On Saturday, February 13th, Sitepro was the proud host to the first ever Chippewa Valley Ruby Camp. Developers from all over the Chippewa Valley and even into Minnesota were in attendance.
Sitepro now offers SSL certificates through VeriSign, one of the most recognized trust marks in the world, displayed on over 90,000 websites in 145 countries.
Bing search service launched in early June by Microsoft. It is their version of Google. It is different because you can ask it questions, as opposed to Google, where you mainly search for just information. Bing is capable of answering questions; it is like a decision maker.
After spending a little more time with the mobile web, there's a bit more to be said about issues surrounding designing websites for the mobile browser. Differences in phone technology as well as new software technologies in development are changing the field of mobile web design. This post takes a look at some of those phone issues and new developments.
A few months ago, I developed a ColdFusion/Mach-II implementation of the reCAPTCHA API. This type of CAPTCHA requires the person to enter two words rather than a single sequence of random letters. In addition to protecting your website from spam, reCAPTCHA helps digitize text books. They do this by using a mystery word as one of the two words, until there is a consensus about what the correct answer for that word is.
Armed with a tag cloud and an RSS feed spitting your company’s insights into the twitterverse, you might think you’re good to go. Don’t. Like most things, there is always something else you can do to make your social media presence more effective. The first of these is a flickr widget.
Continuing my series on company blogs, I’m now going to describe for you the myriad benefits that come from what MTV might call "Pimping Your Blog". These nifty techniques have nothing to do with the words you write, but rather how people see, interact, and (most importantly) broadcast them around the web.
We’re not going to focus on the design or the layout of a website, although we may mention some basic elements that will relate to the design, but more importantly, we’re focusing on how the website is structured so it can be successful.
There’s no question on arguing how a website can help you obtain a successful online presence and that it’s the most effective marketing strategy one can have as a designer or a company. A successful website should already have basic information where a site visitor can learn, identify and quickly understand how you can help. Essentially, a website provides a solution to a problem.
5 years ago clients typically wanted videos in a format that they can easily hand out such as DVD or interactive CD. As a multimedia supplier, Sitepro.com was unique from other production companies in that we were streaming videos within client websites as well. While physical deliverables and inter-website distribution have still been a stronghold, more clients are inquiring about services like YouTube, Facebook and other social media applications.
While there are lots of other social video sites out there, YouTube has proven to be the top of the crop. Did you know that YouTube is the number one video site on the internet? Get this: It’s the 4th largest internet destination in the world and the #2 search engine behind Google and before Yahoo…….just huge. Often clients ask me questions like :
"How can I get my Video on YouTube?"
"How can we create a Facebook account and put my videos in it?"
"We just want to make some simple videos and upload them. Where do we start?"
Follow this series, YouTube Video 101, to gain some insight on these questions as well as thoughts you may not have considered when developing videos for social media and website use.
Friendfeed is a feed aggregator that groups together updates from twitter, facebook, digg, youtube, your blog and much more. It can also publish entries from your friendfeed to twitter. This article shows you how to tap into that twitter publishing feature of friendfeed to automate the posting of your blog entries to twitter. Watch my screencast to create a seamless connectioin between your blog and your twitter account.
I recently read the article "3 Reasons You Need a Live Chat Agent For Your Website - Make Every Visitor Count" The article supports the mindset that if you own a website that provides a service you should incorporate Chat into the site.
Hard economic time brings less people and traffic to you making you second guessing your advertising strategies. Don’t have to spend a dime if you don’t want to but how are you still going to drive traffic? How are you going to announce your next big thing without any advertisement?
First we’ll look into what is Lorem Ipsum? Then we’ll head into the magical wonders of why creative designers and publishers use lorem ipsum in their initial designs.
Web marketing is easy - put your web address on absolutely everything that will ever come in contact with a customer, prospective customer, or someone you hope may one day be a customer. Yet, how many times have you come across business advertising and marketing that omits a company's web address?
Recently on the Sitepro Blog, we have switched to using an enhanced commenting system called Intense Debate. Intense Debate provides many features that will supercharge the community, increase comments, and increase pageviews. Some notable features include commenter profiles, reputation scores, email notifications, reply by email, and facebook integration. Watch my screencast and read all about the awesomeness that is Intense Debate!
The Sitepro CMS allows you to quickly make updates to your sites WebPages without the need to contact a Sitepro representative. This saves you time, money, and allows you to keep your content fresh and relevant, important issues facing every competitive business. The best part is, the Sitepro CMS comes standard with each and every website we host.
Usability testing determines the success (or failure) of a website. Site visitors click through the site with the mouse and decide what the next step should be. Whether your site is a product driven site and the main focus is to generate a profit through people buying things, or a content heavy site with just loads of information to educate or get a point across, all site owners have one purpose in mind and a single goal to accomplish, how will the site visitor interact with the web site and how they think.
So it comes down to competition - which team can produce the most informative blogs within a given time frame wins the pizza and the whole ..... well you get the picture. Obligation, arm twisting and team competitiveness wins every time and prompts the writing of this blog about Live Chat.
Take a few minutes and think of how many invoices a business receives every month. Telephone billings, utilities, and vendor bills are probably just examples of what you receive. Each invoice arrives in an envelope; each envelope contains an invoice, many include a return envelope for payment, which requires a check and also a stamp.
Every week I'm going to highlight an example of Adobe Flex technology that I feel showcases the power of this program.
For those who don't know, Flex is an Adobe tool that generates Flash-based content. Whereas Flash began as an animation program that expanded into multimedia, Flex is geared towards generating business applications. Here on this blog I'll locate great uses of this outstanding program and provide links and information regarding their uses.
The inaugural example comes to us from Philips Electronics.
