Technology has evolved at an exceptional speed. Nowadays, a car is more than just a vehicle, it’s an intricate computer system, controlling things like the audio-visual system or the rear-facing camera that assists with reversing. Lost are the days where OnStar was the only roadside-assistance service. Now with virtually any smartphone a myriad of functions [...]
Do Website Visits Translate into Sales?
September 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Individuals and companies who have a website want visitors to visit their site. However, the fact is that website traffic does not necessarily generate money. Here are some questions that business owners should consider: Where is the traffic coming from? Which pages are visitors landing on the most? What percentage of visitors are repeat visitors? [...]
Governments & The Internet
August 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The way we are governed has evolved and will continue to evolve. At one point the printed press forced the evolution of how our population became educated. This era is being forced to evolve due to the presence and influence of the internet. This includes how governments must adapt and change. The riots occurring in [...]
50 Million and Counting
July 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the leading open source platforms on the web today has recently cemented its position by reaching a milestone. WordPress powers more than 50 million websites, about half of which are hosted on WordPress.com. Also, more than 287 million people view more than 2.5 billion pages on WordPress.com each month. Daily, WordPress.com users create about 500,000 [...]
The Evolution of Domain Names
June 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today, voters voted to allow unlimited new domain names based on themes, such as company brands, entertainment and political causes. It is reported that groups can pay a $185,000 application fee in order to petition for updates to “.com” and “.net” with website suffixes. These suffixes include words in any language, including in Arabic, Chinese [...]
Are Fonts Slowing Down Your Site?
June 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Typekit one of the simplest, most popular ways to put various fonts on your website. If you’ve never been on Typekit before, all you have to do is sign up for an account, pick a font, and paste a few lines of code into your pages. A problem arises with this default way of embedding Typekit fonts. [...]
What’s With All the Hype?
May 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Writing code is required to create animations using web standards like HTML5, CSS 3 and JavaScript. Currently, there’s nothing like Adobe’s Flash application for designers who want to stick with web standards. Hype, which is a new Mac OS X application, which uses many of the familiar interface elements that Adobe Flash, hopes to change that. [...]
What Google Has to Offer
April 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last week, Google released Page Speed Online, which analyzes websites for its speed and gives suggestions on how to improve it. Users are able to type in a website and Google will come back with suggestions (“high,” “medium,” or “low”) on how to improve that website’s speed. Google also displays which rules of thumb a [...]
Web Apps for Gathering Customer Feedback
March 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here are a couple of tools that will help your business solicit feedback through the web: Uservoice creates a simple forum for your users to submit and vote on feedback. Customers can access the forum through a widget embedded on your site or through a dedicated forum page. Customers submit ideas, issues or suggestions, and [...]
An Alternative to Google Analytics
February 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Google Analytics is a widely used web analytics solution that gives you insights into your website traffic. It’s simple and easy to use, but the depth of the analysis can be lacking at times. There are other options available to you and one that gives you more detailed relevant information is called PulseFlow. According to [...]
