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Unique Website Backgrounds

by Jacqueline Sinex
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

With the wonderful flexibilities of CSS (style sheets), we are able to create attractive backgrounds with minimal coding and without compromising the efficiency of a website. Adding an elegant background element can help the website to stand out from the crowd, or it can even send a message about what your website is trying to […]

What’s Great About Drupal?

by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

My favorite feature about Drupal content management software is how easy it is to edit a content page. With the top toolbar administration setup, you can simply stay logged in and browse the website as if you were a visitor. When you find a page that needs revising, there is a handy Edit link right […]

What’s Great About Authorize.net?

by Jacqueline Sinex
Friday, October 30th, 2009

In our years of e-commerce development, we have worked with a variety of payment gateways to integrate a business’s credit card processing service with a website. Authorize.net is currently one of the most popular gateway services available, making it very easy to install for almost any shopping cart. Most software already has a module available [&

What’s Great About Zen Cart?

by Jacqueline Sinex
Monday, October 19th, 2009

Zen Cart is a shopping cart software that can be a web designer’s dream. The software was well thought-out by its developers and is managed mostly with stylesheets, making custom layouts within close reach; opposed to a less flexible shopping cart that requires heavy programming to modify the look and feel. Furthermore, e-commerce developers will [

Advantages of Outsourcing SEM

by Morgan
Friday, October 16th, 2009

If your company is serious about seeing significant ROI from its search marketing efforts, it’s a good idea to hire an outside firm. Oftentimes, tedious hours of link building and keyword research are assigned to the intern… the secretary will tweet to an audience of three followers once a week… and every once in a […]

What’s Great About Joomla?

by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

With a long-established history and a stable, growing community of supporters, the content management software Joomla is still a popular favorite. The software has a large database of existing modules and other add-ons that extend its functionality quite easily. There are several dedicated developers and software firms that actively provide support servi

Refine Your Audience

by Jacqueline Sinex
Monday, October 12th, 2009

Quick Thought: Who is your website for? Thinking about who your most appropriate target audience is, will greatly help you achieve something with your web presence. For example, your target client is not just “a homeowner” – it’s “the owner of a home valued at $500,000 or more, in Adair county”. Maybe people in this [&

Online Mascots

by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

As more of your competitors venture onto the Web, you may be searching for ways to stand out from the crowd. One way that companies are connecting with their audiences is through a “mascot”. Your mascot may be a completely fictional character illustration that represents your product or service. Many well-known organizations from Jack-in-the-

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