Yearly Archives:

2012

Pros and Cons of a Twitter Business Account

Social networking is an effective way to reach out to millions of people in a clear and concise manner without breaking the bank. Many businesses are creating Twitter accounts to reach out to a larger group of people effectively. There are many factors to consider when deciding whether to open a Twitter account for your business, including how to maximize its benefits.…

Simplified Web Design Concepts

Web designing is an integral part of the modern day world. Since the onset of the dotcom generation, the demand for web design services has been rising tremendously. Let us try to understand some basic web design concepts.…

SEO – DIY or Outsourcing?

SEO can be essential for small businesses operating online – whether completely or partially. Getting noticed on the web usually starts with attracting the attentions of search engines; high rank means customers, or at least, potential customers. The top three or four results in most search engines are those that get the clicks. If you're going to make it online, that's where you need to be. Many new businesses will face a simple choice: in-house SEO or outsourced SEO. Here's a look at the advantages and disadvantages to both approaches.…

Ad Placement and Your Web Design

If you are creating a website with profit in mind, and if the business model you're using is the tried and true AdSense model, then the placement of adverts is something that you need to consider strongly as you do so. Many people here make the mistake of building a website and then thinking afterward about where they are going to place the adverts. This then results in a website that has adverts tacked on, and which no one is likely to notice or click on; or worse, in adverts that are tacked on over the top of the content and which distract from the words themselves and drive away visitors. What's important then is to make sure that you consider where your ads will be placed before your site design in order to ensure that it is placed smartly in relation to the content and other images.…

Running a Site on a Subject You Know Nothing About

When you launch a new website then often you will do so expecting to know something about the topic you are writing on. Of course this makes the most sense as it means that you will already be well versed in the subject and will have plenty of articles you can write already without having to spend time researching.…

HTML 5 Video Embedding VS Youtube

Originally launched by Opera Software, Hypertext Markup Language or HTML 5 is a language for structuring and displaying contents on the internet, mainly the videos. By the use of different tags and other features, video embedding is to insert or place a video within the HTML code on the internet. This browser language is dependent and at times can look unusual if you have Internet Explorer or other software like Netscape installed. Mainly video embedding is to create or upload videos online with an embedded player which can be located directly on the webpage. HTML 5 greatly differs from YouTube which uses Flash player unlike HTML 5. Flash, initially introduced by Macromedia in 1997, is largely used to present animations. The users ought to have a "Flash Player" installed on their computer system as Flash depends on the plug-in and not the browser. This allows you to use Flash no matter which browser you are using.…

Do You know Worth of Nofollow backlink to your site

It is the age of blogging and the word "following" means quite a lot to bloggers, to say the least. One thing that bloggers encourage is comments, lots of them. It is these comments that enable the blog owner to mingle with their readers and get some constructive advice even. In comes the word "spam". Yes, people use the comment box as some ground for advertising their own sites, products, whatever.…

Choosing Wallpapers as Background on Websites

When choosing a background for your website you have many choices. You can select to just show a plain background with some color in it or you can choose some background image. Sometimes I use vertical gradients as a background on my sites. The gradient color matches the color theme of the website in whole. On other hand sometimes I just go for some stripes and tiles stuff. Which when given a repeat property in CSS would look good. In the stripes and tiles case I go for contrast rather then the blending effect.…

Getting into Facebook

Everyone wants to interact on the internet. When blogs started it was via comments which most of us know were heavily abused by SEOs and Link Builders so came the nofollow stuff. Some big blogs don't allow URL to be entered and some are not even allowing comments now.…