If you are a small business owner & want to market yourself through your website the following three are critical for your success. Good Design A professional-looking, user-friendly website design that achieves your ultimate goals is a must. Good design also builds credibility for your business. The underlying code of your site design has to [...]
07
Jun
Google to abandon older browsers
A recent news item stated “Google to abandon older browsers “. Google is phasing out support for older browsers from 1 August. Those using IE7, Safari 3, Firefox 3.5 and their predecessors to view Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites will then lose some functions. Eventually, it warned, these web services will stop working [...]
29
May
Christchurch business hosting offer
I have come up with a heavily discounted offer for Christchurch businesses. As a small business owner I know how difficult it is when hard times come. A while ago I had an email from one of my existing customers, stating that a business owner she knew is Christchurch could not access his website as [...]
18
May
10 things visitors will dislike on your website
10 things visitors will dislike on your website 1. Bridge pages – that have big graphics & say enter- these pages were the norm 10-15 years ago. Nowadays web users are savvy & want to access content immediately. They also slow page loading time & google will punish your site 2. Flash intros – Avoid [...]
13
May
A Blog Adds to Your Site Traffic
I was at Linkedin today. There was a question from a user. Should I keep my blog separate from my professional site or mash it up into one site? The majority of the answers were “keep it separate” Very few – mostly the web desginers & SEO experts said to keep it together. My take [...]
13
May
Link Building
Search Engines place a lot of importance on links that are pointing to your website. Who links and how they link to you are what determines where your site will rank for competitive search queries. When we write content for our sites – about our products/services or about our strengths we tend to overdo & [...]
04
May
Amazing Software
I stumbled on evernote a few years ago. For some reason I stopped using it. Found it again a few weeks ago. How did I manage without this amazing software. It makes my life so much easier. It is my online journal to do list address book clip board (literally as I place clippings all [...]
30
Apr
Have Been away…
I was away on a road trip in Australia for the past two weeks. Most of it in the outback. So no mobile phone coverage, no Internet, No newspapers. Initially it was hard – for about two days. Got the hang of it soon though. I had set up a blog – to blog about [...]
04
Apr
Scam awareness week
This week is scam awareness week. According to statistics New Zealand loses up to $450 million in scams every year. Online scams are a large portion of that. Demography wise the elderly are most vulnerable ( I think it is because they are more trusting & not very tech savvy) The biggest portion seems to [...]
02
Apr
Malware sites
Yesterday I was searching the net for a Rotary Club logo. I need it for a project I am doing at present. There a few sites that had good images. I clicked on one on of them on Google. And the next thing I knew what some sort of scan was going on of my [...]
