With more people online now than ever before, it’s critical for your business to have an online presence. Having a well-designed website with vital information about your business is the easiest and best ways to promote your brand. These 10 reasons will show you why a professional website is important, no matter what the size of your business.
If you’re new to AdWords, it’s OK to admit that sometimes you don’t really know what information you’re looking for when building or reviewing your campaign. While pretty straightforward at it’s core, the increasing sophistication of AdWords features and functionality has lead to a less-than-intuitive interface, and even if you do know what you’re trying to find, doing so can be frustrating and time consuming.
AdWords accounts are hierarchical. When you first enter the AdWords interface, you’ll see things on the account level. You can click into a campaign on either the left hand navigation bar, or in the main data table. Once done, you’ll only see data and campaign settings relating to that campaign. You can…
Every now and then, I come across a web page (or a whole site), which by all acceptable standards is not done correctly. Here are a few examples of wrong methods.
Sounds self-explanatory, but I have seen it too many times, that I feel this needs to be emphasized more. Images, or graphics are only needed where other means cannot easily achieve the same effect. Things, such as photos, icons and other graphics are what requires using bitmap images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, and what have you). Elements, such as text, and simpler graphic elements, like colored boxes, have no business being stuck in the form of an image. Especially text! These days…
Some web projects require us to run web apps of others to perform automated actions on systems without APIs or to scrape, for example, without the use of a browser, in a script or cron job, for instance. This is called headless browsing. The trouble is, some sites rely heavily on JavaScript and a full blown browser environment is required to get anywhere with such a setup. This problem is so hard that a lot of web sites make use of JavaScript to prevent automated systems from using their sites. A project of a scraping kind for such a site would require a lot of hard work and graphics libraries on the server to get WebKit or Chromium to work with our code. Fortunately, the web developer community has been hard at work on solutions to this novel problem…
If you are looking to start a web development project from scratch, coding every line by hand to perfection, you might be interested in using a boilerplate. Most developers have a set of files with which they start a new project without too much repeating of the same old start-up coding and file structuring. Take a look at this interesting project. Initializr lets you start with a clean plate that has already been set up with HTML5/CSS/file structure scaffolding that is easy to use to begin your grand project. It will start looking good from day one on any device and browser!
