Posted By Ezra Silverton in Efficient Web, What's Buzzing on 2008-12-22
My primary interest in attending the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, was to find out how Windows 7 would integrate with the web. During the 6 hour presentation I couldn’t help but get sidetracked by the exciting up-coming features for the PC desktop. The conference was packed with novel components, improvements on existing applications, and new goals. Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing on 2008-12-08
As a proud Canadian, I was not surprised to learn that Canada placed second world wide as a brand. Of course we did! Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Best Practices, Web Design, Web Development on 2008-11-05
Quality, as it pertains to the assessment of a website, can be defined in many ways. Appearance is an obvious factor as quality is often attributed to sites that are visually attractive. Yet even in this instance, looks can be deceiving. Once you remove the value of a brand image or the site data itself, my criteria for defining website quality, from most to least important, is as follows – user friendliness, engineering, business logic, design, and search engine friendliness. Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Web Development, What's Buzzing on 2008-10-28
If you’ve had any questions about how valuable the web is or is going to be for business, today’s keynote speaker at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 (PDC2008) would have laid those questions to rest. Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing on 2008-10-03
Have you searched for your company name on your favourite search engine recently? Give it a try. Add quotation marks before and after your name for more precise results – this ensures that the search results are based on the exact order of your search query. Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing on 2008-09-08
When is comes to email marketing, Canadian laws are not as strict on the practice as the US. Nevertheless, the following best practices should be met to ensure compliance with our Canadian laws and ensure good customer relations. Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Canadian Internet Stats, What's Buzzing on 2008-09-03
Just on the heels of the IE8 beta 2 release and the new Firefox 3, a new player has entered the browser field, none other than – Google. Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Web Design, Web Development on 2008-08-27
Last night the Microsoft team hosted a small but impactful meeting with some of Toronto, Canada’s web industry influencers to showcase the latest Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 2 features before its official release today at 3pm. Pete LePage, Product Manager / Developer Division at Mircosoft, took us on a tour of its main features, and it didn’t disappoint. Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Web Design on 2008-07-29
Entrepreneurs or small business owners in the process of building their company website often instruct a website design company to project a bigger business image. But are they setting themselves up for conflict? Full Article
Posted By Max Trunov in Internet Marketing on 2008-07-04
One of the major SEO events in Canada took place last month in Toronto, the SES Toronto conference.
The conference was a great opportunity to see and learn about the strategies and techniques being used in the SEO industry nowadays and to get some fresh ideas. Although the quality of the speakers was great, I think the advanced sessions could have been more technical. Full Article
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