Welcome to the JasonsJungle.com Knowledgebase. This is an ever-growing collection of articles, tips, & advice for anyone who owns their own website.

What NOT to do when optimizing your site's searchability
Don't do any of these or else your site will get black-listed
 

Uniform Navigation
Key to a well-organized website!
 

Beware of Horizontal Scrollbars!
One of the Ultimate Sins of a website!
 

Don't Put Your E-mail Address on your website!
Unless you want lots and lots of SPAM!
 

Why Contact Forms are better than E-mail links!
...and prevent SPAM!
 

If you MUST put your E-mail Address on your website, make it CLICKABLE!
It's the "norm"
 

Don't put BOTH your E-mail Address AND a Contact Form on your website!
One defeats the purpose of the other!
 

Always create an E-mail Address with your Website's Domain Name attached to it!
Otherwise, you'll raise a red flag!
 

PayPal.com allows you to have up to 8 different E-mail Addresses on 1 account!
So you don't have to create multiple accounts!
 

What is E-mail Forwarding?
Just like forwarding your postal mail
 

What is a CATCH-ALL E-mail Address?
anythingwhatsoever @yourdomain.com
 

GIF & JPG images. What's the difference?
Education on images
 

PNG images - The next big thing?
...as opposed to GIF's and JPG's
 

HTML Tip: ALIGN="CENTER" doesn't work in the <IMG> tag!

 

The ALT attribute: the perfect solution!
Images are only to enhance page content but should never be page content!
 

The many wonderful uses of the ALT attribute in the <IMG> tag!
Make any image meaningful
 

Bytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes
Hungry yet?
 

What's the difference in Javascript & VBscript?
A little education on client-side scripting languages
 

Server-side vs. Client-side
What does it mean?
 

When you "View Source", you aren't actually "Viewing the Source"
Others can view and even steal your client-side scripts, but not your server-side scripts!
 

Server-side and Client-Side scripting languages
What exactly is going on?
 

HTML Tip: The <FONT> tag!
How to properly use the SIZE, FACE, & COLOR attributes...
 

HTML Tip: Usage of fancy Fonts = waste of code!
Others won't see your fancy font faces unless they've installed those exact same fonts too!
 

Use a consistant Text-Color scheme!
Otherwise you'll confuse your visitors about what's a clickable link, and what isn't!
 

What is HTML?
HyperText Mark-up Language
 

What is DHTML?
Dynamic HTML
 

What is a browser Plug-In?

 

Java and Javascript
What's the difference?
 

Flash sites are invisible!
...to search engines
 

"Click Here" is cheesy.
People should be able to tell what is and what isn't a link without being told "where" to click!
 

I've decided I want a website. Now what?
What you need to get started...
 

URL Forwarding
Masked and Unmasked
 

The Anatomy of an E-mail Address
userID@domain
 

Always Give Your Website a Meaningful Title
It helps your search ranking, it is your bookmark text, and your taskbar text!
 

HTML Tip: RGB values
#000000 to #FFFFFF and everything in between!
 

Anatomy of a URL
disecting website addresses
 

What are the 216 "safe" colors?
So your website will appear clean in 8-bit color resolution
 

What is XML
eXtensible Markup Language
 

How to count in Hexadecimal
The numberology used for RGB Values
 

HTML Tip: Consolidating Tags
Keep your files smaller
 

HTML Tip: Microsoft Internet Explorer is forgiving to a fault!
MSIE forgives virtually all HTML errors and poor code
 

Usage of Images as Text Logos
What to do, and what NOT to do
 

HTML Tip: Meta Tags
To optimize your website's searchability
 

HTML Tip: Special characters > and <
How to properly type "greater than" and "less than" bracket symbols without creating broken HTML tags.
 

SRC stand for "source"
A little known HTML fact
 

Absolute and Relative URL's
What's the difference, and when to use them.
 

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locater
Another fancy word for web address
 

Do NOT put links to other websites on your homepage!
Always use a "Links" page, unless you want to deter search engines from finding your site!