If You Don’t Like the Weather, Just Wait Ten Minutes
This old saying which addresses the variability of the weather in Montana is also applicable to the market dynamics for an online business. If there is one thing that is certain about the future of online marketing, it is that it will continue to change.
Introduction to Design Patterns Using PHP
What are Design Patterns
Design Patterns are simply defined solutions to common problems. Design patterns are not created by someone who sits in a room and decides to make a design pattern instead design patterns are proven solutions that are implemented over and over again through different projects. This re-use of the solution itself becomes a pattern. Don’t be intimidated by the fancy names given to design patterns, such as faade, singleton or observer, they are exactly that just fancy names given to repeatable solutions.
Why Personalization Hasn’t Worked Online
Personalization hasn’t worked because most people don’t have a compelling reason to personalize. It hasn’t worked because the cost of doing it well usually significantly outweighs the benefits it delivers. It hasn’t worked because managers have seen it as some Holy Grail of content management.
Search Engine Optimization – A Must
As you surf the web take a look around at many of the sites you see. Do you notice anything that seems strange? Well, let me point it out to you. There are hundreds of thousands of web sites that just don’t get much traffic. Some of these sites house hundreds of articles, reviews, tutorials, tools, products, forums to mention a few things, yet still they do not receive large amounts of traffic. What is their problem? They have the content. What is left?
Do You Want Fries With That?
“The world has changed. Our customers have changed. We have to change, too,” — Jim Cantalupo, McDonalds
Newsletter Publisher’s Secrets
When a long-time reader wrote to me about my apparent ability to expand my thoughts into articles, he called it “a special talent that a lot of people do not but wish they had” and my head started swelling from the flattery.
NetCat Security
Netcat is a utility that is able to write and read data across TCP and UDP network connections. If you are responsible for network or system security it essential that you understand the capabilities of Netcat. Netcat can be used as port scanner, a backdoor, a port redirector, a port listener and lots of other cool things too. It’s not always the best tool for the job, but if I was stranded on an island, I’d take Netcat with me. During this tutorial I’ll demonstrate a complete hack, using Netcat only, just to point out how versatile it is.
Understanding Your Website’s Traffic Statistics
If you want to know how much traffic is coming to your site, which pages are bringing the most traffic, where are your visitors coming from, and when is traffic coming in, you just have to analyze your website’s statistics.
How to create a dynamic web site in Flash MX
Introduction
This tutorial shows you how to create a basic website with nothing on the stage. This will involve dynamically loading jpegs and creating movieclips via actionscript. Some of the material covered will be advanced but I will go through it step by step.
4 Tips To Get Visitors To Click
On many sites, it’s impossible to lead visitors straight to your primary goal on the home page. Getting visitors to take your most-desired action often means you have to use your home page to channel them down a certain path. You have to guide visitors through a set of choices before they can actually complete the action you want them to take.