Ever print a web page out and it’s just about unreadable? Lord knows we have. Partly out of frustration the JDM Labs team has just completed their first (albeit simple) Wordpress plugin available for free download.
reCAPTCHA (recently acquired by Google) is a free CAPTCHA service that webmasters are using to prevent comment and other form submission spam, but reCAPTCHA also helps digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Bet you didn’t know that. I thought it was just there trying to annoy me. So wrong. A CAPTCHA is a …
Webmasters, take a serious look at Akismet. Lord knows, you don’t need spambots posting comments and pingbacks that can hurt your SEO and credibility.
A common question we get from clients is do I need a content management solution (CMS) to help manage my corporate website? As a rule of thumb, we suggest any website that will likely receive more than 4 updates per month needs to be on some sort of CMS. However, it’s a little more complicated than just that. Let’s dive into the PROs and CONs of investing in a CMS for your corporate website.
According to Wordpress news’ “State of the Word”, Wordpress has grown to power 14.7% of the top 1 million world-wide websites, up from 8.5%, and the latest data show 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running a WordPress CMS.
Allow me to suspend my JDM bias for a moment and see if I can break down how websites are priced and why. The short answer is, you always get what you pay for, but let’s dig a little deeper than that cop-out.
I don’t know about you, but I often prefer to find out how NOT to do something than hear yet another recommendation. I’m sure you’re thinking we’re a bit bias (a post from a digital agency about how to choose a digital agency), but suspend your cynicism just long enough to read through a few …
I’ll grant you; the digital agency is a newer agency model. I get this question all the time and so I thought I’d offer up a short explanation of what, exactly, a digital agency is and how it’s different than more traditional agency models. Not that I’m a big fan of quoting Wikipedia, but here’s …
Based on anonymous data sharing gathered from Google Analytics users all over the world, Google has just released benchmark results to Google Analytics users via an opt-in only eNewsletter. Absolute metrics such as total # visits, pageviews, or conversions for all opted-in websites are NOT reported. The benchmark report includes the following data. Review, share, …
Is there an argument to be bade against W3C valid markup? Some insist perfectly valid markup is a requirement. We’re not sure that’s true.
CRM solutions have been broadly recognized and widely implemented as part of any sales-focused organization’s sales and marketing strategy. These days, leveraging a CRM solution as a touch-point between sales, marketing and customer service is 21st century marketing 101. The challenge for small businesses or even medium-sized businesses working with ever-tighter budgets is that a …
Simply put, RSS is a standardized, un-styled web page format used to publish frequently updated web content—such as blogs, news, job postings, etc. These standardized web pages (or ‘Feeds’) can be displayed (sometimes referred to as ‘consumed’) in RSS readers (like a web browser) or “aggregators” like Outlook or Feedburner. Here’s the point of RSS …