Apple products have changed the way we listen to music and experience personal computing, but the new iPhone 5 could change the way we think of mobile technology. A robust app marketplace has made the iPhone an important player in mobile technology and innovation. An innovative accessory could make the next iPhone transformed from a [...]

photo credit: ~Dezz~ Link building is essential to building a popular website. There are many ways to get links (a clickable button or word that sends people from one website to another) but some are much better then others. The best way to get more links to your website are by providing something that is [...]

Today we are going to follow a simple design tutorial that will give you more skills for website design and other graphic projects. The idea is simple, to make a Polaroid photograph or any object look 3D, depth must be added to the object to give it a feeling of reality. We are going to [...]

Twitter’s a powerful social platform for building relationships with friends and even potential customers. Businesses are using Twitter to reach new audiences and keep their current customers happy through better customer support. The main challenge for businesses on Twitter is how to get more people to follow you. Smart People use all 5 important tips [...]

Keeping your website safe is important. A hacked website can really hurt your business whether because of a bad reputation or the loss of sales. This means the loss of real money. Today I would like to present a WordPress plugin that helps you to protect your website with simple, no frills, functionality. Just install [...]

Google PageRank is both something of myth and legend and also importance. Throughout the last few years the value of what Google calls their Pagerank has gone from everything to nothing. What Google PageRank does is use a ranking system devised by Google to determine the value of pages. 10 is the highest and best [...]

Hey Everyone I just wanted to give out a free file today. The file contains an image slider with labeled layers and a simple design. I was using it in another project and thought it would be nice to give this away. Hope you enjoy the slider. Download Simple Slider

Being safe online is important. To know if your email is coming from a secure sender the key is using a good email provider. My favorite email service is Gmail from Google. They provide great spam detection, verification (for paypal & ebay), priority inbox (filters important email from subscriptions etc.), and tons of extra custom [...]

Here Matt Cutts (Google Expert) explains how search engines like Google actually work. I thought the video was really interesting and very simple to understand. If you want to learn how to actually get found by Google, check out our SEO page.

Does this sound familiar? => One of the very first steps most business owners take is to get a website designed. You figure your website will give your business legitimacy and new customers. After a few months though you suddenly realize that you haven’t gotten more than a handful of visits to your website (other [...]

Life naturally places barriers of entry for important and risky actions. Take the hunting of a bear. Naturally this is risky, so where do you find the most dangerous bears? Alaska. Far from most people. You see many people find themselves in dangerous predicaments because of stupid decision making or poor execution. Stupid decisions usually [...]

Flip phones were ultra hot at the end of the 90′s and early 2000′s. As long as you weren’t a stuffy “business” person who owned a Blackberry or Palm, you probably had a flip phone. Then, Apple’s iPhone came and changed the world of cell phones completely. Smart phones took over and the flip phone [...]

A little quote on friends: “You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can’t forget. Those are your ‘friends.’” Friendship is the best way to market your business or website. Recently I had a chat with a favorite friend and blogger, Nicholas Cardot of Site [...]

Your website might look great but I’m sure you know by now that without visitors there wasn’t much use for designing it. Small businesses regularly face the challenge of building a website only to see it sit dormant with no fresh content or visitors. Without visitors you could have spent thousands of dollars just to [...]

Signing up for newsletters is a big part of staying up to date with blogs, online magazines, and awesome newsmakers. Each of these newsletters should always come with an unsubscribe option. Most are contained in the bottom (footer) of the email. Then with a click many of the newsletters you are subscribed to can be [...]

photo credit: Mike Rohde Wireframing is an important part of website design. It is the process of creating the structure of the website in pencil or pen and on paper. Although there are now many new electronic wireframing tools most designers still use pencil and paper. I am a paper user. The reason for wireframing [...]