Archive for November, 2006

Web Standards Compliance?

Benefits of Standards Compliance
Creating quality, standards compliant code has a number of
benefits:
* website forward compatibility
* increased site download speed
* browser compatibility
* easier site maintenance
* broader target audience
How Can This Help Business?
Perhaps every entrepreneur is asking […]

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

SenEx Web Design Using Audio and Video Techniques

People are hungry for information. In today’s fast-paced world the average person needs to constantly upgrade their knowledge of ever changing and more complex products and services. Things that were good for you yesterday today are harmful; products that don’t exist today will exist tomorrow. So it doesn’t matter if you are a homemaker, retiree, […]

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Designing Websites That Appeal To The Senses

By Jerry Bader (c) 2006
Taking Advantage of The Experience Factor
We read the newspaper, we watch television, and we listen to
the radio, but we experience the Web; this is what makes ‘The
Website’ one of the most powerful marketing tools available to
today’s marketing executives. Unfortunately conventional wisdom
has stifled the ‘experience factor’ on most website
presentations.
Traditional circulation based advertising […]

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Landing page tips

Remember with a phone call you have 2 minutes to get your prospects attention with websites its 8 seconds or less. Here are some things to consider to help get that attention.
Page Layout
* Place your logo at the top left. Visitors expect it there so display your branding where it […]

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Second life for Second Life Market

Recently an article caught my eye, at first I thought more hype…but it does contain some good points although these should be read more generically. They are excellent for any use, not just Second Life.
Second Life recently hit one million members. This is real money, not just the Linden dollar, the universal currency within […]

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Traffic, Content and more

The search engines love it, you will receive more traffic, establish yourself an your site as experts in your field, it can even convert sales…..
What is this magic solution? A script? A specific designer? A website to link to? None of the above but it can act like all of them. Its […]

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

to click or not to click?

Google has started the beta testing of a program that is just ringing for abuse. It allows users to be connected to businesses they are searching for on the results page. When you click on a business you then enter your phone number. Google then connects you to that business.
Will Click-To-Call Be Abused?
The business […]

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Grassroots Convergence - The Changing Web

By Jim Hedger (c) 2006
The first two weeks of November saw me traveling from the west coast to New York, and back to the coast before heading down to Las Vegas. I had the privilege of attending two of the most important annual search and Internet marketing conferences, ad:Tech NYC and Pubcon Las Vegas. As […]

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

The Funnel vs. Variety; Which Will Net You More?

by Rasheed Ali
The controversy over a functional sales model has been raging for years. Well before the online information age, and probably well after those who read this have retired from marketing.
There are two basic situations and some variations. Some people have been able to merge these models to some degree but you’ll find customers […]

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Here’s why DMOZ has become a liability to good search results on the web.

To submit to DMOZ – the webmaster will go to DMOZ.org, find the most appropriate category – fill out the fields required and submit. Sometimes there is an automated indication of the success of the submission (not of acceptance, just the submission), and sometimes there isn’t. Did the submission occur? If you attempt to submit […]

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006