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How To Optimize Your Website Sidebar

by Jeff Weisbein January 11, 2012

How to design an effective sidebar that provides a benefit to the visitor and to your site. An effective sidebar should have a purpose.

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Top Secret: Easily Drive Thousands of Visitors to Your Site

by Jeff Weisbein December 2, 2011

I want to let you in on a secret. Want a great way to drive traffic to your website? There is a way and it doesn’t require any type of special skill set or knowledge, in fact, all you need is good (preferably awesome) content.

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5 Ways to Secure Your WordPress Install

by Jeff Weisbein August 26, 2011

WordPress has become an extremely popular website and blogging platform over the years, it is literally hosting hundreds of millions of websites. So how can you go about protecting your WordPress site? Here are 5 easy tips on how to make your WordPress more secure.

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Online Advertising: Annoying or Useful?

by Mike Mansell August 18, 2011

In society it has almost become commonplace to see ads everywhere. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re at, or what you’re doing; there is always going to be someone out there looking to buy your eyes in order to push their goods or services.

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Review: Fluid App Turns Websites Into Mac Apps

by Mike Mansell May 25, 2011

Fluid is an application that allows users to create what is more or less a mini web browser configured to display a specific webpage or web application. What sets Fluid aside from features such as Google Chrome’s “application shortcuts” is the fact that it creates an actual Mac application to wrap the website frame in. This means that it can be pinned to the OS X dock for quick and easy access any time, making it a must-have for those of us who would normally keep a tab open in our web browsers.

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The Most Reliable Blogging Solutions

by Mike Mansell December 17, 2010

When setting up a blog or personal website, one thing to consider is uptime. After all, if your website is constantly offline, you’re never going to see an increase in visitors. Worse yet, websites with high downtime tend to have lower search engine rankings, making it all the more difficult for users to find – [...]

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Google New: Learn About All New Google Products

by Jeff Weisbein September 22, 2010

In an attempt to help users find and use more of Google’s products and features, the search giant has launched a new website dubbed Google New. Google New started as a 20 percent project that a few Googlers worked on to showcase Google’s products and features. As Google states on their blog, with more than [...]

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Twitter: The Great Link Juicer With A Horrible Aftertaste

by Jeff Weisbein June 10, 2010

In the past, I have both praised and criticized Twitter with regard to its ability to drive traffic to a website. There is no question that Twitter is one of the all-time great link juicing tools out there. It may be the best, most legitimate, and most effective link juicing tool ever created, especially if you [...]

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gpEasy: A Dead-Simple CMS Solution

by Mike Mansell June 2, 2010

With the wide use of social-networking services like Facebook and “micro-blogging” solutions such as Twitter, I have never had the need to create my own blog or personal homepage. In fact, the only web-design related work I’ve ever really needed to perform has been for my current employer in maintaining the company’s static, information-only website. [...]

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How Do AT&T’s New Data Plans Affect You?

by Jeff Weisbein June 2, 2010

Today, AT&T announced their new data plans to the public, the new plans are available as a 200MB DataPlus plan for $15 per month, and the 2GB DataPro plan for $25 per month. If you go over your allowed usage, data will be charged at $15 per 200MB on the DataPlus, and $10 per GB [...]

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