Adobe CS4 is out - what's new?
Chances are that if you're a web designer or developer, you use one or more Adobe products.
Adobe's Creative Suite, which includes programs like Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver, is one of the most popular software suites known to web professionals because of this.
Amazon EC2 comes out of beta
Amazon's EC2 "cloud computing" offering, which enables users to access on-demand processing power using the firm's infrastructure, is "now ready for production", according to Amazon.
It officially left "beta" last week.
Ratings and customer reviews crucial, 5 tools to add them
According to research firm eMarketer, "Online product research is very popular in the UK and traffic to price comparison sites is up as consumers try to stretch every penny."
Consumers say etailers are sending too many emails
According to Forrester Research, over 150bn emails will be sent to consumers by retailers and wholesalers this year.
And many will be received by recipients who don't really want them.
Opera - most HTML code isn't standards compliant
Last week, Opera released the results of a survey conducted using its MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) search engine.
The engine, which currently indexes 3.5m web pages, is designed to track "how web pages are structured."
Add search to your website - 10 hosted site search tools
If your website has a lot of content, offering your users search functionality that makes it easier for them to find the content they're looking for is a usability must.
It can also enable you to track which content is most popular.
Tracking your conversion goals with Google Analytics
I'm a big fan of
Google Analytics
and consider it to be one of the best free analytics tools for the average webmaster.
One of its most useful features is the ability to set "goals" and track how well they're being achieved.
To link or not to link?
Recently, Tim O'Reilly asked "Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web?"
In his post, he observed that many online properties are linking to themselves more than they're linking out, oftentimes by building aggregators of some form or another to do so.
Google Trends: a means to fast search engine traffic?
There was an interesting post yesterday on TechCrunch about the use of Google Trends to drive editorial.
Apparently, a number of publishers are leveraging the data from Google Trends to find hot keyword trends, and taking advantage of the blazing speed at which Google spiders new content on blogs and content sites to produce content catered specifically to those hot keywords.
5 places where e-business owners can find cost savings
With the global economy getting worse by the day, even those businesses that felt confident going into the downturn are getting ready to batten down the hatches as a nuclear winter sets in.
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Graham Charlton
Strategy & Planning
