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I hope by now you are beginning to understand why you need to build your own web page.

Learning yoga is the second most in thing nowadays, next of course to doing or executing the yoga exercises itself.

There are many ways and measures how yoga is taught to different people across the world.

There are formal classes, and those that are done online. Online classes also abound. There are basic and helpful books that generally offer simple tutorial to people who want to learn yoga.

Online yoga

Relaxation and a quick in touch with the mental and spiritual aspect of one’s personality and life makes yoga a worthwhile and distinct type of exercise done by people of all ages around the world.

Yoga has previously been exclusive to the Hindu and other Indian religion. But nowadays, it is to be noted that the practice has also become very popular to everyone world wide.

That is why various and numerous health clubs and fitness membership organizations across all parts of the world are now offering yoga tutorials, sessions and exercises.

It is to be noted that the enrollees for such tutorials and classes are rising very rapidly nowadays. But because there are more people who do not have the luxury of time to spend freely on tutorials, it is imperative that yoga be offered through different venues and portal.

To cater to the numerous people who are too busy at work and only find a little time after office hours to spare for such relaxing tasks and exercise, there are a number of Web sites now that offer yoga tutorials and classes online.

Online yoga sites are so helpful and have been greatly patronized and visited. That is because some people are almost always too busy at work during daytime and cannot really rush to their gyms after work hours.

Books offering personal yoga tutorials

Because learning yoga is not always learned conveniently through formal classes, here are some recommended readings and books that would help you learn more about yoga. Help yourself and get some of these books. Be in the convenience of self-tutorial.

“Business of Teaching Yoga” by Larry Payne

This book is basically teaching readers who are aiming to teach yoga classes and activities to other people. Because holding classes and teaching yoga to others can be a tough responsibility, it is mandated that the person doing such be knowledgeable enough about the discipline.

Otherwise, the danger would be imminent to the class participants and students. Like almost all forms of exercises, yoga activities can be futile if the proper techniques, posture and form of the body throughout the process would definitely spell out the success and efficiency of the task.

The book is available on your favorite bookstand or online through the different e-shopping sites like amazon and others.

“How to Meditate” by Lawrence LeShan

The book, as the title implies will teach readers on the proper, appropriate and effective way of simple meditation and concentration.

Yoga basically involves and revolves around meditation to provide the natural and well-balance between the body’s physical, spiritual and mental faculties.

This book will greatly touch on the issues, concerns and standard practices that would provide greater condition for yoga training and exercises.

“Ashtanga Yoga—The Practice” by David Swenson

The modern yoga is a branch out of the ancient and well disciplinary Ashtanga Yoga, that is why learning it would be of great help when also learning yoga.

The book tells about the recommended practices, procedures and simple tasks when doing or attempting to meditate or do the basic yoga.