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Treat your Website as an Investment

The objective of a business Website should be stated in business terms. All too often poor Website designers convince their clients that to get as many unique visitors as possible is the objective of any Website; But, just because many people visit a website doesn’t mean that that is good for the client. What matters [...]

Word Clouds (and a great Wordle tip)

There are some awesome image tools available on the Web of which many are free to use. More sites are using Word Clouds (also called Word Trees and Word Visualization) as sites such as Wordle become more popular. Below is a visualization created of my Home page with size indicating frequency of use. I can [...]

WordPress Reliability with VaultPress

Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame has announced the (beta) release of VaultPress. WordPress and the guys from Automattic are well-known for their very reliable and simple to use software and services (they are responsible for Gravatar, Akismet, PollDaddy and other awesome and usually free Web software and services). VaultPress is likely to add another high [...]

When to use PNG, GIF or JPG

Unfortunately no one image file type is best for all Website needs. The Image type used for images on your Website is dependent on numerous factors of which the prime are; image quality requirements, the content of the image, the number of colours and any size limitations. In general the aim is to have the [...]

Google Translate and Yahoo Babel Fish Free Online Translation

Translating documents used to be an incredible inconvenience; say for example a document was sent to you in German then, in the past, one would invariably have to find someone who speaks German and English to do the translation. With the advent of the Internet a few free Online translators became available however their translation [...]