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Effective Web Design - Look Beyond Aesthetics
If I mention the word design it's likely to call up images of creative graphics, artistic layouts, and decorative aesthetics. But is that what design is all about? Are all those fanciful wows necessary to have a successful web design?
Date: 2006-12-27
How Much Space Do You Need With Your Hosting Account?
Web hosting is an extremely competitive field and most web hosts will offer some rather large amounts of space in an effort to sell you on their services. But do you really need all that disk space?
Date: 2006-12-13
SES: Video Search Needs Audio Content
To get one's videos indexed correctly by the search engines dedicated to that content, it's the spoken word rather than the pretty pictures that matter most. Mike McDonald listened in on the expert panel at SES Chicago discussing the process.
Date: 2006-12-04
Quality Niche Content Websites
Niche websites: You can't create a site about what's going on in the plastic industry unless you learn how they think. You gotta pick up some trade papers. Talk to some people inside. So that when you do create you will be authentic and loved.
Date: 2006-11-29
User Performance Design
Last week on the Cre8PC blog Kim Krause Berg mentioned two new usability documents released by Larry Constantine. The post led me to one of Larry's older documents entitled Beyond User-Centered Design and User Experience: Designing for User Performance, which I have just recently read. The previous link will take you to a page where you can download the PDF.
Date: 2006-11-22
PubCon: The Art Of One Page Wonders
Ah-Ha, Bobby McFerrin and Dexy's Midnight Runners are all classic examples of one-hit wonders you may or may not remember from the 1980s. Effective one-page wonders, however, boast a more significant impact on the industry landscape than Terrence Trent D'Arby or Devo.
Date: 2006-11-16
Why You Should Care About Web Standards
You may have heard a lot lately about "Web standards." I think it's a good thing that web standards are getting more attention.
Date: 2006-11-08
SEO Success
Are you looking for long term success when it comes to search engine visibility? Do you want to make sure all the hard work you do today will still be paying off a few months or years from now? If you do then you want to look forward in the your thinking with regards to search engines and their algorithms.
Date: 2006-10-26
Uploading Files Like GMail Attachments
Google's GMail has a nice way of allowing you to add multiple attachments to an email.
Date: 2006-10-11
Why And How To Podcast
Larry LaCost's welcoming smile was the first to greet us when we arrived at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo. A year's worth of podcasting is enough to make Larry a veteran in the industry, though he's been in the news business for a lot longer than that.
Date: 2006-10-04
The Link Between Your ISP And Web Success
As a Web business owner, you probably realize the importance of your site's design and presentation. Your Internet business will not flourish all by itself. It takes hard work and dedication to build a great website.
Date: 2006-09-26
Looking Beyond W3C Compliance
The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) was established by the inventor of the web as we know it today, Sir Timothy Berners-Lee in 1994 to create a uniform set of standards for the internet and its continuing development.
Date: 2006-09-21
What Do You Want Your Website To Do?
Ektron CMS400.NET is the content management solution that lets you do everything you need to do on the Web and everything you want to do ... all with a single application.
Date: 2006-09-13
Web-to-TV: A Star Is Born Every Second
It won't be long until, if you so choose, that you can be a TV star, even if your show only shows up on a handful of sets. The technology is already in place to stream user-generated content onto the television screen, and scores of visionaries are working to make that a broader reality.
Date: 2006-09-13
Close more deals with SalesGenius
SalesGenius instantly shows you who's opening your e-mails and visiting your website. It's easy to use and there's no set up or coding required. Try SalesGenius free for 15 days and see how it can immediately help your business!
Date: 2006-09-11
Don't Risk Losing Your Business Domain Name!
Thousands of small business webmasters briefly lose their domain names at expiration, due to a simple lack of understanding about the roles of three key players in the drama: domain name registrars, web hosts and internet service providers.
Date: 2006-09-06
WordPress
And CMS: How To Make It Work
Since the release of WordPress, web users have customized this blogging software to suit their own needs.
Date: 2006-08-23
SES: SE Algorithms: Can You Please Them All?
Search engine specialists use to spend inordinate amounts of time creating pages that ranked well at just one search engine due to algorithmic weighting of known and very specific ranking factors.
Date: 2006-08-09
What Is XSL?
Remember the good old days, when the internet consisted of nothing more than a few simple websites formatted in basic HTML? Web design was so easy.
Date: 2006-08-02
Preparing Your Images For The Web
This article is a check list of definition and advice on how images are seen,
stored and named for a website. I start with the most basic definition (a pixel)
and go through file format and naming conventions for the web.
Date: 2006-07-19
Wall
Develops Firefox SEO Extension
Search engine optimization hall-of-famer Aaron Wall has developed an intensive SEO extension for Mozilla's Firefox browser. The tool pulls data from a number of sources to offer search engine marketers "a more holistic view of the competitive landscape."
Date: 2006-07-05
Top 3 Design Priorities - Old And Wise, But Still Not Recognized
Imagine it - a new, shiny red sports car that is simply stunning to behold. A beauty. A masterpice of shape and design. But, it doesn't move - not an inch.
Date: 2006-06-21
Download Just Released: CMS400.NET Version 6
Ektron CMS400.NET lets you do everything you need to do on the Web and do everything you want to do...all with just one application.
Date: 2006-06-12
When NOT To Use Web Site Analysis Tools?
Can the usage of Web site analysis tools be a waste of time and resources?
Date: 2006-06-06
Setting Up Downloadable Files On Your Site
Setting up files that are downloadable from your website is a very simple process. However, there are a couple of issues you will need to consider before choosing to do so.
Date: 2006-05-24
Structured Blogging Returns
There are ways of making the randomness of blog entries less so, and a panel at the Syndicate Conference discussed the ways of making one's blog more accessible to readers.
Date: 2006-05-17
Database Queries
This is a basic tutorial to teach newbies how to query a MySQL database using PHP, and how to display the results...
Date: 2006-05-10
Is Your Website Content Delivering You Results?
The Importance of Keeping Content Up to Date: Imagine you're the owner of a successful car dealership but when your customers look at the cars listed on your website they notice that the cars are a month or so old or, even worse, they call you only to find out that that dream car they were looking at sold a week ago?
Date: 2006-04-26
The State Of Online Feed Readers - An Addendum
My pappy used to say, "You've got to crawl before you can walk." Ok, I don't have a pappy, I have a Dad. Truth be told, he never used to tell me that.
Date: 2006-04-12
Understanding Social Bookmarketing And Delicious
Delicious is a social bookmarking system, that is notable, not only for its unusual web address http://del.icio.us, but for its unusual approach to content building that is becoming increasingly popular.
Date: 2006-03-29
Managing Your Web Site With A Single Program
Do you want to encourage repeat site visits? Capture and easily process visitor information? Do you want to make information more findable? Do you want a single solution that can do everything you want to do on the Web?
Date: 2006-03-22
Websites Reflect True Face Of An Organization
A website shows the true face of the organization as never before. A website is increasingly the place where customers get that vital first impression.
Date: 2006-03-15
Link Bait: SEO With Linky Love
You may have heard the term link bait discussed in search engine optimization
circles. In SEO speak, link bait is content that attracts natural incoming links
from other blogs and websites. Link bait is content that people want to link to,
and share with their own readers. It all starts with your blog content. If you are serious about getting more links
to...
Date: 2006-02-22
Thoughts For The Beginning Blogger
One of our clients is starting to charge full-force down the
blogging path and asked for some feedback on the posts they were working on. Not
going to get into the details of what they're working on quite yet, but had some
thoughts that I was sending over based on reading the initial bits that were being
put together...
Date: 2006-02-01
Website Resolutions
As all of us view the new year, we determine various ways to improve ourselves. Whether its eliminating bad habits, or improving quality of life, January 1st is seen as a new beginning and starting point.
Date: 2006-01-11
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