Business

There you are, project manager of a brand new project, you have done your project planning and have started implementation. Now you are thinking about what you can tell your PMI colleagues at the next chapter meeting, creating a wondrous spreadsheet to avoid project failure and revolutionize project control, and learning how to use a […]

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Subscribers rely on the magazine’s practical and comprehensive information on the Internet’s many applications in retailing, including Web merchandising, multi-channel integration, marketing, and supply chain management.
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Full-time freelancing: 10 more things provides a useful list of things he learned in his first year of freelancing full-time as a Web designer. Though it focuses on Web design, much of the advice if useful for other business. Here’s my commentary from a freelance writer’s perspective.
Speed: I try to work fast when doing freelance […]

Your About Page Is a Robot caught my attention especially since I’ve been reviewing over 100 sites in a specific industry. Some don’t have About pages, some had them — but they were not helpful, and a select few succeeded.
The About page also gives your company a human touch. What your About page should contain […]

They say it takes seven points of contact before someone who shows interest in your Web site, knowledge, products, and/or services becomes a paying customer. Even people who are already your fans often need that extra poke to help remember the ways you provide value to them. What does this mean if you’re an online […]

Someone interested in breaking into information design contacted me to ask about the field, whether a degree or certificate would help, and the tools and skills used. It’s a very broad question as information design covers everything including print. But I answered the question from the online perspective and thought others may benefit from this […]

Designing Web sites for events requires a different thought process and approach than a regular Web site. Of course, every design project should be unique, but events have features in common that should be discussed in every project. Such common features include:

Home page: Event name, date, location and quick explanation of what it’s about and […]

The folks over at Microsoft are set to build a new data center facility in San Antonio, Texas. The entire facility will cost around $550 million, and will cover 400,000 square feet and housing tens of thousands of computers to host their services.
This new facility will be Microsoft’s first data center in […]

Now everybody knows GoDaddy.com is world famous for selling domain names. It seems like more often than not these days though it is trying to expand itself into other areas of the Web. The most recent expansion of Web services included Photo Filer. This new feature offers you another method for sharing […]

Ah, online shopping. I think we’ve all been in THIS place: You’re poised over the BUY NOW button on a Web site that appears legit… but, who really knows? To click or not to click, that is the question. What if you DO click, and you’re instantly sucked into a vacuum of terror and confusion?
If […]

Before you chalk it up to the stupid user majority and throw in the towel on another failed Web business venture, consider this: Just ONE paid Web site crash test expert can make all the difference… not only on your conversion rate, but on repeat business that continues to gain momentum at every turn. And […]

Would you like to get an in-depth view of how your customers run their businesses? Well, you can do exactly that with an online service known as GoogSpy. GoogSpy is a research tool that will tell you what keywords your competitors are bidding on.
This tool tracks over 500,000 keywords every day from Google and then […]

OK, so 10 grand for a single Webpage design sounds insane, right? Well depending on who you ask, it seems that it was not always all that insane…

Here’s a tongue-in-cheek look at why people fail at Web site promotion.
So, you want to fail miserably at Web site Promotion. It’s easy if you don’t try. Follow these three easy steps and you will be the laughing stock of your online neighborhood - that is, if anyone can find you.

Start without any particular […]

If you can’t get your Web pages to rank well in Google, try Yahoo! or MSN. Many folks have chimed in on this thread in the DigitalPoint forums regarding the relative ease of getting a good ranking in the MSN search engine. Another interesting thread discussed over at WebmasterWorld concerns the rankings on MSN that […]

In general, I am all about any company that can empower the user of CMS (Content Management). And yet unlike many press releases, the one with regard to MOSHEN MEDIA appears to be spot on. Congrats on the success and here is to many more years of the same!

You know, I have read a number of how-to articles on this subject and up till now, none of them were anything to get too excited about. But I have to admit that the one below is pretty well rounded for the beginner. Check it out…

Targeting smaller to medium sized businesses without an IT staff is a hot market right now. As I see from Microsoft’s strategy in the Office Live front, they appear to understand this and want to make life easier in this realm as well.

Is your client’s Website offering all that it should? Are their new technologies that really ought to be implemented? Chances are, you may have missed something and perhaps it is time for a site review?

A lot of Web applications exist to help people find products and services to solve various needs. In this I include all e-commerce sites, all sites that basically market stuff, consumer review sites, yellow pages, and other directories.
Where they fail is that none of them can recommend the best solution to what you need. […]