“I do not have a website” is the last thing on earth any smart business man or woman would say these days especially in this cut throat competitive business world. The absence of a website implies losing significant business. Owing to the dominance of the Internet on modern life, having a professionally designed website to promote and sell products and services is the most cost effective option. The benefit of having an online business is endless since everyone can reap the advantage from the entrepreneur, to customers and even wholesalers. The Present State of Affairs Gone are the days when people searched through yellow pages to find products or services. It’s the Internet that acts the best search tool. With 95% online searches being made everyday, it is an undeniable fact that consumers prefer to browse through various web ...

Okay, you are ready to join the masses and put up a web site. You’ve put a lot of thought into the design and are ready to go. Perhaps you should give more thought to using a web site template. For many people, it makes more sense to use a pre-designed web template instead of creating a site from scratch. Using a pre-designed site template allows you to get a professional design at a fraction of the price a custom design would cost. A good template is automated or has HTML tags to show you exactly where to put your text. This saves you precious time. Also, a web page designed by someone just learning HTML is more likely to have mistakes than one designed and tested by professionals. Mistakes in web site code can prevent some users from being able to see ...

Setting up your own business establishment means you need to build a strong corporate image as your first task. Without brand recognition you cannot go far and the best way of brand building is creating a unique image of yourself – one that stands out in a big crowd. This can be quite comfortably achieved by getting a graphic design done that makes a powerful impact in the market. Now graphic designers are fused with the skills and know-how to offer you a company logo that itself is promotional in nature. Graphic design can spruce up your website and other company advertising platforms with a truly professional look, which is what every new company needs. Graphic designing encapsulates designing various marketing necessities like websites, brochures, flyers, business cards and print advertisements. Naturally it would be advisable for you to hire ...

Screengrab! is another great, free extension that makes it easy to save a web page as an image – it’s a screen capture tool for Firefox! With it, you can save anything that you can see in a browser window – from a small selection, to a complete page.  I also use Snagit (a more robust, paid screen capture software) but if you want something that is free and easy to use, try ScreenGrab! now. Basically Screengrab! let’s you take what you want from a web-page: the entire scrollable document, just the visible bit, or a draggable selection. Screengrab will even save just the contents of an individual frame. Screengrab! captures Flash and Java applets as long as you have Java installed. I've used both ScreenGrab! and Snagit and they each have their qualities, but again, if you just want a free ...

Calling all Bloggers!! Here's another great reason to use Firefox, the faster, more secure, and fully customizable browser and soon to be number one browser! Okay, enough about Firefox and on to the real reason for this post (wink). If you blog and write posts (about anything; it doesn't matter the topic!) and want to make sure you optimize each post to the appropriate keywords, then look no further than the SEO Blogger plugin for Firefox. SEO Blogger is a free Firefox plugin that gives bloggers a mini version of the Wordtracker keyword research tool in their editing window. It saves you a lot of time, allows you to stay focused on your current task (writing that next great article), and compares keywords instantly - all without leaving the Firefox window! The image below shows my screen as I'm writing this article and using SEO Blogger in the ...