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Email Marketing Terms to Know When evaluating email marketing applications, it's important to know some of the buzzwords so you're properly informed. As a small business owner, you'll greatly benefit from email marketing, since it helps you stay in contact with your current or potential clients and can greatly increase sales. By Robert Burko. 1229 Search Engines 101: Paid Vs. Natural Search When people become involved in Internet marketing one of the things that comes up are the differences between natural and paid search. Both strategies have their pros and cons and can be very effective as part of a marketing strategy. By Terry Stanfield. 1222 Web 2.0 Tools While the Web has always been a tool for collaboration, only in the last few years has software permitted individuals to use it as a platform for true collaborative activities. By Paul Scott. 1216 Installing the ASP.NET Engine, Editor, and Database System Three components need to be installed to work with the ASP.NET examples, the .NET Framework, the Visual Web Developer and SQL Server 2005. In addition, your computer must be running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. By Scott Mitchell. 1215 Popular JavaScript Framework Libraries: qooxdoo and SproutCore JavaScript Frameworks give your site a clean and professional look that would take you months to achieve on your own, if at all. Last week we looked at: Dojo, Rialto and the Spry Frameworks. This week we look at qooxdoo and SproutCore. By Rob Gravelle. 1210 Getting Started with ASP.NET 3.5 ASP.NET is a Web programming technology pioneered by Microsoft that allows developers to create dynamic Web pages. Here, you'll find out how to create dynamic ASP.NET Web sites quickly and easily. By Scott Mitchell. 1208 Administering MySQL Databases on the Web Using PHP This week you'll learn how to access a database from the Web using PHP. Inserting new items into the database is similar to getting items out of the database. You follow the same basic steps: make a connection, send a query, and check the results. By Luke Welling, Laura Thomson. 1204 Popular JavaScript Framework Libraries: An Overview - Part 3 In the last article of this series, we turned our attention to three strong contenders for the title of Framework supremacy: JQuery, the Yahoo! UI Library (YUI) and MochiKit. This week we continue our overview of the twelve most popular JavaScript Frameworks with the Dojo, Rialto and Spry Frameworks. By Rob Gravelle. 1127 Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with PHP This week you'll find out how to access the Book-O-Rama database from the Web using PHP. A sampling of key topics covered include: how Web database architectures work, choosing a database to use, querying the database, using other PHP-database interfaces and more. By Luke Welling, Laura Thomson. 1124 Working with the DOM Stylesheets Collection The DOM exposes the style sheets as a property of the document object. Using the document.styleSheets property, you can create, delete and modify existing rules within any style sheet in the page. By Rob Gravelle. 1121