How to choose a Web site designer

September 9th, 2010

Whenever you look up criteria for choosing a contractor, you see the same things over and over:  Find out how much experience they have, get references, and check their credentials.  When if comes to choosing a Web site designer, these are easy tasks.  A designer’s work and clients are out there on the Web for all to see.  So what else can you use to pick the right designer?  Here are some ideas.

  • Pay attention to features and content discussions.  If the designer talks more about site aesthetics and various Web bells and whistles than features that will drive more traffic to your site and help you make sales, you may wind up paying too much for a site that doesn’t function well for all.

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Recently launched: Tanks Direct

September 9th, 2010

Tanks direct

Tanks Direct is one of the nation’s largest suppliers of above ground and underground storage tank systems. Our products are installed domestically and across the globe for storage of water, petroleum, chemical, and compressed air. Some of our typical applications include fire suppression tanks, petroleum storage, alternative fuels (E-85 & biodiesel), emergency generator fuel oil systems, potable water storage, hydropneumatic tanks, oil water separators, grease interceptors, chemical storage, storm water reclamation, and ASME pressure vessels.

Recently Launched: Screens of Maryland

September 7th, 2010

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Relax and enjoy the outdoors! These innovative screens quietly roll out from their powder coated aluminum housings when needed and gently retract back out-of-sight to allow an unobstructed view when not required.

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Recently launched: Carty’s Collision & Service

September 7th, 2010

Carty's Collision & Service

Carty’s Collision and Service’s certified technicians repair, service, and maintain your vehicle at our auto repair and body shop. Family owned and operated for over 65 years. Our services include all aspects of mechanical and collision repair for all makes and models.

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Recently launched: Cuba de Ayer

September 3rd, 2010

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Will you Wibiya?

September 3rd, 2010

A new social media application popping up on more and more websites is the Wibiya social toolbar. It resembles a true toolbar and resides at the bottom off website page.  It’s very customizable, so the toolbar will look different for every company, but you can expect to see the a company logo and the logos of other social media on it.

Alright, enough about what it looks like.  You want to know what it does.  Basically it links to your company’s social media and gives visitors a glimpse of these other pages without navigating away from your site.  So, if a visitor clicks the Facebook button on your Wibiya toolbar, a window opens displaying your company’s friends and fans and your Facebook wall.  Visitors can “Like” your page from the toolbar, read your Tweets, subscribe to your RSS feeds, and more.

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Recently Launched: Lisa Gordon Dabbs, D.C.

September 1st, 2010

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I would like to introduce you to a combination of therapies that has both intrigued me and allowed many people to return to health. I am fascinated with the myriad ways in which health can be optimized. Techniques and therapies have dropped in my lap just as I have needed them. As a chiropractor, I am able to offer many different types of care. Most people are familiar with chiropractic, the art and science of practicing by hand, allowing a person’s innate intelligence to heal the body once subluxations are removed from the spine, joints are returned to their normal function and pressure is removed from the peripheral nervous system. Newer to the field of the healing arts are Advanced Allergy Therapeutics and Cranial Spinal Integration, an offshoot of and improvement on the BioCranial System, and a way to free the central nervous system of stress and irritation.

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Recently Launched: primeASCENT

September 1st, 2010

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primeASCENT is a consulting firm that transforms cancer centers into Magnet Cancer Centers that attract patients through accreditation, superior service and community outreach.

Recently Launched: PROs Elite 100

September 1st, 2010

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The economic and competitive factors driving businesses today provide more motivation than ever for consumers to make intelligent choices in the marketplace. As such, fiercely independent dealerships in the Office Imaging industry must find ways to deliver the highest quality services to differentiate themselves among competitors.

Google’s instant improvement

August 29th, 2010

As Google continues to maintain its status as top search engine against Microsoft’s Bing engine, it continues to innovate with new features.  First it added value by supplying search term suggestions as users typed.  Now, Google is taking the next step and is testing out delivering instant search results as users type.

As this Reuters article points out, Google is in such an early stage of testing instant search results that it’s not even confirming that the feature is in the works. Nevertheless, there’s sufficient evidence that testing is in progress and acknowledgment from experts that instant search results will further separate Google from the pack.  The feature requires so many resources on the back end that Google will have to strain to deliver it and its competitors will find it impossible to match it.

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