What are Google Trends
By The BWC Team
Google, as the powerhouse it is, offers lots of free tools to webmasters and site owners. The one we will focus on during today's Internet Marketing Thursday with Ryan Perry is Google Trends. You can access the Google Trends URL directly here. The great thing about Google Trends is that it is free, very easy to use, and easy to understand. In tod...
To CAPTCHA or not CAPTCHA
By The BWC Team
To CAPTCHA or not CAPTCHA, that is the question. If you have a contact form, login page or signup form, your webmaster may have asked you if you wanted to have a CATPCHA or not on the page. The word CAPTCHA (all caps) is the acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" and the first one was created in 1997. It helps defines if the entity filling out the form is indeed a human being and not a SPAM bot or other automated script. It is made...
Pinterest style card website design
By The BWC Team
You may not use or be active on Pinterest but you have heard of them. Their card block layout has set a new website design trend that is continuing to grow in 2016. Mimicking the design of successful social media platforms for website design is not new. Think of Timeline from Facebook; since it was released it became a format used on countless websites for their "timeline/company history" page. We think the card design works even better as a landing page where your visitors can see at a glanc...
Collapsible Menus or Full Navigation Bar
By The BWC Team
A collapsible website menu looks similar to a smartphone menu icon which you need to mouse over, click or press to open the navigation menu and see all of the links to various sub pages. Collapsible menus became trendy in 2015 and we feel that they will continue to gain popularity in 2016. Saying this, it does not mean this is the right option for every website. Actually for most of our clients they are not a good option. Website designers use them when the visual is the most important aspect...
Website Security – Part 2 of 2 – SiteLock and Other Security Services
By The BWC Team
SiteLock is the leading website security company that offers protection to websites from hackers and malicious software. Though it is a young company (created in 2008), it already has over 5 millions customers and that number continues to grow by the hour. Why such a success in such a short period of time? Simple ... hackers have gained considerable ground in the past 24 months and the number of infected or compromised websites has reached numbers in the tens of millions. Based on statistics,...
Website Security – Part 1 of 2 – Backups
By The BWC Team
As we mentioned many times before, website security has become a top topic among Internet experts and website owners. In 2014 alone over 9 Million websites were infected by malicious scripts or directly hacked by hackers. Experts are now saying that 2015 came close to doubling that number. Either way it has reached epidemic proportions. As a site owner, it worries you and it should. Websites of all forms and sizes are being hacked every second. It does not matter if you own a...
New Year Resolutions for your website
By The BWC Team
Happy New Year! May 2016 bring you fantastic success in your business, happiness and health in your life and most importantly balance. As we start the first week of 2016, site owners or managers should set new year resolutions for their website so that it becomes a powerful marketing tool for their company and supports all of their business goals this year. To keep the resolutions organized we have divided them into 3 distinct areas listed below. =1= Take your website seriously:
Year-end checklist for your website
By The BWC Team
If you have a website for your business or organization, you may want to pay close attention to the following year-end lists. Like many other things, they are not complicated but nonetheless following these bullet points is very important to the continued success of your website and company.
Schedule about 1 to 2 hours to do the following Read more ...
How to choose the right fonts for your website
By The BWC Team
It was not that many years ago when a website owner was given the choice of five font types for his website. The same was true for printing until digital offset printing came to life. Nowadays the choice for font types is close to limitless but this does not mean you should use any fonts on your site without thinking first if this is the right font for you. First and foremost, there are different ways to use special fonts on your site. You can encrypt a "non-standard" font onto your site (by ...
What is Yahoo!’s future?
By The BWC Team
Over the years Yahoo! has lost ground on being a leader of Internet searches due to the increase popularity of power houses like Google and YouTube. After all, you may hear someone say "I am going to Google it" not "Yahoo it". In the past two months, there have been lots of talk about Yahoo's internal leadership changes but, most importantly, possible changes in their business structure and focus. Their stocks have not always been doing well as fear for the company's future ...