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Web Site Optimization: How To Speed Up Your Web Site By Minimizing Your GIF and PNG Image Bit-Depth


Are bloated images slowing down your web site and causing you lost business? Images comprise over 50% of the average web page so putting them on a diet is essential to improving web performance. One of the best ways to optimize GIFs and PNGs is to minimize the ?bit-depth? or the number of colors within your images.

5 Tips For A Better Website


Having an eye catching website is great, but are you optimizing your website to allow the best performance possible? I receive several emails a day from clients asking how they can get more hits to their websites, what can be done to increase sales, and how to prepare their sites for search engines. There are very simple things that can be done to help your website perform its best.

10 Things You Should Be Monitoring On Your Website


Every business needs to know how it is doing. That's the idea behind exit surveys, customer feedback forms, suggestion boxes and other devices. Without feedback from the customer, monitoring inventory, expenses, revenue and other benchmarks, a business can take a quick slide down a slippery slope, without the owner ever seeing it coming ? or being able to stop the slide.

Conceptualize, Build and Publish a Web site


Conceptualize, Build and Publish a Web site - What's required to get started

Profitable Websites for Exclusive Industries


In the region where my company is located, South Bend, Indiana, the demand for web design and associated services could be described as: leery. It?s not that the locale is horribly lacking evolvement technologically; rather that so many proprietors in this area are very uncertain as to what the internet can do and how they can go about forming profitable web sites for their exclusive industries.

Why You Need A Web Site


"I have a small business with just a couple of employees and I don?t think my product can really be sold online. Do I need a web site?"

Making The Business Case For Web Standards


Through the explosive growth of the Web, companies have realized the benefit of building a strong online presence. By publishing a website to the Internet, companies are able to build their brand, market their products, support existing customers, release publicity pieces, and even take orders. Lost in the feverish pace of growth however, has been an eye on the effect that their current web-building practices have on the bottom line and the future of their online presence. Not only does the website content itself have an impact on the company's income but so does the way the site itself is created.

Enhance Your Website With A Yahoo-Style Directory


Does your website have a links/resources page?

Website Development: Become Your Own Expert


Starting and maintaining a business is challenging enough without the additional financial burden of hiring a web site expert to put your vision on paper. If you are starting your business on a ?shoe string budget,? hiring someone to take your written materials to type in a basic format, add a few pictures and edit what you tell them periodically may not be sound money management.

How To Get Profits From Your 404 Page Not Found File


"'Page Not Found' on this Server. Check the URL and try again. Or Refresh the page..."

Tips to Protect Your Downloads or Products


1. Upload robots.txt file in to your root directory and include the folder name where you set your downloads.

Top 7 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Website


A website provides invaluable advantages for businesses who have one.

Guide to Internet Business - Design and Content


After deciding what kind of internet business you want to do, it's time to start planning the design and content of your business. Many people make the mistake of skipping this step, choosing instead to immediately start work on their website. However, a website is just a door into your internet business; and a door is pretty useless if there's nothing beyond it. An internet business, like any other business, requires proper planning and design if it's going to succeed.

What Does An Ex-Basketball Coach Know About Pulling Web Metrics?


In my previous life.....

Web Development Processes and Technical Environments


The process of Web application development is critical to the success of web-based projects. The proper processes can not be enforced unless technical environments are properly setup. Technical environments are required for development, test and production.

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