That's ok. Non-profit organizations can lose potential members and/or donations due to a lack of credibility. Individual web sites are no different. If you don't care if people can visit your site, or not, why

Collateral Marketing Items Every Small Business Needs
Over time, you'll want to provide information about your company to lots of different people, including employees, investors, existing and potential clients and the media. Your company's success may depend in part upon how well you communicate that information--which in turn may depend upon how well you prepare collateral items ranging from company and product fact sheets to biographies of key employees.Every business should always have the following eight items on hand, ready to distribute. Get them printed today.1. Company fact sheet. Potential investors or employees, analysts and media people should be able to learn important facts about your business with a quick look at your fact sheet. A company fact sheet should include the

Your web site should always adhere to standards!

A professional web site designer will provide you with a standard compliant web site that is cross-browser supported.

What does this mean to you? Why should you care? Any site that isn't standard compliant can "break" in older browsers, or simply not display at all in, say, text-based browsers. If you are a small business, this could be the difference between a conversion and a lost sale. That potential customer just went to your competition. Also, a standard compliant web site will have “clean” HTML, XHTML, or XML code. This allows search engines to index your site easily and improves your Search Engine Rank Position (SERP). What good is your web site if no one can find it? Read more about the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Standards and Guidelines.

But you aren't a small business?

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Managing a CAD Outsourcing Project
We must first emphasize that here we are talking about outsourcing CAD projects, which is significantly easier than outsourcing software development or IT services (earlier articles of mine have explained why).This article also assumes that selection of the CAD providers has been completed with due diligence (the methods are described in an earlier article).As I mentioned in those prior articles, one of the most important ingredients for successful outsourcing is management of the ongoing project by you, the client. To quote from those articles (here 'outsourcer' means 'provider'):"This may sound obvious, but probably the biggest stumbling block to offshore outsourcing is that after all the contracts have been signed, c

to you? Why should you care? Any site that isn't standard compliant can "break" in older browsers, or simply not display at all in, say, text-based browsers. If you are a small business, this could be the difference between a conversion and a lost sale. That potential customer just went to your competition. Also, a standard compliant web site will have “clean” HTML, XHTML, or XML code. This allows search engines to index your site easily and improves your Search Engine Rank Position (SERP). What good is your web site if no one can find it? Read more about the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Standards and Guidelines.

But you aren't a small business?

That's ok. Non-profit organizations can lose potential members and/or donations due to a lack of credibility. Individual web sites are no different. If you don't care if people can visit your site, or not, why

What Does Accounting Have to Do With Process Improvements?
The short answer to this question is, "Everything". Information provided by the costing system determines how the business is managed, what product opportunities are pursued, what price is charged and so forth. What if the information paints a misleading picture? It simply means wrong decisions will be made, wrong behaviours will be rewarded, and in time the business will decline. Just how real is this possibility?Distortions of the Traditional Cost World:Surveys of organisations worldwide show that over 50% employ standard costing while close to 40% use marginal costing in their internal accounting. Standard costing - the more widely used method - possesses well known shortcomings that can drive wrong behaviours. Specifically, by

potential customer just went to your competition. Also, a standard compliant web site will have “clean” HTML, XHTML, or XML code. This allows search engines to index your site easily and improves your Search Engine Rank Position (SERP). What good is your web site if no one can find it? Read more about the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Standards and Guidelines.

But you aren't a small business?

That's ok. Non-profit organizations can lose potential members and/or donations due to a lack of credibility. Individual web sites are no different. If you don't care if people can visit your site, or not, why

Small Business Opportunities in Offshore Software Development
The market for all those one time high paying computer programming jobs are starting to be filled be less expensive offshore software developers. Welcome to the world of global competition in offshore software development. Depending on your context, offshore software development can be viewed as a new competition threat or opportunity in new resources. Or, it can be viewed as a combination of both.As an American, I believe there is mostly a negative conatation towards the trend of large American companies offshoring jobs. You know, the underlying tone is somthing similar to "big companies only care about profits, not people". Honestly, when the topic is big business, I can agree with points on both sides of the discussions. But, what is o

te if no one can find it? Read more about the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Standards and Guidelines.

But you aren't a small business?

That's ok. Non-profit organizations can lose potential members and/or donations due to a lack of credibility. Individual web sites are no different. If you don't care if people can visit your site, or not, why

5 Ways to Profit With Ecommerce
Analysts and experts universally agree that the Internet commercial marketplace is destined to continue to grow and expand over the course of the next decade. If you want to take advantage of the explosive growth in lucrative ecommerce, there are five ways to profit with ecommerce in this day and age.First, when considering lucrative ecommerce, the most fundamental thing that you need to focus on is the development of an attractive, functional and user friendly website. This is vital to achieving your goal of lucrative ecommerce.Second, once you get your website established and up and running, you will want to develop an action plan to draw quality traffic to your website. SEO and other practices will assist you in working towards you

n't a small business?

That's ok. Non-profit organizations can lose potential members and/or donations due to a lack of credibility. Individual web sites are no different. If you don't care if people can visit your site, or not, why even bother publishing your web site on the World Wide Web? Think it's too expensive? Not at all. An ethical, professional web site designer should be able to provide simple web sites for as little as $50.

A is for... Accessibility!

A professional web designer gives you all of this plus they ensure that your site is accessible to people with disabilities. Too often, web sites are not created with people with disabilities in mind. For example: The wrong font colors are used causing people who are color blind to be unable to read the text; and proper code and navigation are not utilized for individuals who are blind or vision impaired. Another benefit with Return on Investment (ROI): better indexing for those Search Engines. Read more about the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).