graphic and web design, resources

PawPrint White Papers, Lecture Notes, & eBooks

General information & white-papers from PawPrint.net

Building Web Site Success (PDF)  Building Web Site Success (html)  Updated 2004/11/14
A general introduction to on-going e-marketing and good web design procedures. Those considering a web site or just getting started will both benefit from this informative e-book. We update this text periodically as information presents and time permits. Available in PDF or on-line.

Small Business Web Marketing Top Ten Tips
Handy information for the small business owner - the Top Ten Tips for small business web site marketing.

Domain Registration Hell
An in-depth article examining Domain Registration and the DNS system - associated pitfalls and how to avoid loosing your domain.

Internet Marketing Lecture Notes
Information, resources, and links, compiled to support the lecture version of "Building Web Site Success" presented by PawPrint President, Scott Baker B.A.Sc.

PawPrint's Introductory e-Book
An introduction to PawPrint and overview of our services.

Tools

A few indispensable on-line tools to help you learn about, view, tune, and validate your web site:

Monitor Calibration

Monitor Calibration
A simple on-line monitor calibration tool, for the novice or graphics professional - make sure you're monitor is tuned correctly - and ensure you are not viewing the web through coloured glasses.

Web Safe Colours

Web Safe Colours
Unfortunately only 216 colours are reliable for use on the web - view a pallet of these colours with their associated HEX codes.

Standards & Validation

W3C X/HTML Validator
Check your web site code for errors - this is probably the single most important web tool to help create a standards compliant web page.

W3C CSS Validator
Does your web page use CSS? this tool will validate that CSS code portion of you web page - this rounds out the validation process.

Web Accessability Guidelines
Do you care about making your page accessible for persons with disabilities? These guidelines will help you tune your site to be more universally accessible, we have also found that conforming to these guidelines makes web pages faster and they seem to rank better on the search engines.

General Information

Discussion Forums
Login and use the PawPrint Forums to discuss web design, photography, our software, and computers with others - complete with helpful interjections by the experts at PawPrint.

Terms Glossary
A technical terms glossary containing terms, acronyms, and concepts that relate to web and graphic design, photography, communications, and software development.

Linux
PawPrint makes extensive use of the Linux operating system - this page provides some detail about helpful hints we have discovered along the way.