Archive | Web Development

11 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Analyzing the Affiliates

I recently received a nice little pay check of about $330.00 because I decided to start affiliate marketing efforts on my main business site, SpicyWebDesigners. Now the fact that my site receives a good amount of traffic right now helps but it’s also how I choose affiliates that are focused and in line with [...]

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02 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The most important thing about a website is…

Performance! Of course! If you think about it what is the number one thing that stops people from visiting a website or a web page? Most time you’ll hear your customers or audience saying “The site is too slow!” and…

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08 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Build Better Links to Track in Google Analytics

Now I am long time user of Google Analytics (about two years or so now) and I just recently stumbled on a tool to help you build URLs that are friendly to Google Analytics tracking. It’s a pretty cool tool that takes almost know time to learn but it will help any users out [...]

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06 February 2009 ~ 0 Comments

What is WIA-ARIA?

I came across this methodology of designing online while interviewing a web designer for the main site that I run, SpicyWebDesigners.com and I had no clue what WIA-ARIA (aka. Accessible Rich Internet Applications) stood for or even meant. After Alex Gewessler explained its meaning I was intrigued to know more so I decided to [...]

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30 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Hiring Freelancer Designers or Developers to build your business

After working with other designers, coders and developers over the past years I thought I’d put together an article about this. The way that I wanted to setup Pure Web Analytics was a business that works with its client base ongoing over the life of their web based business systems. Freelancing projects [...]

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18 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

How to Create a PayPal Sandbox Account

I’ve been using PayPal for the last couple of years for buying, invoicing and receiving payments from customers. As websites and web site design and development continue to increase PayPal has become the way to accept payment for a lot of businesses, possibly yours as well. It has also become very customizable to [...]

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13 May 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Top 10 Reasons Why Customers Abandon Their Shopping Carts

I wrote a brief article about Multi-page checkouts versus Single or “One Page” checkouts the other day and I wanted to follow-up with some reasons that people such as the customers and potential customers on your websites right now abandon their shopping carts. It is probably the biggest problem faced by anyone running an [...]

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07 May 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Multi-page Checkout vs. One Page Checkout – Time is money

When it comes to your ecommerce site there are so many ways in which you can optimize the store itself. Up selling, cross-selling, product feeds, SEO friendly URLs and the list goes on. I came across a feature offered by Volusion that I feel will soon become a standard in the e-commerce world… [...]

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27 March 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Using Internal Site Search in Google Analytics

In an article that I wrote back in February of this year entitled “Calculating Internal Site Search Metrics in Google Analytics” I talked about various metrics that Google Analytics uses for its Site Search feature. I decided to write a follow up article to discuss actually creating an internal site search that Google Analytics [...]

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19 March 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Three Ways to Safe Guard Your Website

After the events of the last few weeks I wanted to put together a list of things that can help you get your business back on track faster when your website goes down, your database crashes or any number of other things that could happen when the “lights go out”.

Backup your Website and Database on [...]

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