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Website Usability Can Improve Your Conversion Rates

Marianna Muscat — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:35:24 +0000

Keeping your website simple is the most important factor for usability. Be sure to make everything about your website understandable and clear. Visitors should easily be able to access all the information that is important on your website. Website navigation links should be clearly visible an

Why any local business needs a website

Anton Koekemoer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:52:09 +0000

A website is the building blocks for establishing your online reputation. In today’s world, many people will browse to your website for more information regarding your company before doing any business with you. More and more people are browsing the internet at work and even at home. If you are

Build trust with your website

Francois Muscat — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:21:31 +0000

Most web surfers today is very sceptical. To make your website trustworthy and to build credibility, it is absolutely vital to take your website seriously as the web is an impersonal medium. If your website does not appear professional or credible, potential buyers will leave in seconds. ThereR

Reasons why some websites fail

Francois Muscat — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:43:32 +0000

Reports in the past has shown that 80-90% of all new business websites and blogs will fail to yield successful results. What is even more frightening is that most of these websites could succeed if planned and executed correctly. Why do these new websites fail? What goes wrong? Find below a couple

Design a website to convert visitors into customers

Anton Koekemoer — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:28:19 +0000

A successful website does two things. Firstly, they attract a regular flow of visitors that are interested in what your services or products are. Second, they are usually designed to get visitors to take a action. This could either be to convert them into buyers or at least get them started into y

XML Sitemaps – Why you need one for your website and blog

Anton Koekemoer — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:41:44 +0000

To have a normal sitemap on your blog and website is an easy way for your visitors to jump to any page on your site. It can make your navigation easy if you have a big site with lots of pages. Usually these sitemaps are created by normal HTML and they are know as HTML Sitemaps. Ev

Website quality assurance with IETester

Jarrod Gassner — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:28:06 +0000

Unfortunately, many site visitors and potential clients are stuck using the notorious Internet Explorer 6.0 for whatever reason it may be. As web developers, our clients need to be able to reach every potential customer without the fuss of incompatibility.

I’m sure we’ve all experienced a website not working or you’ve spent 15 minutes entering information into a form, and suddenly it doesn’t work. This can be highly frustrating to the user and will most surely result in immediate disinterest. This calls us to ensure that our web pages work for as many browsers as possible in the same way.

IETester helps us ensure the results of your website across the 4 different Internet Explorer versions; IE5.5, IE6, IE7 & IE8. You can run IETester under XP/Vista and does not interfere with your current browser. So, along with Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari & Opera we can now ensure complete cross-browser compatibility.

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