19 June, 2010
While designing a website, it is inevitable, that at some point you will need to add a special character to a page, whether
it be a currency symbol, a copyright sign, or a foreign character. It is important that you use the correct code to display
these characters. Failure to do so...
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06 May, 2010
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is often seen to be a mythical practice with online marketing companies not
always being transparent about how they intend to improve the rankings of a client's website. The truth is
that search engine optimization is not an overly complex field, it simply requires constant effort and the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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