[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Yesterday Google announced their latest innovation to help out everyone’s need for speed, the Google Page Speed Service. To directly quote Scott Knaster from the Google Code Blog: Page Speed Service is an online service that automatically speeds up loading of your web pages. To use the service, you need to sign up […]
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Google Updates It’s Mobile Site Builder
A little while ago I spoke about the launch of Google’s Mobile Site Builder – an extremely easy to use tool to quickly and easily develop mobile websites for your small business. Rajiv Bammi, Software Engineer at Google, posted on the Google Apps blog sharing a few updates that have been made to their mobile site […]
Dwolla Introduces Online Cash Payments
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]It seems just a few days ago we blogged about how selling online is getting easier and easier, and now here comes Dwolla – a new comer to online payments who aims to offer yet another option to buying and selling online – allowing people to pay by cash straight from their bank […]
Did Online Selling Just Get Easier?
When it comes to selling online, or ecommerce, there are 2 general solutions. You can go the route of obtaining your own merchant account that would work with an existing ecommerce solution such as Magento or osCommerce. Or you can develop a customized ecommerce solution tailored specifically to your needs and based around your own […]
$20 Off Your First Project at crowdSPRING
crowdSPRING is the world’s #1 marketplace for custom logo design, web design, graphic design, industrial design and writing services. Entrepreneurs and small businesses simply post what they need, when they need it and how much they want to pay. Once posted, over 92,000 creatives from 200 countries around the world submit an average of 110 […]
Some Down Time
For the next few days things will be rather slow around here. I am utterly swamped with work and trying hard to finish everything by their respective deadlines – as such over the next few days you probably will not be seeing too many updates. Once everything quiets down a bit though we do have […]
Free Mortgage Calculators for Websites
Every now and then a real estate business asks to have an on-site calculator developed for their website – usually because they saw it on another site and thought it to be a good idea. I can’t argue here – it lets you provide a resource center your clients can bookmark and come back to […]
Google, Should I Add “no-follow” To Banner Ads?
A good question was brought up in the Google Webmaster Help Forum: Should I add “no-follow” to my banner ads? In-short, maybe. It ultimately depends on where these ads are coming from in the first place. For example most advertising programs such as Comission Junction will send all their links through a URL which is […]
Google Launches Free Mobile Site Builder
Google has just launched an extension to their Google Sites service called Mobile Templates – a free mobile website building tool featuring pre-built templates for restaurants, local businesses, lead generation, eCommerce and one called “Social,” which lets your customers engage with your business on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social services. Ofcourse there is a “custom” option […]
13 Free Domain Name Services
Yes I know what it sounds like – another scam about getting free domain names right? Wrong – see there are actually several companies out there who literally give out domain names – granted these are not .com’s – but they are better than http://angelfire.com/users/~johnswebsite. This post aims to outline the various services out there […]
Free Sitemap Generator
Sitemaps can be time consuming to create from scratch as you may know. Luckily, there are many tools online to help you with this task! One great tool from xml-sitemaps.com is Free Online Sitemap Generator. This online tool will help you create an XML sitemap that you can submit to search engines, text sitemaps, ROR sitemaps and html sitemaps as […]
SQL Injections – A Powerpoint Presentation
If you haven’t noticed more and more web-related services have been getting hacked lately – and these aren’t small websites either. Infragard – an FBI affiliate, the CIA website and the FBI’s Detroit phone network, the threats and attacks on Unveillance, and ofcourse who can forget the Sony hacking that has went on. What the […]
Easyspace Gains Accreditation For .XXX Domains
Easyspace, the leading UK domain name and web hosting provider, is happy announce the recent accreditation for the .xxx domain name, prior to the official release in September 2011. Joining recent accreditations for .eu, .me and .tel domain extensions, this latest ICM accreditation will complement Easyspace’s domain portfolio quiet well. Sarah Haran, managing director of Easyspace, […]
Embrace Non Traditional Marketing
A UK ad agency is paying students to advertise on their foreheads. Audi stole an A3 from a Manhattan dealership and recorded this on video – which quickly turned into a viral campaign as it spread across Facebook, Twitter, and hundreds of blogs and news sites. These are examples of what is known as ‘non-traditional […]
12 Free CSS Layout Generators
As a web developer you eventually get to a point when you notice every single website you work on starts off with the same basic concept. A template if you will. Of-course since you are a good web developer you are always looking to be able to do more in less time – and with […]
Google, Will Showing Recent Posts On My Homepage Cause A Duplicate Content Issue?
Google tweeted today about a new video/question they made live on their Youtube account. Will showing recent posts on my homepage cause a duplicate content issue? In short the answer is no, provided you do it correctly. Displaying the full blog post on your websites homepage AND on your blog may result in duplicate content. Google […]
SEO or SEM?
To be highly effective, a company needs to employ multi-marketing strategies, using a variety of approaches to reach their intended audience. An increasingly popular approach due to its low costs and large rewards is search engine marketing (SEM). With any other form of advertising, whether it is on a billboard, TV ad, or ad copy […]
Bravenet Redesign
Spring cleaning is the period in spring time set aside for cleaning a house, normally applied in climates with a cold winter. The most common usage of spring cleaning refers to the yearly act of cleaning a house from top to bottom which would take place in the first warm days of the year typically […]
5 Social Media Tools for your Business
Which social-media sites are best for your business? It depends on your company size, your industry, and your social-media goals. It also depends on what type of social networking you enjoy and will persist in doing. Major social-media sites can be a great place to find customers due to their large user bases, but it […]
11 Tips to Energize Your Website Content
Imagine; you spend thousands of dollars designing your website and no one comes. Why? It could be that you forgot about the content or you didn’t invest enough in the message. Good website content delivers the right message in the right way. Tip #1 -The most important rule to remember is that writing for the […]