Profiling Testers
In our previous tutorial, we stressed the importance of knowing exactly who it is that is giving you all of this valuable feedback. If you are using testers who have already completed some prior research, you already have this information and don’t need to burden your beta testers by asking them to provide it again. [...]
Intro to Browsers
The browser is a software application that lives on your hard drive (just like a word-processing program such as WordPerfect or Microsoft Word) and interprets certain text documents found on the Internet as Web pages. A Web page can contain graphics, audio, and movies, as well as text; as a result, the Web has driven [...]
Final Words of Advice
Before you e-cash in on the product of your latest brainstorm, here are some final pieces of advice and further readings that might make the journey less painful for you and your customers. Always read the user agreements aimed at both sellers and buyers. As mentioned before, many consumers have been burned by PayPal’s reportedly [...]
Web Applications
Possibly you have heard terms such as Open Source ( Free Open Source applications ) and more specifically : Oscommerce , Cube Cart, Joomla, Drupal , Open Realty, among others. Having a website on which you can manage your own content, have automatic photo galleries and videos, have catalogs and even sell products online , [...]
The Invisible Web
Many of the Web’s Most Extensive sites work like libraries. These database sites keep tucked away Their information in the stacks, and if you want something, you Have to ask for it. Although search engines visit May These libraries, They Rarely Make It Past the lobby, and They refuse to ask for help the librarian. [...]
Marketing sites or Maintenance
“Marketing sites or Maintenance? Terms like Online Marketing, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and even Website MaintenanceHave come to mean many things in recent years. Our Internet Marketing service is the strategies we use to improve your website ranking in search engines. The maintenance of sites has more to do with updates, graphics and content from [...]
Word for the Wise: The Great Vowel Shift
On October 25th in the year 1400 the great poet Geoffrey Chaucer died. Linguists use his passing to mark the beginning of evolution from Middle English to Modern English. One of the most significant linguistic events of that transition was the Great Vowel Shift, a dramatic change in the pronunciation of the long vowels that [...]
Word for the Wise : Pottery terms
Uhrichsville, Ohio, which bills itself as the Clay Center of the World, begins its National Clay Week Festival today. Humans have been using that earthy, plastic material for more than a thousand years; today we look at some old words still used to talk about materials argillic (that is, “of or relating to clay”). Potters [...]
Wal-Mart Launches Web Site a 3rd Time, This Time Emphasizing Speed and Ease
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is hoping that the third time’s the charm as it once again launches a retooled Web site, with the emphasis now on speed and ease. The new site (www.wal-mart.com) promises to be less dazzling and more efficient, “less of a shot out of a cannon than an old-fashioned store remodeling,” says Jeanne [...]
Survey Says Online Fraud Is Increasing As More Merchants Take Steps to Fight It
Fraud is a growing problem with doing business online, according to a new survey, and a growing number of businesses are taking steps to counter illegal transactions.
