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To get the Website your business needs to succeed, you have to invest in it and doing it right isn’t cheap. If you could afford it you’d spend whatever it takes to make your business grow but like most small businesses, you just don’t have the money to do all the things you want to do.
Many companies creating a new Website are developing sites that lack appeal and functionality due to budgetary constraints.
Settling for less isn’t saving money, its wasting money. A poor website creates the wrong impression and can cost you business.
Another reason to get on board with social media and keeping your site fresh with new content! Google has announced new features to its Realtime seach and making it much more flexible and user friendly...
Since its December 2009 launch, Google has been making minor improvements to Google Realtime Search. Today, the offering has been refreshed with three key additions: conversation view, location refinements and Google Alerts for updates.
With conversation view, tweets are organized from oldest to newest and are threaded to provide full context around real-time conversations. Conversation view includes replies and retweets. Users can click “Full conversation” below an update to access the threaded-view. In practice, it works as advertised with the occasional tweet or two appearing out of context.
For other great tips and news to help your business succeed online, keep an eye out for our Posterous posts, take a peak at the Calgary web design blog or our main Calgary web design website, www.fimedia.ca
Neat quick article on Google's stance on your keywords being a part of your URL path or filename.
To checkout the YouTube video directly, click here.
For these kinds of tips, checkout our Calgary Web Design blog or get our team working for you over at our main Calgary Web Design firm, www.fimedia.ca
Bit more of a developers post here from the Calgary Web Design team here at First Impression Media, but still VERY cool if you're needing to generate something cool using CSS3 but needing a way around figuring out the coding:
The latest advancements in cascading style sheets offer web designers a bevy of new tricks that once required JavaScript or were simply impossible to do. Effects like rounded corners, drop shadows, rotated elements or gradient fills are all part of CSS 3, and modern web browsers support them right out of the box.
However, while CSS 3 is powerful, remembering all the details of each element’s syntax can be overwhelming. To make matters more confusing, CSS 3 hasn’t been finalized yet, so browser makers are using browser-specific prefixes for the new attributes. For example, to get an orange to green radial gradient in Firefox, you’d use this code:
background:-moz-radial-gradient(60% 50% 40deg, #866400, #FF4E28 71%).A bit of a drag, right?
Cheat sheets help, but sometimes it’s much simpler to let an automated tool do the hard work for you. Our friends at Ajaxian recently discovered CSS 3.0 Maker, which covers all the new elements, like transitions, drop shadows and even
@font-faceand offers a clean simple set of tools to tweak the look on an element visually and then cut and paste the code into your style sheets.
Read more of Scott Gilbertson's article ''Simplify CSS 3 With Online Code Generators" or try a site they recommend (CSS 3 Maker) and save yourself some time!
Interesting report looking at who's chasing who online in terms of offerings in the grand scheme of social media marketing online.
Although it’s only 6 years old, Facebook has reached a considerable level of success. It is the largest social network, and just last month, it announced that it had more than 500 million users. Not many companies have this much success in such a short period of time, and those that do, make up an elite group.
Incidentally, another company that is included in this select group is Google. Although Facebook has been likened to the search and advertising giant on many occasions, the list of similarities might get a little longer in the near future. Speculation has it that Google is in the process of developing a Facebook rival called “Google Me.”
Google has had several failed attempts in social with products such as Sidewiki, Wave, and Buzz. However, there are no signs that it is giving up in its quest for social success, especially, since it recently acquired Slide and Jambool.
For other great tips and news, check out our Calgary Web Design Blog - or if you're interested in getting going with getting your business exposure on Facebook and other social media networks, get in touch with us directly at our Calgary Web Design firm, FIMedia.ca
Promotional Calgary Web Design video on YouTube for us here at FIMedia.
We are pleased to annouce the relaunch of our website, www.fimedia.ca. Whether your a Calgary business or business elsewhere in the world, we specialize in web design and marketing solutions to suit your needs.
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Your website is the most inexpensive and effective tool available to help your company increase sales, reduce commissions and eliminate many unnecessary administrative costs at all phases of your business.
Whether you’re just getting started, hoping to grow or trying to optimize your business processes; we have solutions that increase efficiency and reduce costs by combining all aspects of your business from Lead Generation to Product delivery in one central location that can be accessed anywhere in the world.
Wherever you are in your business cycle, we have a solution for you!
Just busted a gut watching this for the first time... Twitter Movie Trailer: Rated Awesome #2
For more great business tips (and well strange and interesting links like this one) to help your business succeed online, check out our Calgary Web Design blog!
As a Calgary web design firm, we always end up with a billion open windows at any given time (so many projects, resources required and perhaps the odd fun time where we get to learn something from a website). Whenever I'm working (or watching Marc work) its always amazing how cluttered things can get - and how to you navigate through the endless tabs in a browser window?
Doing a bit of reading this morning (yep... in one of the many tabs) I ran across this article Tab Candy to Become a Standard Feature in Firefox introducing 'Tab Candy' as a standard feature to its browser.
So peaked my interest - BUT check out the video below and I think you'll see the impact this will have to save you time scrolling through tabs and making your business workday a lot brighter!
An Introduction to Firefox's Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
The latest nightly builds of Firefox 4 now include a new Tab Sets feature. If all goes well, the feature could be included in the final version of Firefox 4, due this autumn.
For other great tips, news and info to help your business succeed online, checkout our Calgary Web Design blog!
