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July 2004

Design Tip :  Changes That Kill

Some Web site changes are great for promotion - in the long term. But those same changes may also have an immediate negative effect on promotion. Understand the impact before you update your site and avoid these changes that kill! Click here to learn more.

JavaScript Tip :  Limit Visitors' Choices

Suppose you're offering a special promotion of two free items with every large purchase. Customers select the two items they want from a list of choices on your shopping cart form. But what should you do if a customer selects more than two items from the list? Avoid that problem by including this simple JavaScript function that limits visitors' choices to only two selections. Click here to read on.

Beginner Tip :  I Wish I'd Known This When I Started!

Designing a site is easy. Designing a good site is a painstaking process with a lot of error potential. Every beginner makes lots of mistakes, so we asked some of the NetMechanic staff what their biggest goofs were - or what bizarre demands they've had private clients make. Here are the top ten things we wish we had known when we started designing Web sites and dealing with clients. Click here to read on.