Tag: Early Days Of The Internet
What You Should Not Place on Your Website
Posted on Jan.21, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
Whether you are designing a website yourself or getting someone to design it for you, here are some things you should NOT be placing on your website.
1. Last updated on (day/month/year)
Please dont tell your web visitors that you did not update your website. When you put this line this site was last updated on day-month-year no matter how current you are, you have just informed your visitors that your website is outdated. Many people do not update their websites [...]
How to Make Sense of Your Website’s Statistics?
Posted on Jan.11, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
In the early days of the Internet it was common to visit a web site and see a counter informing you that “you are the 118,456th visitor to this site”, and various webmasters would proudly talk of how many “hits” their sites were getting. Now, things have changed and you will mostly find counters on amateur sites, and wiser webmasters now know that the term “hits” doesn’t really mean much.
The term hit refers to a request for a file on [...]
Click Fraud and the downfall of Google
Posted on Dec.04, 2008, under Web Design No Comments
Internet marketers facing higher advertising fees on search
networks are becoming increasingly concerned about a form of
online fraud that was thought to have been contained years ago.
The practice, known as “click fraud,” began in the early days of
the Internet’s mainstream popularity with programs that
automatically surfed Web sites to increase traffic figures. This
led companies to develop policing technologies touted as
antidotes to the problem. But some marketing executives estimate
that up to 50 percent of fees in certain advertising categories
continue to be based [...]
Web Hosting Requirements
Posted on Nov.09, 2008, under Web Hosting No Comments
In scouting for a web hosting company, always ensure the disk space and amount of traffic needed.
Amount of Disk Space
The requirement of a small or medium web site is between 10 and 100MB of disk space.
When looking at the size of HTML pages, you will notice that the average size is very small – smaller than 1K. But looking at the size of the pictures used within the pages, you will often find them several times bigger than the page [...]
Click Fraud and the downfall of Google
Posted on Nov.05, 2008, under Web Design No Comments
Internet marketers facing higher advertising fees on search
networks are becoming increasingly concerned about a form of
online fraud that was thought to have been contained years ago.
The practice, known as “click fraud,” began in the early days of
the Internet’s mainstream popularity with programs that
automatically surfed Web sites to increase traffic figures. This
led companies to develop policing technologies touted as
antidotes to the problem. But some marketing executives estimate
that up to 50 percent of fees in certain advertising categories
continue to be based [...]
Finding that Host that Offers the Most
Posted on Oct.23, 2008, under Web Hosting No Comments
Whether you already have a website or are thinking of setting up
shop online, sooner or later you’ll have to deal with the issue
of web hosting. Although it may seem like a “no brainer,” there
are actually many factors you’ll need to consider before making
this important decision. Your first inclination may be to look
only at the cost, thinking “cheaper is better.” However, that
old saying “you get what you pay for,”is especially true in this
situation. Here are some of the more important points [...]
