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web development
Web marketing, conversion book: ‘Convert!’ by Ben Hunt
As a web designer for the past 17 years, I have had varying success in helping small business owners understand web marketing and conversion techniques — how a website can work like a machine to attract people who are searching for your offerings, and then guide them...
Website traffic statistics: More than 15,000 visits in July
MarkCz.com received 15,465 visits in July, as recorded by Google Analytics — and 16,365 according to Clicky Web Analytics — so we are trending upward, as shown in the above website traffic graph of visits per month for the last year. [includeme...
Posting on Facebook: Content creator or slave?
Consider this aspect of Facebook's business model: There are currently some 500 million people creating content for Facebook, yet Facebook pays them nothing. Social media The implications of the social media revolution hit me one morning when I came down to the...
How to start a business, for freelance graphic designers
With more people turning to freelance jobs — freelance writing jobs, freelance design jobs, freelance work of all kinds — in the aftermath of the economic crisis, it's helpful to have some solid advice on the topic of how to start a business. How do you write a...
Website redesign, domain change
Testing, 1, 2, 3. Is this thing on? We've just gone through a domain change. And a website redesign. Between designing other people's websites to help them make more money, and working on this site to make it more effective, I feel like I've been living underground...
George W. Bush library pays $35,000 for Web domain name
The web domain name for the George W. Bush library was in the news today on NPR's Morning Edition: The name is www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com. A Florida firm was handling Web services for the presidential library. The Dallas Morning News reports that the company's rights...
Social media smorgasbord: Four weeks wandering Web 2.0
Nothing in particular has inspired any new blog posts here in recent weeks. Instead, I've spent much of my free time playing around with a few of the endless new gizmos that are hatching every minute in the now four-year-old world of "Web 2.0," the cross-fed,...
Twitter it away
There has been quite a lot of Internet buzz in the last month or three over Twitter. It's a Web 2.0 service that encourages you to publicly post (via Web, IM, or text message) very short descriptions of whatever you happen to be doing at the moment. [includeme...
My website fell asleep
Holy smokes! Six weeks have gone by. There was a phone call at the end of August about developing a small Web site. The next thing I knew, I was sitting down in my office every morning at 6 a.m., walking downstairs for dinner after 7 p.m.,...
Home office in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Kenosha, Wisconsin — Self-portrait: At work on an Apple computer workstation in my home office, surrounded by books.