Tag: Web Code
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How to Look Like a Pro on Facebook: Facebook Expands Preferred Developer Consultant Program
There’s a lot more to creating an enticing Business Page or application on Facebook than just slapping your logo on it, adding a fewcoupons and hoping customers and potential clients will stumble across it. Justlike your company website requires a dedicated programmer or designer, entrepreneursconsidering a Facebook storefront should also retain qualified professionalhelp. Brands, corporations…
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Tips for Interior Pages of Your Website
Everybody knows the importance of making a positive first impression, but if you assume prospective customers first encounter your website through its homepage, think again. Natural search results drive users to individual pages that best match each user’s search query, and often that page is not your site’s homepage. On the more than 25 websites…
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Nielsen Wants to Take the Mystery out of Measuring Online Advertising
What do you say when someone asks how your online advertising is performing? It’s a good question, but the answer can be nebulous because measuring ad results online is a difficult proposition. It’s difficult to decipher what the metrics really mean and it’s difficult to compare your results with another media. And then there’s the…
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4 Common Website Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Ask your target demographic what it thinks about your website’s usability, programming and design, and you’re bound to receive a variety of responses. These can range from “looks good to me,” to “I didn’t find what I was looking for,” or “I think it sucks.” Everyone has an opinion. A more likely scenario is that…
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Websites in Motion: When you’re designing your site for the mobile web, the secret is simplicity
Juniper Research estimates that the number of mobile web users will grow from 1.2 billion this year to more than 2.4 billion in 2014. While many of these users will be able to surf the mobile web just as they do on their desktop and laptop computers, hundreds of millions of others will still be…
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Understanding HTML5 and Why it Matters
In the year 2000, HTML4 was christened the official language for web page development. A decade later, an eternity on the web, we are just beginning to hear about the next generation of HTML – HTML5. Someday soon, HTML5 will dominate the web and completely change the way you develop your website and web-based applications.…
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Avoid being held hostage by your Web designer
Recently, I received an e-mail message from a reader of my Entrepreneur magazine column inquiring whether I could help her company gain access to source code that a third-party programmer had created on their behalf and is being used to run certain areas of her company’s website. Her company had hired a Web design and…
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Go Right to the Source (Code): Ensure a bug-free website by following the best practices of programming and design set by W3C
When I consult with a business about its website, I start by asking if it has ever viewed its site’s source code. For the uninitiated, source code–which can be generated by many different computer programming/scripting languages and is accessible under the “View” menu of most web browsers–is what makes your website operational. Comprised mostly of…