Posted By Ezra Silverton in Web Design, Web Development, eCommerce on 2010-02-19
A conference room filled with about 500 people, mostly small US Internet retailers, attended the Internet Retailer 2010 Web Design & Usability Conference (IRWD 2010).
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing, Web Design, Web Development on 2010-01-06
Here’s our annual listing of Canada’s top news stories relating to the Internet in 2009. Note that we’ve included some non-Canadian items as well due to their global significance to the web. Let us know if we’ve missed anything.
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Best Practices, Web Design, Web Development on 2009-07-28
Writing content for a website is very different than writing for any other medium. There are many factors to keep in mind; most importantly that content is the primary reason for the website. This is why all other aspects of a website’s design should be based around it. After all websites are browsed and visited expressly for their content. Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Web Development on 2009-05-15
When choosing among the different technologies that are available for developing a dynamically driven website, there are many factors to takes into consideration. Some of the most common website based languages include PHP, .NET (dot-net), Java, and ColdFusion. Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Web Design, Web Development on 2009-03-25
If you have a collection of social media profiles and would like to make it easier for your friends to keep up with you, why not use a Lume and give them just one URL instead of a laundry list. Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing, Web Design, Web Development on 2009-03-04
Could social networking websites like Facebook, YouTube, mySpace, become the next section of your website? Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Best Practices, Web Design, Web Development on 2009-01-25
Plenty of consideration and planning is required in creating successful website forms, even the most straightforward ones. In fact, best forms tend to appear uncomplicated. No matter the size or complexity, web forms are one of the most important tools of a website and need to be approached as such. Full Article
Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing, Web Design, Web Development on 2009-01-02
Unlike our 2007 Year in Review list, 2008 saw more companies modifying their offerings to Canada. We saw increased spending on marketing initiatives with some entrants of US web properties, though fewer than the previous year. 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
Over a decade of web-industry practice has given us vast insight on what contributes to the effectiveness of a website. Welcome to blog.9thsphere.com. Here we comment on the successes, failures, and challenges facing us regularly as a website services company in Canada. We have much to reveal and won’t forgo the occasional rant. Enjoy!
