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The Design of Website Usability

The design of website usability and navigation is extremely important. All too often designers like to get fancy and make their visitors jump through hoops just to get to another page, let alone find another section. How a visitor navigates and uses a website should be simple and easy to do. It should be transparent and obvious and a completely seamless procedure. Read more…

Social Network Usage And Optimisation

From AmieStreet.com, offering indie music online, to Zoo.gr, which offers a unique web meeting place for people from Greece, social network usage is booming. There’s literally something for everyone, and if you are not optimising your web site for social media, you are definitely missing out. Read more…

How To Optimise Website Elements

It is necessary to optimise website elements if you hope to have your website rank high in the search engines. Many people who are quite capable of producing good solid websites, cringe at the though of optimisation. For them it seems far too technical and difficult. It is not. Knowing how to optimise website elements is a very good skill to have. Here are some of the more important things to look out for. Read more…

A Good Marketing Email

The qualities of a good marketing email obviously differ from an email sent to friends. And yet a successful marketing email retains many of these same qualities that make a friend’s email message so welcome. Therein lies the secret… Read more…

Top Design Websites – The Qualities That Make Them So

The top design websites to be found on the Internet all have certain things in common. It’s not all about glitzy, flashy looks, or using the latest technologies. It’s about efficiency, plain and simple. You have to know what and who you are designing for with the exact end result you need. Read more…

Twitter Usage In Business

Twitter usage in business could be much higher, and therefore much more successful for many, if more people understood what Twitter could do in terms of social media optimisation for their business. The savvy business owners try it out, testing a bit at a time, while maintaining their normal business promotion strategies. Sooner or later they usually stumble upon something that works well enough to adopt as part of their main promotion strategy. The sceptical business owners usually don’t even try it, or give up after a week when nothing much happens. Here are 7 ways to improve your bottom line by adopting Twitter usage in business. Read more…

The Dangers Of Email Marketing

There are some dangers of email marketing that may not affect everyone all of the time, but they should be acknowledged, nevertheless. While using email to promote a service or product is a very cost effective and efficient method, it is not a fail safe one. Many people are content with their results from promotion through email, but don’t realise that they could do better just by knowing how to avoid the dangers of email marketing. Read more…

5 Vital Web Design Elements

There are some elements of web design that could be considered vital web design. These are the elements that your web pages actually need. More to the point, they are the elements that will give your web pages the most help from the perspective of the user, as well as from the perspective of the search engines. Vital web design should therefore be considered the core elements, and everything else just useful or pleasing. Read more…

Using Digg For Business

Using Digg for business is not a new idea. It’s been around for a surprisingly long time – as time goes on the Internet, that is. However, using Digg, and many of the other similar Web 2.0 social media sites to enhance business dealings is something that many business people are unsure of. Most of them, especially the older ones, have the feeling that they have somehow missed out on the “new” revolution. It needn’t be so. Read more…

SEO Guaranteed!

SEO guaranteed is a claim sometimes seen with SEO companies in their promotional material. What does it mean? Well, if you are going to use an SEO company, then of course you will expect to have SEO – search engine optimisation – as the main part of the deal. That’s what it’s all about, after all. Would you go to an SEO company and accept the risk of perhaps not actually receiving any search engine optimisation on your web pages? SEO guaranteed becomes a bit meaningless taken to that extreme. Read more…

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