The results of a survey released at the end of 2007 show that small businesses aren't buying into the hype of Web 2.0. The study asked more than 300 small business owners in the U.S. to rate the relevance of different Web 2.0 tools as a means of obtaining business management information over the next five years. Only 14 percent of respondents said they believe that blogs will be very or extremely important. Wikis earned 21 percent with social networking sites and Web casts scoring 22 and 31 … [Read more...]
posted on March 19, 2008 by
Optimize your pages for better Pay-Per-Click placement
I've written about optimizing your site before, but it was in regards on how to optimize your site based upon your usage. Now there are other reasons to optimize your site, especially if you use Google's Ad Words to advertise your business. A little history Google Ad Words was one of the first ways which small business owners could advertise on the web. It allowed you to create small ads based upon keywords which people typed into Google. Users could bid on key words to modify the … [Read more...]
posted on March 14, 2008 by
Happy Pi Day
Happy Pi Day (3.14.08) Let's face: it you have to be at least a little bit of a geek to be a web developer for a living. … [Read more...]
posted on March 9, 2008 by
An internal error
A while back I wrote about integrating new software and components into your business and web site. I suggested that you pick components that would, among other things: Provide a solution to your problem, Integrate into your web site, and Have good support. Shortly before writing that, had recently added WordPress as the blogging tool I use on this web site. I had choose it because it was a completed tool which was actively maintained by others, and it easily be integrated into my … [Read more...]