I visited a website today. I wanted more information I tried to fill out their contact form. It had one of those lovely CAPTCHA fields on it. You know the ones, they take text in the form of an image and scramble it to the point where a computer can’t read it and automatically fill out the form. Are there better options?
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You brush your teeth consistently, every morning, every evening, or at least I hope you do or your teeth will fall out. You clean your home consistently, once a week more or less, some areas more often than others, at least I hope you do or you won’t have many visitors. And yet a lot of times with small business we have trouble with consistency.
Read & Discuss »Does your sales pitch resemble a fusty old museum that makes people feel sleepy and bored? Here’s how you can make your sales presentations more engaging – and fun.
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You are browsing the internet, doing searches in Google. Visiting websites, researching your topic. And you click a link that looks promising. It’s exactly what you’ve been looking for, this is the answer to your question. And you end up with the most ridiculous message ever . . .
Read & Discuss »A quick overview video showing and explaining Product Options and Variants in the X-Cart eCommerce shopping cart. Product Options and Variants are a powerful feature but need to be used carefully. For example Variants can dramatically increase the resource requirements to load your store.
Read & Discuss »This week is extremely busy for me with an upcoming convention and speaking engagement that I have to prepare for. And as such I’m only posting a couple of short Quick Tips. I hope you find them useful.
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In this article I discuss a few of the Myths around using Google Analytics compared to Log File Analytics. Any system you choose is potentially going to be inaccurate to some degree, so choosing the most accurate, precise method should be your goal. In addition, what are you really trying to track?
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Everyone that is online needs a place for their website to live. But we need reliable hosting that is going to be online when you need it, and support that is going to help you when you have a problem. How do you really balance reliability, support, performance and value? Especially if you may not understand hosting to begin with?
Read & Discuss »I get lots of questions on how to install particular website analyzers. Oddly enough, I don’t normally get questions about what to use or what to even track. Instead I usually get questions about how to use the application they’ve already set their mind on. This is fine as long as you understand or have taken at least a little time to understand what you are using and you are confident in your choice. If you are just using something to have something then maybe taking a little time to reconsider would be wise.
Read & Discuss »If you’ve read my previous article on “3 Reasons Not to Use Tables for Layout”, you might be left with a question rumbling around in your grey matter. How do I layout content on a website if not with Tables?
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