Tag: Shortcomings

The Search Engine Showdown

Posted on Jul.10, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

If you’re anything like me, you have a favourite search engine and you’re loyal to it. You never use any others (which made this research difficult for yours truly), insist yours is the be-all and end-all and you even go so far as to deny any shortcomings it may have. But is your search engine truly the best? Inspired by a great article at the BBC News (BBC News: Search Wars), we decided to compare the major search engines. Here’s [...]


Being dumped by Google? Learn how to avoid becoming a victim next time around!

Posted on Jun.27, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

After Google latest update nicknamed “Florida”, many webmasters discovered that their traffic plummeted.
What happened?
More importantly what can you do about it?
And what will Google do next?
What happened was that Google made an algorithm change on how they rate web pages.
Every time you make a search, Google tries to show the most relevant web pages that match your search term. By being able to give the most relevant results for queries, they have become the most used search engine in the [...]


Web Design – 7 Key things to avoid

Posted on Apr.10, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

A search for “web design” on Google returns more than 325
million results. So how do we start eliminating all these so
called designers? Here are a few of the most common shortcomings.
Watch out for:
1. Templates 2. Subdomains 3. DIY Hosting 4. High Renewal Costs
5. Poor Coding 6. Inaccessible Design 7. Advertising / Self
Promotion
1. Templates
Watch out for designers offering you a choice of templates. This
not only means that they’re doing no new design work for their
fee but could also have an [...]


Some Places to Go For More Information

Posted on Apr.04, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

If you feel like you know quite a bit about web design now, but
you’d really like to explore the details a bit more, then this
is the article for you. As web designers are, by their nature,
very likely to be web users and website owners, there’s a wealth
of information and discussion forums on the web, all free to
read or participate in. I’m going to give you a few websites
that are my first port of call when I have a problem or [...]


The dawn of digital printing

Posted on Mar.15, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Printing has been made affordable for use these days and the
dawn of the new printing age today have ruled over the
traditional way of offset printing. Digital printing has been
increasing their popularity in the present times.
Digital printing is far more different than the old traditional
way of printing. Many companies believed that digital printing
has helped a lot in their needs and printing demands. They said
that digital printing has made short run prints very affordable
with the application of colors. The printed materials [...]


Web Design – 7 Key Things to Avoid

Posted on Mar.08, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

A search for “web design” on Google returns more than 325 million results. So how do we start eliminating all these so called designers? Here are a few of the most common shortcomings.
Watch out for:

Templates
Subdomains
DIY Hosting
High Renewal Costs
Poor Coding
Inaccessible Design
Advertising / Self Promotion

1. Templates
Watch out for designers offering you a choice of templates. This not only means that they’re doing no new design work for their fee but could also have an affect on your search engine ranking. If the [...]


The seven sins of advertising

Posted on Feb.26, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Advertising is a very precise science. It finds its bases in
many different fields including copywriting, psychology and even
math. In recent decades, we have observed a slow but steady
beautification of advertising.
For marketing experts this can work. For less savvy advertisers,
it is a huge pitfall that draws attention away from the much
more important aspects of a successful selling proposition.
Faulty advertising costs its makers billions of dollars a year,
and almost all are guilty of it, even the huge corporations.
You will see many [...]