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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

With a good SRT—and a site optimized for speed—your website will appear to load almost instantly. Without it, the page will take longer to load, which can damage the user experience and, ultimately, search engine rankings. A slow site means a poor user experience, and search engines will respond accordingly. Image source ).

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly.

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Web Analytics Technical Implementation Best Practices. (JavaScript Tags)

Occam's Razor

Best practice is to run this nice little program, or your own equivalent, once a week and send a report to your web development team with a list of pages missing the tags. # In many web analytics implementations on the web you’ll see the tag right at top or in the header or before the <body> tag.

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

thenetsetter.com

If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind. Fundamentally the web is technology driven and to build any type of new service you need a pretty good grasp of what is going on to know whether it’s even feasible.

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Lab Usability Testing: What, Why, How Much.

Occam's Razor

Key stake holders connected to the website (or product) participate as Observers and their job is to get a close understanding of the customer experience. Stake holders can be business owners, engineers and developers, web analysts : ), product managers etc, anyone who has something to do with the website or customer experience.

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

This requires a visual web-editor (assuming you’re building a web-application). Personally I use Visual Web-Developer from Microsoft - it’s free and powerful. However, it is also very complicated to use, as it’s a full web-development environment. Write them as a chronological story.

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