Site Design: Business Site Design Tips
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Points to various sources of information on website design, as well as design wizards found at Site Build It! and Yahoo! Small Business Hosting. Date: Aug 4, 2004, 11:18 PST"

Site Design: 12 Website Design Decisions Your Business or Organization Will Need to Make Correctly
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"7,600-word article includes many tips and links to resources to help businesses and organizations know how to design or redesign a website that works. Twelve points help organize the steps involved. Date: Aug 2, 2004, 11:33 PST"

Site Promotion: The Web Marketing Checklist: 29 Ways to Promote Your Website
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Link Description: Date: Jul 28, 2004, 15:01 PST"

E-Commerce: Demand for Print Books vs. E-Books
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Do online shoppers prefer e-books rather than printed copies? The answer may depend upon price consciousness as well as urgency. This article contains comments by two online document sellers, PlansNow.com and MarketingSherpa.com. Date: Jul 28, 2004, 10:14 PST"

Miscellaneous: White Papers vs. E-Books
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Explains the difference between a white paper and an e-book. Date: Jul 28, 2004, 07:11 PST"


TrafficLeader Expands Natural Search Engine Optimization Services
From: www.webpronews.com

"TrafficLeader, search engine marketing services provider, today unveiled an exfpanded set of services focused on the internet search engine optimization (SEO) and introduced its new Web site."

Mark Cuban backs Search Engine IceRocket
From: www.webpronews.com

"Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, is backing a new Internet search engine called IceRocket. It's mixing its own search technology with "metasearch" features."

ValueClick To Acquire Pricerunner
From: www.webpronews.com

"ValueClick, provider of media, technology and services, today announced that it has agreed to acquire Pricerunner AB, a comparison shopping services site in Europe."

Did Google Issue Illegal Shares?
From: www.webpronews.com

"Google, search engine giant, may have distributed over 22 million shares of its stock to several hundred employees and consultants, causing an unexpected legal risk into their IPO (initial public offering)."

A Closer Look At Business to Business Marketing
From: www.webpronews.com

"Are you properly managing your pipeline? Are you jumping the gun and losing valuable clients? What does search mean to B2B marketing? These are the types of questions asked in answered in Tuesday's SES Business to Business Forum."


Bidding Glitch Delays Google IPO
From: www.wired.com

"A source says the search-engine company is postponing its initial public stock option for a week to deal with a problem registering bidders in Google's new stock auction format."

Fark Sells Out. France Surrenders
From: www.wired.com

"Blogs are the hottest thing on the Net, but are they messing with traditional publishing principles? One of the most popular, Fark.com, is allegedly selling links. Is it the wave of the future? By Daniel Terdiman."

CyberQuest Disavows Porn Blogs
From: www.wired.com

"A strategy to exploit free blogs to drive up porn page rankings is met with scorn from both Google and the company that benefits from it. By Daniel Terdiman."

Google Cops to Illegal Shares
From: www.wired.com

"The search engine giant discloses that it may have issued millions of shares of illegal stock over the last several years. It's unclear whether the company's initial public offering will be affected."

News Sites, Where the Men Are
From: www.wired.com

"The online news business has a curious imbalance: Far more men read news on the Web than women. For online publishers seeking to steal advertising money from TV, this is a boon. But editors are worried something is off-kilter with online news. By Laila Weir."


Pre-Hire Carpal Tunnel Testing Not Cost Effective
From: webword.com

" Ergonomics Today -- "According to Franzblau, when the cost of testing is factored into the mix, the overall expense for a company refusing to hire potential employees based on test results would exceed the benefits from the testing totaling over $350,000, including the cost of screening more potential employees to compensate for those who were not hired. Franzblau also told Reuters Health that, while statistics weren t available on the number of companies in the United States who used nerve testing to screen potential new-hires, his evidence suggested that it s not rare. "

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India Etiquette Lesson: Don't eat with the hand that wipes your butt
From: webword.com

" I'm in Bangalore, India. Today I was eating lunch with my hands, since that is how most people eat here. I like to do what the natives do, when I can. Silverware is hardly used at all. Fine with me.

So, I grab some bread with both hands and tear it apart. You use bread to scoop up food and sauces. When I do this, one of my Indian colleagues looks over and says to me, "John, when I was a young child, it took me nearly two years to learn how to tear apart bread with just one hand, and then to use the bread to eat the food. It can be tricky."

I didn't think it was too hard to pull apart bread with one hand, but then I tried it and realized it isn't super easy. Then I thought about it some more and realized that my colleague was providing me with a subtle cue: Only use one hand to eat (your right hand). I looked around the table and all the people were only using their right hands to eat. Then I remembered that in this part of the world, the left hand is generally used for toiled related activities and it is considered poor etiquette to use it for eating activities.

Lesson learned. And, bravo to my colleague for deflecting the issue, while still giving me enough information to correct my behavior. If only user interfaces were so gentle, right?"

Are Web Sites Working for Older Users?
From: webword.com

" Ergonomics Today -- "The study, conducted by Traci A. Hart of Wichita State University, looked at 36 websites that were intended to be accessed by people ages 60 and above to determine how senior-friendly the sites were in relationship to guidelines set out by the National Institute of Aging (NIA). The results indicate that even though seniors are often the audience sought, the websites themselves may not provide a very ergonomic fit in terms of ease of use for their visitors."

Who is surprised? The web is broken for older users, period.

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Does Your Web Site Need Help?
From: webword.com

" eContent Magazine -- "I've used these products and they are slick. I will be even happier when they provide better support for XML, including graphic (SVG) and multimedia (SMIL) standards. Still, if your Web reports suggest visitor confusion, a technical writer with usability and Help development skills may be the all the Help you need."

People don't think much about the usability of content. That's unfortunate because many usability professionals are outstanding content developers. This is an area ripe for exploration.

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Not everyone is worth supporting
From: webword.com

" Gerry McGovern -- "Support costs money. Some customers are worth supporting because they are, or have the capacity to be, profitable. Some customers are not worth supporting because the cost of supporting them is greater than the profit that can be made from them. Differentiating between profitable and unprofitable customers is a critical skill."

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