Turning Your Weakest Link Into a Winner!

Posted on: Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI, Usability & Design

After a month of working on my site trying to improve visitor engagement and page views here is what worked best for me.

Numbers Looking Good a Month Later

Posted on: Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 in: BWI, Usability & Design

I made a bunch of changes to the site a month ago. See what I did, and how it changed my numbers for the better.

Action on Your Home Page Final

Posted on: Monday, March 23rd, 2009 in: Usability & Design

Third part on how to get action out of a home page.

Bid For Position

Posted on: Monday, October 13th, 2008 in: Sites Reviewed

Interested in another way to earn some extra money from your website without plastering it with ads? Does your site have a links page or directory? If it does, here is a great way to turn those pages into cash machines. Create a directory that gives priority to sites based on their bids.

Facebook, Not Afraid of the Ads

Posted on: Sunday, October 12th, 2008 in: Sites Reviewed

Like many of us, our friends are joining Facebook. I was one of them, and have been slowly adding friends to my list. Honestly though, I am already sick of it.

Testing Your Layout

Posted on: Monday, September 22nd, 2008 in: Usability & Design

I was aksed to checkout this MySpace Layouts site, and right away I guessed the author used Internet Explorer to make sure it looked right. Why? Because IE nicely corrects some of the formatting errors we webmasters make. Looking at the screen shot I made here, you can see Firefox and Google’s new chrome are not so nice.

Thinkature Workspace

Posted on: Saturday, September 13th, 2008 in: Sites Reviewed

Probably the best thing about having an online career is that you can work anywhere in the world. A big set back to it, is that long distance travel may be requied to do a face to face. Thinkature is just the site that could help eliminate one of those reasons to require face time. It’s their online workspace.

Parallel Designs

Posted on: Thursday, September 11th, 2008 in: Usability & Design

Depending on your budget for building a site, an extremely worthwhile venture is to create an alternate layout, or parallel design. The benefits are almost endless, and features on the site quickly expose the good and the bad.

When to Use Tables

Posted on: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 in: Usability & Design

Contrary to popular belief among many new webmasters, the use of tables in web design is still completely acceptable. The only really problem with using tables, is that many do not know when or how to use them.