Good Design Can Get in the Way of a Great Web Site
One of the most common mistakes in web site design today is the design itself. The most common “abuser” of this is the firm that comes out of the graphic design world and decides to start doing web sites (but there are other perpetrators as well). How does this happen? It’s simple actually. A stunningly […]
Choosing a Domain Name
There are still good domain names to be had if you are looking either to start a new business or to claim a better domain name for your existing business. First let’s examine why it is important to choose a good domain name. Say you were a church called Mt. Zion Christian Church. You decide […]
Online Cliques
Online Cliques Sometimes you have to forget what you learned (or were told) in high school. Back then cliques may not have been good for you – contributing to peer pressure and leaving some of the “un-cliqued” feeling left out. But in the online world, getting into a clique can propel you forward. There are […]
Lessons from Conan O’Brien
I’ve never been a fan of Conan O’Brien’s style of humor. But I am now a fan of Conan. CNN Money did a story on how Conan O’Brien turned a “failure” into a new lease on life. I highly recommend this article to anyone interested in how to use social media and in understanding how […]
Help EduCyber Pick its New Logo
We’ve been talking to a lot of businesses about their Internet marketing plans and how they fit into the bigger picture. We’ve been spending so much time in fact, we decided to create a new brand for our business – AdvanceMyBiz. The site (www.AdvanceMy.Biz) will soon be live but as we’re building this new brand, […]
Test Your Site across Browsers
When I worked in Tokyo (in the late 90’s) I remember looking at a web site affiliated with where I worked and it looked terrible. Worse than terrible. When I went to talk to the designer (this was not his job) I understood the problem even before we began to talk – he worked on […]
36 Ways to Market Your Web Site
Put your web site on business card Incorporate your domain name into your letterhead Buy an ad in other ezines or email newsletters Engage in online communities and make sure you include your domain where appropriate (like in your signature) Include a link to your web site in your email signature Build a corporate Facebook […]
Factors Affecting Your Web Site Success
ъглови дивани I went for lunch today at Heidi’s Brooklyn Deli in the Highlands area of northwest Denver. While I don’t go there frequently, I do like their food and atmosphere. But they are in trouble and they might not even be aware of it. While eating lunch I noticed a young man photographing the […]
Eliminate Orphans
Some of you will think this is some sort of Dickensian entreaty to eliminate “the surplus population”. But it isn’t. I’m talking about orphaned web pages. A web page gets orphaned in much the same way a human does. It’s parent dies or goes away. Let me give an anecdote to explain both how it […]
Twitter Success Story?
We resell the hosting services of a company called HostGator. We have used them for a couple of years and generally have found them to be quite good. We also talk about how to use Twitter for reputation management and customer satisfaction. So it was no surprise that I was following @hostgator on Twitter. We […]
