[catwoman]

Ok all you web site owners! Now that I've finally gotten my website up and online (though, I figure I'll be changing it as I learn more about what I want on there)..... I find it hard to believe that everyone pays money to have their site(s) registered with browsers. For instance, I cannot find a free way to get on Yahoo! I've found a place that does a few for free, google being one of them. And also, if you use Internet Explorer, then where do you go to register for that? In other words..... do any of you have any good hints or advice for me?

[catwoman]

Oh, and one more thing..... I want to get fancy and make my page links (ie. home, contact, etc.) glow or something when a curser goes over it. Can any of you help me with that?

[MCaver]

To get registered on Yahoo, browse to the category you want the site to be in, the scroll all the way to the bottom to the miniscule "Suggest A Site" link, then follow the instructions. But be warned, it can take a looooong time to actually show up. It took me 3 tries and 5 months to get my photo site finally added. No idea on the glowing links...

[catwoman]

yahoo for free? I keep running into a page that asks for money!

[mb]

You will eventually get your site crawled to if you submit it to servers. Google thinks your site is more important if more people link to it, so get all your friends to put links on their sites, and do the same for them. (In this case, do the shows you photograph have web sites? Add a link to them and ask they do the same for you.) MSN direct submissions, after a little digging, is at http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm . Also consider having text on your front page instead of pictures. Search engines mostly search for the text itself. You can always just add some descriptive text at the bottom of the first page. To find out if a web crawler has looked at your site, check out your web site logs. look for clients with words like bot or crawler or spider as part of their name. once your site has been crawled, it can still take a few months to show up. If you want hover effects, there are a few things. You can use jscript to swap images. Or you can use the a.hover style. Search for hover on google to find out more. For example, if you change the background color of your buttons to transparent (instead of black), and add <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> <!-- A:hover { background-color:red; } --> </STYLE> to the top of your page, you'll get a red background effect.

[Jill]

Try this site for picture effects - http://www.anfyteam.com/panjava.html