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Blog Inspirations: Write About An Event
by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
With Blog Inspirations, we help you find topics to maintain your business blog. What industry-related conference did you recently attend? Write a short commentary on one of the presentations. What local charity did your company recently sponsor? Write about your involvement at their fundraiser. Where did you recently notice some of your products? W
Transparent Little Dropdown Menu
by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
So you have some dropdown menus on your website, but you would like to make them a little fancier. With just a little effort in your stylesheet, you can add a nice transparency effect to the background of the dropdown list. The CSS is usually applied to the style id created for the drop-down div. […]
Minimizing JavaScript
by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Sometimes a little bit of JavaScript is necessary to control certain features in a website, such as a simple slideshow element on a page, which was a better choice over the heavy Flash animation. But as organic SEO becomes more prominent, we must learn to minimize the presence of javascript among our web page code, […]
Why Meta Tags Still Matter
by Bryan Lokey
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
You may not know it but you see the results of the meta title and description tags every time you use a search engine. The title and short description that is displayed on the Search Engine Results Page (or SERP) are actually taken directly from the meta tags coded into your site. Meta tags are […]
Why So Static? The Difference Between Static and Dynamic Websites
by Bobby Martinez
Monday, February 8th, 2010
A brief overview of the difference between static and dynamic web pages.
Replacing Your Blogger Blog
by Jacqueline Sinex
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Have you heard? Blogger, a popular community blogging tool, has discontinued FTP support. What does this mean? It means that you will no longer be able to publish your Blogger blog directly to your website – you will be forced to migrate to a “Blogspot” address instead. Never fear, there are other options. Your web […]
Image Alt Tags
by Bryan Lokey
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Do the images on your website have alt tags? If they do, are the alt tags something like abc123.jpg? A very basic yet helpful search-friendly design practice is to include alt and title tags in each of your graphics to better describe what they are. This tells visual impairment devices what those pictures are, and […]
Most Valuable Business Expense
by Jacqueline Sinex
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Recently I replied in a discussion forum asking the question, If you could only have one marketing expense for your business what would it be. Naturally, I replied with a great website! Reflecting on this more, what I should have said was, A good professional web designer. When you hire a professional web designer/web developer, […]