In: Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

An Easy Website Split - Testing Schedule You Can Use

It’s always amazing to me how few online marketers take the time to do some testing. Testing what? Testing two ads in adsense to see which one performs better. Or, testing two different headlines in ads. Testing a “landing page” (the page people come to on your site when the click on an ad) is very important. It’s so easy to do

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Youth of Today and Social Media

By Celeste Yates

Teen Internet Illustration

Pew Internet released a report on a study of how teenagers interact with Social Media. It would appear that teenagers’ hobbies haven’t changed, although the platform through which they are enjoyed definitely has. The days of Annie Frank curled up with her dairy are gone, as more teenagers shut their books, go online and… Continue reading

In: OS WebMaster, Web Help

101 CSS Tips, Tutorials & Examples

How are your CSS skills coming? This great list should help you a lot, whether you’re just starting, or well on your way to Mastery… before the next CSS version makes it’s way to the next generation of browsers. It’s remarkable how much knowledge is online, and how when you pull the right “list” together, you have a sort of web based “book” written by many

In: OS WebMaster, Web Graphics Help, Web Help

Designing Visualizations for Time-Based Data

There’s a reason that great leaders are called “visionaries.” There’s a reason that the power of the imagination fueling the arts, architecture, science fiction, and engineering, leads and then manifests what it sees — in reality. I remember when there were those arguing that websites and web pages were best left without graphics. Of course, that was when data transfer was much slower, but again

In: AJAX Help, Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Web Help

Minimizing Javascript and CSS Files for Faster Page Loads

Are you having page load issues? Do you operate a CMS website or two that seems to take a long time (even on broadband) to download pages? Well, our Author, Max Kiesler, has ferreted out a number of solutions with some excellent techniques to address the basic issue — multiple Javascript and CSS files cause multiple “round trips” between the server and served pages. Take

In: Blogging Help, Copy Writing, Copywriting Matters

Top 10 Blog Writing Tips

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This is one article in a series on how to write better. Blogging. Website copy. eCommerce sales copy. Journalism. Even the pro’s keep themselves up to speed with the latest techniques for writing blogs and web copy. The art of writing is perhaps even more important today with all the new ways to publish

In: Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help, WordPress CMS Help

Building the Perfectly Optimized Site Using WordPress

There’s a reason why WordPress is so popular (well over 1 million installations, according to WordPress.org), and aside from the fact that it’s user-friendly, it is also set up to help you optimize for the search engines easily and effectively. Adam McFarland gives you some great tips in this article, which is one in a series of continuing tutorials and articles (including a regular "WordPress Roundup&quot