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Implementing Your Email Marketing Campaign

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:20:56 +0100

Email promoting is definitely a fairly easy, productive, and an inexpensive method for modern corporations to get in touch with their customers and also grow their particular incomes. For example, some sort of newsletter enables you to cultivate awareness in your organization and at the same time showing your own experience and depth, your greatest resources for your own business. Distributing some sort of email newsletter keeps your company within the thoughts of one’s growing network. Plus, good email newsletters are usually sent to friends of the actual receiver of the email, thereby developing your network even further.

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Site Statistics and User Privacy

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:19:31 +0100

Learn the facts before you install analytics tools
By: Elliot Harmon

Your website is a place where people – potential supporters, volunteers, and beneficiaries learn about your organization, but it’s also a place where you learn about them. Using various web statistics and analytics tools, you can learn how people are finding your website, where visitors are located geographically, and what parts of your site they’re visiting. You can judge the impact of a particular fundraising letter or ad campaign by finding out how many times the message resulted in an online donation, a newsletter signup, or any other desired action. Used thoughtfully, website statistics can inform website design choices, help you make your website more user-friendly and navigable, and influence your overall communications and marketing strategy.
But is your visitors’ information being used by others? What responsibility do you have to explain to your site’s users what information they’re giving away by visiting your site and to whom? In this article, we’ll explore some privacy issues surrounding web analytics and other website tools. Since Google Analytics (GA) is the most prominent third-party analytics tool on the market, we’ll pay particular attention to it, but the recommendations we offer apply to other third-party services too.

We’ll offer some tips on crafting a privacy policy that explains to your site’s users how you and others will use any information they provide. Having a clear, readable privacy policy is a great idea even if you don’t use GA or a similar service. We can’t decide for you whether to use a third-party web analytics service, but we can help you make a thoughtful decision and take necessary steps to educate your website’s visitors.

This article is intended for readers who are already familiar with the basics of site statistics. If you’ve never thought about utilizing statistics on your nonprofit’s website, start with Idealware’s A Few Good Web Analytics Tools .

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What Is Web 2.0 Anyway?

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:35:26 +0100

By: Alexandra Krasne
Indispensable tools your nonprofit should know about
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Editor's note: This article was compiled with the help of Michael Janofsky using information from the Web 2.0 online event, held from October 24 to 28, 2005, in TechSoup's Emerging Technologies forum. Additional content provided by Ruby Sinreich.
Web developers, designers, bloggers, and even major media outlets have been abuzz with talk of "Web 2.0" this year. Though the term bears the familiar version number so often attached to software products, it doesn't actually refer to any one technology. Rather, Web 2.0 is the moniker for an emerging set of Internet-based tools and an emerging philosophy on how to use them.

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Web 2.0 - What You Need to Know

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:55:43 +0100

By: Michael Fleischner

By now you've heard the term "Web 2.0"... but what does it mean and why is it important for all marketers? Here's a quick explanation and my thoughts on the importance of the Web 2.0 movement.

"Web 2.0" is a weird phrase. It began as the name of a conference, but the people organizing the conference didn't really know what they meant by it. Mostly they thought it sounded catchy. However, "Web 2.0" has since taken on a meaning. There are some interesting new trends on the Web, and it's the nature of a phrase like that to adhere to them.

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How To Detect Fraud SEO Companies

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:29:03 +0100

By: seoalan

Now days with growth of search engines rising. Webmasters feel getting top rated in Google is the ultimate thing. Its spreading like Gold Rush. Everyone wants to get a piece of gold. Looking at this many Search Engine Optimization companies have bubbled up. And the number is increasing as you read this article.

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10 High-Impact Viral Marketing Strategies

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:32:19 +0100

By: Ian Traynor

Viral Marketing is allowing people to give away and use your free product or service in order to multiply your marketing quickly over the internet. The idea behind viral marketing is that you include your ad with the freebie people give away or use. Below are ten high impact viral marketing strategies:

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The Do-it-Yourself Website Promotion Tricks

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:32:08 +0100

By: John Mahoney

You have your own website, now what? In order to succeed online, you will need website promotion so your site would be visible to everyone connected to the Internet. It is a common belief that all websites are searchable by search engines. It’s not as simple as it seems. Website promotion entails a lot of work.

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"Folksonomies" - a New Viral Marketing Tool

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:55:36 +0100

A new consumer phenomenon is called "tagging" or "folksonomies" (short for folks and taxonomy). Tagging is powerful because consumers are creating an organizational structure for online content. Folksonomies not only enable people to file away content under tags, but, even better, share it with others by filing it under a global taxonomy that they created.

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Tips to Prevent Spam

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:28:50 +0100

Email spam is a huge headache for any Internet user, but there are ways to combat those nasty inbox invaders. Find out small steps to take to greatly reduce your spam population.

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Why You Should Start an Internet Business

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:16:36 +0100

By: Pat Watt

Lots of companies that have been around for sometime are now not only selling their products in stores and malls, but they also have taken their business and products online. Actually over 95% of them have taken their stores and moved it online.

Today, you are going to read about why it is a good idea to start your own internet business by selling other people's products or even selling your own.

Shall we start?

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Internet Marketing

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:01:23 +0100

The concept of Internet marketing began in the nineties. As technology developed, more consumers began using the Internet for entertainment and research. Businesses adapted to this trend and began advertising their products and services online. Internet advertising boomed with the growth of major search engines including Google, Yahoo, and MSN. People of all demographic groups use the Internet, and companies can easily access a variety of vertical markets.

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Local Search Engines – The Best Bet

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:52:29 +0100

By: Henal Patel

Nowadays, many SEO friendly websites offer tailored and easy to understand online marketing techniques. What’s great about this is that you can customize the strategies that work for you, eliminating the ones that don’t or else you are not interested in. Sound good? Of course it is! You are in control of your destiny and in the fate of your company. But the good thing is that it doesn’t take a huge commitment of time, money, or effort, but can be done in an easy cost-effective way.

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Internet Marketing with an E Newsletter

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:56:28 +0100

One very popular Internet marketing strategy is to publish and distribute an e-newsletter on a regular basis. E-newsletters are essentially emails which may contain content, graphics, links and subtle forms of advertising. In general e-newsletters should be informative in nature and useful to the recipient but should also serve some type of marketing purpose as well. This article will examine e-newsletters and explain how they can be used effectively as a marketing strategy.

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Why Search Engine Spiders Can’t Index Your Pages

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:31:06 +0100

By: Nidhi Gupta

HTML Problems Can Prevent Indexing
This is a common problem. Your web designer has created a beautiful page with nice graphics and great Flash animations. Unfortunately, it seems that search engines won’t list your website no matter what you do.

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Get Traffic Through Viral Marketing

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:30:12 +0200

By: rajeev_guglani

Viral marketing is considered as one of the most powerful method of online marketing and advertising. This refers to the method of promoting products and services through the suitable distribution. This marketing technique is not just one of the successful internet marketing method but also considered as most economical method.

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Searching Simultaneously with Google and Yahoo

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:04:24 +0200

By: rhdjapan@yahoo.com

Who is the best Yahoo or Google? John say he loves to search on Google only, Mary’s vote goes to Yahoo. What about you? You love both! Me too If you search both Google and Yahoo simultaneously you will be surely come out with some innovative results that you have never before. The results will be something more than that exactly you are looking for.

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Search Engines: Understand in a Better Way

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:43:38 +0200

By: rhdjapan@yahoo.com

Search engines are the most valuable discovery of this century acting as a bridge between millions of web pages and web users. It is really impossible to imagine web world without search engines. Millions of web pages will be converted into a chaotic disordered jungle without search engines. Useful websites may be hidden from the users and what information received will be of no use. Search engines work non stop to gather valuable information underlying in the million of web pages scattered on the internet.

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Website Types

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:44:33 +0200

A website is a collection of web pages that features images, video, and content. There are various kinds of website including business websites, personal websites, forums, blogs, and family websites. You can design a website in accordance with your objectives, technical skills, and needs.
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Manual Traffic Exchanges

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:06:22 +0200

While there are a lot of ways to bring additional traffic to your website, manual traffic exchanges are one great choice. This is a great way to bring additional traffic to your site, and as we all know, more traffic means more sales or advertising revenues. If you have previously done this by hand, requesting links from individuals or businesses, you can save yourself time with manual traffic exchanges.

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Top Ten Web Design Mistakes

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:23:37 +0200

By: Jakob Nielsen
The oldies continue to be goodies — or rather, baddies — in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most.
There's value in reminding ourselves of past findings and raising their priority on the agenda of things to be fixed. Because these mistakes continue to be so common, it makes sense that people continue to complain about them the most.
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Website Planning - Tips To Create A Successful Online Presence

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:26:58 +0200

By: Kabir Bedi
Creating a successful online presence on the world wide web is not an easy task. And it is much more that creating an attractive design and building a strong website structure. Even before the website design & development process, you need to get involved in some strategic website planning activities to decide the course of your online presence.

Here are some key website planning considerations you should take care of before starting off the design and development process.

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Simple CSS: Creating More Readable Text

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:17:39 +0200

by: David Rodriguez

Typography is an important part of Web design. Just like in the print world, your content needs to be readable to your viewers for it to be of any use. As a general rule, you want to make sure your Web site provides as little resistance as possible to the user, and the easier your site is to read, the better. CSS provides three very useful properties to enhance the readability of your site: font, line-height, and letter-spacing.

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Role of Meta Title Tag in SEO

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:23:31 +0200

By: Michael Fleischner

Do you want to secure a top ranking in search engine result pages(SERP)? I think every one is going to answer - Yes. And a very common belief is that add lot of most searched keywords in the meta tags of your web pages and see your site skyrocketing. But it feels highly frustrating when this magic proves of no avail. Remember, meta tags alone don't do a magic in getting better placed in the search pages. These meta tags sure help you to describe your web pages to a search engine and gain a better place in its results. But at the same time they help search engine too to prevent indexing of improper web pages. Which may have good weight keywords in their meta tags but having no relationship with the contents of the page.

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SEO versus Usability

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:03:08 +0200

We all hear a lot of buzz about search engine optimization. A quick Google search on "SEO" yields 110 million pages. If you want to know the "top 10 SEO Tips," there are over 43 million pages with the answers.

But too many people put too many eggs in their SEO basket. Site owners give SEO, particularly PageRank, far too much significance, thinking high PageRank alone will mean sales and fearing low PageRank will doom them to failure.

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Punctuationality

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:11:52 +0200

by: Brooke Marshall

It's easy to resent punctuation. Its purpose is to clarify sentences, so why are the rules governing it so complicated? There are so many exceptions, so many exceptions to exceptions — it's enough to make you want forego punctuation altogether.

Well, back when it was alive and kicking, the Latin language did just that — and it didn't stop there. Written Latin also omitted spaces between words or lowercase letters.

It sounds kinda nice, doesn't it? No more worrying about whether that comma is in the right place, and on the flip side, no more embarrassing urge to whip out a red pen and correct restaurant menus. What's not to love?

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What Makes a Great Tech Writer

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:23:59 +0200

By: Shown Blanc

I’m the sort of guy who is always thinking about the future. Not in the noble “always looking ahead” sort of way, but in the “my brain is always making up scenarios of how things will pan out” sort of way. And ever since I decided to take my site full-time I began picturing what my days would look like once that happened. At the beginning I mostly assumed I would be spending my whole day sitting behind the keyboard and watching the pulse of news, or — if nothing exciting was happening — spend my time writing long-form pieces. But, the more I think about it, the more that sounds like the road to a burnt-out and boring website.

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Creating Lasting Websites

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:15:13 +0200

by: Shawn Blanc
When my 98 year old grandpa posted a comment on my weblog last fall it hit me in a new way just how much the web is a part of our society. If I open my laptop in a coffee shop and there's no wireless I practically don't know what to do. "What? No internet? I guess I'll play solitaire."

The more the web expands its reach the greater the need for those behind the scenes to create usable, sustainable and quality websites. There is much more to building a website than tweaking a free template, or adjusting an open source CMS.

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Website Customization: What can we do?

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:48:07 +0200

Nowadays, in this trendy world, people get very uptight when they do not look entirely presentable. This would also be the case in web designing.
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Spread Your Knowledge Around

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:12:14 +0200

I see it all the time: there are those people out there who have been working in a particular industry for years. They're wonderful at what they do, and they have a lot of knowledge from all of that time being dedicated to their field. But if you ask them about it, they'll just brush it aside, saying they're nothing special. The reason? Because to them all of the things they know seem commonplace. They've been working so closely with it for so long they forget that everyone doesn't know this stuff as well, and so they don't take advantage of chances to spread their knowledge around, and improve their image at the same time.

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Eight Rules for Effective Web Forms

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:40:31 +0200

by: Martin Ludwig

If you're looking to collect information from your users, there isn't a much easier or more straightforward method than a Web form. If designed well, Web forms provide valuable information; if not, they may scare users away. With this in mind, here are a few key tenets of Web form design that every designer should know.

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Web Page Color Scheming

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:01:57 +0200

by: Joe Gillespie

Here are the two basic layers, one is the paper and one the colors you are trying out. The paper layer has all the elements as transparent holes. The color layer has just rough slabs of color. Manipulating the colors in-behind the page mask is quick and easy. This is the system I use to work out color schemes for Web pages or logos. I use Photoshop, but the same principle will work in any graphics editor that supports layers and alpha channels.

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The Right Networking Standard

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:38:13 +0200

Growing Up with the Web

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:45:14 +0200

by: Sam Rayner
We're entering an exciting period in the history of the Web. Since the 90's, the Internet has embedded itself in our lives in ways we couldn't have imagined. I'd be hard pressed to find a lad in my school who doesn't have a MySpace, Facebook or Twitter profile, a Flickr account or a blog. Kids younger than me now interact confidently with the Web without fear of being labelled as geeks or nerdy.

Design on the Web has obviously come a long way too. The 'standards battle' appears to have been won, developers have been shown the light and it's only a matter of time before font tags and spacer gifs become a distant memory. We're past the 'browser wars' and Internet Explorer 6 is finally losing its stranglehold on the market, giving way to more standards-compliant contemporaries or at least IE7.

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HTML, the Foundation of the Web

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 23 May 2011 11:42:21 +0200

by: Niels Matthijs
HTML is hot again. Some time ago the HTML5 promo machine got up to speed, causing a little mini-fuss. In a parallel universe, others are still putting a lot of time and effort into the development of xHTML2. This (public) renewal of interest in HTML caused plenty of discussion, revealing several blank spots in the general knowledge of HTML. This article will hopefully plug one of the most notorious holes shut.

For many front-end developers, HTML remains mostly an excuse. It is viewed as a language of hooks, constructed for adding javascript, css and other enhancements to web documents. In recent events, this kick-started a small semantics debate again, where people were reminded about the semantic value of HTML. A reminder voiced by raging standardista, still fired up from previously fought debates and awareness battles.

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KEI calculator back on site

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:35:55 +0200

By: Wim Hoogenraad

The KEI calculator on our site didn`t work so fine any more. But now it is back en better than ever before.

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Social Media - This is Where You Flaunt Your Website

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 16 May 2011 08:40:57 +0200

By: Kabir Bedi

Social media is a refreshingly powerful concept gaining popularity on the world wide web. With its strong basis on communication and interaction, it follows the principles of free democracy - Of the people, By the people,

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SEO and Link Building Tips & Tactics

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 09 May 2011 08:11:24 +0200

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process by which webmasters and online business owners get their websites to rank highly in SERPs (search engine results pages) for keyword phrases that are both heavily searched for and related to their industry or niche. Two of the biggest types of SEO work are keyword optimization and link-building (increasing the number of incoming links to a website or specific page).

Here are a few SEO tips to keep in mind when thinking about keyword optimization for a new website or online business:

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So You Want To Master Social Media - Ten Tips to Help You Succeed

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 02 May 2011 09:42:08 +0200

By: Jill Hart

Social media marketing should be an essential part of your marketing. But so many don’t do it right. These 10 tips will help you excel in your social media efforts. It’s official. Social media is here to stay. It’s not a fad like so many initially thought and it isn’t going anywhere soon. Businesses have realized that not only is it a great way to connect with current clients, but a great way to land potential clients as well. And that’s only the beginning. Social media also allows you to promote all your upcoming events and products, and even gives you front row access to editors and reporters who might write on your area of expertise. The possibilities are truly endless. But the big question now is, how can entrepreneurs best use the current social media opportunities to help increase business? Here are some tips we feel will help.
Ten tips to incorporate social media into your marketing plan:

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Why you should use blogs and RSS feeds

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:57:10 +0200

Blogs and RSS feeds are great marketing tools! Now, if you're like me, you're probably scratching your head and saying, "Wonderful, but what in the world is a blog, and what the heck does an RSS feed?" Let's make it quick and simple. A blog is basically a journal or diary that is kept online. It changes every day as you add new content. An RSS feed is a little more involved.
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Free Social Media Consultants Advice

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:07:29 +0200

Who do you turn to, to make your social media marketing plan work? There is nowhere else to go but to ask social media consultants. A lot of people have realized how massively important social network marketing is but some of them do not seem to mind the expertise of social media consultants. They tend to work on their marketing through social media on their own ending up putting up something that does not really work.

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Make your Web graphics and animation more professional

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:38:50 +0200

by Joe Gillespie
The Web is a wealth of information. Everything you want to know about everything is only a few clicks away at Yahoo or AltaVista. Yet, amidst all this, there are millions of Web pages with little or nothing to say.

Somebody thinks, "Oh, I must have a Web page - everybody else has one!" They try desperately to find something to say and some way to say it. Then, in the realisation that their efforts are somewhat lacking, they turn to 'decoration'.

They have made their second mistake!

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Website Conformance Check Best Practices

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:24:03 +0200

By: Hans Lodder

Forrester Research has executed a web-site check on 6 Canadian banks. The results were very bad. The most common short comings were misplaced content and functionality, inefficient task flows, illegible text and poor use of space.

According to Forrester researcher Ron Rogowski:

“To improve the on-line customer experience, Canadian banks need to prioritize fixing problems with known solutions, focus on scenario design, and differentiate the brand experience”.

The Forrester website check reminded me to a question I recently got: When do you know a website is optimal? The real consultancy answer to that is simple: When the site fits your goals.

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How to Monetize Your Social Media

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:38:14 +0200

by: Warren Little
It seems everything has a social media component these days. But have you ever asked yourself what social media really is?

Social media is yet another tech buzzword. Most simply, it's describes any site that allows interaction between users. That's a pretty big umbrella. And, not surprisingly, people are still wrestling with how to monetize the more popular social media sites.

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How Good Are Social Networking Sites For Your Business?

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:36:34 +0100

By: Maneet Puri

Think social networking and names like Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, and Linkedin come to mind. Since social networking became an online norm there has been no dearth of opportunities and no limitations to possibilities. The initial wave of social networking came in the form of connecting with old and new friends, colleagues and people located in different geographical locations. But it didn't take long for corporate enterprises to see business opportunities within the trend and soon it also became a buzzing place for people to explore business ventures and ideas.
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Growing Up with the Web

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:24:43 +0100

by: Sam Rayner

We're entering an exciting period in the history of the Web. Since the 90's, the Internet has embedded itself in our lives in ways we couldn't have imagined. I'd be hard pressed to find a lad in my school who doesn't have a MySpace, Facebook or Twitter profile, a Flickr account or a blog. Kids younger than me now interact confidently with the Web without fear of being labelled as geeks or nerdy.

Design on the Web has obviously come a long way too. The 'standards battle' appears to have been won, developers have been shown the light and it's only a matter of time before font tags and spacer gifs become a distant memory. We're past the 'browser wars' and Internet Explorer 6 is finally losing its stranglehold on the market, giving way to more standards-compliant contemporaries or at least IE7.

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Simple CSS: Creating More Readable Text

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:47:53 +0100

by: David Rodriguez
Typography is an important part of Web design. Just like in the print world, your content needs to be readable to your viewers for it to be of any use. As a general rule, you want to make sure your Web site provides as little resistance as possible to the user, and the easier your site is to read, the better. CSS provides three very useful properties to enhance the readability of your site: font, line-height, and letter-spacing.

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Web Site Development, so you want to get in to this field?

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:49:22 +0100

By: Joel McLaughlinDataflurry

Web site development is the art of creating and developing the world wide web. Using tools, graphics and programming toward the development of the world wide web. This article gives you some great resources to get your feet wet in the development field.

First, to learn a little about my skills in web development. I am 24 years old and I started my first online business at 12. I started hand coding HTML for fun and learned to love web sites. I have built web sites for small companies to large corporations.There are so many resources available on the net so that you can get involved designing web sites. However without any sort of knowledge in the field, it can be very confusing. Common questions that probably run through your head are "what development tools should be used", "how do I get web sites on the internet", and "how to I create applications". I am going to go briefly over these different questions and provide you with great resources to learn more.

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Web Hosting - Assessing your Web Hosting Requirements

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:59:51 +0100

After you have created or developed your site it’s time to find a good Web hosting service provider which is required to have a strong online presence with a web host which provides you the exact services and features you need.

When choosing a web hosting companies the basic necessities are your sites space requirements, bandwidth requirements, POP, technical support requirements and also some more advanced needs like the scripting language of your site. So you need to select your web hosting requirements realistically, for example, select the bandwidth and space requirements and never try to buy anymore than what you require. Later you can always improve on these by upgrading your package or moving to some other web host with will later cater for your requirements.

Following will help you choose your web hosting related requirements and eventually your web host more confidently.

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Twelve Things Most Sites Need - Part II

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:31:00 +0100

by: Mike Cherim

In the first installment, Twelve Things Most Sites Need - Part I, I offered a six-pack of must-haves. Specifically I suggested sites should have a proper navigation menu, a meaningful, well-formed title, a method of contact, a site map, passive accessibility, and standardized markup. Now, as I offered the last six, in the order in which I thunk ‘em up, here is the balance.

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Twelve Things Most Sites Need - Part I

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:26:18 +0100

by: Mike Cherim

There are a plethora of Websites out there, each one unique in its design, its content, markup, features, functionality, and in myriad other ways. Yet, despite these differences, there are specific needs that should be met with near consistency, Internet-wide, regardless of the site. Let’s take a look at twelve of these common denominators. Below are the first six. They appear in the order in which I thunk ‘em up. They’re just numbered so you can refer to them more easily.

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