The WordPress publishing platform makes it incredibly easy to create readable, engaging pages, but only if you use all the editing bar bells and whistles to their fullest. This post is going to show you how to make the most of the tools on the WordPress post (and page) editing bar. By then end of it, you’ll understand how to create pages and posts that are interesting to look at, easy to read, and engaging to … even the most jaded web surfer. Belly on up to the WordPress formatting bar, … [Read more...]
August 27, 2012 By
Mobile Clickthrough Rates Stay Strong
As quickly as the age of mobile has cemented itself in our midst (after years of false starts and claims that ‘this is finally the year of mobile!’) people want to knock it down a size already. The findings around clickthrough rates in the mobile space say that they are are quite good. A recent study by MediaMind confirms that (as reported by eMarketer) idea. Take a look.While the numbers tell a story of greater performance for these ads there are those that are not buying.Mobile … [Read more...]
June 20, 2012 By
The Must-Have Social Media Tool Every Content Marketer Needs
What if we told you about an ultra powerful, infinitely flexible social media tool that allowed you to publish business-building content — text, audio, or video — without holding you to any arbitrary rules? It’s a tool that fixes everything that’s broken about the existing social media sites, new and old. It gives you an astonishing degree of freedom — to say what you want, the way you want to say it, and in the format that works best for you. With this tool, no … [Read more...]
April 22, 2012 By
Five Easy Ways to Go Green on the Web
Happy Earth Day, loyal Website Magazine readers! Some say that it ain’t easy going green, and that sentiment certainly rings true when you’re talking about a Web business. However, if you know where to look, there are actually plenty of ways that you can curb your energy consumption and make your website more environmentally friendly. Green HostingMost of the energy consumption that takes place on the Web comes from hosting. After all, it takes a lot to host and manage all of the … [Read more...]
April 5, 2012 By
Google Offers SMB Mobile Site Free For One Year
Yesterday, I asked you what smartphone users would see when they accessed your website through their phone. Does it deliver or does it fall short? If you chose the second answer, have I got a deal for you. Google Mobile (aka GoMo) has teamed up with DudaMobile to help small businesses set up mobile-friendly websites. The step-by-step system automatically converts your current website to mobile. Then it allows you to add important touches such as click-to-call, mobile maps and Adsense. Obviously, … [Read more...]
March 21, 2012 By
A rationale for current design trends: an eye for detail, quality, and good taste
Dribbble shots exemplifying current design trends (by Damjan Stankovic, Ryan Putnam, William Szilveszter, Zulal Ahmad, Nat Al-Tahhan, iconshock, Ashish Thakkar, Seth Nickerson, Matt Gentile) In the recent Smashing Magazine feature, Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends, Mr. Brunborg lists the popular design techniques and elements that has hit the community these past few years as the replacement the glossy, glassy gradients of the “Web 2.0 look”. It’s realism and … [Read more...]
February 2, 2012 By
The Daily for iPad Proves That People Will Pay for Good Content
A year ago, News Corp set out on a new adventure — the launch of a daily news magazine that could only be found on the iPad. On the content side, it wasn’t much of a gamble. News Corp publishes The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, the UK’s Daily Telegraph and hundreds of other papers around the globe. They also had some experience with paywalls for online versions of their newspapers, but The Daily had to be all that and more. What they set out to build, was a news … [Read more...]
January 25, 2012 By
The Social Media Super Bowl
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the Super Bowl will be the biggest, one-day, social media event of the year. Last year, during the final minutes of the game, fans posted 4,064 Tweets per second. This broke the sporting record which had been held by the World Cup, but it didn’t break the all-time record of 6,939 TPS. That happened the moment Japan welcomed in the new year. Still, I believe that this year’s Super Bowl will trump all because the powers that be have … [Read more...]
January 3, 2012 By
iPad 2: How Low Will Apple Go?
There are lots of rumors flying this morning about a potential, hefty price drop in iPad 2 when the iPad 3 comes to market. On the surface, this doesn’t seem like news at all. It makes sense to discount older versions of technology in order to make way for the new, but how low will Apple go? That’s the big question. It all stems from a report that claims Apple is going to release two versions of iPad 3, one with more bells and whistles than any human being could actually ever need, … [Read more...]
