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Five Website Obstacles
From years of troubleshooting websites for companies, I have consistently run up against the same problems.
Date: 2007-12-27
8 Great Digg-Like Social Networks For Designers In 2008
There are a lot of social networks available for every niche you can think of, some of them aren't as good as others and the good ones always need a little attention. I'm sure a lot of you have been to a few of these but should be members of all of them.
Date: 2007-12-19
Feeling Your Web Site Experience
When I decided to teach myself HTML in 1995, I did what many others did back then. We studied source code by copying and dismantling what someone else did. In those days, there was only one background color - gray.
Date: 2007-12-12
Access Your PC Remotely With WebEx
PCNow is easy: you'll see your remote computer's desktop as if
you were sitting in front of it. Run programs even if they're
not installed on your local computer.
Date: 2007-12-06
SES - Metrics
Challenges & Measuring Success
Meet the Web Analytics Players: Vendors from major web analytics
services each cover different metrics challenges plus answer questions
about measuring success and their tools in general.
Date: 2007-12-04
Sitemaps To Ensure Your Site Gets Crawled More Frequently
Sitemaps have been around for a very long time but it is only recently that the large search engines have begun to support sitemap submission to help towards the crawling of your site more frequently.
Date: 2007-11-28
Start Working Together in Less Than 60 Seconds - Anytime, Anywhere
Creating an effective company intranet just got easy with WebOffice. Share information and collaborate with co-workers, partners and clients - anywhere in the world.
Date: 2007-11-27
The Easiest Ways To Get Search Engines To Trust You
With the days of meta tag stuffing, hidden text and all the wonders of "SEO" in the 90s and early 2000s well and truly behind us, search engines are investing billions of dollars...
Date: 2007-10-24
Start Working Together in Less Than 60 Seconds - Anytime, Anywhere
Creating an effective company intranet just got easy with WebOffice. Share information and collaborate with co-workers, partners and clients - anywhere in the world.
Date: 2007-10-18
The Search For Better On-Site Search Usability
Not every site needs, nor should have, an on-site search feature. But those that do must be sure that the search isn't just an after-thought.
Date: 2007-10-10
Titles Should Be Used In Web Design For SEO
As we have all heard, titles are a very important part of anything. Especially when it comes to designing web sites, the title says it all.
Date: 2007-10-01
Usability Reviews Verify Good Work
While on a plane heading home from a conference I happened to meet the mother of a Human Factors employee for a well-known global Internet software company.
Date: 2007-09-05
Meet Online With WebEx
Conduct unlimited online Meetings with up to 10 participants. Make presentations, demonstrations, review documents and share your entire desktop. Train, Collaborate, and Meet for one flat rate.
Date: 2007-09-04
SEO Copywriting
In day-to-day life, a person needn’t be Shakespeare to get his (or her) point across in writing. As a matter of fact, it’s probably easier if a person isn’t Shakespeare.
Date: 2007-08-22
Readers Want The Full RSS Monty
We can all agree, I think, that for things we like, full is better than partial. This goes for nudity, chocolate donuts, and cleanliness.
Date: 2007-08-15
SEO Learning Life-cycle
I think the idea of breaking SEO down to the white hat and black hat camps really misses where the real divisions are.
Date: 2007-08-13
Indicating Web Page Expiration
I have been building a set of Web pages for events hosted by my local temple, and the Rabbi is complaining that when he uses Google to search for upcoming events, it's the older events that have already passed that are showing up, not the upcoming events.
Date: 2007-08-08
10 Rules To Ensure Usability
Everyone has their own way. I've been around many development environments and witnessed or experienced the blood, sweat and tears borne by the web development team.
Date: 2007-08-01
Getting Started In Domaining
I've been diving into domaining activities recently, mostly reading, some bidding, and some buying. It is a very interesting field, and it opens a lot of doors in terms of return on investment.
Date: 2007-07-25
Mailing Made Easy by Pitney Bowes
Print postage on letters and packages right from your office. Save time and money while you're at it. Enjoy the convenience of a digital postage meter and avoid the hassle of going to the post office.
Date: 2007-07-23
LookSmart, The Power To Acquire More Customers
With CPCs being driven up and customer service down, we must find
alternatives online in order to compete, survive and thrive in today’s
Pay-Per-Click search marketing environment.
Date: 2007-07-11
The Web Is Messy
The nature of the Web is not neat and tidy. A website is not a project but rather a process of continuous improvement. Traditional content always has an end in mind.
Date: 2007-07-09
Make Contact With Cforms
If you've ever wanted to add a contact form on your blog, but didn't know how or thought it was to much work, then cforms is exactly what you need.
Date: 2007-07-02
Ways Webmasters Create Duplicate Content
At the recent SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle one of the big sessions was on duplicate content. There is great blow by blow coverage in posts by Vanessa Fox and by Chris Boggs.
Date: 2007-06-20
Q&A: Single Keywords Vs Variations And Phrases In PPC
I am in the process of setting up a PPC campaign on Google AdWords and I have found a keyword that looks promising. So what I have done is to use the Google Estimator.
Date: 2007-06-13
SMX: Things Can Only Get Better
It was question and answer time again at Search Marketing Expo, with a panel of pros taking questions on better ways to do things when it comes to optimizing for search.
Date: 2007-06-06
LookSmart, The Power To Acquire More Customers
With CPCs being driven up and customer service down, we must find alternatives online in order to compete, survive and thrive in today’s Pay-Per-Click search marketing environment.
Date: 2007-06-04
Anchor Text Of Inbound Links
Anchor text for inbound links is one of the most important factors in search engine optimization. According to SEOmoz' search engine ranking factors (v2), anchor text is the 2nd most important positive factor.
Date: 2007-05-30
Usability Web Design To Make Site Visitors Adore You
No matter how hard you try, there is always something wrong with your website. There is always a critic.
Date: 2007-05-23
Using Social Sites To Improve Your Own
Lately, when one of my stories got popular, I not only have had an insurge of visitors from Digg and other social sites, but also some comments both on the Digg page and under the post itself.
Date: 2007-05-16
Hot Articles On Design, Redesign, Analyzing Traffic & SEM
There's an unusually high number of extraordinary writing this week that deserve mention. Each piece has something in it that may hit home for you and all are educational.
Date: 2007-05-09
Try WebEx WebOffice - 100% Free Trial
WebOffice has the business tools you need to work together from anywhere, anytime - securely and easily.
Date: 2007-05-07
Should Web Designers Be Taught SEO?
Lately, Lee Odden has written a post, discussing whether web designers without any SEO knowledge are evil, or should exist as cash cows for SEO consultants.
Date: 2007-04-30
When To Use ASP
Updates to Google's Webmaster Central tools give webmasters more options for removing content from Google's index.
Date: 2007-04-18
Scaling a Tag Cloud
Like many of you I’m using tag clouds (or related navigation concepts) on a couple of sites, like CoverBrowser.com. Sometimes I run into the problem of scaling the cloud, when the page is about to get too large and complicated to serve as an overview.
Date: 2007-04-11
When To Use ASP
I admit I've never built a site using ASP and I know nothing about .NET. But today someone asked a question in the WebProWorld forum about why a site might have been built in .ASP in the first place and I found one of the answers interesting.
Date: 2007-04-04
Choosing a CMS to Build Your Website
Nothing irks a non-tech savvy person so much as an “opportunity” to manage his website him- or herself: creating each page individually from a template, copying the file to the FTP server, placing links from other pages manually and what not.
Date: 2007-03-28
Top 10 Books For Designers
There are a lot of books out their to get inspiration from or to learn how to design better. There are a lot. So, picking the right books instead of just a ton of useless books that aren't worth your time or just regurgitating the same thing developed by someone else.
Date: 2007-03-21
The Continued Popularity Of LAMP Hosting
Lamp hosting is a service for websites that use LAMP development. LAMP is a grouping of technologies that delineate web server infrastructures, programming models for developing software and setting up software distribution.
Date: 2007-03-05
What to Do When Your .com is Taken
Recently I setup a survey at SurveyMonkey trying to gauge people's feelings and impressions on the top-level domains such as .com, .net., and so on. I purposefully left off .gov and .edu top-level domains because you're not supposed to be able to get them as a small business.
Date: 2007-02-21
Spending Time On MySpace
When it comes to where US Internet users are spending the most time MySpace is the leader. The social networking site accounted for 12 percent of all time spent online in December 2006, according to Compete Inc.
Date: 2007-02-07
Reasons To Build More Accessible Sites
A post over at Threadwatch just caught my attention. Of course with a title like Web 2.0, Dude, Who Cares, Where's Phone 2.0? how could it not grab attention?
Date: 2007-01-30
Resolutions for 2007: Increase Traffic and Conversions
Capture those users at the moment they're searching for your products and services. Your ads will appear on LookSmart sites as well as our expanding distribution network on top tier partners: InfoSpace, CNET's Search, Mamma and more. LookSmart's AdCenter, is a robust straight forward platform that makes campaign management painless and includes an easy to implement API.
Date: 2007-01-29
RSS: Usability Problems And Solutions
RSS is a family of web-feed formats that is used for web syndication. It can also be used by news websites, weblogs and podcasting, among others. The acronym can refer to various standards such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0), Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91 and RSS 1.0) and the RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and RSS 1.0).
Date: 2007-01-25
Using PHP Buttons In Dreamweaver
Even if you don't know one bit of PHP, the Dreamweaver PHP buttons can help you create database functions on your webpages. Learn more in this lesson on Dreamweaver and PHP/SQL.
Date: 2007-01-10
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