Do you have a website that doesn’t bring you any business? Are you worried about investing more money in a website that isn’t performing? Well here is some good news: affordable websites can make you money! There’s a myth circulating that you have to invest a fortune to make money through the web. Of course [...]

Are you making this mistake with your web site? Too many web site owners look at their site as an online brochure. They use it as little more than a place to store their product or service list. A different way has emerged. Now your web site can be used as an effective marketing tool. [...]

Think user, usability! Ever visited a website, which has the most dazzling flash graphics, that takes so much time to load that the aesthetic value of the graphics is just lost on you? Your tired 28.8 kbps dial-up connection at home takes up precious time to load the website, and you want to cause serious [...]

Custom websites are among the most important PR instruments used in modern business. Studies show that suppliers, vendors, clients and employees are all more likely to research your company online than through any other medium. Recognizing the value in effective custom web design brings better awareness and professionalism to your organization, using your website and [...]

Speculation (or “spec”) work is often standard fare in the world of advertising. An agency could be expected to create elaborate concept designs to present to a potential client. That client would then make their decision based on which concept they liked the best. However, the agency is usually bidding for a substantial or long [...]

Between 50% and 60% of the people using the Internet today do not have high-speed broadband access. Yet many Web sites cater only to the 40% that do. Then they wonder why their sales figures are so poor. Although it’s tempting to add every whiz-bang feature into a Web site, if you do, you are [...]

Your web site is your storefront window on the World Wide Web. It must grab the viewers attention and be clear, all in a matter of seconds. Otherwise, its onto the next site listed on the search engine. Choosing the best person to create your new web site is one of the most important tasks [...]

While it seems that everyone and his dog (or cat) has a website, there a plenty of people out there that never got around to creating one, even though they could profit from it. Many people feel that they are not technically gifted enough, and that building a website would cost too much time or [...]

Open Source, roughly defined, are those programs developed by individuals [developers] apart from corporate backing. Developed for the benefit of all users, Open Source is the backbone of many sites and drives much of the internet. Excellent examples of Open Source programs include: Linux the operating system; WordPress blogging software; PHPBB bulletin boards/forums; OSWD web [...]

For the uninitiated, meta-tags are pieces of code within your website that contain information about each page. These tags are supposed to tell search engines and users what the page is about. If youre a little rusty on your Internet jargon, heres a primer. There are essentially three types of meta-tags that concern most marketers: [...]