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Blog Entries in Design

Add Extensive Video Capabilities to Your Site - for Free!

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

YouTube is an excellent, free tool for giving your site video capabilities. Its administrative interface is a snap to use and standard features making uploading, hosting and presenting videos a very simple process.
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Posted by Carl Tortola in Design New Technology | Comments (0)

Using CSS3 to Embed Fonts on Web Pages

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

We explain a cross-browser-supported method for embedding fonts into web pages to add flair to designs without the use of any graphic/CSS tricks.
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Posted by Carl Tortola in Design | Comments (0)

Getting Magento Enterprise Full Page Cache to work on your Store Home Page

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

This is the first of a series on the Open Source e-commerce software, Magento. Neptune recently launched 2 major web sites using highly customized versions of Magento. This article explains how to get the Magento Full Page Cache (from Enterprise version) for the home page of your store/site.
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Posted by Charles Dalsass in Design | Comments (0)

Google Font API Gives Developers More Page Design Options

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

One of newest APIs out of Google Labs, the Google Font API, allows designers and developers to use more than just the standard 'web safe' fonts as part of a page's look and feel. This tool helps promote SEO without limiting a site's look and feel.
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Posted by Carl Tortola in Design | Comments (1)

Email Marketing Design and Development Best Practices

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

This article discusses tips and guidelines for developing email marketing messages that will appear consistent across multiple email clients and web services, as well as how to get a message from your outbox, past a recipient's junk filter, to their inbox.
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Posted by Carl Tortola in Design | Comments (0)

Best Practices for Popular User Interface Elements

Monday, January 11th, 2010

This article identifies best practices to follow to create a positive and compelling user experience.
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Posted by Shannon Quinn in Design | Comments (0)

Optimizing Your Calls to Action

Monday, January 11th, 2010

This article explores ways to optimize your calls to action to improve your website's lead generation capabilities.
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Posted by Shannon Quinn in Design | Comments (0)

SEO approaches in HTML design and development

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

The article explores ways to optimize your content for search engine visibility without sacrificing style.
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Posted by Carl Tortola in Design | Comments (0)