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Why is Facebook blue?

Mark Zuckerberg made Facebook blue because he is red-green colorblind. The color he can see best is blue.

Twitter Trends

Promoted Twitter Trends cost $120,000 a day! Ouch!!

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Facebook Visits

Did you know that Facebook accounts for 8.93% of all website visits in the US. All of Google’s properties including YouTube, Gmail, and Google accounts for 9.85%.

Typography

Typography is one of the most difficult trends to tackle. Fonts are meant to be explored, twisted, and molded to fit your purposes. With the correct placement, a website that utilizes Typography as its main design element will be more interesting to a reader than overloading the same site with tons of photos.

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Internet Competition

The tight internet competition has given the chance for many web design packages to flourish online. Depending on the nature of your business, your website should have the ability to embody your business goals while keeping up the power to hold visitors and move for a desirable call for action. It is actually the website that could bring on visitors to deeper commitment to your products and services. Logically, it is also your website that could drive away potential revenues and have them navigate towards your competitor’s site. Many online business owners are aiming for that website which could pave the way for their business success. Web designers are aware of this need such that they have equipped themselves with the essential skills in developing the home of your online trade. Professional developers know how important it is to utilize industry standard technologies that could provide for the specific needs of the business. A thorough analysis of your trade’s real goal would lead them to a website more flexible and accommodating to various target markets.

Web Site Browser Compatibility

When designing a web site, your first consideration should be browser compatibility. Your web site may look great when viewed with Internet Explorer, but when viewed with Netscape Navigator, everything may not be formatted properly, All web browsers are not created equally. View your site through different browsers and screen resolutions so you will see how your visitors will view your site.

A good way to see how your web site will look through both browsers is to download and install a copy of both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Make sure you view your first web page in different browsers and screen resolutions. Once you get it looking great for everyone, you can use it as a template for the rest of your web site. This technique can save you a great deal of time.

Usability and Accessibility

Research shows that users do not read websites, they skim them. Your visitors will look around feverishly for anything that is interesting or resembles what they’re looking for. A good web designer knows this, so she places important information strategically throughout the website, makes good use of conventions (i.e. anything clickable should be underlined), designs a user-friendly website with intuitive navigation. This is designing with usability in mind.  Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, is a US law requiring the federal government to make all goods and services, including web sites fully accessible to people with disabilities. It identifies specific standards for Internet and Web accessibility. These guidelines encourage developers to make web sites accessible to desktop browsers, voice browsers (screen readers), mobile phone, and other software that aids the handicapped navigate the Internet

Social Media

Today, the Social Media has a very big role to play in all business and marketing circles. Social media refers to bringing together of various activities which help in integrating technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio into a seamless entity.

Social media is fundamentally different from traditional media like newspapers, television, books, and radio. The major success of all social media depends on interactions between people as the discussion and integration of words builds shared-meaning, using technology as a conduit.

It caters to a wide spectrum of topics. With reference to Internet marketing, Social Media means a collective group of web properties that are driven by users. Examples in such case are blogs, discussion boards, and video sharing sites. Similarly, Social Media Optimization (SMO) is the process of trying to get a person’s content more widely distributed across multiple Social Media networks.

Social media marketing refers to the process of promoting a site or business through social media channels and is seen as a powerful strategy that will get you links, attention and massive amounts of traffic. This is the low-cost promotional method which will easily provide you with large numbers of visitors, some of whom may come back to a website again and again.