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How to find out if your web host is blacklisted

If you’re looking for somewhere to host your website, beware of any web hosts who tempt you with low prices.

Low cost hosting companies keep their prices down by operating a "no questions asked" hosting policy, storing large number of websites (sometimes over 100) on their servers without vetting any of their clients first. The problem is, if one of their clients is using their hosting to send out spam, anyone else who has their website hosted on the same server will find they are blacklisted, with the consequence of having their websites and email blocked.

Low cost hosting companies will usually provide the minimum of support (often by email only), so if you are unfortunate enough to discover your website on a blacklisted server, you may be waiting hours for support. In many cases, the hosting company will wash their hands of the matter and say it’s out of their control.

If you’re building an e-commerce site, make sure you invest in usability testing

Danny BermantEcommerce, Website usability

It never ceases to amaze me how many of the high street retailers invest hundreds of thousands or even millions of pounds on e-commerce sites that don’t work properly.

Is your website really down? Or is it just your internet connection?

Danny BermantHosting

Do your clients ever complain that your website is down? Before you run off complaining to the web host, why not carry out a proper check to find out what’s causing the problem. The inability to access a website can be caused by any number of issues such as a poor internet connection or the clients’ ISP blocking the website.

How to create a simple amusing website and generate some revenue

Danny BermantSocial media, Viral marketing

Bill Myers has recently highlighted a website called http://www.peopleofwalmart.com – not much to this site, just photos of people shopping and a comment about their choice of clothing.But the site caught on, and now gets almost 4 million page views a day.

New iPad will change internet use from being browser based to app based

Danny BermantiPhone / iPad

Make no mistake, the new iPad will change the face of wireless computing.

Tablets have been around since the mid 90s, but they have never caught on as a mass market product. But the iPad changes everything. Here we finally have a product that bridges the gap between PCs and smart phones.

It has a large enough screen (10"), enabling books and newspapers to be read online, but it is still small enough to carry around.
It can carry out all the functions of the PC such as word processing spreadsheets. You can type via the on onscreen keyboard, but it also has the functionality of a smartphone enabling you to download apps.

And it is the apps that change everything.

6 tips to help you close a sale online

Danny BermantEcommerce

If you’re serious about selling online, be sure to make it easy for the customer to make the buying decision

Remove distractions from the buying decision process
Remove negatives about the product or offer
Remove complications that may result in the customer saying ‘let me think about it’
Include something extra that makes the customer want to buy it now
Make the actual ordering easy. Give the customer their choice of payment options and a simple order form to fill out.

We can now offer you a heat map of your website

Danny BermantWebsite usability

Would you like to see where your clients are clicking when they visit your website?

We are now able to offer our clients a visual heat map of clicks on key web pages, showing hot and
cold click zones. This will help you to identify where to place key content when designing your site.

The heat maps take only minutes to set-up, and once your website has been tested, we will talk you through each page of results to explain what they mean.

Tired of spammers adding themselves to your following list without your permission? StopTweet may be

Danny BermantSocial media, Twitter

This morning, I discovered 4 Twitterers I was following that I’ve never heard of. I’m interested in high-tech web related Tweets, but I don’t recall opting to follow anyone who sells shutters, debt management or porn. And this isn’t the first time. Despite regularly changing my password, I have had to remove about 20 users over the last few weeks that I was "following" but never heard of.

Twitter spam is not only frustrating, but it damages your credibility. You can report the spammers, but it often makes little difference. Now there is finally a solution. StopTweet is a fully customisable application. You can tell the blocker what you personally consider to be a spam account. And you can choose to simply unfollow those users, block them or report the accounts to Twitter, as well – all with just one click.

Make sure your website works in all the relevant browsers

Danny BermantBrowsers

There has been a lot in the news lately about the recent court ruling that forced Microsoft to offer its European customers alternative browsers to Internet Explorer.

As a result, there are a lot of new browsers that are likely to be widely used. This could potentially be a nightmare for web designers, but it doesn’t have to be. There are 4 different rendering engines used by the different browsers. Provided you are are know what they are, you only need to test your website on 4 different browsers instead of 12.

Google and language recognition

Danny BermantSEO

Google have posted some useful guidance on their blog about creating multilingual websites.

By sticking to only one language per page and avoiding side-by-side translations, you are making it a lot easier for them to determine the main language of your page. Google recommend using the same language for all elements of a page: headers, sidebars, menus, etc. Remember, Google ignores all code-level language information, from “lang” attributes to Document Type Definitions (DTD).

How to find out if your web host is blacklisted

If you’re building an e-commerce site, make sure you invest in usability testing

Is your website really down? Or is it just your internet connection?

New iPad will change internet use from being browser based to app based

6 tips to help you close a sale online

We can now offer you a heat map of your website

Make sure your website works in all the relevant browsers

Google and language recognition

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