The huge advances of social media sites show a transformation from media monologues to dialogues which will define human communication of the early 21st century. An overwhelming majority of marketers say they are now using some form of social media to market their business. Social media is an almost “must-have” for any small business because [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, Marketing, Social media on January 14th, 2010 23 Comments
You’ve got a beautiful website and blog and you want people to contact you, either by phone or email. What do you do? Everyone has a contact page on their website. OK, maybe not everyone, but you should have one, really. Here are some really important points to think about when you’re doing your contact [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, Marketing on September 14th, 2009 6 Comments
Cloud computing is a term usually used to describe the proliferation of resources and services accessed through the internet. These resources (for example, Google maps; Google docs; Google Analytics; WordPress.com; online Adobe applications; your website host) in fact, any online service that happens “out there” – you don’t care where, as long as it works [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Internet on September 2nd, 2009 13 Comments
So you’ve got your self-hosted WordPress blog set up, optimized and have already published a few great posts and you want to offer an RSS feed and email subscription to your posts. What is RSS? RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and is a format used to publish frequently updated content from the web on [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Internet, Marketing, WordPress on August 3rd, 2009 6 Comments
How long has it been since you first used the internet? How much have your habits of information gathering changed since then? If you’re anything like me a myriad of different interests discovered on the internet crowd your mind as well as the exciting new ways you find out about them. The future is on [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Internet, Marketing on July 6th, 2009 1 Comment
A hugely significant part of your web presence and company brand is email. It is just as important as your website. It needs to be professional looking and, most importantly, when sent to a particular place, it needs to get there. What are email blacklists? Email blacklists are databases used by organizations to decide if [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Internet on June 22nd, 2009 9 Comments
I’ve talked many times about the limitations of Flash. It’s issues with accessibility and SEO are two of the main ones. So if you want something to look a bit “flashy” on your website, always see if you can do it with JavaScript first. Simple and interactive image slideshow fader with JavaScript I got this [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Internet on June 12th, 2009 9 Comments
Constantly updated quality content is the mainstay of any website or blog. I have already described how to set up a WordPress.org blog and what to write about when you have one. Here’s the “how to” for those new-ish to WordPress… There are three things to remember when you are writing: Make your text scannable! [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, SEO, WordPress on April 27th, 2009 20 Comments
I did this lectern idea for a company that did events where entrepreneurs pitch to investors. People from the UK will be familiar with this notion from the Dragons’ Den TV show. I’ve been a big fan of the show and I’ve always wondered how I would fair pitching a business idea. I would do [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Internet, Marketing, Photoshop on April 2nd, 2009 15 Comments
I have a love/hate relationship with Flash. It gives you great freedom when designing, allowing you to use fonts, graphics and animation with carefree abandon. On the other hand, Flash sites are currently less likely to rank well with search engines than comparable HTML sites and the file sizes are generally larger increasing the wait [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Flash, Internet on February 24th, 2009 27 Comments
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