A rationale for current design trends: an eye for detail, quality, and good taste

Dribbble shots exemplifying current design trends (by Damjan Stankovic, Ryan Putnam, William Szilveszter, Zulal Ahmad, Nat Al-Tahhan, iconshock, Ashish Thakkar, Seth Nickerson, Matt Gentile)
In the recent Smashing Magazine feature, Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends, Mr. Brunborg lists the popular design techniques and elements that has hit the community these past few years as the replacement the glossy, glassy gradients of the “Web 2.0 look”. It’s realism and skeumorphism meets textured and traditional. Read more…

Dropbox: Rising Leaders In Cloud Storage [Infographic]

Dropbox: Rising Leaders In Cloud Storage [Infographic]
From humble beginnings in an apartment in 2006 to dominating the free cloud storage market in 2012 Dropbox have built and expanded on a business model that is proving to be extremely successful. The online market for storing, organising and sharing information between platforms and devices has never been more Read more…

The Best Free iPhone Applications for Social Media Marketing

The Best Free iPhone Applications for Social Media Marketing
More and more consultants and professionals in the internet and social media marketing realm are using their smartphones (especially the Apple iPhone) to stay connected and maintain their online presence. There are several social media marketing applications available for the iPhone for free that can allow a social media marketing Read more…

Start A Keyword Marketing Strategy

Start A Keyword Marketing Strategy
A keyword is a word or phrase entered in a search engine query, such as Google or Bing, to get information on specific topics. To develop a keyword strategy you can use what the consumer searches for by optimizing your website around keywords that are relevant to your business.  It Read more…

How to Create Search Engine Optimized Facebook and Twitter Profiles

How to Create Search Engine Optimized Facebook and Twitter Profiles
Search engines are able to crawl Twitter biography fields and the basic information of most Facebook Pages, so it is important to make sure all these fields are completely filled out in order to be better found by current and potential customers. Additionally, once these are set up, they must Read more…

Pinterest – The Social Media Darling Of 2012: Infographic

Pinterest – The Social Media Darling Of 2012: Infographic
As most of you are probably aware now Pinterest is the new kid on the block of the social media scene, although the site has been around for almost 2 years now it has really begun to pick up interest in the last 3-4 months and has seen a staggering Read more…

Link Building: Determining the Value of a Link

Link Building: Determining the Value of a Link
Link building is an important part of any SEO campaign. Building links has the effect of sending our websites direct traffic, while at the same time signalling Google that our website is important. The latter leads to increased crawl rate, and optimally increased rankings. In nutrition, we realize that overall Read more…

How to Set Up Your Business on Pinterest

How to Set Up Your Business on Pinterest
Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing top ten social media networking sites currently, and has set itself up to become a major player in social media marketing strategy for many businesses. If your business has an e-commerce site or blog utilizing galleries or featured images, it may benefit from the Read more…

5 Areas of Law Every Webmaster Needs to Know

5 Areas of Law Every Webmaster Needs to Know
Twenty-five years ago, there was no reason for most people to know much about mass media law. Unless you worked in television, print journalism, radio or some other mass media, you had little reason study the laws that governed them. However, with the Web, everyone is a publisher. Suddenly, the Read more…

Attract More Advertisers By Implementing Several Analytics Programs

Attract More Advertisers By Implementing Several Analytics Programs
If you’re attempting to build out a serious web property that attracts advertisers, product sponsors and other top notch clients you’ll want to make sure that you can provide potential clients with pinpoint accurate information about your sites overall reach. One of the biggest mistakes new website owners make in Read more…