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December 29, 2020 /
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No one really has time to fill out all your little boxes. Fill in the blanks. Screw that! No one has the time in today’s busy world. That’s why using a contact form says “Go to hell!” to your visitors and sends potential customers somewhere else. The forms also communicate that you don’t care about […]
April 29, 2015 |
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The sale of eWinery Solutions was so NOT a surprise given the persistent coma of its website. Note April 28 as the most recent post. (Screen capture Sept. 18, 2014) Aging, derelict web sites most often mean that the owner doesn’t have the resources to keep it up to date, doesn’t care, or both. Those […]
September 18, 2014 |
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The number-one complaint from News Fetch readers comes from animations. We’ve been banning those for new ads and grandfathering them for ongoing advertisers. What’s more, to lower the annoyance factor, the grandfathered ads must make slower transitions and remain static longer. And they animate once and then remain still. Our eventual goal is no animations […]
September 15, 2014 |
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Sponsored content links are those paid by sponsors and, on Wine Industry Insight, clearly marked as such. (Not clearly marking paid content is misleading and dishonest.) In the daily News Fetch email briefing, sponsored links look like this: or HOW TO MAKE SPONSORED LINKS PAY OFF Write an irresistible headline. Use Sharp […]
September 9, 2014 |
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Flash — especially auto-running video — is ranked among the most annoying things on the web. A large percentage of users browse with Flash blockers or with Flash turned off. It’s also a bandwidth hog and a top cause for prematurely running laptop batteries down. This is what I see when I browse. Like others, […]
May 12, 2014 |
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If you have a slider or a carousel, you’re driving away traffic. They are bad for users and, as you’ll read farther down in this article, they also sabotage Search Engine Optimization. Sliders/carousels fail because there is no way to guarantee that the new stuff will be the first thing that visitors see. Most folks […]
May 6, 2014 |
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If you use a contact form, you are communicating that don’t you really want contact. Fill in the blanks. No one has the time in a busy world. I found what might have been a good article this morning, but it was missing a headline. I tried to email the site about that. But instead […]
February 19, 2014 |
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This is why: This shows the activity monitor on my MacBookPro (2012 model). Look at the top line under %CPU. The Firefox Plugin at the very top is Shockwave/Flash … Currently eating up more than one whole core in a dual-core processor (This slows things to a crawl and). The site causing this has […]
December 17, 2013 |
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Some people don’t check their mobile web. And they get things like this. For more than a week, this is what it’s looked like on my iPad and iPhone. Have you checked your mobile web … Android and iOS lately?
October 24, 2013 |
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