If you are looking to market your website, Google has a great little feature (and it works using Firefox 3.5), that allows you to do a little more research on the site that you want to buy ad space from.

Google Ad Planner

Google Ad Planner has been around for about a year now, and I think it really hasn’t received the attention it deserves. I’m astonished how many people go to Alexa for data about a website first when they could easily just go to Google, a company that knows a lot more about user behavior and web traffic than Alexa. Read the rest of this entry »

You can always find what’s popular on this site right now by visiting this page: Popular Posts. It lists the top blog posts and pages found on this site based on the number of unique visitors them during the current month. Popular Posts is located under Archives in the left menu.

Top Content for June 2009 on Best Web Image

1. Twitter Toolbar – As the toolbar increases in popularity, so does this page. The toolbar was downloaded over 1,000 this month. (1,882 views)
2. How To Fix Your Site – If you are searching the web on ways to fix your site, you are looking in the wrong spot! (1,225 views)
3. Usability and Design Analysis – I keep telling you to check your site! Here is a great way to do it. (756 views)
4. Twitter Toolbar Making Waves – My Twitter Toolbar is starting to get some heavy usage on a daily basis. Comparing stats from today, June 1st, and the day I wrote the post there are 33% more users using the Twitter Toolbar on a daily basis. It’s beating an exponential growth rate! (732 views)
5. Web Designer Jobs – Review of the job classified site, Xemion. Tis the season to find work. (665 views)
6. Lack of Paragraph Headings Can Lead to Bounce – An example of how and why breaking your content up, and titling paragraphs is so important. (664 views)
7. Expectations of Blog Readers Reveal 8 Common Traits – I look at the top blogs on the net, and find some common things they do. It’s what visitors expect! (659 views)
8. Site Emphasis – Time for part 2 of 35 covering my usability and design analysis, Site Emphasis. (640 views)
9. Reducing Your Bounce Rate – A little change can do a lot to help reduce your bounce rate. (597 views)
10. Three Things a Startup Should Look in a Graphic Design Company – I was very happy to see this on the list. I recently have allowed a couple of guest bloggers to write some content. This is one of those posts. (558 views)

Earlier this week I wrote a post about how I disagree with Jakob’s findings that unmasking the password field in a form will improve usability, and could even improve security. I strongly believe password fields should be masked, and one of my points was that I think there is a potential to lose customers at an even great scale because they feel the site is not secure. So here is this weeks poll.

Here is the poll: Do you think masking the password field in a form improves security?

Archive of Web Usability and Design Polls

Today I downloaded Firefox version 3.5. I knew it was coming, and I wanted to make sure the Twitter Toolbar was working correctly on it. It was. Then I decided to test out several of my sites to make sure nothing strange was happening. All worked as I expected, and everything appeared normal on others sites as well. Then I decided to check my Google AdWords account. Read the rest of this entry »

Had it ever happened to you that you’re searching something on internet and it took you to many irrelevant sites and at the end you felt you wasted whole of your time. Being an internet user it would have happened to you many times, for sure. Many people may get pissed off on irrelevant search results and don’t trust it. Read the rest of this entry »

I am very please to announce the first give away offer Best Web Image has ever had. I’m am going to give away a free copy of Boss Cart’s premium version shopping cart at the end of July. Those of you that can’t wait, and want a great deal, I have some more great news. Boss Cart is currently on sale for $289, and I have a promo code that will get you 50% off of that. Just use “bestwebimage” as the promotional code. It’s a win win!

To enter this contest all you have to do is comment on this post using the form below giving a brief reason why or how you plan on using it. I will be drawing a random winner from the list. Rules are listed at the end of this post. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I spent most of my time reading other blogs. Note to those of you that do not break your content up, and do not title paragraphs or chunks of material. I’m leaving your site right away. I’m sorry, I’m not going to spend the time to read your 500 word or longer post with just one title. It’s not how the web works. Read the rest of this entry »

Over the past year or so I have kept in close contact with another webmaster in the UK, Temi Odurinde. Temi is a successful webmaster, especially in the forum industry, and is also the owner of Boss Cart, a popular shopping cart software. I have done a review of Boss Cart software in the past, and you may be hearing more about it soon. A little hint here, freebie promo!  What I wanted to mention though is the fact that Temi has a web hosting blog that some of you may be interested in. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a subscriber to Jakob Nielsen’s site, a popular web usability expert. Today he sent out an email with his findings that suggest we should stop using password masking on forms. I usually would agree with his findings, and many of the polls I run come to similar conclusions. In this particular case though, I think his case studies don’t reflect a real world experience, and missed an important point. Read the rest of this entry »

It may seem like a silly question, but I believe many have websites just for the fun of it. They could also be basic information sites, but all the same, I am curios to know how many of you want to make money from your site.

Here is the poll: Are you trying to make money with your website or blog?

Archive of Web Usability and Design Polls

Are you trying to make money with your website or blog?(trends)