Are you sending html e-mails to your customers?
Are you thinking about it?
Before you do anything else you should know how to get them your content in a format that they can actually view.
Visit Campaign Monitor blog - a place for development news, tips, tricks and talk on email newsletters and list management. They have written an excellent Guide to CSS Support in Email.
If you are looking for a way to include video on your website this is the best place that I have found to start learning.
This tutorial covers the different types of video streaming on the internet and introduces the two main methods of streaming video: Streaming servers (true streaming) and HTTP streaming. This tutorial is suitable for people who are familiar with basic digital video concepts, and who understand how websites work (see our video tutorials and internet tutorials for more information).
When creating streaming video, there are two things you need to understand: The video file format and the streaming method.
worldKit is a cool new application that is just plain fun to play with and it seems to have many practical uses as well.
worldKit is an easy to use and flexible mapping application for the Web. Light weight GIS. It’s a SWF based app, configured by XML, data fed by RSS. Stand-alone use or integration in larger projects.
worldKit is free software. The source code is licensed under GPL.
worldKit will work right out of the box. Unpack the files from the download, and place them in a single directory on your webserver. Load the url for this directory in your browser, and you should see the introductory app.
Ben Franklin once said “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
A prominent Republican on Capitol Hill has prepared legislation that would rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans’ online activities be stored, CNET News.com has learned.
The proposal comes just weeks after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Internet service providers should retain records of user activities for a “reasonable amount of time,” a move that represented a dramatic shift in the Bush administration’s views on privacy.
Google looks at your site one way, MSN another and Yahoo still another. Is there a good way to optimize your site for all three?
Dave Davies wrote “Tying It Together: SEO For The Big Three” one of the best articles I’ve found on the subject.
This article is part four of a four part series on optimizing your website for the three major search engines. Part one, titled “SEO For MSN” covered optimizing your website to rank highly on MSN, while part two, titled “SEO For Yahoo!” covered optimizing your website to rank on Yahoo! and part three, titled “SEO For Google” covered how to rank highly on Google. In this article we will cover how to tie your optimization strategies together to attain the highest rankings possible on all three engines simultaneously.
A number of people have asked me how do you get into the search engines. This is the most complete guide that I have found, but there is also a very good section for beginners.
This section of Search Engine Watch (formerly called A Webmaster’s Guide To Search Engines) is primarily for webmasters, site owners and web marketers. It covers search engine submission, placement and marketing issues. It explains how search engines find and rank web pages, with an emphasis on what webmasters can do to improve their search engine rankings by properly submitting, using better page design, HTML meta tags, and other tips.
Nathan Willis suggests some wonderful ideas for anyone thinking of offering public Wi-Fi in their establishment.
One of the benefits of living in a place as exotic as Abilene, Texas, is that it presents you with a choice of not one but three Internet-connected coffee shops. Last week, I spent an afternoon in each, scouting for the place I’ll go to hole up and get work done this summer when the triple-digit temperatures hit, when mentally calculating the air conditioning costs begins to prove too distracting at home. I haven’t yet reached a final decision, but I have some choice words for anyone weighing the idea of starting up a new Internet coffee shop.
The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources.
All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses. Download the entire library, its documentation and examples from Sourceforge.
For most online merchants, it’s a simple equation: the higher they rank in search engines, the more shoppers they attract.
Given that all-important formula, many e-tailers lose sleep pondering two pressing questions: how can I increase my search engine presence? How can I boost my ranking on as many search terms as possible?
They know that simply submitting their site to Google and Yahoo and then expecting a high ranking is like waiting for rain in the desert. Yeah, it might show up. Someday.
Of course, many merchants pay for high visibility using certain keywords ? spending a fortune on pay-per-click advertising. But the real goldmine — the true sweet spot — is getting a high organic (that is, unpaid) search ranking.
That’s hard to do. It’s a crowded online marketplace, and the search engines use a complex ? and secret ? algorithm to determine ranking, constantly tweaking it to avoid being tricked. It’s not like the old days, when you could hide the word “sex” in your meta tags and drive hordes of people to your site about lawn mowers.
I thought I would pass on a cool new tool called Google Trends that lets you know what people are searching for. It’s great fun to play with, but can be just as good for serious research.
Google explains how their tool works:
Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. We then show you a graph with the results ? our search-volume graph.
Located just beneath our search-volume graph is our news-volume graph. This graph shows you the number of times your topic appeared in Google News stories. When Google Trends detects a spike in the volume of news stories for a particular term, it labels the graph and displays the headline of an automatically selected Google News story written near the time of that spike.
For instance if you just searched for “ski resort” you would see (as expected) that the searching peaks just after the first of the year. You might not expect that Phoenix would be the 8th top city searching for “ski resort”
You can also search for multiple terms and find that Pizza seems to be more popular than hot dogs and hamburgers combined
or that the searches for George W Bush and Bill Clinton would be pretty even except in Washington where a lot more people seem to be searching for Clinton.
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