Our video tutorial on Youtube explaining how to make use of an external RSS feed in your own ASP.NET web application. RSS feeds are an an important part of your website design because they are one of the simplest and most effective ways to keep your content current. The tutorial is presented using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Download the tutorial files

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is modern way to use a website design to create a website layout and apply various styles to the website in conjunction with HTML code. CSS has been a standard in web design for some time and continues to grow as we can see with the new standards being developed in CSS3, the latest version of CSS. This means that it is worth getting to know and worth getting comfortable with using CSS in order to create attractive, accessible websites. CSS is a different type of mark-up from regular HTML in that it does not have tags stored in angle brackets  describe how elements of a webpage are displayed. CSS works according to a set of hierachical rules where the top most element sets a particular set of behaviour and any components that inherit from that element will have the same behaviour unless they explicitly override it. Traditionally, elements describing how the HTML elements in a webpage should display were included in the normal HTML markup of the ... [More]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is often seen to be a mythical practice with online marketing companies not always being transparent about how they intend to improve the rankings of a client's website. The truth is that search engine optimization is not an overly complex field, it simply requires constant effort and the right starting point. This article attempts to demystify some of the things that SEO agencies do in order to improve the ranking of their clients' websites by giving the reader a list of things that you can do yourself in order to improve your websites visibility on the Internet. There are a number of things that you can do yourself without the assistance of a SEO professional to improve your websites search rankings and improve its visibility on the Internet. The points mentioned below will help to promote your website by making search engines more aware of your website and it does not cost you anything to implement! Here are some pointers to market ... [More]

A website is essential in today's environment with more and more people moving to the Internet to find products and services. Website design is the process of creating a website and making it available on the Internet. The basics steps required to create a website and have it available on the Internet are not obvious for the uninitiated and so this article outlines the main aspects of website design. There are three main things that are required in order to have a website. DOMAIN REGISTRATION In order to have a website available on the Internet you need to have your website name (URL) registered so that the name of your website is known and points to the right place. URLs can be registered by most ISPs, website developers and website hosting companies. Indeed, IT Solutions offers domain registrations. You can of course register a domain name yourself but you will need to be able to provide DNS servers on your application. DNS servers are servers on the Internet which tell your browse... [More]