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I have been wondering what it would be like to visit my fellow coders-in-arms across The Pond, in the great land filled with … well … whatever they have, I’m sure it’s great! I have visited many websites located in England though. And many many sites that I have visited have been not so great. And that’s not just my opinion either, as I have gotten many people from London who’ve contacted me via email/social networks, all with the same issues – their website is not ranking on Google. And that their sites are not optimized for usability/accessibility. They are disgruntled and upset, and ask me to visit their local office to meet about creating an acceptable site.

So when I say I can’t be there on the following Monday (I’m here in Sunny California, USA), I recommend to them that they contact a great web design London (check out those professionals linked here) firm. Great work at a great price – work that is accessible, SEOptimized, and usability tested!

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The rains were pouring so heavily that night and no body dared to get out of their houses. The thunderstorms and the lightening were frightening and no body wanted to peep outside as they were all avoiding the wrath of Mother Nature. Soon the lights went off and what followed was a huge bang that left every one trebling. Every one was asking of what could have happened. There were only speculations but nobody could tell exactly what happened. The bang only added more fear to them and no one could even take a step to the door or the window. When all this was happing, John was busy writing his essay because he knew that the lecturer would not listen to his story when he failed to submit his essay. Although he was under tension when writing the essay, he had no choice other than writing the essay. After the lights went off, his laptop could only keep its charge for only two hours and he knew that it was almost impossible for him to write the whole essays in the next two hours. He had to think first of what possible method would make him finish his essay writing before the dawn. He had once sought the help of an essay writer but be had lost the essay writer’s contact. He knew that time was moving fast and he had to find a way out. Soon John remembered that he could get essay writers online and soon connected his laptop with a modem and he found a site were he found essay writers who could write his essay. After chatting online and agreeing with one of them about his essay, the writer told him that by morning his essay would be complete. Were it not for the online writer, John would have failed the course.

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Everyone is obsessed with apps these days, and it is easy to see why. They are fun, the keep people occupied and they are a great way to pass the time when waiting for something to happen. Apps can also serve a great educational purpose with kids and people learning new skills, they are wonderful when commuting somewhere, and so on. That is why the development of apps is booming into different direction, and you should also seek android developers who can help make apps work for you and show you a great way out of a situation where you are not sure what to do with yourself. You can learn more about what’s out there for you to enjoy and see with google for ios development services to be at your beck and call, showing you all the wonderful possibilities of modern IT and development companies, and what they have to offer you. Making the right decisions will surely allow you to find the most amazing solutions out there and introduce a brand new product to the market that will hopefully become a hit. True IT gurus will embrace the challenge that is windows phone mobile development and will help you shine.

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PDF vs. EPUB

Summary: the most famous format for the document transfer over the internet ,PDF is facing competition from EPUB due to its inability for reflow able content support.

After the PDF popularity for the document handling purposes the structure of the internet infrastructure has increasingly introduced applications to support this format. The PDF being the finest and the best format for the document handling has also faced the challenges of the changing display devices market. Now there are display devices available of all kinds major of them have support for the internet applications. The problem is that the PDF format is not the optimized format for all these devices. The technology like OCR makes it possible for the users to convert the PDF documents into many other formats but is not able to support the display device problem solution. Now there are software’s to convert PDF to text Mac ,EPUB, PPT and many other formats. Among all these formats the EPUB format is the most versatile one ,let’s take a close look at its features.

Electronic Publication or the EPUB as commonly known is a open ebook standard available for free by the IDPF. This format was designed to overcome the drawback of PDF not being able to support multiple display devices. EPUB is totally able to support the format of reflow able content that means it is able to optimize content text to meet the requirements of the display device. The files having this format have an extension name .epub and are actively being used for iPad applications. Along with the flow content feature support this format has the ability to support the content of fixed layout type. This format is available in four specifications namely the EPUB Publications 3.0, EPUB Content Documents 3.0, EPUB Open Container Format (OCF) 3.0 and EPUB Media Overlays 3.0. You can convert any PDF file into EPUB format using any Mac PDF to EPUB converter which is easily available over the internet.

The EPUB format has some criticism associated with it as well and they are not formally known.

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We will be adding Facebook and Twitter integration within the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

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Have you noticed that your websites just can’t compete with your rivals when it comes to page rankings, no matter what kind of content you’re posting? So what is it that they’re doing that you’ve missed out on entirely? Chances are, your competition is paying much closer attention to what’s known as white hat SEO in order to achieve a higher Search Engine Ranking.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of crafting the design and content of your web pages to be more appealing to search engine indexing programs called bots. These bots are constantly analyzing every page on the Internet, determining content quality, link quality and a host of other factors outlined in mathematical programs called algorithms.

Google, and other search engines, are constantly changing these algorithms in order to keep up with webmasters who are intent on gaming the system. That means keeping up with SEO best practices can practically be a full time job. For SEO consultants the ones working a 4th Media it is, of course, a full time job. These Internet niche specialists are skilled at taking their client companies to the top of the page rankings.

If you’re not feeling up to the task of handling your own SEO strategy, leave it to the professionals.

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More of a “what’s going on this early Monday morning” question…
Have a great week folks!

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There are many benefits that are witnessed by marketing your business via the internet. This has led to the popularity of internet marketing for both small and large business organizations. Some of the benefits include increasing traffic to your site, enhancement of your company’s brand and the products you offer and generating reliable income. In order for this to be achieved, you need to put in place some of the most effective internet marketing strategies.

First and foremost, ensure that your website is designed in the most attractive way. This should be in accordance with the advanced features and ease of use. This will ensure that your prospective customers are attracted easily. With this in place, you need to consider the optimization of your site. Your site will only get high search engine rankings if it is well optimized. This requires the services of a good seo consultant. Consequently, take some time to do some research on a number of companies that are available in the market before settling for a particular one.

Another perfect strategy has to deal with affiliate programs. Many online users are interested in participating in affiliate programs. When a site offers more programs, more clients are attracted to it. This is a perfect strategy to beat all the other companies in your niche. You also need to ensure that your site offers reliable information and content to clients. Most online users are looking for solutions to their situations. If they are assured of getting the solutions from your site, they will always visit the site no matter what. Ensure therefore that the site is not only attractive and offers many affiliate programs but it should also have valuable information.

The use of press releases is another important consideration that should not be overlooked. Press releases usually attract people since they offer news and important stories. In addition, make it a point to interact with your visitors through blogging and forums.

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I’m going to buy this book. And if you are creating a brand for a client, or yourself, I suggest you read Crushit by Gary Vaynerchuk:

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Since the majority of people use Internet Explorer, are you designers even looking at HTML 5.0?

Let us know!

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