Archive for March, 2009

Blood in Urine is the first of a series of urology websites to answer Urology Questions. The first one is about  Blood in Urine.
Check out the cool Flash animation of the Urinary system.

A custom 404 page is an important tool for your website you should ask your web designer to create.

If a visitor incorrectly types a webpage URL, they will still retain navigational options within your site and be provided alternative solutions. You can also have an automatic redirect from the custom 404 page to your homepage.

By providing users with a navigational bar and further assistance, rather than leaving them with a generic “page not found” error screen, you can often keep prospective customers on your site by providing them with navigation alternatives.

Although you might hear today that the Internet is 20 years old, and was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland, the Internet was well established before Tim Berners-Lee created what is now its most popular application.

A major achievement? Sure! But we don’t ask why Benz doesn’t get some of the credit for inventing the wheel. We understand that the wheel was around before the car.

Was it Al Gore? No, former United States Vice President Al Gore did not invent the Internet. What’s more, he apparently never said he did!

Read more about who invented the Internet.

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We’re always looking for great tools to do our work, and to test our websites. Well, here’s one that seems pretty cool!
Asus officially debuted its Eee PC 1008HA Netbook at CeBIT today, a 1-in. thick device that weighs 2.4 lbs. and packs a 92 percent-sized keyboard. Read more here.

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Beware of the marketing trap?
Have you ever gotten so involved in putting out the perfect brochure or PR that you don’t have time for sales?
Read this engaging article on how the author fell into the marketing trap, and her business almost failed as a result.

Social Networking is going up. Market research firm Netpop has released a new study that suggests that social media marketing and networking is expanding rapidly.

Interesting facts from that study:

• 54% of micro-bloggers post or “tweet” daily
• 74% of the daily micro-bloggers are under the age of 18
• 105 million Americans contribute to social media
• Only 7 million are “heavy” social media users who connect with 248 people on a typical week
• The amount of time people spend communicating online has increased 18 percent since 2006
• Time spent on online entertainment has declined 29% since 2006

According to Netpop’s findings social media marketing and networking  has increased 93% since 2006. This comes to no surprise to those of us who have followed sites like Twitter and Facebook for the past couple years.

Just came across this great article on Branding a Blog…

Have you come with a great idea for a website but never get around to finishing it?
Here are some tips that can help you complete the website of your dreams:

1. Be flexible with your plan, if you’ve being going at it on your own, and getting nowhere, you might need to hire a web design company at this point
2. Believe in your idea
3. Make a website about something that you love
4. Have a realistic budget
5. Keep your web design simple, you can always add more later on
6. Build a website that has great content
7. Update that content often
8. Choose the right web hosting company, with the right hosting plan for your web site
9. If you want an easy to update website, consider a blog, and the help of a blog designer
10. Network with similar website, to exchange links and ideas, possibly references

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You do not have to keep adding content to your website to improve it. Some website owners hurt their sites by continually adding features and content when they should be simplifying. 

One solution is collapsing the content instead of removing it.
It is not always possible to remove content because of user habit, as your users might not find the links they are used to click on, and leave your site.