5/11/2012
This in-depth article explores how to make parent-child list relationships in SharePoint 2010 - both at the list level and the user interface form level.
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Tags: Portals, SharePoint, Websites
4/13/2012
Creating new webpages with fresh content is a great way to attract search engine crawlers. The new content signals to search engines and human visitors that your website is valuable, engaging, and not static. Maximize the page's effectiveness through careful search engine optimization.
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Tags: SEO, Websites
4/5/2012
How do we encourage people to visit our websites and spend time exploring products or services? We try to anticipate what the user might want to do next, depending on where they are in the site. Providing options for exploration in the form of contextual information or a strong call-to-action are a way to avoid dead end pages.
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Tags: UX, Websites
1/27/2012
The sound of crickets on an otherwise silent night can invoke an empty, alone feeling—a pleasant feeling that it's just you and the crickets. But this feeling is deadly to your website or collaboration portal. Things like calendars, discussion boards, press release pages can be important communication and engagement tools, but neglect will start the crickets to start chirping.
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Tags: Portals, UX, Websites
10/10/2011
Search Engine Optimization is the ever-changing and never-changing practice of organic (or free) Search Engine Marketing that appears pretty simple yet remains full of mystery. While we’ll probably never know exactly which tactics we’ll need to execute to absolutely positively reach the prized first SERP (Search Engine Result’s Page) slot, there are a few things every Search Engine Marketing and SEO professional will need to do for baseline optimization of their website.
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Tags: SEO, Social, Websites
8/24/2011
As smartphones swiftly take over the world, we’ve all come to expect constant information access at our fingertips. What impact does this have on website design?
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Tags: Mobile, Websites
8/9/2011
Just as it’s important to know what consumers want and tailor your products to their desires, it’s also important to ensure that every form of interaction they have with your brand is driven from their perspective and shaped to appeal to them.
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Tags: Collaboration, UX, Websites
3/17/2011
A lot of discussion is starting to pop up around the concept of social CRM as people seek to understand the concept and how it can be put to use. The discussion reveals that a fair amount of confusion still remains about the definition of social CRM and its components.
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Tags: Business Intelligence, Social, Websites
2/7/2011
Internet use has so greatly taken over our everyday lives and business it may be hard to even remember what running a business took without the speed and ease of the online world. These are the top 4 internet related or integrated technologies and tools that are necessary for business success in 2011.
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Tags: Collaboration, Social, Websites
1/24/2011
With over $9 billion in revenue, it should come as no surprise that eBay’s approach to m-commerce is being recognized as a model for approaching mobile and application retail.
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Tags: General, Mobile, Websites
1/12/2011
With the ever-increasing number of mobile device users and growing sales of smartphones and tablet computers, the need to design and develop websites with the mobile user in mind is shifting from an advanced benefit to a business necessity.
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Tags: Mobile, UX, Websites
12/14/2010
Although a vital part of digital marketing, Facebook and Twitter aren’t representative of a company - they are their own sites with their own brands, and their goal is to help communicate. The face of any company is their website.
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Tags: UX, Websites
9/2/2010
Is your mobile site bringing in traffic? If the response is that you don’t have a mobile site, there are many reasons why you should. Internet surfing via mobile devices is on the rise, but at a faster rate than many companies realize.
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Tags: Mobile, Websites
3/1/2010
Having a mobile site will increase your company’s brand image. Mobile sites are catered to reduce the upload time and amount of bandwidth used on mobile browsing, which helps with cost effectiveness for mobile users who are accessing your company’s site.
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Tags: Mobile, Websites
12/8/2009
Search engines. The updated yellow pages of the new millennium. No longer do we need that thick, dusty book to find whatever it is we are looking for. Over 400 million searches are done on major search engines every day.
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Tags: SEO, Websites
6/23/2009
Good news: WCF programmers no longer need to suffer REST envy in relation to their brethren in the wider development world. .NET developers will now be able to easily achieve both RPC and REST type services in WCF.
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Tags: UX, Websites
1/9/2009
Whenever I begin to dig into a new client’s analytics, I often start with the Bounce Rate. This is the percentage of single-page visits to your site.
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Tags: SEO, Websites