Yearly Archives: 2007
Social Bookmarking Explained; Courtesy of Common Craft
We recently added the “ShareThis” feature to our blog, allowing you to take full advantage of social bookmarking. If you’re not sure what social bookmarking is or why it’s such a great tool, check out this video and then click our “ShareThis” link after each post to take advantage of social bookmarking!
Do you agree?
Would you agree with this list? Which websites would you have chosen?
Open What?
According to Wikipedia, “Open Source is a set of principles and practices on how to write software. Literally ‘open source’ means the source code is available to the users. The Open Source Definition, which was created by Bruce Perens[1] and Eric Raymond and is currently maintained by the Open Source Initiative, adds additional meaning to the term. One should not only get the source code but also have the right to use it. If the latter is denied the license is categorized as a shared source license.” Many popular web …
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Merry Christmas!
From the staff here at Epsilon Concepts, we’d like to wish everyone a warm and very Merry Christmas tomorrow! -RB
Creating Customer Comfort
Privacy Policy (creating a well thought out privacy policy is integral to giving your visitors/customers peace of mind when sharing their private information with you) Portfolio/Catalog (whether you’re selling products or services, people love to see tangible examples of what you have done and can do) Testimonials (let your previous customers do the selling and your current prospects will be reassured like nothing else) Case Studies (case studies are the next step above testimonials and are great ways of showing your prospects well-documented evidence of your aptitude from an unbiased …
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Common Craft Video: Blogs In Plain English
Another excellent video courtesy of Common Craft.
We love Basecamp!
By nature, designing and/or developing a website involves the efforts of at least several people relating in one way or another using numerous components. Plus, bugs happen, systems crash and many other bad things happen. Sometimes problems can be taken care of in five minutes and other times it takes 10 days. This adds significant urgency to properly managing a project and using the most efficient methods possible so everyone can focus their energy on what they love to do. Enter Basecamp, the revolutionary online Project Management tool developed by …
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Should I care about standards compliant code?
Seen one of these lately? If you’re wondering: “What’s all the fuss about ‘standards compliance’? And what does W3C stand for?” then this post is for you! I’d like to define standards compliance and point out some of the benefits. Here at Epsilon Concepts, all of our coding is standards compliant (W3C validated and certified) because we believe it’s worth taking the extra time for. I thought I’d share just why it’s important to us and why we feel it should be important to you too! Standards compliance means compliance …
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Website Structure Diagram
If you’re having a difficult time fully understanding how a website’s various pieces work together, we recently prepared this helpful and easy-to-interpret diagram to illustrate the different layers of a typical website and how they work together from both a visitor and administrator point-of-view. If you were to have a simple, “static” website designed, it would primarily consist of only HTML/CSS coding and there wouldn’t be any applications, a database, or CMS (content management system) functionalities available as outlined in the referenced link. A static website is more of an …
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