Posts tagged with 'AJAX'
The "boisterous doodle" on the Google homepage is excited about the week
ahead, and the week ahead starts with a Google search event at the
Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco later today.
What's on the agenda? Google isn't saying much. The company has told
invitees that it's an event "you won’t want to miss" and indicated that
it will be sharing its "latest technological innovation" and an "inside
look at the evolution of search."
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by Patricio Robles
08 September 2010 08:17am
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Every day, more and more web designers and developers are taking advantage of new technologies and tools that enable more enjoyable user experiences. From jQuery to Flex, designers and developers have no shortage of options for building more intuitive, responsive and efficient websites.
But many, if not most, of these options come at a price: an SEO hit. That's because it's difficult for search engines to make sense of content that is controlled by these technologies and tools.
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by Patricio Robles
08 October 2009 09:10am
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In my opinion, being able to track how people are finding your website through search engines is one of the most important data points available to business owners and marketers.
After all, since SEO can make or break a website, knowing which search terms are producing organic traffic is crucial to evaluating your SEO success and analyzing what you can do better.
But a new change that Google is testing makes it impossible to track this data if you use a third-party analytics provider.
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by Patricio Robles
04 February 2009 09:36am
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In an online retail market expected to double in size to £78 billion by 2010* the potential rewards for e-commerce businesses are huge. Equally, so is the pressure to stay ahead of their competition.
The desire for online businesses to become bigger and better inevitably affects their approach to redesign. There’s a huge temptation to introduce the latest whiz bang functionality and super cool design which will appeal to a whole new generation of customers.
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by Greg Kelton
26 June 2008 08:45am
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Open source blogging platform Wordpress can be enhanced with the use of free plugins which can help you manage comments and spam, as well as improving SEO and user experience.
We've put together a list of some of the most useful plugins for Wordpress...
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by Graham Charlton
19 June 2008 12:37pm
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Iterasi is a browser-based bookmarking tool that can be used to capture a webpage in the state in which you see it and save it for later.
Unlike some other bookmarking tools, Iterasi doesn't just bookmark a link to the web page you saved, but saves a screenshot of the site in html format.
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by Graham Charlton
05 June 2008 12:05pm
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Many online retailers must work harder to create a more personalised and interactive experience which does a better job of reflecting their brand, writes Aliya Zaidi.
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by Aliya Zaidi
30 January 2008 10:30am
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Yahoo! has acquired Zimbra, a provider of web based email and online/offline office software, for a cash price of $350m (£175.5m).
Zimbra's product is essentially a web based version of Outlook, though the company recently added Zimbra Desktop, which allows users to access email and other functions when offline.
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by Graham Charlton
18 September 2007 10:42am
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James Balmain is the founder of Webtogs, a new outdoor equipment and clothing retailer that’s set to launch a shop and very professional looking site in the autumn.
We asked James, who has little previous retail experience, how the Webtogs team is coping with the various challenges of launching an e-commerce start-up, especially in a sector that’s not as web-savvy as others.
For any budding etail entrepreneurs, it's well worth a read...
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by Richard Maven
21 August 2007 11:26am
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Jesse James Garrett
, the man who coined the term 'Ajax' and president of Adaptive Path, has been talking to us about usability and the user experience. It makes for a great read.
Jesse's book, The Elements of User Experience, is one of the most widely read books on user-centred design, and he was recently named as one of the top ten user experience experts in an E-consultancy survey.
Here, we speak to him about the psychological background to web design, the pros and cons of behavioural targeting and Ajax, and why he thinks Amazon and eBay's usability has gone "astray".
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by Richard Maven
07 August 2007 12:24pm
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