Analytics Software Packages VisiStat – Real-time tracking with graphical and intuitive reporting features. Google Analytics – Mentioned in our first list, Google offers free analytics software. Includes tight integration with AdWords (see also: 27 Features that Make Google Analytics Best of Breed). Unlike some enterprise apps, the stats are usually on a delay of a … Continue reading The best stats tools to use for your site →

Guest post by: Miami Web Design Navigation is the single most important thing to get right in any web design. It has to be quick, easy, and fit into the overall theme of the site. It‘s so important that we often spend as much time making sure it works, as we do designing the site. … Continue reading Overview of Web Design Navigation Styles →

So you want to build a website, but you don’t even know what hosting is, how to choose, or where to go? Finding the best hosting company, or figuring out how to use free hosting to start your business is not as easy as it looks. You really should find a hosting solution you can … Continue reading The first 3 things every newbie should know about hosting →

When you are initially brought in to consult a potential client for a website project whether it’s a new site or a refresh of an older site, knowing the niche and designing for it will give the client the best results. While this sounds like a fairly straight-forward statement, the reality is many designers get … Continue reading Web Design: Do it for your clients niche, not your dreams →

The best SEO can get visitors to your site but if you don’t have a navigation system in place that they can easily use, you could be losing visitors before they find more usable, digestible content on your site. Creating navigation bars is an art unto its own, specifically for the top, sidebars and bottom, … Continue reading Analyze the heat map for better CTR and sales conversions →

With so many big video sites on the website – including, but not limited to YouTube, UStream.com and TinyChat – there has been a new method of gaining traffic revealed. It’s known as video marketing and is still in its infancy. Because of this, it is important to dedicate funds for this method of advertising … Continue reading Using Video for Getting Traffic →

A quick search will yield thousands upon thousands of websites with tutorials on how to build websites, most offer solid concepts and ideas, but which teach you why and how you should do things?  Moreover, how do you know your design and coding is in the best interest of your client and the viewer of … Continue reading Common mistakes when building a website →

The reason Google has succeeded as a business is because they developed a model where advertisers only had to pay when they got something in return: traffic Pay per click isn’t that new anymore, but even to this day, it is still an incredibly used type of advertising. Unfortunately, many people don’t understand how it … Continue reading Using PPC to Generate Sales →

Does your company/site need a news letter? It used to be that building a website and getting some links was all that was needed to start developing a successful site. To this day, doing those things will result in a growing website there is no denying that. However, there is nothing going on there that … Continue reading The Need for a Newsletter →

WordPress & SEO One of the things people seem to make the mistake with is that they assume that once they’ve hit the publish button, they never go back to that article again because they think the job is done. The problem with that is that, even if that brings in a lot of traffic … Continue reading Putting SEO into Your Individual WordPress Posts →