Yes, you also need a mobile version of your websitesite. Mobile isn’t coming, it’s here. The numbers are staggering, 3.6 billion people around the world use mobile devices. 500,000 android devises are activated every day and as of December 2011 50% of Americans had a smartphone. Mobile is growing f
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Why a mobile website is important for your business
Posted by YWD under MarketingFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4526 days ago
Why your website should be like a matchbook cover
Posted by YWD under MarketingFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4526 days ago
The answer of course is matchbook covers. Introduced at the turn of the century, paper matchbook covers enjoyed huge popularity as an advertising medium into the 1950s when disposable lighters were introduced and smoking developed its you-will-die-using-this-shit stigma.
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Your Guide to starting a blog the right way Week 6 - Building traffic through Blogs by Pilar Galina
Posted by YWD under Social MediaFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4532 days ago
Back in week one I mentioned that one of the most powerful aspects of a blog is its ability to act as the hub for all your social media. When you combine this hub concept with a Search Engine Optimization strategy, your blog becomes one of your greatest tools for being found.
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Our Internet is not their Internet by Paul Chato
Posted by YWD under MarketingFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4535 days ago
The Internet we are celebrating and using today is the slimmest approximation of what the Internet will eventually evolve to, assuming there is some kind of end point. Kind of like the reverse of the big bang theory. We have a better idea of where the Universe is heading than how it all began and w
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Choosing a preferred image for your blogs Facebook Likes by Flavio Mester
Posted by YWD under Social MediaFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4538 days ago
Whenever someone ‘likes’ one of your blog posts, Facebook will by default pick any image from the page and place it on the person’s wall. It can be an advertiser’s logo or some undesired interface element with no relation to your post. So we wanted to give our clients more control.
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Your Guide to starting a blog the right way Week 5 - Writing for the web by Pilar Galiana
Posted by YWD under Social MediaFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4538 days ago
By now you should have a nice list of blog topics and you are likely eager to get started, but before you do, I need to remind you to write for the web. The best part about writing for the web is that shorter is better. Web users are active - by that I mean they quickly scan content and move on - o
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Inserting your own CSS into your website by Flavio Mester
Posted by YWD under TechnologyFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4539 days ago
You don't need to know anything about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in order to design a great website using the YWD platform. All the formatting is generated for you from your choices in YWD Designer. But there may be instances where you may want to extend or even override YWD's settings, and if yo
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Get found using SEO (the basics) by Gustavo Jabbaz
Posted by YWD under TechnologyFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4540 days ago
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) are the actions you can take that will help your potential customers find you when they use things like Google to search for a product or service. Lucky for you, Your Web Department has all the tools in place to help you optimize your site. Things like site maps, he
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Don't Create a New Business, Just Create New Termonology by Paul Chato
Posted by YWD under MarketingFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4541 days ago
Let me get this right out. I hated sociology in university. I thought it was a load of crap. It was a pseudo science wrapped up in words like, gemeinschaft and gesellschaft and ethnocentrism. Blah. I always got into trouble because I would explain human interactions using common English words, and
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Auto-resizing images to fit your page layout
Posted by YWD under TechnologyFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4541 days ago
In Your Web Department clients upload and insert images on their own, and sometimes they may not fit within the page layout. Also as more people are creating a mobile-optimized version of their website we wanted to make their lives easier by taking care of any sizing issues for them.
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