In this article I'll show you how easy it is to integrate SendStudio (our email marketing software) into ArticleLive, so that you can capture the details of your newsletter subscribers directly into your SendStudio mailing list to send them your newsletter, special promotions, automatic follow up emails, etc.

JQuery is a JavaScript library that makes writing AJAX routines and display-based functionality easy. In this article I'll show you how we're using JQuery to change the template selection system in the upcoming release of ArticleLive NX 1.8.

In this article I'll show you some quick and easy ways of instantly boosting your client's website credibility. This will help your client run a better website, sell more online or receive more leads. Either way, you'll be adding an extremely simple and effective skill set that your clients will appreciate.

For every email you send you've got room for no more than 50 characters in your subject line, and today I'm going to share with you 10 tips that we use to increase the open rates of our email campaigns.

Running Google AdSense on your article website is a quick and easy way to generate revenue for your writing efforts. We've been using Google AdSense on many sites running our article manager, ArticleLive, both for testing and for real life revenue generation. We found after some testing and research that there were various techniques we could implement to optimize our AdSense ad’s and increase revenue. Today I'm going to share some of my favorite strategies.

In a recent article I wrote, I addressed some of the issues with avoiding spam filters and improving your email deliverability rates. Today I’m going to delve a little deeper and give you some more ideas on how to increase the number of emails that actually get delivered to your subscribers.

As you're probably aware, we provide free website, newsletter and logo templates for you to download and use as you please. If you're running SendStudio on your server, then adding a newsletter template to your control panel is a breeze. Today I'll show you how it's done.

TrackPoint is our sales and ROI tracking product. Althought it's proven to be an extremely popular product, I still get asked exactly what it does and why you would want to track your return on investment (ROI) in the first place. In this article I'll answer both of these questions.

Many a web design project goes astray when deliverables are not in-line with client expectations. This often occurs because the web designer hasn't properly understood the clients business, design likes and dislikes, the target market and so forth. The easiest and quickest way to prevent these issues is to start with a project questionnaire.

Creating a MySQL database in CPanel is extremely simple to do and takes less than 2 mins. In this article I'll walk you through the steps. You'll require your login details to your CPanel account which your web host will be able to provide.

Imagine if John (an avid poker player) visits your website. You sell a book that helps him improve his poker game. He's highly interested in what you have to offer, but he's just not ready to purchase yet. He's still recovering from that extended holiday and needs to pay off the credit card that he maxed out playing poker online.

He sees a form on your site asking if he'd like more detailed information, and so he fills in his name and email address. Within seconds an email is sent to John with a short summary of the benefits offered by your book and a couple of useful tips he can use right away...

It’s common knowledge that the more links you have pointing to your website, the more “popular” search engines will see your site as, thus the better your chances of getting higher search results.

Often at times when starting a new website, its almost impossible to get others to link to you unless you’re giving something away for free or offering a product or service that’s simply amazing.

This is where submitting to web directories can come in handy...

Javascript alert boxes have long been used for validating HTML forms. For example, if you forget to type your name into a contact form, then a Javascript alert pops up telling you about your error and how to correct it. While this is a lot better than no warning message or validation at all, I find alert messages quite annoying, ugly and outdated.

What I'd like to do in this article, is show you a more elegant way of displaying error messages cleanly, using some easy to implement Javascript. This not only makes your forms a lot cleaner and more usable, but also shows your attention to detail as a web designer.

Pay per click (PPC) is by far one of the easiest and quickest methods of driving targeted, consistent traffic to your website. While this may seem like a daunting method of advertising for some, it’s actually quite easy and can end up becoming that one marketing method that you can't live without.

What I’d like to do today is provide some tips and techniques that I personally use when creating and monitoring PPC ad's.
Hopefully these tips will help you in your future marketing endeavors.

As many of us web developers already know, Google is rated by many as the number one search engine in the world. We personally know that our websites get about 90% of their search engine traffic direct from Google searches.

Getting indexed by Google can be a pain, but getting highly placed rankings for specific keywords seems to be the nut that not many web developers without SEO (search engine optimization) experience can crack.

Today we’re going to give you an informative primer on the basics of search engine optimization techniques -- many of which we use everyday to optimize our websites and stay ahead of our competitors.

Are you wondering what FTP is and how you can use it to upload/files from your site quickly and easily? Would you like to know how to set permissions on files and folders? If so, then this tutorial is for you.

This tutorial started out as a simple primer for newbies that need to learn a few specifics about FTP technology and how to use it, but I've also inserted some interesting stuff about FTP permissions syntax that some of you seasoned guys probably don't know or just never got around to looking at. Things that make you go 'hmmm' and 'wow, I get it… cool.'

I remember when I started building web sites. Creating a dynamic menu’s meant creating a series of images: one for the static image, one for the mouse-over image, and at times a separate image for when a click occurred. After this, I piled on the JavaScript to preload the mouse over images and change the images, depending on which menu button had the mouse cursor over it. Phew! It was a lot of work.

This in itself was tedious. Not only because I had to create up to 3 separate images, but also because it increased page load time, as well as being a pain when the time came to create a new menu item for the same site. With the evolution of CSS over the past couple of years, however, this process has been greatly simplified.

In this article I’ll show you a very simple technique to create mouse over menu’s that load almost instantly, that look great, and that are very easy to maintain.

Anyway, let’s get started!

Email marketing, as many of us know, can be a powerful, inexpensive method of reaching our most active potential or existing customers. It can boost not only our direct sales, but also our credibility and referrals.

One of the major benefits of email marketing is that email is free, but obviously this is the same reason why spam has become so popular and so frustrating. With spam comes spam filters and with spam filters comes the blocking of legitimate email.

In this article I'll try and describe the basic steps that can help reduce the number of emails you send out that get blocked by spam filters -- hopefully resulting in a more rewarding marketing effort.