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Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips

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If you use an off-the-shelf template and your website looks like thousands of other sites on the Internet, you’ll miss an opportunity to create a unique impression. Also consider how people with slower internet connections will view your site. Tip: You can implement modern design trends to make your site look current.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Consider that your visitors might be visiting from laptops and mobile phones, so try to avoid designing pages for a large monitor size or pages that use more complex features such as flash animation or navigation (flash isn’t supported on the iPhone, for example).

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Consider that your visitors might be visiting from laptops and mobile phones, so try to avoid designing pages for a large monitor size or pages that use more complex features such as flash animation or navigation (flash isn’t supported on the iPhone, for example).

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. As a person working for a company whose 1/2 income comes from selling flash banners on our site, responsive would be such a pain that you can’t imagine.

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10 Important Web Design Best Practices and Tips for Small Business Websites

crowdSPRING Blog

If you use an off-the-shelf template and your website looks like thousands of other sites on the Internet, you’ll miss an opportunity to create a unique impression. Also consider how people with slower internet connections will view your site. Tip: You can implement modern design trends to make your site look current.

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Why you can('t) recruit a technical cofounder

blog.launchbit.com

We didnt put strict specifications on what "technical" means, but the general idea was people who may qualify as a technical cofounder of an internet/tech startup and in particular, those who have been pitched ideas before. I am the technical cofounder of WebMechanix, a Baltimore-based Search Engine Optimization company. Mar 11, 2011.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

You’re now tied to legacy code and design decisions, and you soon realize this isn’t what you signed up for when you had that brilliant flash of insight that people need web-based help locating their keys. As a former software engineer I hate to admit that sometimes the easiest thing to do is build the software.