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basic Backing Up Your Hard Drive Three times that you should make backups, and the three different ways to do it.

basic Project Organization Basics Where to store your files so that you can find them again.

Websurfer Articles

basic Using Google I'm sure that you know what Google is, but do you know how to search effectively?

intermediate Tabbed Browsing Most modern browsers allow you to use tabs to collect several different web pages into a single window. This article tells you why this is the greatest thing since the introduction of the web.

Photography Articles

basic Name Your Images, Find Your Images How to name your digital photographs so that you can easily distinguish between originals and edited copies.

basic Organizing Your Photos How to use meta-tags (category, location, etc.) to organize your digital images.

Photoshop Articles

basic Photoshop First Steps Photoshop may look complicated, but it works on three basic principles.

basic Visual Guide to Photoshop A visual guide to the Photoshop user interface.

intermediate Selecting in Photoshop The marquee, magic wand, and quick mask, and many other techniques for selecting a region of your image.

Webmaster Articles

basic Choosing a Domain Name Select a domain name that is easy to remember, and easy to spell.

basic Web Hosting Basics How to register a domain name, choose a host, and get found by the search engines.

basic Web Site Basics An introduction to the key concepts and files that you need to understand to build a website.

basic Which Host Should I Choose? How to make sense of the ever-changing website hosting options.

intermediate All About Menus and Buttons How to build attractive navigation menus with or without images.

intermediate Making a Contact Page How to let real people contact you without also getting spam.

intermediate Multi-Column Layout How to make pages that have left, center, and right columns.

intermediate Website Testing (Part 1): Browser Inconsistencies & Font Scaling How to ensure that your web pages look good on all the different browsers.

intermediate Website Testing (Part 2): Running a Local Web Server If your website uses server-side technologies like PHP or SQL you will need to set up a local web server to test it.

advanced PHP Essentials A very brief introduction to PHP, the hypertext preprocessor.

advanced PHP Essentials: Going Deeper Introduces a few more standard variables and useful functions.

advanced PHP References: A Powerful, But Tricky, Feature of PHP The PHP & operator allows two variable to refer to the same data.