Archive for Website Strategy
Who Owns Your Website
Do you own your website? I have been in two minds lately that this sort of activity still happens today. With all the abundance of information that people have today about building websites and ownership of domain names, people still get dragged into loopholes that their website designers make. As a client of a website […]
Top 5 Mistakes in 2010
1. Not making it clear what the site is all about. On average when a person visits your site you have about seven seconds to help them understand what your site is all about. If someone comes to your site and they have to read through a couple of paragraphs before getting to the point […]
Top 7 Mistakes in 2009
1. Unnecessary Use of Flash First of all, Flash is great when used well. For example, the current state and popularity of online video streaming with sites like YouTube wouldn’t exist in the way it does without it. 2. Poor Search Results When using the search function of a website it is safe to assume […]
Top 10 Mistakes in 2007
1. Bad Search Overly literal search engines reduce usability in that they’re unable to handle typos, plurals, hyphens, and other variants of the query terms. Such search engines are particularly difficult for elderly users, but they hurt everybody. 2. PDF Files for Online Reading Users hate coming across a PDF file while browsing, because it […]
Registrant’s Guide to Protecting Domain Names
ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee recently released “A Registrants Guide to Protecting Domain Name Registration Accounts”. Recognising that the operational value of an active domain name can be of critical importance to large and small businesses alike, the report describes threats and preventative measures that registrants should consider to protect their domain name registration […]
Who Is Renewing Your Domain Names?
The Australian domain after market is relatively new to the TLD market and has only been around for less than 2 years now. The only Drop service that I am aware of is www.drop.com.au (formally www.domain8.com.au up until a few weeks a go when it was sold to www.fabulous.com) Added 02/12/09 Sorry forgot about www.domainwatch.com.au, […]
If I want to create my own Web site, what do I have to do?
The best thing about the Web is the fact that anyone with an idea can create a Web site practically for free. A simple Web site costs about $1 a day to operate. That means that there are millions of different ideas out there being tried every day. Web sites broadcast to a gigantic world-wide […]
Australian Domain Names
The domain name was originally allocated by Jon Postel, operator of IANA to Kevin Robert Elz of Melbourne University in 1986. After an approximately five year process in the 1990s, the Internet industry created a self regulatory body called .au Domain Administration to operate the domain. It obtained assent from ICANN in 2001, and commenced […]
Choose Your Graphic Design School
Are you interested in launching a career in graphic design? Graphic design is one of the most innovative and growing creative industries in the word. New design schools are appearing all the time to meet the growing demand and interest of wannabe designers. If you are interested in educating yourself as a professional graphic design, […]
Your Website Design Strategy
With Albury Web, we can build your website strategy to compete with the leading websites in your industry. We have a unique strategy that favours search sites like google, yahoo and bing and helps propell your website to the forefront of search results. A few examples of our strategies include the following. www.MyFirstLoan.com.au 1st in […]
