There are some nice, clean, standards-compliant university websites appearing lately — but there are still a lot of poorly designed ones which use out-dated technologies. Today we look at the very best … College of Arts and Sciences – University of Miami Department of History – University of Notre Dame South Nazarene University College of Arts and Letters – University of Notre Dame Seattle [...]

We’re back with another list — this time we’re going to take a look at well designed, standards-compliant E-commerce stores. These are tricky sites to get right and design can give way to conversions, which is after all, the reason they are there — to make money. I have tried to select a balance of E-commerce sites which get the design and usability right. This “best of” list focuses on [...]

Anyone who runs a successful website knows the value of search engine optimization. A good SEO tool kit can turn a good website into a profitable website by attracting the right kind of targeted traffic. But, how do you SEO a CMS site such as Joomla? With Joomla Extensions! Extensions is term used to refer to any number of Joomla components, modules and plugins. If you have a Joomla website, you’re [...]

What is CRM? Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a term that refers to the methodology and tools used to help manage a company or webpage’s customer, client, and sales relationships. Essentially, these strategies utilize technology to organize sales, marketing, and customer services, areas which are usually handled by various departments of a business, to solidify customer satisfaction, advocacy, [...]

The basic idea of the algorithm PageRank is that incoming links on a website should be considered a recommendation. The more links to a page has the more important the page is considered. The scale of PageRank ranges from 0 to 10, with the value of 10 represents the upper end, and very few Web pages have a PageRank of 10. It receives a page with many incoming links on a higher PageRank, and the higher [...]

Email Marketing is a common way to increase traffic to your website, it is likely also one of the most abused practices. Sending mass emails is not in itself an unaccepted practice. How you use this form of web marketing determines whether your efforts are considered spam or not. We will be considering both Black Hat and White Hat email marketing techniques. White Hat Email Marketing If you have a [...]