Providing up to date web design information and world information http://www.ahfx.net/weblog.php junk@ahfx.net en-US copyright AH Digital FX Studios, 2006 <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p>After wondering why SmarterMail was receiving so slowly after restarting the MailService, I came across this answer. The ASP.net performance counters were becoming corrupt. After chasing this little change for 3.5 hours, here is the simple fix (try at your own risk, your mileage may vary):</p> <div class="indent"><span class="userInput">cd \windows\system32</span></div> <div class="indent"><span class="userInput">lodctr /R</span></div> <div class="indent"><br /></div> <div class="indent">We were able to telnet in using the following code and get a 220 message, but the mail server would not respond quickly after that.</div> <div class="indent"><br /></div> <div class="indent">telnet mail.yourserver.com 25</div> <div class="indent"><br /></div> <div class="indent">Immediately after fixing the corrupted performance counters, everything went smoothly. So if you are testing your mail connection and you are getting a very connection speed (after getting the initial 220 helo) try reseting your performance counters.<br /></div> <div class="indent">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956<br /></div> <div class="indent">http://forums.smartertools.com/showthread.php/31437-Slow-checking-and-downloading-emails-after-upgrade-%28really-Slow%29<br /></div><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/186'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/186</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/186&utm_source=rss27 Jun 2012 17:00:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/186http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/186#comments <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>How to add a custom "vanity url" to your facebook Pages page.</strong></p> <p>Here is how <a href="http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=15075">Facebook describes</a> Page usernames:</p> <blockquote> <p>&ldquo;Usernames allow public entities to easily promote your presence on Facebook with a short URL. This username can be used in your marketing communications, company website and business cards.&rdquo;</p> </blockquote> <p>If you pick the username &ldquo;AHFXnet,&rdquo; then your Page&rsquo;s URL becomes &ldquo;facebook.com/ahfxnet.&rdquo;</p> <p>It is important to note that <strong>you need at least 25 fans before you can create a custom URL</strong> for your Facebook page. <strong>You must also be an admin of the Page</strong> in order to secure its custom URL.</p> <p>Facebook also says,</p> <blockquote> <p>&ldquo;Usernames can only contain alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9) or a period (".").&rdquo;</p> </blockquote> <p>We recommend picking a short and memorable username that reflects your company name or brand. You cannot change your username, so think wisely and ask for a second opinion when deciding on your page&rsquo;s permanent username. For <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/19">branding purposes</a> we would suggest you use the same name as your twitter account.</p> <p>Here are the steps to create your custom Facebook URL.</p> <ul> <li>Login to Facebook, with the account that administers your Facebook Page</li> <br /> <li>Go to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/username/" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/username/</a></li> <br /> <li>You will see in a yellow box, the username for your PERSONAL profile. This is not related to your Page username.</li> <br /> <li>Below, you will see a link that says, &ldquo;Set a username for you Pages&rdquo;</li> <br /> <li>Click on that link</li> <br /> <li>A box will appear, and if you have more than one Facebook Page which you administer, you will see a drop down menu with all of your Pages displayed. Pick the desired Page from the list.</li> <br /> <li>If you are eligible for a username, meaning you have at least 25 fans and have not yet set your username, you will see a box that says &ldquo;Enter Desired Username&rdquo;</li> <br /> <li>If you select a page that does not have 25 fans, Facebook will tell you that you are not eligible. If you pick a page with already has a username, Facebook will display the current username, which cannot be changed.</li> <br /> <li>Once you enter a username, you can click &ldquo;Check Availability.&rdquo; If your desired username is available, you will see a box reminding you that you cannot change your username once it has been set.</li> <br /> </ul> <p><img src="https://s-external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQDl3WHQFiN6ev01&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hyperarts.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fimage-fb-300x178.png" alt="" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>If you are ready to set your username, click &ldquo;Confirm.&rdquo;</li> <br /> <li>Now you have a custom Facebook URL! Share it on your other social networks, and you can even have it printed on your business cards.</li> </ul> <p>Test your custom facebook pages url by going to www.facebook.com/ahfxnet (replace ahfxnet with your new custom url). This page also lets you claim your own custom personal url for your account as well.</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/185'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/185</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/185&utm_source=rss18 Jul 2011 16:00:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/185http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/185#commentsMarketing <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Eliminating questions allows you to achieve <em>better <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/167">web usability</a></em> and quicker navigation making your site much more effective. </strong></p> <p>Today you can do almost anything in a minute or less, more specifically when it comes to the web, it is important to create web sites so that they can be quickly navigated. A user comes to a site for a specific purpose. <strong>They want to find what they're looking for and get out with as little thinking as possible.</strong> Making the elements of your site self-evident creates better usability as you start to eliminate questions such as, "Where is the navigation?" "Can I click on that?" or "How do I search?"</p> <p>Another way to eliminate questions and create fast navigation is to be concise. <strong><a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/43">Users won't read everything</a> on your site</strong>. Instead they will scan until they find what they are looking for. By eliminating needless words you are creating a cleaner page and allowing the user to find the elements that they want quickly, making for an effective visit.</p> <p><strong>Constructing page elements that look like what they are creates better usability</strong>. If you are creating a button make it look like a button; if you are making a search bar make it look like a search bar and so on. This is another way to reduce questions. When the user can find the submit button because it looks like a button then you are allowing them to quickly use your site, without any deep thought. Creating better web usability with self-evident elements will make your site much more effective.</p> <p>Usability is very important to think about when designing a website. <strong>Being conscious <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/18">about the user and the questions they will have</a> will help you to create a more effective site that is easier to navigate. </strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/184'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/184</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/184&utm_source=rss25 May 2011 14:26:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/184http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/184#commentsWeb Design <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>Firefox loses ground while Chrome and mobile gain percentage points. IE remains constant.</strong></p> <p>Browser statistics for the beginning of 2011 show that <strong>IE has remained at a consistent 61%</strong> market share. <strong>Firefox fell</strong> the most in 2011 losing 5.86% over 2010. <strong>Chrome surges again with a 2.65% increase</strong> over 2010. While the mobile market continues to increase as <strong>Safari mobile doubles its market share</strong> over 2010 numbers to 2.98%.</p> <table style="height: 166px;" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Browser</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 1</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 2</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 3</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 4</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 5</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 6</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 7</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 8</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong style="color:#000000">Totals</strong></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 9.0</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.67%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.43%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.73%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.36%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.57%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.53%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.07%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.29%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>0.81%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 8.0</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">14.24%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">39.90%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">36.23%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">43.24%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">63.02%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">22.51%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">38.49%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">24.43%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>36.96%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 7.0</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">5.25%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">11.25%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">10.72%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">17.23%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">9.37%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">9.65%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">14.76%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">33.30%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>17.16%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 6.0</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.54%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">3.93%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.39%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">5.05%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.73%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">11.61%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.22%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">6.72%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>5.17%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 5.5</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.45%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.05%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.04%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.04%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.04%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.46%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.03%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.30%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>1.04%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 5.0</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.19%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.01%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.02%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.06%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.01%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.16%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.15%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.09%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>0.31%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Firefox 4<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">5.69%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.40%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.28%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.76%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.51%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.25%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.34%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.92%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>1.47%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Firefox 3.6+<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">30.09%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">16.07%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">17.92%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">11.96%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">6.67%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">15.62%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">12.88%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">15.26%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>13.91%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Firefox 3-3.5<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.35%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.14%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.80%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.59%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.13%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">5.64%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.41%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.21%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>3.03%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Firefox 2<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.64%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.10%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.09%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.11%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.07%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.51%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.39%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.13%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>0.53%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Firefox 1<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.10%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.03%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.02%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.05%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.04%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.07%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.05%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.13%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>0.07%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Safari</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">5.81%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">6.85%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">10.19%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">9.26%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">9.01%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">5.35%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">9.05%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.87%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>7.18%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Safari Mobile<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.84%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.51%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">3.84%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">3.01%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">3.26%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.14%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">5.00%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.71%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>2.98%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Chrome<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">24.23%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">12.06%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">13.49%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.94%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">3.35%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">7.23%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">7.50%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.90%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>7.41%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Opera<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.91%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.25%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.25%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.34%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.22%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">16.26%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.67%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.73%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>1.97%</strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>It appears that Internet Explorer has finally curbed its downward trend with the rapid releases of IE 9 and beta releases of IE 10. Google's Chrome has continued to draw strength from Google's aggressive marketing campaign.</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/183'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/183</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/183&utm_source=rss06 May 2011 11:30:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/183http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/183#commentsWeb Design <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>Failed hard drive on a Dell PowerEdge server placed Raid 5 on a PERC 4/di in a degraded state. Here are the steps to rebuild the Raid array on a Dell PowerEdge.</strong></p> <p>We had a harddrive crash on one of our Dell PowerEdge servers this week. Fortunately, <strong>we had no downtime because it only took one drive out of our Raid 5 configuration</strong>. Once we installed the new drive everything rebuilt, but the Array Disks still showed in a degraded state. After trying a lot of options like reseating the hot swap drive, rebuilding the raid array again, running a lot of diagnostics on the drives, etc., we were still getting a predictive drive failure with an error code of 2094 in Dell's OpenManage log alerts.</p> <p>We decided to try another drive. It worked. The first "new" drive we put in was failing the S.M.A.R.T. test and showing a predictive failure. Replacing the "new" broken drive was the trick. So when it was all done these were the steps to get it out of degraded mode on the PERC 4/di controller array disk.</p> <ul> <li>Remove bad disk (hot swap so no need to power down the machine)</li> <li>Replace with a good disk of same size or larger</li> <li>It automatically rebuilds the array</li> <li>Once the rebuild goes to 100% it still showed in degraded state</li> <li>Clear logs</li> <li>Clear alert log</li> <li>Do a global rescan</li> <li>Everything shows a good status and running without problems.</li> </ul> <p>I was very nervous about pulling drives on the fly, but everything went well.</p> <p>We hadn't seen much of a drop in performance, although most articles I've read mentioned a huge hit in performance. We saw some performance drop in our website log statistics. Other than that everything went very smoothly for a hard drive failing.</p> <p><strong>The lesson here is always have backups and check your servers often for failing hardware.</strong> Preventative checks are much easier to handle compared to rebuilding a machine from the ground up.</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/182'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/182</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/182&utm_source=rss29 Apr 2011 13:45:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/182http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/182#comments <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>PageRank is dead.</strong></p> <p>Really.</p> <p>It's not coming back.</p> <p><strong>Thankfully we have mozRank.</strong></p> <h3>PageRank is not Rankings</h3> <p>I want to make sure that you don't think that PageRank is how well your page ranks for a given keyword set. PageRank was Google's original idea of how to give weight or a numerical value to "how important" a page is. So while it is a factor in how well a page ranks, it is not THE deciding factor. For more on rankings see our <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/tags/rankings">rankings pages</a>.</p> <h3>Why should you be more interested in mozRank than PageRank.</h3> <p>In the good-ol'-days PageRank was constantly updated and explained a lot about why certain sites outranked other sites. It was Google's bread-and-butter. However Google soon moved past their simplistic view of the web and <strong>started adding more and more key indicators in their ranking factors</strong>. This, along with people's greed for the magic green bar, caused Google to give less and less feedback to the community in the form of PageRank updates.</p> <p>So <em>despite</em> Google's claims of <strong>making data free</strong>, they have locked down PageRank and don't even show an "outdated" PageRank like they used to. <strong>They've just stopped updating PageRank.</strong></p> <p>The biggest problem with this is that it takes away our ability to identify how deeply Google is crawling and indexing our pages. Being able to say that the homepage is a 5 and the product page is a 0 is a big indicator that you might have a problem.</p> <p>Luckily there is a company that has noticed a need and has begun filling the void left by the absense of PageRank updates. <strong>Welcome SEOmoz's <a href="http://www.opensiteexplorer.org" target="_blank">opensiteexplorer</a> with their free and <em>regular updates of mozRank</em>.</strong></p> <h3>Data should be free</h3> <p><strong>SEOmoz's opensiteexplorer does what search engines should have been doing all along.</strong> Letting you know what they have "really" indexed without any "it is best if you don't know everything" filtering. <strong>Full data disclosure.</strong> Even now we don't get the true picture from tools like Google's Webmaster tools. Google worries that giving us too much information will tip their hand and give us too much knowledge and allow us to <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">poison</span>, <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">spam</span>, or manipulate the results. Oh wait, that is already happening with automatic content generators, adsense garbage sites, etc.. Luckily SEOmoz's opinion of making data free is in line with how much information they provide.</p> <p>Regardless of whether Google descides to do another PageRank update or not, I've move past it. <strong>PageRank is dead to me.</strong> We now solely rely on mozRank. It is a better indicator. Period.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/181'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/181</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/181&utm_source=rss06 Jan 2011 13:45:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/181http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/181#commentsSEO <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>Browser statistics for 2010 show that IE loses 6% of its market share. Firefox stays constant with a slight increase at 24.87%. Chrome increases 3% and Safari increase 2.75%.</strong></p> <p>Internet Explorer (IE) users have been shifting toward the newer versions of IE 8. We have seen a decrease of 8% in IE 6 users (I can hear all the web developers rejoicing over that fact). IE 7 users have also dropped by 17% and moved to IE 8 (with an increase of 19%). <strong>Interestingly, IE's overall market share has dropped by 6%, while Firefox has stayed fairly constant at 24%. </strong></p> <p>Those picking up staying IE users are the Safari and Chrome crowds. <strong>Chrome has increased almost 3%</strong> over 2009 and <strong>Safari has increased 2.75%,</strong> partially influenced by the increase in mobile browsers. I expect Chrome's smart move to add extensions to their browser has helped with their market share. IE should take note of this fact.</p> <p><strong>Mobile browsing has also seen an increase in about 0.5%</strong> as more and more people turn to their smart phones, iPods, and iPads to access their favorite websites.</p> <p>Early adoption of IE 9.0 and Firefox 4 are extremely small despite IE 9.0 hitting 20 million downloads.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <table style="height: 166px;" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Browser</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 1</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 2</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 3</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 4</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 5</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 6</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 7</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Site 8</strong></span></td> <td style="padding: 5px; background-color: #39a7c6;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Totals</span></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 9.0</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.03%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.06%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.09%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.25%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.06%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.05%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.02%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.05%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>0.06%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 8.0</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">31.46%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">22.01%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">12.64%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">40.29%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">25.20%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">40.12%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">31.79%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">17.32%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>29.63%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 7.0</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">19.62%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">19.67%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">7.49%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">13.04%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">18.61%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">23.45%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">19.18%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">15.52%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>19.03%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 6.0</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">10.79%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">18.09%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">10.35%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">5.35%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">21.42%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">8.56%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">8.11%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">26.75%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>12.15%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 5.5</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.06%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.12%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.09%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.05%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.07%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.04%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.03%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.88%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>0.40%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">MSIE 5.0</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.07%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.80%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.10%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.04%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.61%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.01%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.02%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.90%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>0.27%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Firefox 4<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.07%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.10%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.21%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.08%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.00%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.05%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.03%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.06%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>0.07%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Firefox 3.6+<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">10.07%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">19.24%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">26.94%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">14.78%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">6.33%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">9.05%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">11.65%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">14.11%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>13.73%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Firefox 3-3.5<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">12.89%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">10.56%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">18.67%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.33%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">12.27%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">6.09%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">11.47%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">7.78%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>10.44%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Firefox 2<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.38%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.97%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.60%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.11%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.78%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.26%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.37%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.86%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>0.52%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Firefox 1<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.03%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.23%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.14%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.08%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.11%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.07%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.05%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.13%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>0.10%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Safari</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">7.88%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">3.08%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">5.11%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">11.80%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">6.90%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">8.02%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">8.54%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">6.68%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>6.84%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Safari Mobile<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.80%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.60%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.35%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.60%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.90%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.06%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.01%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.46%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>1.27%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Chrome<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.29%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.55%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">15.17%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.99%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">3.04%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.83%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">7.48%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">4.99%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>4.76%</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px;">Opera<br /></td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.56%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.94%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.06%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.22%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">1.70%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">0.35%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">.024%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;">2.52%</td> <td style="padding: 5px;"><strong>0.72%</strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>While the browser wars continue to wage a few things have become clear. People expect updates more often. We also expect to be able to "enhance" our experience through custom extensions and tweaks. Mobile browsing is here to stay and will continue to eat away at the "sit in front of a computer" to access information perception.</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/180'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/180</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/180&utm_source=rss06 Jan 2011 12:45:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/180http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/180#commentsWeb Design <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>A quick review of Shoemoney's "Free SEO Report".</strong></p> <p>I've been a big <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/tags/Shoemoney">Shoemoney</a> follower for a long time, but when I read about his <a title="Free SEO Report" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.freeseoreport.com/" target="_blank">latest adventure</a> I was suprised because I had already used the service - Free SEO Report, without knowing that he was behind it.</p> <p>Here is a quick review:</p> <p><strong>The report contains some good basic information.</strong> You get information like:</p> <ul style="width:100%"> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Url <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/tags/PageRank">PageRank</a></li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Yahoo Linkdomain</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Yahoo Links</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Alexa</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Domain Age</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Title Tag Breakdown</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Headings</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Text Count (densities)</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">URL Breakdown</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Sitemap Info</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Description Meta Tag Breakdown</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Link Breakdown</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Size/load Time Breakdown</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Images with Alt Text Breakdown</li> <li style="width:250px;float:left">Keyword Suggestions</li> </ul> <p><br style="clear:both" /></p> <p>Some of the cooler features are from the backend where you can "skin" the report for your own clients.</p> <p>Now, while this has some good basic information <strong>there are some things that seem to be lacking</strong> (and I know you are listening Jeremy):</p> <ul> <li><strong>Pages indexed by Google</strong> (general count using the site: opperator)</li> <li><strong>Pages indexed by Bing</strong> (seeing as Yahoo is transferring to Bing's services)</li> <li><strong>Local Google Listing</strong> - this is a big item for better local competition</li> <li>I'd use <strong>mozRank</strong> instead/along side of PR because of how infrequently Google updates</li> <li><a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/43"><strong>Bold/Strong</strong> &amp; <strong>Italics/Emphasis</strong></a> usage</li> </ul> <p>So while this is a nice little "quick report", I can see that it has a lot of potential to grow. If Shoemoney is pursuing this, then I know he'll make it work.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/179'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/179</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/179&utm_source=rss29 Dec 2010 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/179http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/179#commentsSEO <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>For those of you in the web site design business, what document, guideline, book, whatever, did you find most useful for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?</strong></p> <p>Here is some quick advice:</p> <ul> <li>Always follow the <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=35769">Google webmaster guidelines</a></li> <li>Make sure you use a <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/104">unique and descriptive title tag</a></li> <li>Make sure you use a unique and descriptive meta description tag</li> <li>Make sure that your pages are all accessible through plain text links</li> <li>The farther from your homepage a link is, the more likely it isn't going to be indexed</li> <li>Gaining <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/106">links to your site</a> will help you the most after you have taken care of on-page items</li> <li>Use <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/43">bold and italics</a> to give importance to words you want to rank for</li> <li>Keep your content fresh and update your site on a regular basis (read my page about "<a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/103">Four Steps to a Better Ranking in the Search Engines</a>")<br /> </li> </ul> <p>All of these items plus additional information can be found on my blog at <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/tags/seo">www.ahfx.net/tags/seo</a> and at <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog">http://www.ahfx.net/weblog</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/178'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/178</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/178&utm_source=rss24 Nov 2010 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/178http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/178#commentsSEO <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>How to fix 'nbsp' not defined error in Google Chrome.</strong></p> <p>I have fought with this problem for a long time and finally found a "correct" answer.</p> <p>If you have problems using <strong>MooTools in Chrome and get "Entity 'nbsp' not defined.</strong> Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error." I have a great answer for you. All you need to do is change the following code in your mootools.js file:</p> <p>doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(root, '<strong>text/xml</strong>');</p> <p>to this</p> <p>doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(root, '<strong>text/xhtml</strong>');</p> <p>Just search for "text/xml" (it was the second result for me) and replace it with text/xhtml. That is it. No worrying about doctypes. No worrying about "&amp; #160;" characters. This just fixes it so you can use normal xhtml instead.</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/177'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/177</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/177&utm_source=rss18 Oct 2010 14:45:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/177http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/177#commentsWeb Design <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>Too many companies fail in these incorrect assumptions about SEO </strong>when dealing with search engine optimization to <a title="Why ranking on page one is important" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/71">get first page results</a>. Rand Fishkin mentioned these two ways companies often incorrectly approach SEO. The biggest mistakes I see around SEO is that they consider it two ways, both of which are dead wrong, and both of which will <strong>cost you a competitive advantage</strong> to someone who thinks about it correctly.</p> <h3>Mistake #1: SEO is something you tack on after you have built your website, service, product, etc.</h3> <p><strong>SEO is best accomplished when it is integrated in the entire website development process.</strong> If you don't have SEO in mind from the beginning for what keywords you need to rank for, <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/18">who your customer is</a>, and <a title="Customer Optimization - Better Search Engine Optimization" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/58">what they really want,</a> then you are wasting your marketing dollars.</p> <div class="pull_quote">"If you architect SEO from the beginning of your productization...You will <strong>build something TEN times better</strong> than what someone who is doing it after the fact can do."</div> <blockquote>The first mistake is that <strong>they think SEO is something that they tack on after they have built their product, service, website, whatever.</strong> You have a lot of these big companies, media companies, e-commerce companies, traditional companies, even consulting services, whatever business they are, and they think, build a website, get the product, oh right, SEO lets add that in too.</blockquote> <blockquote> <strong>That is the worst move you can make. </strong>If you architect SEO from the beginning of your productization, if you put it in with the product group, the strategic group, you will build something TEN times better than what someone who is doing it after the fact can do. <strong>If you don&rsquo;t have that expertise when you start product planning, you are just going to lose out to the people who did.</strong> And that is a tragedy. If you want to have a win in this department you have got to do it.</blockquote> <h3>Mistake #2: SEO is a one time activity</h3> <blockquote>They think <a title="Taking Time to Do SEO" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/35">SEO is a one time activity</a>. Oh right, we got to do SEO for the website. Hey did we do that yet, we contracted someone last year, ok good we did our SEO, dumb move. <strong>Is marketing a one time activity? </strong>Do you hire a marketing department for a few months and then, ok, we are all done we&rsquo;ve done our marketing. We don&rsquo;t have to do anything else.</blockquote> <blockquote>If you are not <a title="Why You Must Track Your Website Statistics" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/23">tracking</a> things over time right, are searching in your space going up but you are staying flat which happens to a ton of people they look and say, "Well SEO isn&rsquo;t growing for us but it isn&rsquo;t shrinking."</blockquote> <blockquote> I&rsquo;m here to tell you it is shrinking. Every month there are 10, 12, 15% more queries on Google, on Yahoo, on Bing than the month before. So <strong>if you are looking flat or not trending up in the same direction as your industry, you are loosing share to competitors. </strong>This is something people don&rsquo;t think about when they look at their numbers. </blockquote> <p>If you have subscribed to either of these antiquated philosophies, call us today or fill out our form to build your website the correct way from the ground up.</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/176'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/176</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/176&utm_source=rss04 Aug 2010 17:20:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/176http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/176#commentsSEO <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p>Around March of this year we saw <strong>decreased Google traffic coming to tried-and-true content that had brought us solid traffic for years</strong>. Things continued to decrease and we decided to investigate the cause. It appears that <strong>Google's use of dates in the SERPs had a markedly negative impact on our clickthrough rates</strong>.</p> <p>About a month ago I read Graywolf's <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/why-everyone-should-turn-off-blog-comments/" target="_blank">article</a> that talked about removing dates from your blog/article posts. He said:</p> <blockquote><strong>My&nbsp;recommendation&nbsp;is to remove any and all dates from the page after 3-6 months</strong>. Removing the post date from the article meta&nbsp;information&nbsp;area is easy. If you have comments, you have to monkey with the code to remove the date, or you can go hardcore and turn them off entirely. You need to remove any traces of publication dates from the page.</blockquote> <div class="pull_quote">we removed dates from all posts older than 3 months old and <strong>the results were amazing</strong>.</div> <p>Now that is a very interesting recommendation based on the assumption that google likes fresh content. We decided to put it to the test and <strong>we removed dates from all posts that were older than 3 months old and the results were amazing.</strong> Within 7 days Google had removed the dates from 95% of our posts in the SERPs. We also removed all dates from the comments that were older than three months old as well.</p> <h5>Removing Post Dates Increased Click Through Rates by over 8%</h5> <p>We tracked our Google referals for the month and we saw dramatic increases in traffic to our older content that ranks well, but was being affected by the negative older post date. <strong>Our Google traffic increased 8% immediately after the dates were removed from the SERPs</strong> and traffic continues to increase.</p> <div class="pull_quote">Our Google traffic increased 8% immediately...</div> <p>Case in point. About two months ago I linked to an article from a comment I made on someone else's blog. Another commentor asked "why are you linking to a post made back in 2006?" The content was still valid even though the post date was over 4 years ago. <strong>It just reinforced my determination to remove older post dates from all of my blog posts.</strong></p> <p>As a side note. Graywolf mentioned a situation where Google appeared to be grabbing the post date from comments to put as the date it included in the SERPs. We also saw this happen on a few of our posts as well. We tracked it for a while and it appears that Google has tweaked the way it handles getting post dates from comments, because after about 3 weeks, those posts that had grabbed the date from the comments also had their dates removed in the SERPs.</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/175'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/175</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/175&utm_source=rss16 Jul 2010 10:45:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/175http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/175#commentsSEO <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>Online e-commerce done correctly.</strong></p> <p>I was very impressed with <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.utrechtart.com/" target="_blank">Utrecht Art</a>'s confirmation page (and a few other nice things about the way they do their online shopping experience.</p> <ol> <li>Provide promo code <strong>on their site</strong>. (and had it <strong>prepopulate the promo code</strong> once you get to the checkout page)</li> <li><strong>Best sellers for each and every category</strong>, not just sitewide.</li> <li> <p>Simple two item <strong>signup/registration form after the confirmation page</strong>.</p> </li> </ol> <h3>On site Promotion Codes</h3> <p>The first thing that I loved was that they gave out a promotion code for 20% of any of their normally in-stock items. And then not only did they give you the code, but once you got to the checkout page, the code was already typed into the promotion code box, how user-friendly is that?</p> <h3>Category Best Sellers</h3> <p>Next they had "best sellers" in every category. Not just a couple of items for site-wide, but within each category, which made picking out the "most common" items a cinch.</p> <h3>Post Checkout Signup Process</h3> <p><img src="http://www.ahfx.net/blog/shop_faster_user_signup.gif" alt="Website Signup" width="476" height="202" /></p> <p>Last they did user registration the correct way. Only two fields, and after the checkout process. Plus they list some great reasons to signup (one of which includes a 10% promotion code which I know will work because I have already had success with their last promotion code.</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/174'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/174</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/174&utm_source=rss25 Jun 2010 15:00:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/174http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/174#commentsMarketing <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>Search engine usage and statistics for July 2010.</strong></p> <p>The Nielsen Company reported their <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/top-us-search-sites-for-july-2010/" target="_blank">findings</a> for July 2010. Here are their top results.</p> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;width:350px;" border="0" width="350"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #1324eb; color: #ffffff;"><strong style="color:#ffffff">Search Engine</strong></td> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #1324eb; color: #ffffff;"><strong style="color:#ffffff">Percentage</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">Google</td> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">64.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #eeeeee;">Yahoo</td> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #eeeeee;">14.3%</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">Bing</td> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">13.6%</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #eeeeee;">AOL</td> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #eeeeee;">1.9%</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Google has dropped almost another full percentage point over the April finding. Bing continue to gain with another&nbsp; .7 percent increase since April. AOL continues its downard spiral losing another .6 %. Yahoo got back a little of its traction, but is still down year over year.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Mosting intersting of all the numbers was the drop in number of overall searches, which dropped by 1.7 billion searches for the year.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Search engine usage and statistics for April 2010.</strong></p> <p>The Nielsen Company reported their <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/rankings/insights/rankings/internet" target="_blank">findings</a> for April 2010. Here are their top results.</p> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;width:350px;" border="0" width="350"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #1324eb; color: #ffffff;"><strong style="color:#ffffff">Search Engine</strong></td> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #1324eb; color: #ffffff;"><strong style="color:#ffffff">Percentage</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">Google</td> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">65.1%</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #eeeeee;">Yahoo</td> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #eeeeee;">13.5%</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">Bing</td> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">12.9%</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #eeeeee;">AOL</td> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #eeeeee;">2.5%</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>While Google dropped a half of a percentage point from last years numbers, <strong>Bing is the big gainer with a 4% increase of overall market share.</strong> Bing has eaten away at Yahoo's share and is getting close to passing them by. AOL has continued to lose market share as well. It appears that Yahoo's choice to outsource their search engine results to Bing has been a part of their loss in rankings as well as some people switching to Bing's cleaner look.</p> <p>Bing still has a mountain to climb while facing down Google. We'll have to see if the relationship between Microsoft and Facebook help to sway users away from Google.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/173'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/173</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/173&utm_source=rss21 May 2010 10:45:12 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/173http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/173#commentsSEO <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><div style="border:2px solid #AAAAAA;float:right;margin:0 5px 5px 10px;font-size:1px;"> <div style="border:1px solid black;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ahfx.net/shooter.php?send_to=a3" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.ahfx.net/blog/ratecard.jpg" alt="FreeAuthNet Rates" /></a><br /></div> </div> <p><strong>How to <em>accept credit cards online</em> without a machine (by using a merchant gateway account from Authorize.net with free setup) and not using PayPal.</strong></p> <p>First off you need to know that I get hundreds of calls a year <strong>trying to convince me to switch credit card processors (or switch <em>merchant gateways</em>) to accept credit card payments online.</strong> However, I've never found a company that can beat the rates of <a title="Free Auth Net - Authorize.Net Merchant Account" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ahfx.net/shooter.php?send_to=a1" target="_blank">FreeAuthNet (Capital Merchant Solutions)</a>. <strong>They have simply <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ahfx.net/shooter.php?send_to=a4" target="_blank">unbeatable rates</a>.</strong></p> <p>I've had lots of customers tell me that their bank can help them process credit cards online, or their current swipe credit card machine company will say they do online credit cards as well. <strong>Unfortunately, most companies that do swipe machines are built around a different "risk" model (card present) instead of online ("card not present") scenarios. </strong>So, normally they will give you a decent rate for card present and kill you in fees and high rates for online transactions.</p> <p><strong>FreeAuthNet has great rates (and they just lowered their rates) for online credit card processing.</strong> I've sent many customers to them and have yet found another company that could match them on their rates. We have even worked out a deal with them to <strong>get additional discounts for our customers</strong> and help with high monthly minimum charges.</p> <p>I could tell you many great stories about FreeAuthNet but I'll just quote a bit from starreviews</p> <blockquote>We really liked the fact that <strong>FreeAuthNet.com caters to Internet clientele.</strong> For so long, so <strong>many credit card processing services didn't understand the needs of online businesses.</strong> FreeAuthNet.com doesn't only understand the needs of the companies that conduct business on the Web, that is the niche market they specifically cater to.</blockquote> <blockquote>One thing that makes FreeAuthNet.com quite unique is the fact that it caters to online businesses, not brick-and-mortar establishments. <strong>Most credit card processing companies offer online credit card processing as a side-service.</strong> FreeAuthNet.com makes this niche of the payment processing sector its core client&egrave;le.</blockquote> <blockquote><strong>They are definitely one of the best credit card processing services for online businesses in need of <em>affordable credit card processing services</em>.</strong></blockquote> <blockquote>FreeAuthNet.com offers customer service via email and phone. To send an email we simply had to fill out the site's user-friendly email form and click "send". <strong>We received a helpful response the very next day.</strong> Phone support was also very helpful, providing us with in-depth answers to each and every question we asked. <strong>The fact that there was literally no hold time whatsoever was an added plus.</strong></blockquote> <p><a style="font-size:26px" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ahfx.net/shooter.php?send_to=a2" target="_blank">Sign up today for an Authorize.net Account</a></p> <p>Normally I tell clients not to sign up for the CheckMan software or the added swipe machine. Since you will be using a <strong>credit card virtual terminal</strong> (if you aren't just using our custom e-commerce shopping cart) to do your transactions. Just get the basic package and if you have any questions, I'd love to answer them. Just give us a call at 208.419.0868.</p> <p>I've had many people ask why I don't recommend PayPal. I've never been an advocate for PayPal. I've heard way too many first hand horror stories about <em>PayPal freezing accounts</em> (accounts with millions of dollars in them) and businesses going out of business. <strong>I wouldn't trust PayPal with any of my money let alone $0.02.</strong></p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/172'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/172</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/172&utm_source=rss19 May 2010 01:00:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/172http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/172#commentsWeb Design <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>Unique search strings accounted for more traffic than all search strings that more than 100 people searched for combined (including keyword sets that had thousands of searches).</strong></p> <p>To help explain this topic in more detail we will use this sample data.</p> <table style="border-collapse:collapse;border:solid 1px black;width:600px;" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Keyword Set</strong></td> <td><strong>Number of Times Keyword Set was Searched For</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Widgets</td> <td>150</td> </tr> <tr> <td>My Widgets</td> <td>120</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Black Widgets</td> <td>73</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Red Widgets that Fly</td> <td>20</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Black Widgets near Boston, MA</td> <td>2</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#E9CE59">Black flying widgets that don't float</td> <td style="background-color:#E9CE59">1</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#E9CE59">I tried to buy a widget the other day that should fly but it couldn't. I'm not sure why it didn't fly</td> <td style="background-color:#E9CE59">1</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#E9CE59">This is a random question about widgets in Boston</td> <td style="background-color:#E9CE59">1</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#E9CE59">My widgets sink. Why won't they float or fly</td> <td style="background-color:#E9CE59">1</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#E9CE59">...(long tail continued for another 300 items...)</td> <td style="background-color:#E9CE59">1 (X 300 more)<br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Total Searches</strong></td> <td><strong>669</strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Quantifying the Long Tail of Search. We did some data crunching the other day on all of the Google traffic we received for one site in 2009. Here are some interesting takeways.</p> <p><img src="http://www.ahfx.net/blog/percentage-total-searches-long-tail.jpg" alt="Percentage of Total Searches Based on Number of Searches for Keyword Sets" width="600" height="391" /></p> <ul> <li><strong>Unique Keyword Sets</strong> (or search phrases that where searched for only once during the year as shown with the yellow background above) <strong>accounted for 27.8% of all searches</strong></li> <li>Keyword sets that sent only two visitors accounted for an additional 15.2% of all searches.</li> <li>Combining keyword sets that were <strong>searched for only once or twice equaled 43% of all searches</strong> received. Almost half of all searches used different keyword sets than anybody else typed in.<br /></li> <li><strong>All Keyword sets that sent at least 100 visitors (like widgets and my widgets above) accounted for 23.4% of all searches. </strong>This means that more people performed unique searches than all of the search strings combined that had over 100 people search for them. People are performing longer and more specific keyword searches than before.<br /></li> <li>The <strong>longest keyword set</strong> we saw was <strong>144 words long</strong>. That is a long query string to type into Google.<br /></li> <li><strong>The average keyword set length was 5.7 words.</strong></li> <li><strong>The mode keyword set length was 4 words.</strong></li> <li>Not surprisingly, <strong>unique keywords sets tended to be longer</strong> than searches that occurred more often.<strong><br /></strong></li> </ul> <p><img src="http://www.ahfx.net/blog/word-length-long-tail-search.jpg" alt="Average number of words in search string by number of searches" width="600" height="391" /></p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/171'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/171</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/171&utm_source=rss24 Feb 2010 15:45:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/171http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/171#commentsSEO <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>Takeaways from Bryan Eisenberg's talk at SES London 2010.</strong></p> <p>So what do the best converting websites have in common?</p> <ol> <li><strong>Communicate <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/65">unique value proposition</a></strong> &ndash; You have 7 seconds to persuade (or <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/155">8-10 seconds</a> if you have really, really good content). Establish credibility on every landing page. </li> <li><strong>Make persuasive &amp; relevant offers</strong> &ndash; He suggests free shipping. From experience at Dell, free shipping made most profit and greatest sales. Conversion rate doubled for overstock.com However, if you listen to other advice. Free shipping might just erode existing profits. Make sure you test, test, test. <br /></li> <li><strong>Reinforce the offer sitewide</strong> &ndash; Don't let them forget your offer. Message must be persuasive and appear consistently.&nbsp; </li> <li><strong>They maintain the scent </strong>&ndash; Maintain consistent look feel of the campaign. Landing page text should reflect the original offer. The same style and call to action should flow until they have converted.<br /></li> <li><strong>Make a strong first impression</strong> - Everyone knows the cliche - You only get one chance to make a first impression. I would add that you should make your first impression impossible to miss.<br /></li> <li><strong>They appeal to multiple personas or segments</strong> - Talks about the <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/37">four different personality types</a> and that you need to market to each of them.<br /></li> <li><strong>They don&rsquo;t do slice and dice optimisation</strong> - You don't have time to <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/169">test everything</a>. You will also turn off a lot of potential customers if you test too many awful ideas. Look at the different personality types and create a valid hypothesis and then test that. Test for impact and not variation.</li> <li><strong>Use the voice of the customer</strong> &ndash; Social Commerce &ndash; People are huge followers. They feel much more at ease with a purchase that others have made and had a good experience with. Just think of those telecommercials and why they do so well. People need to hear from people like them. Figleaves improved conversion by 35% by implementing reviews.</li> <li><strong>They use Social Commerce for navigation</strong> &ndash; Helps people figure out what product is right for them</li> <li><strong>They use Social Commerce for promoting</strong> &ndash; Use reviews everywhere. Not just the product page, but in email campaigns as well.<br /></li> <li><strong>And for credibility!</strong> - Let others do the selling for you.<br /></li> <li><strong>And for feedback and research</strong> &ndash; Cheaper than usability labs</li> <li><strong>Use persuasion principles like scarcity</strong> - &ldquo;Low Stock!&rdquo; Or add call to actions that automatically end after X number of days from today.<br /></li> <li><strong>Make your forms engaging</strong> &ndash; Why make people <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/20">register pre-checkout</a>. Why not do this on the thank-you page? Or at the same time as checkout? </li> <li><strong>Provide point of action assurances</strong> - &ldquo;Guaranteed response within 2 hours!&rdquo;</li> <li><strong>They keep customers in the process</strong> &ndash; Hold your hand and guide you through the complete process.<br /></li> <li><strong>Consider email previews</strong> - Look at how your email will look with and without images.<br /></li> <li><strong>Budget for experience</strong> &ndash; Keep focusing on <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/42">continuous improvement</a></li> <li><strong>Utilize a system for prioritization</strong> &ndash; There is never enough time so work out what resources you need or just <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/169">change little by little</a></li> <li><strong>Make data driven decisions!</strong> Do web analytics correctly by making a to-do lists regularly!</li> <li><strong>Know how to execute rapidly</strong> &ndash; Have contingency to act fast if the opportunity arise</li> </ol> <p><strong>5 Final Action Steps</strong></p> <ol> <li>Identify problems</li> <li>Create the to-do list</li> <li>Document the change hypothiseis</li> <li>Prioritise this to-do list</li> <li>Start testing and do the same next time.</li> </ol><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/170'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/170</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/170&utm_source=rss23 Feb 2010 15:15:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/170http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/170#commentsMarketing <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>Muiltvariate testing we help quickly increase conversions. Here are the four simple steps to implement <em>multivariate testing</em>.</strong></p> <p>We recently wrote a from the ground up, multivariate testing package to use with all of our upcoming websites. We've always believed in <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/143">testing</a>, <a title="Taking the Time to Do Something Wrong" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/38">testing</a>, testing, and the <a href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/42">iterative design process</a>. However, normal <strong>split AB testing has become too slow at adapting</strong> to the speed of change necessary to keep margins high and conversions up. So we've jumped on the <strong><em>multivariate testing</em></strong> bandwagon and developed a quick way to test multiple changes at once.</p> <p><strong>Multivariate testing is nothing more than testing more than one (multi) change (variable) at the same time.</strong> Normally the scientific process tells us to only change one thing, test, and then evaluate results. Unfortunately this method is much too slow to be effective online. Plus we can see how multiple elements add or detract from one another in a quicker fashion.</p> <h3>The Multivariate Testing Process</h3> <p>The multivariate testing process is quite simple to understand.</p> <ol> <li>First you want to <strong>keep the experience consistent for the individual user</strong>, so you need a way to identify specific users and provide them with the same variables every time. Setting cookies or session varaibles for the user allows you to track and consistently display the same information to User X. </li> <li>Next <strong>you need a way to track which variables were shown</strong> to User X. We rewrote our tracking software to add the different variables to the stats of User X so we know that they were shown Heading A, Copy C, and Call to Action B while User Y was shown Heading B Copy C and Call to Action A.</li> <li>Third <strong>you need a way to identify success</strong>. Whether that is making it to a specific page, or signing up for a newsletter, or staying on the site for X amount of time. And each success needs to be linked to the specific test you are running.</li> <li>Last <strong>you need a way to compile successes</strong> and <strong>adapt to the findings</strong>. As you view your findings you can immediately remove ineffective variables from the test and replace them with modifications of the effective variables and rerun the test.&nbsp;</li> </ol> <p>After building our testing package we immediately put it to the test. The amount of data you can collect is amazing. We've started with some simple changes and have loved the results so far. We will be heavily using multivariate testing in our new sites to identify more precisely how users react to specific varaibles.</p> <h3>Getting Off to a Good Start</h3> <p>Now, I'm not going to jump on the "we don't know anything until we've tested" bandwagon. I think it is a cop out. Good designers know good design when they see it. Good programmers know good programming when they see it. <strong>There are still basic "rules" that can be followed to improve conversions.</strong> The trick is to start testing good versus better scenarios instead of bad versus bad versus bad.</p><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/169'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/169</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/169&utm_source=rss16 Feb 2010 13:25:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/169http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/169#commentsWeb Design <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>Increase landing page conversions with these simple tips.</strong></p> <p>Increasing conversions is a <a title="Lower Shopping Cart Abandon Rates" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/161">big</a> <a title="Better Usability, Better Conversions" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/167">topic</a> <a title="2010 Website Predictions" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/162">lately</a>. Here are some <a title="Simple Steps to Increase Landing Page ROI" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/166">more</a> great ideas from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ioninteractive.com/post-click-marketing-blog/2010/1/21/10-landing-page-ideas-for-2010.html" target="_blank">ioninteractive</a> for increasing conversions on your <a title="Increase Landing Page ROI" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/166">landing pages</a> for this year.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Keep your <a title="Natural Landing Pages" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/94">Organic</a> and PPC landing pages separate</strong>. Targeted traffic from PPC have been given a very specific hook. Make sure you build a complete page around that specific hook.</li> <li><strong>Stand Out.</strong> While you should use well-known and tried-and-true placement for elements on your landing pages, you need to make sure that your page doesn't just blend in with all the other landing pages the person has seen that day.</li> <li><strong>Test, test, test.</strong> Multivariate <a title="Why should you track your visitors" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/23">testing</a> is becoming the norm. I can assure you that you don't know your customers as well as you think you do. Let them make the decision on what works best for them.</li> <li><strong>Keep them there.</strong> Do whatever you can to give them all the information they need without needing to leave the page. Use in-page javascript windows to provide great information while keeping the call to action right there in front of them the whole time.</li> <li><strong>Target and segment.</strong> I read a great article the other day about segmenting your audience. Mac users think, act, and behave differently than PC users. Chrome users think, act, and behave differently than IE 6 users. There are tons of ways to segment your users and provide very specific information for them.</li> <li><strong>Video.</strong> Video has consistently increased in effectiveness and enticement over the past couple of years. People now expect it.</li> <li><strong>Help people socialize about you.</strong> Allowing people to quickly share information through twitter, email, facebook, you name it will get your message out even faster and increase brand awareness.<br /></li> </ul><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/168'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/168</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/168&utm_source=rss12 Feb 2010 11:25:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/168http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/168#commentsWeb Design <p><a href='http://www.ahfx.net/'>Succeed Online</a></p><p><strong>Six ways to increase usability and conversions.</strong></p> <p>There are many ways that you can increase conversions. Here is a list of usability items to fix that will help increase conversions.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Visitors can't find what they want.</strong> Provide an easy navigation as well as a search function for your site. Then make sure you <a title="Why Track Website Visitors" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/23">track</a> what people are searching for and make sure it takes them to the best possible page or product.</li> <li><strong>Your site takes forever to load.</strong> Cut back on some of the bandwidth heavy images and animations. People are very impatient. Remember that slow load time is the number one reason 51% of people leave websites.</li> <li><strong>Don't leave them hanging.</strong> Dead end pages and under construction pages are a complete let down. It is better to not get their hopes up and then dash them to pieces. Don't orphan pages and just leave pages that aren't finished completely off the site.</li> <li><strong>Stick to commonly used words and locations.</strong> Calling things by <a title="Lower Shopping Cart Abandon Rates" href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/161">cute names</a> or company specific terminology only confuses and slows a users progress. Keep it simple. Keep it straightforward.</li> <li><strong>Small fonts.</strong> The majority of online purchases come from people aged 35-65. Small fonts make it difficult for older users.</li> <li><strong>Using flash or javascript for your call to action.</strong> Some users don't have them installed (or can't... thanks Apple). Make sure you provide a way for those without those features to still convert.<br /></li> </ul><p>This article is from the <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>AH Digital FX Studios</a> <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/'>website design blog</a>:: <a href='http://www.ahfx.net'>Helping your business succeed on the web</a>, and can be found at <a href='http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/167'>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/167</a></p>http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/167&utm_source=rss11 Feb 2010 10:20:00 GMThttp://www.ahfx.net/weblog/167http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/167#commentsWeb Design