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2004 September 12 • business, resourcesPirated-Sites.com
website: Stop the theft of design and code. A portal for sites pilfered, plundered and otherwise not original.
2004 September 4 • businessSite Design Tips to Improve Your Sales, Part 2
tips: Actionable ways to grow revenue. An e-commerce usability guru talks about tweaking your site -- and your customer service -- to fatten up your bottom line. Second in a two-part series. [credit: Ecommerce Guide]
2004 September 3 • business7 Tips
article: Seven suggestions to help your Web site convert more leads.
2004 September 3 • business, design, usabilityHoliday E-Commerce Ideas
article: 'Tis The Season: Holiday E-Commerce Ideas is a new (free!) site from 37signals. In these pages you'll find dozens of ideas for improving the holiday customer experience at your website. Each idea is accompanied by examples taken from top retail sites.
2004 September 3 • business, seoTurn Search Into Find
article: Lower support costs and improve customer satisfaction with self-service solutions that lead the way to the right information.
2004 August 21 • business, web standardsWhy Your Client Cares About Web Standards
article: Don't bury the client with the technical jargon of standards-based design. Focus on the cost effective traits and market advantages of standards and you will have their full attention.
2004 August 21 • businessBetter Invoices for Better Business
article : "Invoices that obfuscate information, incorrectly state terms or arrive incomplete can be a massive headache for all parties. These mistakes will only delay the payment process, so it is critical you produce invoices that clearly deliver information... [credit: Business Opportunities Weblog]
2004 August 19 • business, processRisky Business
article: Explores the many risks involved in Web development and offers some excellent techniques to identify and manage risk for the benefit of Web designers and their clients. [credit: Digital Web Magazine]
2004 August 11 • blogs, businessBlogging for Business
article: With readers flocking to their Web postings, execs are finding blogs useful for plugging not just their products but their points of view.
2004 August 8 • business, iaSite Design Tips to Improve Sales
article: "Research has long shown that the leading factor in persuading shoppers to buy from an e-commerce Web site is ease of navigation -- findings that were supported in a recent survey by Jupiter Research. In other words, customers are saying make your site easy-to-use, and you'll earn our sale." [credit: InfoDesign]
2004 August 6 • business, seoWeb Marketing Checklist29 Ways to Promote Your Website
article: A checklist of 29 items you need to consider. Many of these you're probably doing already; others you meant to do and forgot about; still others you've never heard of.
2004 August 6 • business, design12 Design Decisions
article: 12 Website Design Decisions Your Business or Organization Will Need to Make Correctly (or you'll have to do it all over within a year).
2004 August 1 • business, design“Eight things I wish I’d known when I started”
aticle: Eight points for budding designers — and a strong refining point for those more experienced.
2004 August 1 • business, code, web standardsHTML, XHTML, semantics and the future of the web
article: Clarifies exactly what XHTML is, explains why you need to be learning about it from today, and steps through the process of transitioning to the standards based way of marking up for the web, and beyond. [credit: redemption through standards]
2004 August 1 • business, ccsCSS, Standards, Semantic Markup, and the Bottom Line: Money
article: One of the challenges in creating, maintaining, or redesigning a website, especially with larger companies, is that all too often the people making the major decisions are clueless about what matters the most with websites behind the scenes. Content is what truly matters the most, but the way it's delivered can unnecessarily cost a whole lot more with bandwidth, page load times, visitor satisfaction, and ultimately with lost revenue. [credit: Brainstorms and Raves]
2004 July 23 • business, design, usabilityROI Is Not a Silver Bullet
article: : Five Actionable Steps for Valuing User Experience Design. For years now, the “ROI of User Experience” has been sought as a means to justify larger corporate investments in web design. Although ROI methodology can be a useful tool for prioritizing possible web development projects, by itself ROI is not the answer to building a stronger user experience design competency.
2004 July 19 • business, processGetting senior management engaged in the web
article: The extent of senior management involvement in the Web is a clear indication of the value of the Web to your organization. If your senior management currently don’t recognize the importance of the Web, then it is vital that they are educated as to its value. [credit: Column Two]
2004 July 16 • business, design, processE-Commerce Web Layout
research study: Preliminary results of an online global survey to investigate user expectations of standard e-commerce web objects. Comparisons of the responses from users from four geographical areas worldwide show that, in general, participants had similar expectations on the location of the web objects. Implications for designers of international web sites are discussed. [credit: Usability Views]
2004 July 11 • business, processThe Art of Questioning your Clients
article: The type of questions you ask a client have an influence on the type of answer you'll get, and are influenced by the comfort level of the client.
2004 July 10 • business, usabilityBeyond the Buy Button in E-Commerce
article: "The best way for ecommerce sites to increase subsequent orders is to treat customers well after they place their initial order." [credit: InfoDesign]