Saturday, October 25, 2008

Web Personalization for One-to-One Web Marketing

Today's World Wide Web market is becoming more competitive, so it's more important than ever to provide customers with an interactive, personal Web experience.

Personalization is not Technology: Using Web Personalization to Promote your Business Goal

Personalization, properly implemented, brings focus to your message and delivers an experience that is visitor-oriented, quick to inform, and relevant. Personalization, poorly implemented, complicates the user experience and orphans content.

Monday, October 20, 2008

100 Web Designers to follow on Twitter

If you’re looking to connect with other web designers on Twitter then this 100 web designers who use twitter will help you.

25 Website Designs To Draw Inspiration From

this will help you get your creative juices flowing!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Why you should care about web strategy

A web strategist is first a real estate agent, then an architect, and then returns to being a real estate agent again. Find out why.

Web strategy to help lower your bounce rate

One of the most interesting statistics to track on your website is “bounce” rate. A visitor who looks at one page on your site then leaves without viewing a second page has bounced.

Frank Deardurff

Check out Frank Deardurff's blog site focused on web strategy.

Userfix: A social feedback hub


The social feedback hub. A community of web enthusiasts crowd-sourcing user feedback by reporting bugs and requesting features for any website. Empowering the users to surface the most requested features and to reproduce the most reported bugs on their own environments.

Edicy

Edicy

A new kind of a website building tool, which focuses on business users and is localized for a number of different languages and markets. It's a complete service for building a website and publishing it to any web address.

Sunday, October 05, 2008

Top 7 most cliche stock images used in web design



Sometimes clients ask us to implement ‘not-so-unique’ elements into our designs and sometimes it seems almost impossible to convince them otherwise, however, hopefully this post can suggest some reasons why not to use the old web design stock imagery clichés.

Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible?

wow Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

How many browsers are out there and do all these browsers show me the same exact site that I created down to the very pixel?

11 Free web based tools

Most of these tools are not very well known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Try them out.

Saturday, October 04, 2008

So how does one calculate engagement?

Eric Peterson provides some insight into the methods by which to calculate engagement on the web.

Engagement...is it really a metric?

Measuring “engagement” seems to be this long standing quest on the web. Read Avinash's thoughts on this subject.

Behavioral Targeting Resources

Here are some links to great resources dealing with behavioral targeting.

Splash Pages: Do We Really Need Them?

Splashpage Screenshot

Yes, sometimes we do. Should we use them? No, we probably shouldn’t. Splash screen (or splash page) is a front page of a web-site that don’t provide the actual content, but offers visitors some kind of intuition or background information for what the site is about.

Graduated from Link Building High School Yet?

Great article on how to construct inbound links so they affect your search rankings for individual keywords that you want to rank for.

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