Strategic Internet Marketing for Small Businesses
It’s taken a couple years, but the webinar has finally taken off. How do we know? Have a look at our inbox – it’s full of invitations for this, that and the other one.
While we don’t have time to attend every session (we’re too busy blogging), we’ve seen plenty of marketing-based sessions to offer our opinion on the oft-overlooked dos and don’ts.
Microsoft has had more misses than hits lately – problem-plagued Vista; the slow release of Surface; those Jerry Seinfeld commercials – but just because the comp-tech corporation is down doesn’t mean it’s out.
Last year, Microsoft launched PhizzPop, a site that allows companies that build Web 2.0-enhanced software to exchange ideas, network, browse job postings, and engage in a host of other related activities. Not limited to its gallery of forward-thinking Web practices, the site is also a forum for online conversation about the future of Internet design. Continue reading ‘Pop, Pop, PhizzPop’
One common mistake of online marketing is that the “SEO Experts” and “SEO Specialists” are brought in too late into the process. Instead of thinking of search engine optimization as something you tweak, how about considering it as something you build? What about the SEO Architects?
And who would the SEO Architects be? They would be your own web developers.
What is website accessibility all about, you ask? Simply put, it is constructing your site in such a way that visitors with disabilities can access your web content. What happens when someone using a screen reader encounters that mind-blowing graphical banner that your designer created? Is there an awkward pause, or does your page handle the situation gracefully and keep the conversation going?
The checklists below offer a set of standards and best practices that will put you well on your way to ensuring that your site’s content is available to as wide an audience as possible. As an added bonus, making your site accessible helps improve SEO as well as the experience of users with mobile devices.
Accessibility Checklists:
The w3c browser usage statistics from Jan. are in. No big changes from previous months, but look for IE6 usage to start shifting over to IE7 in the coming months as Microsoft is scheduled to start including upgrades to IE7 as part of their auto update on Feb.12.
Jan. 08 Browser Statistics:
| Firefox | IE6 | IE7 | Safari | IE5 | Opera | Mozilla |
| 37.2% | 32.0% | 21.2% | 1.9% | 1.5% | 1.4% | 1.3% |
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