First and foremost; If the page you are designing does not have good content it might as well not exist. Putting lipstick on a pig doesn’t change the fact that it is still a pig. Style over substance is a good rule if you want to get nowhere fast so lose that habit and follow [...]
Domain names can be a frustrating thing to deal with. They are quite simple – really. Each country has a designation – in the United States the most common domain name is a “.com”. It doesn’t matter what the domain name is – as long as it correctly ‘points’ to a server somewhere. This is [...]
In the time of the ipod and the internet, we all want to keep a step ahead and get ourselves noticed in the world. But you can’t do that if your web page is as ugly as a troll. Here are a couple of simple yet useful web design tips that will get your site [...]
What is Boogaloo? Only the latest tool created by MindFly for would-be web designers who are having a hard time getting their sites look just right. It allows users to customize the HTML and CSS on every page they create to an insane degree that has not been present in these types of web tools [...]
It is a rare occurrence on the internet that you find a video that is equal parts hilarious and informative but this video is just that. Presenting The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) doing a rap about how web design can affect the ranking of your site in search engines and how to optimize [...]
A major issue in web design is ensuring that anything you design has cross-browser compatibility. Something that looks good on Firefox for example may look like random characters in Opera. Less noticeably so perhaps worse is simply to have a broken link, or small feature that does not seem to carry over to certain browsers. [...]
Can you use Google Analytics to track goals across multiple domain names? This is a problem that exists with Google Analytics. The solution is fairly easy – it involves customizing the tracking code a bit: For domain2 and subdomains (for example, www.Yovia.com, Yugster.Yovia.com add the following tracking code: Tracking code for domain2 and subdomains: <script type=”text/javascript”> [...]
CoTweet vs. HootSuite: Which Twitter Service Is Best for Your Small Business? by Rick Proctor on December 16, 2009 in social media Twitter for Small BusinessWhen it comes to tools and services available to manage Twitter, there is a virtual bounty—a Twitter-copia, if you will. . . . But when it comes to tools designed [...]
I know plenty of people who advertise with Reach Local. It’s basically a company that manages paid search for local businesses. I have never used them, but when doing some research on them, I found this flaming post about how bad they are: would like to start off by saying that Reach Local is one [...]
There are no specific legal or geographic qualifications to register a biz domain name, except that it must be for “bona fide business or commercial use”. There are a number of options when choosing a domain name – the most common type of name in the United States is ‘dot com’. In many cases, your [...]