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Top Ten Website Mistakes -- Part 2 of 2
April 1, 2008
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Top Ten Website Mistakes
March 1, 2008
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Time to Revisit Your Website
February 1, 2008
5 ways to revamp your presence on the web
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Your Hard Drive will Disappoint You
January 1, 2008
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Giving - The Web Way
December 1, 2007
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A Website is Just a Website...Right?
November 1, 2007
Can your website successfully bring you business? It depends…
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Email Etiquette 101
October 1, 2007
Much like we all had to learn the "rules" for phone message machines, there are a couple of guidelines to keep in mind with email:
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Your Website: Content, Copyright, and Search Engines
September 1, 2007
It's incredibly easy to copy and paste content (text and images) from other websites, but is it right or helpful for your website?
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Kill the mouse: Keyboard Shortcuts
August 1, 2007
There are dozens of keyboard shortcuts to speed up your computing experience.
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Webmail or POP?
July 1, 2007
Understanding webmail vs. POP mail
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RoI for your WWW
June 1, 2007
Get a return on your website investment
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How to Lose Customers Without Even Trying: Five Quick and Easy Ways to Drive your Customers Away
May 1, 2007
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Connecting and Protecting
April 1, 2007
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What You Pay For, What You Don't
March 2, 2007
Worthwhile software you can get for free!
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Upgrading to Internet Explorer 7 Makes Good Horse Sense!
February 1, 2007
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Resolve to Keep Your Computer Safe and Secure in the New Year
January 1, 2007
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Charitable Giving – the Web Way
December 1, 2006
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Avoiding the Website Stink
November 1, 2006
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The Nagging Problem of SPAM
October 1, 2006
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Website Statistics: Quiet Night-time Reading
September 1, 2006
Everybody loves statistics, right? Each of your websites is quietly compiling dozens of great statistics for you to review during your quiet evenings. As with any good marketing effort, it is essential to understand who is seeing your message and how they are responding. A quick look at a website’s statistics can help.
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Email Overload: Surviving the Onslaught
August 1, 2006
Keeping ahead of the overloaded inbox
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Phishing, Spam and the Down-right Bad Stuff
June 30, 2006
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The Glaring Mistakes of 2005
February 28, 2006
The Top 10 Website Mistakes of 2005
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Getting onboard with Google
January 31, 2006
Google continues to produce tools that benefit web managers like you and me. Below I’ve summarized a few of their recent offerings.
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Building Community
November 30, 2005
A successful web presence requires an audience. More than just hits to your site, you want a community around your website.
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META what? Spiders, WHERE?
October 31, 2005
Your website may look pretty, but does it look good to the search engine ‘spider’.
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Your Web Home for your Horse
September 30, 2005
Your horse may have a nice comfortable place to sleep at night, but does his or her virtual world offer the same comfort?
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Crafting the Perfect Title Tag
August 31, 2005
A well-written website is one of the keys to a successful online presence. However, in today’s quick-paced Internet culture, the importance of written copy is often devalued. Many people believe Web users simply don’t spend very much time reading on the web. But is that really true?
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YOU’VE GOT TO GOOGLE
July 30, 2005
Google never ceases to amaze with their innovative tools that allow us to access information in new ways. This month we are looking at some of the latest offerings from the company that has become much more than just a search engine. How can you harness this power to make your own website more available and effective for your customers?
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Statistical Nightmares
June 30, 2005
Do you find yourself wondering, “Is anyone really visiting my website?” Like any good marketing effort, it is essential to understand who is seeing your message and what their response is.
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Backup or Suffer
May 26, 2005
As our lives and businesses become more dependent on our computers the data that resides on them becomes increasingly valuable, and frequently irreplaceable. It is not a matter IF you will lose your data, but rather WHEN. A few simple techniques for backing up your data can save many hours of frustration later.
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BLOGS – you are missing out!
April 30, 2005
If you’ve never tried it you are probably still wondering what everybody’s talking about. A BLOG – short for WeB LOG – is a simple public discussion board.
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Time to Review your Website … again.
March 31, 2005
The best designed website, much like your horse, needs regular attention. Unlike a horse, it is easy to neglect certain aspects of maintenance on your website and it doesn’t show as readily.
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Using Your Website to Sell
February 28, 2005
A website is an essential component of your business. No website means you lose customers. Your website creates your ‘business face’ and establishes your credibility.
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Browser Wars and Color Overload
January 31, 2005
If you design your own website, there are a few compatibility issues you will want to consider in the process. If not properly addressed these issues can dramatically affect your customer’s experience.
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Google Tools You Need!
December 31, 2004
I’ve talked about Google before, here are a few tools - if you haven’t tried these you’re missing out - Picasa and Desktop Search.
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Where do you look? - Website usability info
November 30, 2004
Web pages are viewed with different habits and attention points than traditional print media.
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Top 10 Ways to Make Your Website Painful
October 1, 2004
We have likely all visited websites that bug us. It can be the design, the functionality, or the message. But as a business, how can you be sure you are not one of those sites?
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Don’t Waste Your Time Building a Website
September 8, 2004
As a web development company we are often asked, “How much does a website cost?” I suppose this is a legitimate question, but today it is much like asking a realtor, “How much does a house cost?”
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Website Tips and Tricks
August 1, 2004
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Search Engine Optimization and the Google Toolbar
July 1, 2004
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Web Hosting Pitfalls
June 1, 2004
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Email Newsletters
May 1, 2004
by Doug DeVries
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Great Web Sites Change
April 7, 2004
How many of you have visited a web site and noticed the "Current News" was from July 1998? Or seen a blank space where an image was suppose to load?
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What is attacking your computer? - the spyware problem
April 1, 2004
For many years, viruses were the primary threat against your computer. Today the attack of choice is ‘spyware’.
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Password Mania
March 29, 2004
It won’t be long and the local university will be offering a bachelor’s degree in password management. Usernames and passwords are everywhere.
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NWHS Online: Losing Domain Control?
February 1, 2004
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NWHS Online: Choosing your Reciprocal Link Partners
January 30, 2004
by Doug DeVries
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NWHS Online: How to be first at Google!
December 30, 2003
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NWHS Online: Have you been 'Googlized'?
November 30, 2003
by Doug DeVries - Equine-Design.com
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NWHS Online: GETTING BUGGED: VIRUSES, HOAXES, AND WORMS
October 31, 2003
by Doug DeVries of Equine-Design.com
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NWHS Online - WHAT ARE YOU DOING ONLINE?
September 30, 2003
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NWHS Online - Getting What You Pay For by Equine-Design.com
August 31, 2003
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NWHS Online - Internet Bugs
July 31, 2003
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Finding Your Equine Resources
March 31, 2003
Finding the resources you need is a big part of using the Internet. The majority of people are online to look for information. Sites like news.google.com ,about.com , and cnet.com invest millions of dollars to deliver top quality content to their users.
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Friends don't let friends design their own web sites
March 31, 2003
We all have a friend that has offered to design our website for us or we may have even tried it ourselves. In the early days of web development everyone was learning what this mighty thing called "the web" could do.
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Simple Sells
February 28, 2003
One of the pitfalls we can slip into from time to time is creating an overly complex web site. Complex design can be distracting. Complex navigation can be discouraging. And complex features can go unused.
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Your Domain - Being Sure People Can Find It
December 31, 2002
here are literally millions of web pages available on the Internet. A search for "horse" at google.com found close to 5 million related sites. The burning issue: How can your customers find your web site?
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