Archive for October 2011
How Fast is Your Website? Some Tools to Get Answers
Site speed is very important to users. So much so that studies have shown that 40% of users will abandon a website if it takes more than three seconds to load. For many business owners, it’s very difficult to determine whether your website is loading quickly. First of all, how do we determine how long [...]
Read more4 Annoying Internet Habits and How You Can Avoid Them
People do some interesting things. Sometimes it seems that having the ability to post and share on the Internet has only made this phenomenon more prevalent. While many of these “interesting things” are harmless, some can get pretty annoying. And some are downright illegal. Here are a few such things and what you can do [...]
Read moreNever Use Capital Letters in URLs
Lately we’ve noticed some older websites on the internet that use capital letters in their URLs. What do we mean by this? We mean that instead of a web address as “http://www.example.com/about”, the address is “http://www.example.com/About”. It’s always good practice to avoid using capital letters in your URLs. Here’s why.
Read moreThe Risk of Sarcastic Writing (And What You Can Do About It)
Not too long ago I wrote a satirical post about never commenting on blog posts. I shared it with a few folks prior to publishing, made some adjustments and sent it over to Problogger thinking some people would enjoy the tongue-in-cheek style on a fairly tired topic. I didn’t expect much in the way of [...]
Read moreA Change to the JG Visual Blog
Sometimes even though something is going well, it just feels like time to mix things up a little. We’ve been writing blog posts here for a while now. And we think it’s time for a bit of a change. Before getting into the specifics, we’d like to thank all of you that read our blog [...]
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