The best way to prevent high-resolution pictures (like those added directly from a camera to the website that cause pages to take forever to load) from being inserted is to process them in an image editing program like Photoshop prior to uploading them. By doing this you can set their resolution to
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Designer: how to prevent the "Giant Picture from Client Syndrome" - Part II
Posted by YWD under TechnologyFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4640 days ago
Designer: how to prevent the "Giant Picture from Client Syndrome" - Part I
Posted by YWD under TechnologyFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4640 days ago
As a designer, when you create a website for a client, you hope that your layout stays intact as much as possible. But ultimately the website belongs to your client, and if they can change the content at any time on their own – which a handy system like Your Web Department enables them to do – some
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Creating effective landing pages by Flavio Mester
Posted by YWD under TechnologyFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4641 days ago
Whenever you do an online marketing campaign for your business, instead of sending people to your Home page, it is a good idea to send them to a specific page that's directly related to the campaign. That page is known as a "landing page" and it's best practice to keep its content simple and includ
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How to add any of hundreds of fonts from the Google Web Fonts library to your website by Flavio Me
Posted by YWD under TechnologyFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4642 days ago
Google Web Fonts is an online library containing hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web, maintained by Google. Basically all you need to do is copy and paste a couple of lines that are specific to the font you choose from Google Web Fonts into YWD Designer. The font then can be s
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Consumer technology is ruling the home and business
Posted by YWD under TechnologyFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4643 days ago
...Not every company wants Apple to focus more on their needs. Fidelity’s Blunck would rather have Apple continue to make breakthrough consumer products that create new ways for its customers to use Fidelity’s services.
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Paul Chato "Interviews a website"
Posted by YWD under MarketingFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4648 days ago
About a year ago I came up with the "Treat your website as if it were an employee" concept. The observation being that most companies put up a website and just hope for the best. Their prime motivator being that their competition had one. Taking this to its logical conclusion I thought that if comp
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How small businesses use social media: [Infographic]
Posted by amabaie under Online MarketingFrom http://www.intuit.com 4649 days ago
Made Hot by: HomeBusinessMedia on March 1, 2012 6:08 pm
More small businesses than ever are turning to social media to generate new business and connect with customers. With over 9 million small businesses on its platform, the most popular social network for building brand awareness is Facebook, which just unveiled its new Timeline format for businesses
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Social Media Flowchart [Infographic]
Posted by tomshark under Social MediaFrom http://www.capturecommerce.com 4649 days ago
Made Hot by: Small Business Tribe on March 4, 2012 7:46 am
all things Social Media – From the very early stages of what accounts to set up as well as how to maintain and monitor them from start to finish
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YWD clients using mobile websites - Case Study
Posted by YWD under TechnologyFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4650 days ago
An example of how some of our clients are utilizing mobile for their business needs.
Client:
Metroshow (metroshow.net)
Metroshow is a company located in Mendoza Argentina. They own 3 bars/discos: apeteco (apeteco.com), La Guanaca (pasionymatraca.com) and GEO (geodiscoclub.com)
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Client:
Metroshow (metroshow.net)
Metroshow is a company located in Mendoza Argentina. They own 3 bars/discos: apeteco (apeteco.com), La Guanaca (pasionymatraca.com) and GEO (geodiscoclub.com)
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Customer service is what SMBs should do. What you make is just a happy accident.
Posted by YWD under Customer ServiceFrom http://blog.yourwebdepartment.com 4651 days ago
Here's a shock. Most SMBs have it all wrong. We think what we sell or make is what we do. No, that's completely wrong. It's always been wrong, but even more so now because it's so easy for someone else to do the same thing you're doing and probably cheaper. No, most of us are actually in the custom
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