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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What does an ex-basketball coach know about pulling web metrics?
- In my previous life.....Actually, my previous JOB life, I was a physical education teacher and the varsity girls basketball coach. This is where I learned about testing, or as my mentors on the internet say, "Pulling Web Metrics."Simply put, pulling metrics is just testing your product or service. Your objective is to see how many sales you get out of a certain amount of clicks to yo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Guide to internet business - design and content
- After deciding what kind of internet business you want to do, it's time to start planning the design and content of your business. Many people make the mistake of skipping this step, choosing instead to immediately start work on their website. However, a website is just a door into your internet business; and a door is pretty useless if there's nothing beyond it. An internet business, like any oth...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Top 7 reasons why your business needs a website
- A website provides invaluable advantages for businesses who have one.7 reasons why your business needs a website are:1. Convenience for customersUsing the Internet to search for businesses and products is much easier and faster than scouring through the Yellow Pages.2. Provides greater exposureYour website will be visible EVERYWHERE. You will no longer be tied to...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tips to protect your downloads or products
- 1. Upload robots.txt file in to your root directory and include the folder name where you set your downloads.More information on how to set robots.txt: http://www.webmasters-central.com/wp/se/robotstxt.shtml2. Set the permission of the download folder to 711 OR upload an index file to that folder. Thi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to get profits from your 404 page not found file
- "'Page Not Found' on this Server. Check the URL and try again. Or Refresh the page..."This is the annoying error that we will come across every time we surf the web pages. Internet will be changing every minute and day. The web sites that were here are not found next day. The web pages that were here with '/page.html' are changed to '/page1.html' next day.Webmasters update their site...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Website development: become your own expert
- Starting and maintaining a business is challenging enough without the additional financial burden of hiring a web site expert to put your vision on paper. If you are starting your business on a "shoe string budget," hiring someone to take your written materials to type in a basic format, add a few pictures and edit what you tell them periodically may not be sound money management....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Enhance your website with a yahoo-style directory
- Does your website have a links/resources page?Do you exchange reciprocal with other websites to help boost your targeted traffic and search engine rankings?Do you believe that a relevant, yet comprehensive resources page provides tangible benefits to your site's visitors?If you answered "yes" to one or more of these questions, then you should consider adding an inexpensive (or...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Making the business case for web standards
- Through the explosive growth of the Web, companies have realized the benefit of building a strong online presence. By publishing a website to the Internet, companies are able to build their brand, market their products, support existing customers, release publicity pieces, and even take orders. Lost in the feverish pace of growth however, has been an eye on the effect that their current web-buildi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why you need a web site
- "I have a small business with just a couple of employees and I don't think my product can really be sold online. Do I need a web site?"In this day and time, there is very little that can't be sold over the Internet. There are over 20 million people shopping online, buying everything from movies to cars to real estate property. Research predicts that revenues will be over $200 billion in 200...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Profitable websites for exclusive industries
- In the region where my company is located, South Bend, Indiana, the demand for web design and associated services could be described as: leery. It's not that the locale is horribly lacking evolvement technologically; rather that so many proprietors in this area are very uncertain as to what the internet can do and how they can go about forming profitable web sites for their exclusive industries....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Conceptualize, build and publish a web site
- Conceptualize, Build and Publish a Web site - What's required to get startedAll of us knowingly or unknowingly, use a standard decision making process in our day-to-day lives. The very first step of this process is to decide whether TO DO or NOT TO DO. If the choice is TO DO, we think of the various ways and means of attaining our objective/s, compare their pros & cons and take a final stan...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 things you should be monitoring on your website
- Every business needs to know how it is doing. That's the idea behind exit surveys, customer feedback forms, suggestion boxes and other devices. Without feedback from the customer, monitoring inventory, expenses, revenue and other benchmarks, a business can take a quick slide down a slippery slope, without the owner ever seeing it coming ? or being able to stop the slide.Webmasters also have...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 5 tips for a better website
- Having an eye catching website is great, but are you optimizing your website to allow the best performance possible? I receive several emails a day from clients asking how they can get more hits to their websites, what can be done to increase sales, and how to prepare their sites for search engines. There are very simple things that can be done to help your website perform its best.First of...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Web site optimization: how to speed up your web site by minimizing your gif and png image bit-depth
- Are bloated images slowing down your web site and causing you lost business? Images comprise over 50% of the average web page so putting them on a diet is essential to improving web performance. One of the best ways to optimize GIFs and PNGs is to minimize the "bit-depth" or the number of colors within your images.For palette-based formats like GIF and PNG, file size is directly r...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Beautiful web sites seldom make more sales
- Designing an E-commerce Web site is not as simple as having a "pretty" site that is a pleasure to visit. While it is important to have an attractive site, as much thought must be given to functionality as to appearance.Many Web designers seem to focus more on appearance than functionality, and while an attractive site is helpful, visitors that become frustrated by the inability of a site to...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Flash deadly sins (that can kill your web business)
- Looks like every client wants a Flash site these days but the reality is...as flashy as these sites may look, there are many negatives you may want to consider before delving into Flash.Deadly Sin One - Long Load TimesThis is the most obvious problem with most Flash sites. Flash files can get large in a hurry and if the page takes too long to load, your visitor will move on without e...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The disability discrimination act (dda) & web accessibility
- There's been widespread speculation about the new legislation being introduced under the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act), which will ensure that websites are accessible to blind and disabled users. Try to find specific information about it on the Internet and chances are you'll come up empty handed.The RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) and the DRC (Disability Rights Commissi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Benefits of making your website accessible to disabled users ? part 2: the business case
- The Disability Discrimination Act states that service providers must not discriminate against disabled people. A website is regarded as a service and therefore comes under this law.Some organisations are changing to their websites, but many are seemingly not making the adjustments. Disabled people don't access their website, they say, so why should they care?There are, however, two v...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How disabled users access the internet
- In 1995 a new era of accessibility for disabled people began. The Disability Discrimination Act was passed, stating that:"It is unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it provides to members of the public."A website is regarded as a service and the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) and DR...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Building a web site requires the right software to eliminate headaches and keep money in your pocket
- When most people build a web site, they think one simple thing. "If I build it, they will come". How further from the truth this is.Little do they know that they need to do some homework before constucting their pages. It's not a simple endeavor, but with the right software, the process eliminates all the headaches associated with building a successful web site.Let's start with the w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Css - maximum benefits
- What is CSS?CSS is a simple file which controls the visual appearance of a Web page without compromising its structure. Using CSS we can control our font size, font color, link color and many other attributes on our web page. This will make our HTML code much more readable and the page size will be reduced.Why to use it and how to use it properlyIf you don't use CSS on your we...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Pim team case study: creating text effects with php and gd
- See how you can create graphic effects on text with PHP and GD - drop shadows, arcs, fonts and colors.ProblemA-tec Signs and Sraphics Inc. launched a web site with the idea to sell decals online. To achieve better customers ineterest the website had to integrate online decal builder. The company is offering also decals for vehicles which brought some specific requirements to the buil...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Three way linking - webmaster strategy
- Three way linking and concerns.For many years SEO experts were happy with two way linking or reciprocal linking but in due time researchers anticipated a change in Search Engine's Algo.Not before too late it happened and the value of reciprocal linking started decreasing, it can never die but was almost like a dead. Now only escape was one way link, and getting one way link was close...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Mysql database handling in php
- Most interactive websites nowadays require data to be presented dynamically and interactively based on input from the user. For example, a customer may need to log into a retail website to check his purchasing history. In this instance, the website would have stored two types of data in order for the customer to perform the check ? the customer's personal login details; and the customer's purchase...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The 5 biggest mistakes almost all web designers make
- Huge Mistake #1: Creating a Website with Flash -- Did you know in a recent study, top internet marketers discovered that having a website created with Flash, actually DECREASED the response from prospects and customers by as much as three-hundred-and-seventy percent?Here's why: Your prospects and customers are most likely visiting your website using all types of different computers, connect...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Track your visitors, using php
- There are many different traffic analysis tools, ranging from simple counters to complete traffic analyzers. Although there are some free ones, most of them come with a price tag. Why not do it yourself? With PHP, you can easily create a log file within minutes. In this article I will show you how!Getting the informationThe most important part is getting the information from your vis...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why do i need a web site?
- Even though the Internet has been around for a long time and many people are "educated" about the Internet, most have little knowledge about what a web site is and what can it do for their business.A web site is anything and everything you want it to be. Let me elaborate on that.If you have a business and want to expand your markets, you build a web site.If you have a business...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Web measurement: what you don?t know would make a great book
- "What's in it for me?" you ask. "Why should I measure how people use my website? How does it help and what does it all mean?" The purpose of this article is to try to give you some insight into effective web measurement and to talk about the most important page of any website, the landing or home page.Why measure at all?Fred Flintstone lived in the Stone Age but w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Non-profits: successful online strategies
- More and more non-profit organizations are developing websites to help share information about their mission and programs. This involves strategic planning about the best way to present your image and message online. Once your site is up, your organization also has to be ready to keep information current and to maintain consistent outreach activities. If your group is planning a Web site, consider...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The number 1 reason most websites fail
- Failure, just like success, is measured differently by each and every one of us. What one man treats as success another may view as failure. For the purposes of this article a website that fails is one that fails to attract and convert enough targeted visitors into paying customers.Yeah - positive feedback from your website visitors is great but let's face it - we're all in this ultimately ...