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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, […]

Setting Up Online Transactions

by Bobby Martinez
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Here’s a quick tip for a first-time e-commerce project. If you plan to support real-time automated credit card transactions, you will be setting up a merchant banking account with a payment gateway (such as Authorize.net, LinkPoint, YourPay, etc.). If this is a new merchant account or a new gateway service, at some point the bank […]

How Your Website Can Help Non-Profits & Charities

by Morgan
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

A creative and effective way for your business to help out non-profit organizations and charities is to use your company’s online resources. Consider some of these ideas: If you don’t already have e-commerce features on your site, you can easily set up a PayPal account to accept online donations without having to purchase complex a […]

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