“People don’t want to be sold to. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.” Larry Weber, Author of Marketing to the Social Web Social media marketing, the process of attracting traffic and customers via social networking platforms, is rapidly becoming a preferred marketing technique. It plays a vital [...]

Using Data Mining as a Traffic Magnet for Your Blog Traffic flowing through a blog is like blood in your veins. The more traffic that circulates through will result in a healthy growing blog. If you are a blogger, you know that generating traffic is much trickier than it seems. There are a multitude of [...]

It is pretty well known that Windows has the time-saving capacity of remembering Wi-Fi passwords, but it is a lot more effective and easier to be able to export those saved passwords to other computers that one needs to log in to the network with. Apart from Windows itself, there are password manager software like [...]

Bloggers put in a lot of effort in writing original content and promoting it over the web on various platforms including the social media. Consistency in blogging and building a blog community to get large number of hits on a regular basis requires planning and successful implementation. As it takes time and effort, it is [...]

Online world is a highly competitive world, where every webmaster does its best to outdo the competition and gain the highest rank in search results as possible. However, when it comes to competition, it is but natural to have negative tactics take over the ethical ones. An internet marketing services company that follows all the [...]

If you thought that creating a portfolio website is sheer waste of time, then think again! Whether you are a web designer, writer, studio professional, gamer, developer or even a graphic designer, a portfolio website is the perfect way of promoting yourself and your work. By simply having your portfolio website designed by an expert [...]

Is there anything more annoying and frustrating these days than having a slow, lagging iPhone? Just imagine if we never evolved from dial-up internet. We would not get things done nearly as fast as we do today. And now that we’ve been given a healthy dose of speed, we want more. We expect it.   [...]

Below are some of the SEO developments that most industry players are hoping to see. Remember this is not an extensive list but an overview of the major areas of SEO development we hope to see in the coming months. 1.Bing search engine. Although still lagging behind the mammoth that is Google search engine, Bing [...]

Getting high jacked can be scary – very scary indeed. When this happens to your blog you are certain to flip and blow up. But how can your blog be high jacked? Leeches trying to suck your blood This is perhaps the easiest way to get high jacked. Leeches are those commenters who come visiting [...]

With the introduction of social media, the online world has totally reshaped. Gone are the days when a person could use automated software and achieve higher rankings or whatever objectives of an online campaign. Now businesses and brands need to be livelier and show their human side. Every online marketing campaign has a strategy. An [...]

Receiving comments on your blog posts can be very satisfying. If people leave comments it means that they have found your site, probably through search results or a link from a referring site. It also shows that visitors are actually reading your content and care enough about whatever you said to actually leave a comment. [...]

As you expand your social media reach , you may find that some of your followers are not engaging with your brand by sharing your blog posts, tweets, or status updates. Since customer engagement is one of the chief benefits at this point with social media, finding the right followers is a critical aspect of [...]

While writing blogs and searching for some terms, one comes across such terms as how to avoid making mistakes. How does one avoid the inevitable? The most one can do is learn from the mistakes. John Powell is quoted as saying that the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. Humanity [...]

Let’s face it – either you are with Google or out of SEO race. SEO primarily means aligning your site with Google’s objectives. This post is about how to align your site with Google. Get the content and keyword right I am sure everyone knows how Google makes money? If not, here is a primer. [...]

Everyone knows that Valentine’s Day is all about love and roses.  Many of you must have already started preparing for the big day when the heart will obviously rule. But the lovelorn hearts are not alone in this wait. Hundreds and thousands of businesses are waiting to make a fast buck on this day. What [...]

PHP is an open source technology, the most popular server side scripting language, used for developing web applications. PHP offers many frameworks over which quick and effective web development can be performed. These frameworks make the whole development process more streamlined and developer friendly through various powerful tools and features. Today, PHP frameworks are extensively [...]

As the old web marketing adage goes, content is king. Without good content, your website’s online presence will be meaningless. But while content is the lifeblood of your web marketing campaign, it has to do something. In other words, if your content marketing strategy is ineffective, it doesn’t matter how good your content is, it [...]

It only logical that your blog should be connected to your Twitter account. Your circulation from your Twitter account should be directed to your blog to increase the number of readers you have. The same idea is true of your blog traffic. The traffic from your blog should be directed to your Twitter to bolster [...]

PPC (Pay-per-Click) advertising has surfaced as one of the highly preferred means of generating substantial income for online marketers. Unlike some other channels of online marketing that not only need much labor in execution, but also take considerable time in paying off, web marketers prefer PPC for its high risk, high reward nature. With October [...]

Designing and developing web applications is the need of the hour today. If you wish to make your company name known in this highly competitive market, you need to offer something unique and innovative as compared to the applications offered by all other web development companies. Web application development is one process that needs to [...]

With so many web hosting providers offering unlimited disk space and bandwidth out there, it’s not easy to choose your next provider. The huge number of offers available does make the selection process daunting. But the good thing is that there’s a lot of competition between providers these days, and the result of this are [...]

Hypertext Preprocessor, abbreviated as PHP, is a scripting language used to create dynamic web pages. It is one of the most popular scripting languages because it offers many developers many customization options, and it lets developers modify many settings within the code. PHP is easy to change by yourself even if you don’t have previous [...]

While the idea of what makes for a “good” website is obviously subject to debate, there are five rock-solid characteristics that every good website has and every web developer can agree upon. The funny thing is, these principles can be hard to explain to people who are new to the web, potential clients who may [...]

Well written content is just as important as any SEO these days, and is one of the most prominent techniques used to promote websites. Well written content not only engages site visitor and keeps them coming back, but it also keeps your site well liked by the search engines. However, writing great content isn’t always [...]

Google Panda update has left quite a few bitten and some have been mauled. Among those who have been mauled include content farms that were earlier ruling the roost. In this entire melee, many of you must have been bitten. Let me retrospect on some of the reasons for this conundrum. Google obviously penalized content [...]

In today’s world, we have made so much progress that we can get any kind of information immediately anywhere across the globe. In other words, the internet comes handy for delivering all sorts or any sort of information. The World Wide Web (www) is a universe, a world of its own. The amount of information [...]

If you want to make your portfolio stand out then you need to do what it takes to make it stand out. You can’t be doing the same things that everyone else does and hope that your personal style will shine through somehow. You need to use these 10 tips to make your portfolio stand [...]

As a web designer, you must know your skills and capabilities and where or how to use them. If you can organize things and establish good relationships with your client, it can boost you as a designer in the market. There are many other things that a designer must consider.

Promoting a business on the Internet can frequently be difficult to understand, especially for people used to traditional methods of marketing and advertising. However, marketing your business on the Internet is usually far less expensive than other types of marketing, as well as frequently more effective, especially if you hire an experienced internet marketing company such as internet marketing Atlanta company Active Web Group to handle your online marketing.

When you’re new to website building, web design can be a very intimidation process. But here are some tips and tricks to help get you started. Before you start… Learn your way around a Web Editor There are many different editors available and they are all good (and bad) in their own different ways. It’s [...]

Adobe integrated Runtime abbreviated as Adobe AIR, works on environment of cross platform to develop interest of users. Applications provided by Adobe AIR help designers in resolving issues about web designing. Many applications are free to download and require little space at a computer.

A church website should appear more invitational than informative. The designers need to be careful about the aesthetics and content in such a website. To cater to the specific requirements of the web users, the website design professionals need to be aware of the varying needs they may have. For instance, the visitors of a [...]

This article is about logo designing and discusses the importance of a properly designed logo and the negative impact of a large sized logo design. Logo is the identity of any business and it reflects the individuality of a brand. Quality logos can create visual impact and an everlasting impression on people’s minds. A logo [...]

There is more to search engine optimization (SEO) that just keywords. Unfortunately search engine optimization is often an after-thought once a website has been created. It is much more difficult to optimize a poorly coded website for search engine optimization than to start with proper planning. Many search marketing companies will perform on-page and off-page [...]

If you are a search engine optimizer then you must know how important it is to create high quality backlinks for your website. However, it is very tiresome task to create quality backlinks.

You may not consider a logo all that important for your business, but would be mistaken.  Your company’s logo represents your company – it is a visual representation of your business. If the intent of your website is to arouse a direct response, meaning driving the site visitors to perform an action of some sort, [...]

Are you looking for a professionally designed website? There are lots of things to worry about. Acquiring the services of a reliable web design company is the first thing that you should give serious consideration. What web design companie4s offer to their clients? There might be three mock-ups and the cost is also affordable if [...]

Web hosting is one of the foundations of the Internet as we know it. After all, with no web hosting there would be no websites online. Sure, larger companies would do their own hosting, but many small to mid-size businesses would be locked out from the Internet if web hosting as it is offered today, [...]

Ecommerce web design is a common discussion topic today. Ecommerce sites have gained huge popularity within last few years. These sites have made it to the mainstream market now. Every businessman is looking for such site for his or her business. This has become the trend and need of the market as well. Ecommerce solutions [...]

Whether you’re new to the world of SEO or it’s simply time to find a new agency there are several questions you need to be asking and there are certain answers you want to hear. Collaboration You’re paying your SEO agency to do a job for you but you need to be involved in your [...]

Internet has become a family member now. If you have a computer, you must also be enjoying an internet connection. Finland has included internet in the basic rights of human beings or the citizens of Finland. It has become a necessity these days and we cannot imagine a life without it anymore. Internet is second [...]

Quality web design and WordPress themes will carry a blogger a very long way in the tight competition for reader loyalty, but there are more than a few other contributing factors as well. If you’re just getting started then you’ll obviously need to decide on a theme for your blog. Is it going to be [...]

And why affiliates might ignore the danger anyway! If you tend to hand around link building sites and forums you have probably heard this reassurance: “Don’t worry about about building too many or too dodgy links. After all, if Google could penalise you for building too many dodgy links, your competitors could just point spam [...]

Working as a freelancer web developer for 3 years is a very short time, but I discovered that working in the project management and coordination career and working as a freelancer developer at the same time ROCKS!!!, you’ll find that you are gaining experience in your work that could solve most of your freelance problems, [...]

I have a friend who is a teacher. One year he was teaching a group of eighth graders and the first time he gave them a paper to write, about a third of the kids plagiarized material they found on the Internet. It was easy for him to spot the culprits. Suddenly their papers would [...]

Online Customers want explicit information supported by content With time online market has become more competitive and responsive. Online customer’s demands a lot more than, what considered to be enough for an online presence. Searchers are now, more vigilant and informed towards their online buying. Customers are no longer in Rush Customers are no longer [...]

When it comes to looking to get good rankings in the search engines, there is only one that really matters – Google. It gets a massive percentage of the search engine traffic, and is easily the most important (and biggest) search engine in the world. All this means is that when it comes to SEO [...]

The process of optimizing especially for the paid search results is called SEM or Search Engine Marketing. Optimization to rank in secondary results needs unique, advanced methods of targeting specific searches in areas such as local search, product search, image search etc. which are a valuable part of any online marketing campaign. Creating a user [...]

Whenever you want your website to be more usable and accessible for as many people as possible, you should follow the simple steps below, which will help you increase your overall experience with your online environment and see some spectacular results in terms of your traffic. 1.Create a Site Map (Site Map) Regardless of the [...]

One of the very first impressions that a customer will have will come from your company logo, and this is a fact that is not lost at logo design firms. Recognizing that creating a brand image for your company is one of the cornerstones for future success, and that an integral part of branding is [...]

Although many people seem to understand the value of guest blogging in link building, many find it hard to find some good opportunities. There is nothing more frustrating that writing a great, high quality post that will sit forever in a hard-drive. Or, publishing a great post on a low quality or low traffic site, [...]

For most of the companies template making is a complicated job however, currently dream weaver software makes your template task easy and meaningful.

Adobe Dreamweaver is a great help to make the customized templates in real time with over all website flexibility and compatibility to support all future changes with coding, header and main menus.

If you’re looking to start earning money from your blog then let’s look at some of the best ways to start producing income. There are a number of ways to do this and some of these methods will make more money than others. We are going to specifically take a look at your own products, [...]

A PPC reseller is someone who knows how to work with pay per click advertising. This is a form of web marketing that allows sites to put their ads up on major search engines and only pay when someone clicks on the ad. In other words, PPC advertising will only cost a website money if [...]

Search Engine Optimization, commonly referred to as SEO, is one of the most important pieces of marketing used now. There are basically four main parts to seeing good results from SEO practices, which is to update content frequently, have a search engine code that is website friendly, have strong links, and devote time to your [...]

I think it’s pretty fair to say that the vast majority of web designers are, in their very basest form, prima donnas. Now before you all go blogging your socks off and excommunicating me from the creative fold, grant me the chance to qualify my comment? Indeed, prima donna may not actually be the correct [...]

How much thought have you given to the promotion of your website? The truth is that many people assume that by having a website and a ‘proper’ domain that their website and business will more or less self promote. They assume that people will stumble across their website or just magically find it. However your [...]

Netbooks soared to stardom when Asus released its Eee PC line back in 2007. It was most noted for its small screen (7 inches), small solid state drives (rather than hard drives), and lack of optical drives (CD-ROM or DVD). Since then numerous manufacturers, from Dell to Lenovo, have introduced netbooks and joined what some [...]

Web Designing has evolved greatly as a distinct discipline of virtual world. Gone are the days when designing was confined to arranging the text attractively, furnishing it with a few call-to-action tabs/buttons, and enjoy the benefits of people flocking to visit and interact with your designing endeavor. Nowadays it has become more of a collective [...]

Link building is the bread-and-butter for any SEO firm. Links are one of the largest metrics Google uses in determining where your website ranks in its search results. However just getting a link to your site is not always enough. Your linking strategy may not take in to account anchor text, which was recently shown [...]

If you want to gain your links through Guest Blogging for SEO, the first thing you need to do is always remember that this IS FOR SEO. Fluffy posts will try to convince you that the best way to obtain a Guest Blogs trust and cooperation is to forget about SEO and try to create [...]

Events marketing is all about the events you run and how you use them to portray your key corporate messages. A website may seem like an added extra when you are organising your business event, but done right it can form an integral part of your planning and promotion. Delegate Management and Ticket Booking The [...]

Websites not only serve as a means to satisfy one’s aesthetical preferences, but also have to be sound enough in technical aspects to be able to withstand the cutthroat competition prevalent all across the virtual world. Effective presentation of website content contributes a great deal in achieving this feat. Flash is an application program that [...]

When developing a site, usability is often pretty far down on your list of things to worry about. Even if you are building a site on a CMS like WordPress  you will still come across some usability issues, if visitors to your site have trouble finding their way around it is going to be difficult [...]

ResearchEnsure that you do your research. Know your goals Write down your objectives. What is the purpose of your website? What value will it bring to visitors? Think about search termsTry to think about which words people might type into a search engine to look for your website. Make a list. Do a search of [...]

A websites usability and how you plan to optimise are both vital when designing a site, but you will often find that compromises need to be made on both sides, If you are lucky enough to have developers and marketers on your team both parties will pull and push each other, developers look at a [...]

Being an SEO engineer it can sometimes feel like I’m playing a game of cat and mouse between my sites, competitors sites and the ever shifting Google algorithm. It’s a funny old business and one that always surprises, keeps me on my toes and keeps me entertained. If you’re new to SEO and are looking [...]

Website speed has always been important. Visitors are more likely to view and browse your site providing that each page loads within a second. When pages start drawing content from different sources, it can take time as it depends on multiple locations and various other connections. With so many factors this can cause a website [...]

Don’t Make Too Many Changes to Web Interface To Fast Imagine that one fine morning you open your garage and to your amazement you find your car   has changed its design. But slowly, you will learn how to drive this stuff. Just when you are getting comfortable, you get another jolt – the steering has [...]

In this article, we will be examining the best way to choose keywords for Pay Per Click Marketing. There are a number of tools on the market to help you do this, some free, some you have to pay for, but before you even think about using these there is one basic step you can [...]

Developers and marketers will always disagree on how a site should be designed. Developers will often look for the easiest and most user friendly approach to a sites design and layout, marketers on the other hand want the site to convert. Once the 2 areas finally come to an agreement or at least a compromise [...]

There are many things that you should consider when deciding to add ecommerce functionality to your website. Depending on the number of products that you plan to sell through your website, you will want to choose an ecommerce system that is easy to use and provides the right tools for your needs. Some features are [...]

Getting a website designed and launched is critical if you want to try and attract the vast amount of traffic that is available online but for most of us once we have our site up, we then move on to the new dilemma of how to attract traffic to it. Most of us essentially forget [...]

Most web developers within the e-commerce industry are probably familiar with Magento, the ground-breaking e-commerce platform based on PHP and MySQL that has redefined what was previously thought possible with open-source e-commerce solutions. For readers who are unfamiliar with Magento, this platform provides shop owners with an incredibly sophisticated, feature-rich, and attractive platform with which [...]

In the online world, you want your company to be the best. Well, in order to do so, you have to convince various search engines and your potential customers that you are. Since SEO writers specialize in how search engines work to begin with, they can strategically produce website content that can increase your rank [...]

The simple answer is: very important. When someone visits your website and is seriously interested in your products or services, you can guarantee that unless you are a well known company, a large amount of them will look at your ‘About Us’ page. This is because users want to know more about who they are [...]

Since the Internet began, users and developers have been looking for ways to utilize the power of the web to help improve their business, personal and educational needs. Web-based applications are hot property and have gained popularity over the last few years as more and more people turn to the Internet to help find a [...]

With many companies’ budgets being cut, ‘cloud’ computing is becoming a popular option in an attempt to save money. This is where services and resources are shared and provided on demand, via the internet. A good metaphor for this is with the electricity grid, where one provider supplies an electricity service on demand to a [...]

Steer Clear of SEO Firms Selling Outdated Tactics! As an online business owner or entrepreneur looking for SEO help, you have probably received quite a few form e-mails or even sales calls soliciting the services of SEO firms. Does that sound familiar? That is not to say that all SEO firms are scamming you since [...]

Welcome to the dawning of a new day of internet marketing and what is all the buzz about now, you may ask, well, it’s video marketing. Video marketing is how up-and-coming businesses are making their mark to their customers as well as other business prospects, as email was 10 years ago video marketing will be [...]

With the amount of jargon floating around these days, many people hear phrases such as search engine optimisation (SEO), and pay-per-click marketing (PPC), but have no idea what they mean. This is unfortunate, and means that some people do not realise the potential paid search marketing has to help develop and grow their business. PPC [...]

Everybody knows the virtues of WordPress, but the army of developers have made a simple blogging platform into much more that an easy way to put your thoughts and aspirations down for the world to see.  The possibilities for WordPress are endless, but here are some of the more unusual things that you can do [...]

Apple finally released the Mac App Store on the 6th of January 2011, following months of anticipation from Apple fans. The Mac App Store, which is only compatible with Mac computers running the latest Now Leopard operating system, shares a very similar appearance to the iPad and iPhone app stores. When the Mac app store [...]

Doing SEO can be a very tricky business, it all depends on the way you do it. Search engine optimization is usually great for your website rankings if done correctly. However, you should be aware that there are two types of SEO – Black Hat and White Hat. As you might have already guessed, Black [...]

Does where your website ranks on search engines have anything to do with if your website validates according to W3C standards? If you have a website or are creating one with the hope of ranking high for relevant keywords, you are probably mulling over this question. In the hopes of saving you the time trying [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Studies have shown that Adwords advertisements that include date or time specifics are more likely to receive clicks.  This works for two reasons.  Firstly, the advertisement appears to be more specific to the customer’s needs.  For example, they came to Google looking for hotels for this weekend.  They will instantly see many generic ads which [...]

Open-source solutions may be owned by everyone, but that doesn’t mean that their audience is infinite in size. In fact, many of the most robust and functional solutions were clearly designed with more exclusive groups in mind. One of those groups is definitely web developers, and a massive cartload of software is available for any [...]

Google has recently made the decision to start displaying brand suggestions on its search engine results page (SERP), a decision which will no doubt affect even the most powerful ecommerce sites in myriad ways. Fortunately, there are ways to benefit from this new feature. The below recommendations will enable you to leverage on the strength [...]

In today’s technological world, as we become more advanced with technology, you’re going to find that more and more change. As 2011 is fast upon us, the marketing atmosphere has sure changed online from what it was a few years ago. From Twitter to Facebook, there are so many ways to reach out to people [...]

It is well known that there are a lot of benefits to including images in your blog posts as they help keep users engaged, break up the text, and make a connection with users (this holds true for articles and other content types as well, not just blogs). While many site owners are good about [...]

It is often said that guest posting should not be link building – and this is true. Guest posting should provide value to the reader. Otherwise all you are doing is SPAM Posting. No body likes SPAM posting. It is useless, worthless, and gives the good guest posters a bad name. There are many blogs [...]

Getting top rankings in search engines is now more challenging than ever before. Thanks to Search engines changing algorithms and a non-stop increase in the number of competing websites. Webmasters not only need to wait more but also need a bigger budget to get first page search engines rankings. But does that mean webmasters should [...]

Is your website’s design hindering its success? How CRO can make all the difference What’s the goal of a website? If your answer wouldn’t be agreeable to the marketing types you work with, then you need to know about conversion rate optimization (CRO) – and how it can make all the difference in a site, [...]

In a word: yes. However, there is a catch (isn’t there always?). Internet marketing is big business these days. With more companies building an online presence and utilizing social networking to solidify their brand image, as well as small-potatoes home-based operations trying to monetize their online endeavors, there’s a lot to learn about an industry [...]

Nothing in the world of technology is worse than finding a website about your favorite TV show or video game, clicking on the link to take you to the site, and then waiting, waiting, and waiting some more. With ultra-fast computers and high-speed broadband Internet connections, even the idea of a slow-loading website should be [...]

Whether you plan to run a “full blown” SEO campaign or you just want to ensure your site can be fully crawled and its relevancy for certain keywords is maximised, the work starts with improvements to your website itself. This is what we call “on page optimization”, as opposed to “off page optimization”, which is [...]

If you read the title of this article, then you probably guessed it. Yes, that is right, effective SEO (Search Engine Optimization). So what is it that successful small businesses do right with their SEO campaigns?

Written by the guest blogger S. Robert SEO has become the buzzword in today’s world with a lot of people talking about it. If you own a company, you also need to own a web space to stay an edge over others. Do you know how important is search engine optimization for you personally? I [...]

How much do people use the Internet? Well, that depends on who they are. It is a subject of much interest to web designers and people who invest in websites. Obviously you want people to read your content and purchase your goods and services. Otherwise you would not go to all the trouble to build [...]

We know that W3C validation is a valuable tool when creating and maintaining effective web pages. But what is the real purpose of the W3C? And who are those people, any way? This interesting subject you may wish to explore on your own, but I will be happy to provide an overview. Actually the W3C [...]

Recently we have discussed findability and usability, in the context of custom web design and with reference to W3C compliance. Now let us take one more step, which may be more fun for you than it is for me. And that is readability. The study of how users read is helpful if you want to [...]

W3C compliance means your site is likely to work, either because you built it that way or because you had the good judgment to employ a qualified custom designer to do it. You are probably Findable, for the same reason. But what about Usable? Is your site Usable? There is a lot to be considered [...]

Professional web designer thinking includes a concept called Usability. A focus on W3C compliance helps to achieve that, as compliance will assure that the code works. A broken site isn’t Usable. Careful attention and a thoughtful approach by the coder assures a good measure of Usability, just from practical considerations. We talk about SEO a [...]

Off-site optimization refers to the usage of a wide array of techniques to make your website more appealing to the search engines in the pursuit of drawing free traffic to your site. Both on-site optimization and off-site optimization are regarded as the main factors used by the search engines to determine the web page rankings [...]

Created primarily as blogging software, one of the biggest misconceptions people have is that WordPress is a software used only by bloggers. With its state-of-the-art characteristics however, WordPress has now become an excellent open-source web publishing platform and content management system which boasts of impressive web standards, aesthetics, flexibility and great usability among its users. [...]

When considering the choice, website templates vs custom design, what are the main criteria to consider in making the decision? How can you know which will be best for your purpose, in the long run? Let us look at a few of these factors. Website templates sound attractive, and may look attractive as well. They [...]

In 2001, Danny Sullivan suggested to use the term search engine marketing (SEM) to refer to the varying band of undertakings associated with the performance of search engine optimization, submission of sites to the different directories, management of paid listings at the search engines, and creation of extensive online marketing strategies for individuals, groups, or [...]

When the W3C speaks of Web Accessibility they may be referring to the design of browsers and media players and such. The W3C says that to be compliant, such devices “should support accessibility for people with disabilities and work with assistive technologies”. When we, the designers, writers, and purchasers of web sites, say Web Accessibility, [...]

Conscious Business radiates multiple benefits: Does conscious business imply positive development in the business sector? There is a values-based revolution currently taking place in the consciousness of the various levels in the business sector of the economic strata. This is referred to as conscious business. What does it mean and how does it affect the [...]