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How to Use Web Analytics to Grow Your Business?
If you own a business, chances are you do. But don’t pat yourself on the back too quickly. By now it’s widely-accepted that if you have a business card you should probably have a website. It doesn’t matter what your company is selling – a website, however modest, has become a standard.
The real question is: what is your website doing for your business?
As a web marketer I often put this question to the business owners I meet. Not because I’m trying to lead into my sales pitch, but because I’m intrigued to hear the answer. Most people get a certain “deer in the headlights” look in their eyes when I ask this question. To be fair, it’s not a question we’re used to hearing. But that’s not all that’s going on here. Traditional advertising mediums – print, TV, radio, etc – are notoriously difficult to track. Sure, you’ll know how often the phone is ringing or how many people come in with a coupon clipped from the Sunday paper, but what you don’t know is how many people saw/heard your ad and whether they were interested, oblivious or, worse, annoyed. Business owners are used to this. We all know we need to advertise – it’s a necessary cost of doing business – so we buy that half-page ad in the Yellow Pages or the local newspaper, we sponsor an event or a little league team, we have a radio commercial written (maybe even with a jingle) and we hope for the best. This has been a given in marketing since the beginning. But the web, and analytics, changed the game.
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The Importance of Gradient in Designing Web Pages
Whether it is a simple website or a dazzling one, gradient backgrounds provide eye-catching, colorful backgrounds for any web page. A gradient is nothing but a variation of colors arranged from the darkest color to the lightest or vice-versa. It can be best described as a blend of colors consisting of a light color and a dark color. It is mostly used to create dazzling backgrounds on a web page of even on div cells or div boxes. The technique of applying gradient is usually available in Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks program, two of the leading web designing software available worldwide. Gradient backgrounds are very important in corporate graphic design field. Professional graphic design companies have the best knowledge of gradient schemes for different corporate websites. These firms employ Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks to get the best results.
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10 Icon Design tutorials by iconSpedia
As you already know we all love icons around here. That’s why here at IconsPedia.com we strive to offer you the best free icons around. Ever wanted to know how this icons are designed? We have picked 10 icon design tutorials that will guide you trough icon designing. Maybe next time you need an icon and you don’t find exactly what you are looking for you”ll go and create it yourself.
How to build a social bookmarking site without development effort?
To build a social bookmarking service or social news web site first look for the open source projects then seek the commercial ones ,there are many free and open source projects comes as digg clones and for bookmarking services :
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Creating a ZIP file with PHP
How can we zip two files and save output as output.zip. For example, in Gmail you can download all the attachment as a single zip file. How can we write that code using php.
First step, you have to get Pear Zip package at http://pear.php.net/package/Archive_Zip/download.
Next step, write out some simple PHP code and get thing done.
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Top 10 Flash Website Designs for 2009
1. Get The GlassGet The Glass is the work of the California Milk Processor Board and was designed to encourage increased milk consumption by inviting visitors to participate in a comically entertaining Flash based game whose objective is to Get the Glass–of milk of course. The current design iteration appeared in late 2007.
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Top 5 free tools that a web developer should use
You think free means good? I think free means good for cutting down the development cost. I used to use Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. I really didn’t like the $$ they charge me. And Zend is the same to. Then I knew Netbeans, its IDE supports to PHP development. And I also can work with HTML well.
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The best 5 Project Management Tools
Definitions for common tools used when planning a project.
Gantt Chart
A Gantt chart is a popular type of bar chart that aims to show the timing of tasks or activities as they occur over time. Although the Gantt chart did not initially indicate the relationships between activities this has become more common in current usage as both timing and interdependencies between tasks can be identified.
Since the initial introduction of Gantt charts, they have become an industry standard as a key project management tool for representing the phases, tasks and activities that are scheduled as part of a project Work Breakdown Structure or time-line of activities.
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The Best Intranet applications for small office and local workgroups
When we are in the office or in a workgroup having numbers of systems then we feels the desires of having something that can optimize the team work.The workgroup is a local network and often called as intranet.If we work on some project then it require the direct communication with workgroup systems in the form of reports , presentations , address book ,email , documents and other necessary services.Here is the list of few best intranet applications that can enhance your working experience on local network ,private schools and small businesses:
