Get Help on Projects and Technology
The reference portion of this site is available for people to get information on DIY projects, technical help, or design reference. We strive to bring our audience the best knowledge. All articles here will be one of a kind and may contain just what you were looking for. Check back frequently for new articles on the topics you are familiar with.
DIY Reference
Check here for the latest how-to articles we have come up with. We will be covering many topics here, so make sure to see if we have an article that will help you on many types of projects. Make sure to check out the latest articles here for walkthroughs on how-to setup a home network, create a cantenna, how-to open up ports on your router for applications, and more. We will be stocking this area with great tips and secrets from yesterday and tomorrow. There will eventually be a very large number of sections to the DIY page. If you feel we are missing a section, please write to us and give us an article to start off that section.
Technical Reference
Check out the technical reference section for articles on technical specs and differences between technologies. You can find some great articles that will help give you an understanding of somewhat complex technical applications, programs, and devices in layman's terms. We try not to talk over anyone's head and give as much information as to not confuse you and scare you away from the technology. Look for very in depth articles on the hottest devices, web services, applications and more.
Website Design Reference
Search Engine Optimization
Motiv-Designs.com not only creates optimized websites, but we want to show others how it is done also. We are experts in building structured websites that are Search Engine Optimized to allow for the best results for your website in the top search engines. There is a proper way to build a page and we would like to show you. Check out the SEO articles we have available that can help you get your page to the top of the list. You can also check out the SEO tools section that we have put together. These tools can help you figure out what keywords to use that can put your page on top of your niche. You can also monitor them and keep track of how they move over time along with a whole bunch of other great SEO tools.
CSS and Div Reference
You can also find some great articles on how to use CSS and Divs to create menus, create mouseovers, or setup the layout to your whole site. We are strict followers of the W3C Standards and will try to show you all how to follow standards and check your work afterwards to see how well you are doing. The World Wide Web Consortium is the standard for web development and compatibility. Following their standards will not only keep your html code looking clean, but your pages will work in more browsers with less errors. It is also important for visitors to keep up to date with their browsers. Without an updated browser, many of the latest advancements in CSS and other web technologies will not work properly. You may want to offer links to download the latest browsers if you use web 2.0 technologies or even some of the latest CSS standards. This will at least let them try to experience some really great effects and layouts that you can design with CSS and Divs. Tables are a thing of the past. They serve one purpose, show data in a table. All design and styling to your website should be done through your stylesheet and creating divs to call your styles. Check out some of the great articles we have to help you create some interesting webpages with clean code and liquid resolution compatibility.
Drupal Reference
Drupal is a somwhat newer Content Management System that has taken the internet by storm. It is an easy to install PHP and MySQL CMS that can run on Windows or Unix platforms. Once installed it is an out of the box dynamic website that can offer a forum, blog, and aggregate news feeds. There are addons that are called modules that developers create and submit to the drupal site that perform many different things. There are hundreds of custom modules that have been created and some have even had their functionality added to the latest updated Drupal releases. It is very simple to setup a Drupal site and maintaining one is even easier. Anyone who is looking to start a community driven site like a forum, a blog, or publication website should check out Drupal. Make sure to check out ThisorThat.com for the latest Drupal SEO techniques.
