Ever started up a blog or news section for your online business, but gave up due to lack of time? You certainly wouldn’t be the first, but that abandoned section could negatively impact on your sales.
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News currency on web sites
Even Google hates splash pages
Well, that’s somewhat an exaggeration, but Google does recognize that lots of folks (me included) hate those interruptive and usually bandwidth intensive splash pages.
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Auto playing video
Before allowing video to automatically play when a page is loaded, there’s something very important to consider.
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A webslice of IE 8
Internet Explorer 8 will be available as a more stable beta for Joe Surfer soon and one of the interesting features I’ve been reading about recently are “webslices” and how they relate to ecommerce.
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Image file sizes
Working at a web hosting company gives you not only an interesting insight into common problems that ISP’s experience, but also at the user’s end as well. One of those is image file sizes.
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Status sites
If you’re running a web services business; a status site can save your clients (and you) a ton of stress and frustration.
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Dialup statistics
It’s been a while since I took a look at statistics relating to dialup users in the USA… and yes, they definitely still exist. Here’s where things were nearly a year ago and how they are now.
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Screen Resolution Statistics
After receiving millions of emails on the topic, actually, not quite that many; I thought it was time to take a look at how many folks are running particular screen resolutions.
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Phone numbers on forms
I’ve been visiting dozens of sites today belonging to web development companies and have been surprised at the number of them that require a phone number to be entered on a contact form.
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Handy utility - PHP Info
Ever needed to know what version of PHP or MySQL is running on your server; what operating system or perhaps modules installed? There may not be any need to have to submit a support ticket to your host. A simple application you can run called PHP info can tell you that and so much more!
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