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Average Price for Web Design - 2009

04 February, 2010
Over the years, we've had some potential clients tell us we're expensive, and others ask if we inadvertently left off a zero on our quote because we're so cheap. Eventually, towards the end of 2009, our curiosity got the better of us and we decided to investigate. We anonymously emailed 100 web design companies and asked for a web design quote...
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What your website should do for you and what you should do for your website

06 November, 2009
Your new website is up and running. Now what? Are you going to sit back and wait for orders of your products or services to come flying in? What if nothing happens? Are you going to curse the web designer, forget about your website, return to your old methods of advertising, and be upset with yourself that you believed a website of your own was "the fashionable, profitable way to go"?...
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Introduction to CSS Website Design

23 July, 2009
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is modern way to use a website design to create a website layout and apply various styles to the website in conjunction with HTML code. CSS has been a standard in web design for some time and continues to grow as we can see with the new standards being developed in CSS3...
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Choosing a Hosting Provider for your Website

2 June, 2008
Choosing a hosting provider can be a daunting task with the many hosting providers and options available. It need not be an exhausting exercise though, if you know how to look for the features that are important for your website. Below are some of the more important aspects you should consider when choosing a hosting provider...
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Keywords are Key to Web Design

21 June, 2007
We all know they won’t come just because you built the site - the site has to place well in the search engines to pull the traffic. Of course, placement can be bought through Pay Per Click advertising, but there is nothing as satisfying to a web designer as a top position in the free results...
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Dealing with SPAM

27 February, 2007
If you own an email address, you're more than likely to have received a junk message from someone you don't know, claiming to have an amazing product which you can buy at a few clicks of the mouse. There are startling claims that spam accounts for some 80% of all email communications sent and it threatens the very existence of the internet...
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Introduction to banner advertising

14 February, 2007
Banner advertising is one of the oldest marketing techniques and closely related to conventional marketing. It can in most regards be compared to billboard advertising and in some cases it can even be compared to television advertising when flash banners are used together with sound. But how difficult is banner advertising...
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Guide to choosing the right web design company

4 February, 2007
Choosing a web design company can be a little tricky, and many times it's a gamble, but if you know what to look for, you can save yourself a lot of stress and frustration. If you don't, however, you could be stuck with poor service and empty promises as well as being faced with ridiculous bills...
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