E-Business

Our first topic is one of great interest to most businesses and organizations on the web: search engine placement. In this month's article, "Super Successful Search Engine Savvy Secrets," we discuss essential goals, strategies, and procedures for working with search engines.

We think that you'll find these tried and true techniques very helpful in improving the ranking of your site in the web's most popular search engines. In any case, what have you got to lose? The information is absolutely free.

Caravan's Super Successful Search Engine Savvy Secrets (PDF, 17k)

Coming soon: Understanding Site Statistics

Web Programming

Welcome to the first in a series of articles about building database-backed websites. Over the next couple of months, we'll follow the adventures of a busy web publisher trying to add new features to a website promoting "Suzie's Swing Grrrls," a completely fictitious all-girl rockabilly band. The articles will contain specific implementations and code examples which can be easily adapted for use in your own sites.

In this month's article, our intrepid web geek gets tired of updating the band's tour schedule page by hand and looks into setting up a database-driven page to do the job.

Database-backed Websites--Basic Concepts

Coming soon: The Ins and Outs of Databases