Website Design & Marketing

Archive for August, 2009
Web Designers Gain A New Resource For Inspiration
Posted in Graphic Design, Industry News, Web Design & Development on August 28th, 2009 by Rusty

With the internet expanding rapidly coming up with new creative designs can be a daunting task. That’s why we created a website to help do just that, inspire designers. WebInspir.com is a web 2.0 designer inspiration website. Where online designers can submit their…

LinkShare Opens Pay-Per-Call, Turns Heads
Posted in Industry News on August 27th, 2009 by Rusty

Originally posted on Website Magazine

LinkShare has a long, productive history in the affiliate space, and the latest LinkShare innovation is already turning heads. Pay-per-call gives publishers and affiliates a new way to earn – both online and offline. LinkShare provides custom, individual…

jQuery Anything Slider Plugin
Posted in Javascript / AJAX on August 26th, 2009 by Rusty

Originally Posted at CSS-Tricks

Just what the world needs, another jQuery slider. YAWN. I know, check this one out though, it’s got lots of cool features.

Here on CSS-Tricks, I’ve created a number of different sliders. Three, in fact. A “featured content” slider,…

Google Adds Keyword Predictions to Search Insights Keyword Tool
Posted in Online Marketing on August 25th, 2009 by Rusty

Google recently upgraded their Insights for Search tool to include predicted keyword search volumes as well as interactive maps of how keyword search volume changes over time.

There are lots of business implications of the forecast data:

Having predictable trends for a…

5 Important Link Building Strategies to Kickstart your Website
Posted in Online Marketing on August 24th, 2009 by Rusty

Originally posted at DivitoDesign.com

Link building is a very important strategy in your search engine optimizing campaign. In the first part of my search engine optimizing tutorial, I gave you 8 SEO tips that you can implant on your website or blog. Today,…

How to Create Totally Secure Cookies
Posted in PHP / MySQL, Web Design & Development on August 24th, 2009 by Rusty

Originally Posted at Carsonified.com

Securing cookies and sessions is vital to keeping an application secure. Many tutorials have been written on the subject, but as the internet (and browsers loading it) evolve so do the methods you can use to keep your application…

32 Google Ranking Optimization Tips
Posted in Online Marketing, Web Design & Development on August 21st, 2009 by Alex

Figuring out the process of SEO can be quite a challenge. Knowing what you need to do and what work best and where to put your performance is a daunting task. So this is where I can help you out by providing 32…

10 Recession Marketing Myths De-Bunked
Posted in Online Marketing on August 20th, 2009 by Rusty

This post was written by DJ Francis at experiencematters.criticalmass.com we loved it so much we posted on our blog. We do not take credit in writing this post what so ever.

Former CMer David Armano wrote a popular post here in early 2008…

Creating a Custom MySpace 2.0 Profile
Posted in Graphic Design, Social Networking, Web Design & Development on August 20th, 2009 by Rusty

Customizing social media pages is an important factor for designers, users, and social media marketers. The ability to create custom backgrounds and designs for myspace, twitter, etc. can become a lucrative business model for savvy designers and developers.

Compared to many other social networking sites, Myspace…

Web Analytics with Instant Gratification
Posted in Online Marketing on August 17th, 2009 by Rusty

I was searching for more detailed reports when I came across a blog post from Useful Tools. Going over the review on W3Counter. I remember using the counter company back in the day but never thought I could get such up to…