Traffic is one thing that people strive for. Whether it’s using the pillar technique of building traffic over time, or a spike technique to create bursts of heavy hits for a day or two, traffic rules not only the way your website is seen, but it can affect how likely repeat visitors are.
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Whether you’ve been put in charge of your corporate website, or you’re a freelancer who’s been hired on, designing a website for a corporation is never routine. There are turf wars, inner-departmental battles, upper management issues, and precedent that you must deal with.

Yes, everyone makes mistakes, including (and more frequently than not), us. The key is to admit those mistakes in terms of your site (design, accessibility, etc), get them fixed, and improve upon them. Sitting back and taking a “I know everything” attitude certain isn’t the best way to go.

When dealing with clients we constantly find our heads spinning with a barrage of different things - from “I hope they don’t say one of these” to identifying and dealing with task at hand, whether it be design, code, or both. We’ve always said that communication is essential for a good client-designer relationship, but what [...]

For every site owner, you set goals for yourself long before the site launches. Maybe it’s things you’d like to do in general. Maybe you hope to make a set amount of income by a certain point in time. Or maybe you hope to hit traffic goals each month as the site’s popularity increases. For [...]

In week two of our essentials series, we discuss the trend that is “shortr” branding names. Does it work? Personally, I don’t think so.

Text-link-ads is one of the most popular advertising networks, particularly among bloggers. Is the service really all it’s cracked up to be, and should you be using it? We’ve been using TLA since the get-go, and we finally have a review to go along with the advertising service made popular by the heavy amount of bloggers that use it.

Hackers can really bother site owners. Take steps now to prevent site attacks, and we’ll tell you what you can do to recover from them. Don’t let pain in the ass hackers ruin your life or your site. Stop wasting time and start reading this.

Ah, the New Year is here. The first day of a new year always brings in countless promises you make to yourself, in hopes that you can be better person over the course of the upcoming year.

From “I want to quit smoking” to “I want to lose 20 pounds”, New Year’s resolutions fly around like [...]

When writing for a blog, there are what seems an endless amount of topics to choose from. Bloggers write about design, cars, blogging, technology, gadgets, and more. However, there comes a time when bloggers are running on empty and can’t decide what to write about. During those lull-in-blogging moments, certain bloggers may be tempted to write about topics as useless as making a grilled-cheese sandwich.