Archive for January, 2011

Getting the best out of Symfony

Symfony is free software released under Massachusetts Institute of Technology license. It’s a web application development platform written using a scripting language popular as PHP. Its source of inspiration is based on Ruby on Rails, Spring, etc. The main motive behind Symfony development was to ease web application creation and maintenance. It is also aimed to reduce repeated coding that previously developers had to face.

How SEO is like a game of Angry Birds

I have not been working in the realm of search engine optimisation (SEO) copywriting for too long – it was only a few months ago in fact that I successfully managed to turn an internship into a job offer. A couple of weeks after the confirmation of my new found employment I treated myself to [...]

Getting Ranked by Search Engines and Sustaining It

Optimizing a webpage for search engines could be a tedious task to do. Several webmasters have tried, some were able to fathom the trick but some were not as lucky and eventually have decided to give up. It is downright difficult to get your webpage to rank in such a popular search engine site as [...]

Great Ideas For Onsite Video Content

Everyone’s banging on about the importance of online video and how it can really help your website grow and reach new levels. But you’re still a bit sceptical, you’re not sure how video is going to fit onto your site, then you’ve got the technicalities of the production [...]

Why Your Website Needs Inbound Links

Web savvy marketers know that traffic is what it’s all about. Without traffic, a website is useless as a tool for communicating ideas or selling a product.

Web savvy marketers also know that you need links from other sites pointing to yours. These inbound links are one of the most important ways of generating traffic, getting yourself known, and getting your site noticed by the search engines.

5 Qualities Your Web Developer Needs to Possess

There is no shortage of companies or individuals who will take on the task of developing your website. The hard part is finding someone who is not only talented enough to get the job done, but will do it for the right price. The cost can vary greatly, depending on the complexity you are looking for within your site. Great site design shouldn’t break the bank, but if you choose to go with a bargain special, then expect equally bargain-basement quality.

7 Tips to Hackproof Your WordPress Blog

In order to protect your blog from malicious parties I will highlight 7 steps that you need to take in order to make sure you have the highest security measures around.

Please bear in mind that this guide will require you to make a few safe adjustments to your site, which you should be able to perform with minimal computer knowledge, however please make sure you make a backup of your files and database before you begin, just in case.

University Computer Science Programs: Expectations vs. Reality

If you’re a college freshman deciding what your major is going to be, you might consider a course in computer science. After all, the tech sector is booming and learning how to program seems to be an excellent way to get into business. Not only that, but you’ll be able to learn special ninja programming [...]

How Useful is Microsoft’s New Free Web Development Tool?

Microsoft Offers Free Web Development Tools Much to the delight of web-geeks everywhere, this month Microsoft released new, free web development software called WebMatrix. But is it up to snuff with its competition? Microsoft describes the software as a “brand new web-development tool that includes everything you need” to publish a site to the internet. [...]

Difficult SEO – What To Do When There Is No Search Demand

One of the most difficult things when doing search engine optimization for Google (interesting to know is that the Danish commonly refer to this as Google søgemaskineoptimering) is to have a certain website with no search demand at all. Believe it or not, this is possible especially when we talk about startups, nonprofit organizations and [...]

Reach more Customers with Video Marketing

A lot of new companies and businesses are born every day. The success of new businesses and the growth of established businesses depend on the use of marketing tools. One of the tools that are very helpful for businesses of various sizes is video. Video has become a very important tool to use in the [...]

The 5 Best SEO Add-Ons For Firefox

A lot of people nowadays use one of the most popular browsers – Mozilla Firefox. As you might know if you are using this browser, there are a lot of add-ons you can choose from and use in order to make things easier and faster. This is extremely useful when it comes to search engine [...]

Main Goals and Functions of CRM

Some of the key processes that CRM embrace are the automation of the marketing – the management of marketing or PR companies, segmentation and generation of potential clients, rating of the best clients, automation of the sales – management of the sale process from the planning, the attraction of potential clients. And furthermore automation of [...]

Using Twitter Search to Expand your Business

Now while most companies have started to use Twitter to connect with customers and offer discounts, few really leverage the great options available such as Twitter Search. Twitter search is an untapped resource to help you find customers and develop relationships with relatively little effort and a lot of possibilities. Check out these tips to [...]

Building A Social Presence On Twitter For A Business

A lot of companies are ensuring that they secure things such as their company name in Twitter.  In fact that’s all a lot of companies have been doing over the last 6-12 months but this does not mean that you can tell your customers/clients that you now have a strong social presence, in fact what [...]

20 Questions To Ask Your Web Designer

You can hire a fantastic web designer but it’s not enough if only the design is great. You need sales; you need people traffic, subscriptions and all the makings of a thriving online business from your website. Ask your designer the following questions before your website design begins. 1. How will you get the business [...]

Are You Harnessing the Power of LinkedIn?

LinkedIn was the first social media site I joined thanks to an invite from someone I knew, and I admit I didn’t have a clue what the purpose was. The LinkedIn profiles I viewed at that time were basically online resumes and I wasn’t looking for a job. My, how times have changed. Or perhaps [...]