Monthly Archives: November 2010

Your Website is an Onion

What comprises the modern day website? text, graphics, video, all things that make up what you see but in actuality there is much more going on. Here we will explore the many layers of a website and how they relate to one another so that you can be more … Continue »

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What to do After SEO Updates

You hired a company to cleanup your site and make it search engine friendly. You’ve tapped all the appropriate social networks and submitted your website to online directories. So what’s next? Are do done? NOPE! SEO is never truly done and requires constant grooming but lucky for you the … Continue »

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Simple Ways to Get a Site going

Starting a website is often a slow process especially when it comes to figuring out the design. The design is so much more than just the way it looks, it’s also how users will navigate your website. A great way to get a jump start on a website’s design … Continue »

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Search Engine Optimization Principles

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a word that gets thrown around a lot in website marketing. So… what is it? SEO is a series of processes that help a website obtain better page ranking in search engines. That’s somewhat of a vague description but and good foundation to build … Continue »

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Where The Web Is Going

When the internet first became mainstream it was all fresh and brand new. No one knew what to make of it or could predict where it would go. Thanks to the advances in technology and affordable high-speed internet the technology used online today is becoming increasingly more sophisticated and … Continue »

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Analytics Software – What They do Best

Web sites are only successful if they have traffic and when users can easily accomplish their goals. If it’s an e-commerce website the goal is to buy something, if it’s an informative site the goal is to find something out. Even the best designed websites have holes where the … Continue »

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The “Idea” Behind Social Networking

Web marketing offers a lot of buzz words, one that gets thrown around alot lot is the idea of  “social media marketing.” So what does that actually mean? The term is a general blanket phrase that is used to describe the act of using “word of mouth” advertising online. … Continue »

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The Language of Love (The Beauty of PHP)

Try as they may, other web languages just can’t speak to a programmers heart quite like PHP. PHP as you may know is a P-O-W-E-R-F-U-L web language that can be used to do almost anything you want it to. The biggest thing that separates php from the pack is … Continue »

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Ecommerce on Steroids

One of the greatest things to hit the internet lately is Magento. Magento is a powerful robust FREE ecommerce platform that is flexible, dynamic, easy to use, and built with the business person and web developer in mind. Those who don’t have an expertise in computer science like it … Continue »

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Web Design 101

Web is a unique beast. It has become a part of our daily lives. Sites now days can help you achieve many goals: Make a purchase, get a phone phone number, etc… All stuff we all know and do most everyday. The average American adult spends 3 hours more … Continue »

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