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Size Matters: Optimizing Images for the Web
Written by Christopher LynkWith all the fancy content management systems out there making it easy for users to manage and update their website, suddenly creating new content and pages on your site becomes a snap, and anyone can do it.
While CMS's like Joomla empower those outside the professional web design field to completely turn their website into a living, breathing dynamic canvas, there are still a few simple best practices that one might not know without a little experience.
One of the big ones that often get missed are images. In this article, we'll show you how to work with images for the web so you get the best results possible when putting pictures on your website. This will apply to blogs, social media, and just about any other method of publishing on the web.
Everyone has heard of Google. The word itself is synonymous with searching the web. If you don’t know something, what do you do? You Google it. It’s become part of the internet vernacular. You rarely hear folks say they are going to Yahoo that when they get home, or come across a solution by Binging it.
Like it or not, Google has become a part of our lives, but it certainly hasn’t done so without deserving it. It is the leading search engine, and has earned it by being reliable. When you search for something on Google, you find what you want. It’s not easy to manipulate the system, and that’s why people trust Google so much.
Everyone who uses the Internet has used a Search Engine. It’s nearly impossible not to. Google, the leading Search Engine, has practically integrated itself into the English Language; it’s not uncommon to swap the words ‘search’ and ‘google’ (don’t know something? Just Google it!) when talking about using a search engine. The other leading search engines are Yahoo, and Microsoft’s latest incarnation, Bing, but there are countless others. Search Engines generally work the same way, but we’ll use Google for example:
Despite the increasingly vast trust we put into the Internet to keep our personal and business information safe and secure, many users take their passwords very lightly. In an analysis studying over 32 million passwords from RockYou, a company that develops software for social networks, it's been discovered just how little effort is put in to keep things secure. The results are shocking.
What a weird post this is going to be. We've recently launched a software application called JoomConnect. It's been having some great success. It's in part responsible for bringing a lot of work to our small company bringing our staff from 9 to 17 strong in a very short time (7 of them in 60 days). It's been awesome and we've been training and getting everyone up to speed. We have been super impressed with the new members of our team and we'll be introducing them shortly (soon as we can catch our breath).
We are working for some of the industry greats, like ConnectWise, HTG Peer Groups and many incredible IT/MSP Partners that have adopted JoomConnect for use in their businesses as well as our awesome local clientele.
Ultimate Social Media Rig is on the ConnectWise University
Written by Chris ChaseThe Ultimate Social Media Rig Project Plan is now on the ConnectWise University.
ConnectWise Partners can download the template from the ConnectWise University and launch their own Ultimate Social Media Rig for themselves or resell it as a service for their clients.
There's no need to enter the Word Doc into a project anymore! Simply import the project and roll it out!
Partners can find the USMR Project Template under Shared Templates on the ConnectWise University.
Everyone is talking about Social Media and using it for their business. The benefits are pretty clear; you should be using social networks to market your organization, but how does that affect your search engine ranking?
Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic & acceptance for a website, but how does Google rate links from platforms like Twitter and Facebook to your website?
In a world where we are always connected, always wired into the system, it's incredible to think how much information about us is being broadcasted into the void. Everyone's doing it; Taco Bell wants you to call them toll free to chat about your experience, Facebook wants your full name, as opposed to a fake screen name, Microsoft wants to gather information about your computer every time something crashes. Is our privacy really being invaded? We'll talk about privacy, and the popular Palm Pre phone that seems to be taking Data Collection too far.
The time to implement a social media policy is now.
Your social media policy outlines for employees your companies guidelines or principles for communicating in the online world. Your company should have a communications policy in place that spell out your expectations for phone and email, it’s important that you add social media and online site usage to this policy.
It's more likely than you think. This month, video advertisements will be showing up for the first time ever in traditional paper magazines.
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There really is nothing more important than a page which…
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Great site. I particularly like the way you lay out…
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Thanks for the great article Chris. People have been complaining…
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