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Starting an Online Business: Internet Marketing
Getting a fully functional website and email set up is the first stage of getting a business online, next you have to think about letting people know it’s there, unsurprisingly, the best way to do that is online with Internet marketing.A common misconception, or simply unconsidered thing for new website owners, is assuming that once the websi...
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Javascript Explained: What Does It Do?
Javascript is all about making web design more dynamic; whilst HTML and CSS have classically focused on laying out the page and content for you to look at, javascript made it possible to start adding in things you could interact with, it made web pages a living thing rather than a static display and integrated cleanly and easily into HTML pages.Som...
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Is Google+ any good for small businesses?
Note that the information below is historical. Google shutdown this service for business and personal users on April 2, 2019Google+, the search engine's response to Facebook, has survived over a year and made it through the 400 million member mark which is quite an achievement in a short space of time and an already crowded marketpl...
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Hire the Right Web Designer; Tips for Spotting the Cowboys
Like any industry, web design is full of talented individuals and companies offering high quality services to their clients, but there’s also a fair share of cowboys out there and a few who just don’t know quite what they’re doing. Fortunately, with a little heads up it’s pretty easy to identify the wheat from the chaff.One ...
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What is Pay Per Click Advertising?
Increasingly the Internet is evolving into an advertising fuelled medium. Most users expect web services to come free of charge (for example Facebook, YouTube, etc.), so the web based companies providing these services collect revenues by selling advertising space.For many years banner advertising was the only real option, with advertisers paying t...
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Evolution of Web Design; Today and Tomorrow
In the current age clean and simple is still greatly favoured by web designers, but little by little people are rediscovering the power of colour and images. Well designed websites today are rich with colours, often beautifully balanced into a true piece of branding rather than just mushing as much together as possible.One of the lead trends of the...
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Flash Explained: What Does It Do?
You break Googles guidelines, break the law, but you get a better business profile online. Is it worth it? Fake reviews can aid your business, but can also be a quick way to fall.Flash was one of the first big evolutions of web design that could be clearly seen by anyone surfing the web. Early websites were very static and rather bland due to the s...
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CSS Explained What Does It Do?
After HTML, CSS is one of the most widely utilised web languages, incorporating seamlessly with HTML code to handle visual design elegantly and in a way that keeps websites fast loading and easy to maintain and update.Prior to CSS (which stands for Cascading Style Sheets), HTML was used to set all of the visual elements of a web page. It did so ver...
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Evolution of Web Design: Late 2000s
As more and more technologies and languages began to emerge alongside the development of broadband download speeds, web design forged ahead into maturity and began to diversify in hundreds of directions.Flash websites showed off a visual smorgasbord of animations, sounds, images and games, conventional business stayed sober with meticulously logica...
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HTML Explained - What Does It Do?
Web designers are always using abbreviations like HTML, CSS or PHP when discussing putting websites together, these are examples of terms specialised to web design just as any other business sector has its products, systems and equipment that no one else uses. These particular abbreviations all have something in common though; they are examples of ...
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