Kerwin Rae who is a business marketing & joint venture expert and an Internet marketer is one of my favourite speakers. I spent some time with Kerwin at his UK events during 2009 and really like his content and information and am really glad that he is back in the UK during February 2010 running his Power Up Your Marketing event.

Kerwin’s event is in London on the 5th and 6th February 2010 and you can book onto the seminar for free here –> Kerwin Rae’s Power Up Your Marketing

• We will be spending 7 hrs solid together and I will be teaching you some of the most powerful information I have available – the same info I normally charge £1000 per hour 1 on 1 to share.
• You Will Learn from Real Life Case Studies…I will provide real life case studies and stories (some that will make your toes curl!) for everything I teach you, no theory, no BS, no hype and nothing will be straight out of a book that’s my promise to you…
• I will be unloading some very powerful content the same strategies that have made millions for my clients, techniques that I have been paid hundreds of thousands to do and demonstrate1 on 1.
• You will be put In contact with potential joint venture partners on the day. Everyone you meet on the day will be a potential Joint Venture Partner capable of opening you up to their customers and potentially adding thousands in new profit to your bottom line in weeks.
• We will be going through internet ABC’s & I WILL make it VERY SIMPLE so no matter what your skill level with computers or the internet I will break it down into nice, simple and easy to understand concepts that you will be able to use immediately, as soon as you get home or even in an internet café next door on the break.
• We will be going through Online and Offline Advertising so it doesn’t matter if you have never even turned on a computer or written an advertisement before I will share a whole range of information for every skill level. And more importantly I will show you where to go to find people to do all the TECHINCAL WORK for you so you don’t have to!
• I will be teaching you the foundations of psychological influence and how it is created at every level of reality – influence is the basis of powerfully responsive and effective marketing and I will be teaching you somethings the most powerful marketers in the world don’t want you to know.
• You will be learning the spiritual and scientific laws of making money and discover for yourself the real reasons people struggle to make money And struggle even more sometimes to keep it.
• You will discover the link between Quantum physics and making money and how to tap tap into the Quantum world to create the life of your dreams… I have had the pleasure of inerviewing some of the worlds top physicist about business and making money and I will share with you what they taught me.
• I will reveal to your relationship with money and how it affects not only your ability to attract it but also whether or not you hold onto it…
• How to use your intuition to make lightening quick decisions that get you closer to your goals in less time with even less resistance (intuition or ‘gut instinct’ is one of the most common traits of some of the wealthiest business owners on the planet).
• You will discover the REAL Quantum Mechanics behind the Intentions and how to use it consciously and powerfully to create the life of your dreams (no fluff, hype or “The Secret’s Secret” just the pure science behind what makes it possible
• We will have a break out session and you will be able to ask me any question you can think of about anything!.

Kerwin Rae’s Power Up Your Marketing – London February 2010 is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway

When I first attended Chris Howard’s 3-day Breakthrough to Success seminar in London in August 2008, I had no idea what NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) was and had never really heard of the ‘personal development industry’. I had no idea how to use & implement the tools that I would learn by attending this event into my Internet marketing business – which are now priceless to me.

I arrived at the venue in London not knowing what to expect really. I had received an invite by email from a mailing list that I was subscribed to so I had registered about 6 weeks prior to the event. Didn’t think i’d stay for all three days, but wanted see what it was like anyway.

The 3-days that followed really blew me away – the content that was delivered by Chris and his team was really fascinating; the showcase of information; the sleek arrangement and running of the weekend by ThinkBIG Education (then ‘Christopher Howard Events’) and the really friendly crew members helping to run the event.

After attending the Breakthrough to Success event in London, I started reading more about wealth creation and personal development (I bought Chris Howard’s book at the event called Turning Passions Into Profits) and a number of other books that Chris and his amazing event crew had mentioned to me throughout the weekend (such as Think and Grow Rich, The Alchemist, Rich Dad Poor Dad). I had never really heard of these books before the event and didn’t realise how ‘big’ they were in this industry.

The weekend also gave me a great networking opportunity with around 1000 other people and I made some great contacts who ended up becoming clients and/or suppliers. Not bad going for a free event!

Throughout the weekend, I learnt things that I had never even heard of before such as Strategic Visioning and the Decision Destroyer process that Chris takes the participants through from stage. The key to all of my new learnings was that anything that I want to achieve and accomplish is down to my mindset and the way that I thought. I learnt new ways of thinking, new ways of asking questions and new ways of communicating. The best part of it all was that all these new learnings & skills were totally transferrable and I could use them all in my Internet marketing business, as well as in my personal day-to-day life.

The Breakthrough To Success London weekend seminar with Chris Howard was a fantastic eye-opener for me in many respects. Not only did I see this great speaker but I saw the way the event ran as a business, albeit as a participant and spectator. I knew at the end of day 1 that I wanted to learn more about this industry from a business point of view and wanted to get involved in helping to run the event, because the crew seemed to be having so much fun! Now, I work with ThinkBIG Education to run the events and get to spend a lot of time surrounded by great people who have become very good friends.

I will be at the next London Breakthrough to Success seminar which is on February 12-14 2010 at the Ibis Hotel in Earl’s Court.

You can register you complimentary tickets to the event by clicking here.

Mindset over Matter: How I used NLP & mentors to reach the dizzy heights of Internet success is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway

A blog that I follow recently published this article about a blogger (Glen Allsopp) who hated writing at one point, but who went on to love the process of writing and blogging…ended up making a whole lot of money in doing so.

A great read if you are blogging and getting bored or frustrated writing your blogposts. Take some inspiration from Glen’s article below…

Instead of me sharing my biggest tips about blogging, I just want to show you what is possible. After all, you can read tips on writing scannable content, creating killer-headlines and promoting your blog posts anywhere. However, at times all we really need is a little inspiration from somewhere who has been there and done that to get us going again.

If you’re losing a little bit of motivation for blogging or don’t really think you can achieve what you want to, then this post is for you. Allow me to start this story with a little of my background. In school, I absolutely hated writing. Despite being in the ‘high flyers’ class which meant that myself and 20 others took their English exams a year before anyone else in the country, I was definitely struggling. Computers were far more my thing and I would rather type out an essay than write it.

Being handed another assignment which involved 3,000 words, hand written, just drove me insane.
Over the next two years, I went through college and built up websites (some of which were blogs) on the side. In fact, three years ago, my first ever blog was the one I now write for full-time after giving it a recent resurrection: my site on viral marketing. For a year, I wrote on the site purely as a way to build up search engine traffic. I didn’t care about making my articles sticky or how viral they were; I simply cared about search engine rankings.
Of course, how search engines work and what I focus on has changed a lot, but even after a year of pushing myself to write and hoping that I would start to enjoy the process, nothing seemed to be helping.

Then something changed…

I slowly let my marketing blog die and wasn’t writing much online until I launched another site, PluginID. In just over a year, the site has gained over 6,000 subscribers and is viewed as a top 10 blog in the personal development industry.

If you’re wondering what changed between a guy that hated writing to one that makes enough money through blogging to support himself full-time, then let me tell you:

I Started Writing What I Want To Read – I decided this would be the best way to judge whether I was writing excellent content that my audience would care about. Instead of writing things for search engines, or for teachers (like in school), I simply focused on writing what I wanted to write about. And, miraculously, I started loving it.

I Realised the Importance of Content – Some people get so caught up in SEO, design and their analytics stats that they completely forget about the most important aspect of blogging: your readers. And, your readers are simply on your site for one thing: your content. Instead of writing for search engines, I started to realise that my blog would only grow if I provided massive value to my readers, so I started putting a lot more time and attention into my writing.

I Stopped Caring About Things Out of My Control – After pumping out articles for a few months, it suddenly hit me that there is just no way I can ‘control’ whether people like my work. At school, I could study as much as possible and try to produce the best work that I can, but at the end of the day it’s up to the teacher to decide on my grade. Focus on what you can control (writing and promoting the best content you can) and then remain indifferent to how ‘well’ that article does. When you eliminate the number of things you focus on, you naturally start to enjoy the things you do.

I Left Editing Until the End – Typically, with written content, I would edit as I go because I didn’t want to make a mistake on paper and have to start again. As you would expect, when I jumped into the online world, I kept this same method (as many people do). I now find that it’s much more enjoyable, and produces much better results, if you try to get down everything you want to say and then come back and edit the content later. This allows you to stay in the flow and enjoy two separate modes when writing your posts.
Each of these 4 things, individually, had a big impact on how I now operate online. Combining all of these changes meant that I went from literally dreading having to write posts, to living what I do and now enjoying writing as my favorite medium.

If you ever find yourself down about your writing ability or demotivated to write your next post, then keep these in mind. I went from someone who hated writing to making over $50,000 with my blogs in 2009. There’s no way you can’t do the same.

This article is by Glenn Allsopp and all credit goes to him for this great bit of inspiration.

Bored writing blog content? This guy was too… is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway

There are a number of differences between a Facebook group and a Facebook page that many people do not know about, or that are not very obvious to the uninitiated.

If you are thinking of starting a group or a page on Facebook, here are some things that you should know and consider when deciding which to go for to promote your business/cause/hobby etc:

Pages (i.e. ‘Become a Fan’)

In my opinion, the most important distinction here is that a Facebook Page can be crawled & indexed by Search Engines which means that any content on a Page can be found online through Search Engines such as Google or Yahoo!

• Send updates to fans
• Updates are seen in your fans’ news feed
• ability to add various 3rd party applications to your page such as Twitter which can personalise your page further.
• Great for feeding RSS links into page from your blog
• Restrict access to your page by user age and location
• Pages are not seen as an extension of your personal profile – i.e. great for companies. The page admin is not listed anywhere on the page so a fan would not necessarily know who owns the page
• Can create events
• Stats to monitor page activity such as number of fans, post interactions etc
• No limit as to number of fans

Groups (i.e. ‘Join This Group’)

Groups on Facebook are seen as much more personal and are visibly linked to the person who created the page and the admins.

• Can send messages to all group members (up to a maximum of 5000 members)
• Can setup secret by-invite only groups and moderate much easier than Pages
• Can create events and invite all members of the group to the event
• Not indexed by the Search Engines
• Cannot add 3rd party applications or link blogs/Twitter to groups

There are other differences between the Pages and Groups but the above comparison should get your started when deciding whether to have a Page or a Group.

Groups are great for promoting personal hobbies or interests whereas Pages get my vote when you want to promote a business or a raise brand awareness.

What’s the difference between Groups and Pages on Facebook? is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway

Ten years ago the Internet was still in its infancy, let alone mobile Internet & telephony. Today, there are more mobile phones on the planet than human beings (apparently since 2004, actually) which tells its own story about how fast the technology has developed and made accessible to almost everyone. There was a point in 1985 when Vodafone claimed that where would only ever be ‘about a million’ mobiles sold..ever!!

The first decade of the 21st Century gave us so many new ways of using the Internet and communicating with our mobile phones in other ways than just telephone calls. We were introduced to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Skype, iPod, iPhone, DAB, HD, PS3, 3G, MP3, MP4, GPS…the list goes on.

The question is, what does the next 10 years hold for mobile technology? Read on for 10 predictions…

1. SMS Money (“text a tenner”)

Lending a friend £10 or splitting and paying a restaurant bill with friends will be as straightforward as sending a text from your mobile phone. You’ll simply send money instantly from one phone to another by SMS.

2. Mobile Barcodes

Shops, restarurants and theatres will text or email you tickets, vouchers and special offers in the form of barcodes which can be displayed on your mobile phone. And al you’ll do, to receive the benefit, is scan them on arrival.

3. Shopping by text

Savvy shoppers will be able to buy items from advertising billboards, magazines or TV adverts simply by texting a code on the advert to the store – which will debit their bank account and mail out the desired product.

4. Holiday Money

No more running out of foreign currency or worrying about stolen or cloned credit cards. Travellers will be able to load up a pre-paid currency card from their mobile phone, lock and unlock their credit cards from their handset and receive text alerts to confirm when their card has been used overseas.

5. Text for a balance-check

Queuing in the cold at an ATM cash point or waiting for the next available call centre operator simply to find out your bank balance will become a thing of the past. You’ll just send a text from your mobile, and receive a reply containing your bank balance in seconds.

6. Money Management on the move

With a range of new smartphones joining Apple’s iPhone as the must-have gadget of 2010, people will be able to use bespoke applications to check their balance, pay bills and move money from account to account with just a few taps on the screen.

7. Overdraft text alerts

There’ll be no more fear of plunging into the red, or worrying if your salary has been paid, with banks offering to text their customers when they approach their overdraft limit or when a payment has been made.

8. Click-and-pay bills

No more paper bills or having to log into multiple websites: 2010 will see ‘billing by text’ for many people. Registered users will receive a text telling them how much their bill is and enabling them to just click to pay it.

9. Touch and pay goods and services

Commuters in London already enjoy ‘touch and pay’ technology with the Oyster card system to travel around the capital. 2010 will see more people able to use the same technology, via their mobile phones, to buy a cup of coffee, a new book or even pay for a haircut.

10. Mobile money goes global

In many parts of the world, banks are few and far between, so the mobile phone is destined to transform the way millions of people look after their money, make payments, shop and trade. 2010 will see massive expansion in the coverage of these services throughout Africa, India and the rest of Asia.

10 New Ways You’ll Use Your Mobile This Decade is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway

So you’ve got a website or a blog…great. You are already one step ahead of millions of others who don’t even get to that stage (i’m not even kidding).

The biggest misconception out there is that by simply putting up a new blog or website that you will suddenly get bucket loads of traffic and visits quickly. I won’t beat around the bush on this point – that’s not how it works.

Having a blog is a great way to improve your online presence for both business and also personal reasons. You can build a blog for free using tools such as WordPress, Blogger and Typepad and begin posting content right away. However, if nobody is reading that content that you spent ages creating, then what’s the point of it all?

I hear people saying things like “blogging doesn’t work” all the time. It turns out that they tried blogging for a few weeks, published a few random blog posts and then expected the traffic to pile in. No wonder blogging didn’t work for them! My advice, which is hardly rocket science, is that you must treat your blog/website almost as a business in itself: you need to put the time and effort in and treat it seriously to make a success of it.

Here are ten things you need to be aware of when blogging for business or personal reaons:

1.    Fresh Content

Have you ever been to a website that said ‘last updated 1997′ or ‘last updated 254 days ago’? What impression does that give the reader? Nobody wants to visit a blog to see the same content all the time. Update your website and blog content at an asbolute minimum of twice a week to keep your content very fresh and current. Your content can be things like industry news, tips, advice, warnings, an update on your work/projects, feedback received from clients..etc.
It’s perfectly fine to write content and upload it to your website/blog and set it up to publish every few days. This way, you do all the hard work at the beginning and put your updates on auto-pilot whilst you research more ways of improving your blog.

2.    Article Marketing*

This is where you write articles not only for your blog content but also to distribute to article submission websites. You can usually put a link back to your website or blog within your article (usually in the author’s bio box). Article marketing is a great way of putting yourself “out there” as the authority and go-to person for your expertise area.

There are thousands of article submission websites that you can use to distribute your articles, but to start with i’d recommend Ezinearticles.com

*The same applies for Video Marketing

3.    Social Networking

The buzz word for the past few years. Incase you’ve been living under a rock recently this includes Facebook, Twitter, Squidoo, LinkedIn, MySpace etc. Social networks are great to find like minded people who you know would be interested in your content. It’s very easy to target the demographic of your ideal blog reader using different social networks and by connecting with those people and sharing your thoughts you can easily gather quite a following.

It’s also very easy to link your blog to all your social networking profiles, so that when you update your blog all the other profiles get updated too.

4.    Viral Marketing

Ever seen one of those videos that everyone is talking about? Viral marketing is when your content (article/video/audio etc) is passed on from one person to their friends & contacts to see. Then those people will tell their friends about it, and so on. Before you know it, hundreds or thousands (sometimes millions!) of people have seen your content.

A good way of making your content viral is by discussing topical issues or adding some controversy into your message – it’s sneaky, but so what!

5.    Use RSS Feeds

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. The visitors and readers of your blog can ’subscribe’ to your RSS feed and get an email update whenever new content is posted on your blog. It is an easy way for your readers to keep up with your blog without having to actually go to your blog. RSS feeds can also be used to update other sites and social networks.

6.    Submit Your Blog to Search Engines

By manually submitting your blog to search engines helps your website/blog to be indexed and get ranked. Google and Yahoo! are the most popular search engines you want to ‘crawl’ your blog pages. Manually submitted your URL does not guarantee top ranking or indexing…there’s much more you can do to get your blog indexed quickly.

7.    Joining Forums

Relevant forums are full of your target readers. You are marketing yourself to find traffic to your website because people are interested in what you have to say. Become a member of a relevant forum for your industry connect with new people and share ideas. You can add a link to your blog in the signature line so others can click on it and read & subscribe to your blog.

8.    Visit other blogs

If someone comments on any of your blogposts, show your appreciation by also posting comments on their blogs. This helps form relationships with other bloggers. Also, you can add a link back to your own blog when commenting on someone elses!

9.    SEO Marketing

SEO is an entire industry in itself but a quick word on it here. Do ensure you use your relevant keywords in your content to attract the search engines. Getting a keyword density (ratio of keyword text to all text) between three and ten percent is recommended by most schools of thought (although this can totally depend based on what your competitors are doing on their sites). Don’t forget to do your keyword research first though – it’s pointless doing SEO for a keyword that nobody is searching for!

10.    Social Bookmarking

Not to be confused with social networking. Social bookmarking is when you submit your posts to sites which allows others who are members of those sites to track you back to your blog. For example, sites such as Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon are social bookmarking sites.

10 Quick Ways to Boost Traffic to Your Blog is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway

The iPhone…officially the greatest gadget of the 21st century to date.

If somebody ten years before the iPhone had said that one day you would be able to run your entire business from a device that fits into your pocket…and is also a phone, most if not everyone would have laughed it off or just ignored the prediction.

The iPhone is not just a phone. It’s a mini-computer that allows you to maintain productivity for your business whilst on-the-go.

Below are the apps that I use on my iPhone to run my business. You will see that if I didn’t have an actual desktop computer, it wouldn’t really be the end of the world and I could still carry on my business as normal.

WordPress

I can control multiple WordPress blogs using the WordPress app. This app lets you add new posts, edit existing posts, moderate comments and add new pages. I can update my blogs whilst I travel without having to use the laptop so now I usually don’t carry my laptop with me.

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TweetDeck

As I have multiple Twitter accounts (follow me) and TweetDeck allows me to keep an eye on all my accounts at once. It also allows you to use Facebook too but I only use this for Twitter. You can tweet directly, reply, send DM’s, retweet other tweets all from inside this app which makes keeping track of everything really easy.

The really cool thing is that if you use TweetDeck on your Mac/PC too, the iPhone app will sync over the air any columns you have setup (needs a TweetDeck account to do this, which doesn’t cost anything).

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Tapatalk

This app gives me access to my favourite online forums such as James Schramko’s SuperFastResults Internet marketing forum that I use on a daily basis. The forum owner needs to have setup their forum onto the Tapatalk app which doesn’t cost them anything at all. There are two versions of Tapatalk – one which is like a ‘read-only’ version but the premium version lets you reply to threads, messages etc from inside the app.

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Evernote

I have a confession. I cannot function without a to-do list. Evernote is the mother of all to-do lists and is available as an iPhone app. I have the Evernote application on my Mac which syncs over the air with the iPhone app so both are always current.

Evernote lets me create text, voice and image notes of my thoughts & ideas. If I see something whilst out and about and want to make a ‘mental note’ of it, I take a quick pic of it (or a voice note) and put it through my Evernote app on iPhone. Then, when I get back to my Mac that note has been synced and I can take action on it straight away.

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Facebook

I use Facebook mostly to keep in touch with personal friends from school & university, but I also have a fan page for the Internet Marketing Highway which you can join by clicking here.

I like the iPhone app for Facebook as it gives me push notifications rather than clogging up my inbox with notifications.

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LinkedIn

This app is great for making new connections and keeping up-to-date with my business connections on LinkedIn. I’ll admit that this is the app that I use the least out of this list as I do have a LinkedIn profile but don’t regularly update it manually (all my RSS feeds and Twitter accounts are fed into my LinkedIn account though).

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Skype

What better way to use your phone than with Skype! I have a Skype subscription which gives me free calls and now rather than having to use a headset with my Mac, I can use Skype directly from my iPhone.

You don’t have to have a Skype subscription to use this app, you can have a normal PAYG Skype account too. This app only works over a WiFi connection though and not over a 3G connection.

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PayPal

As I make and receive lots of payments online using PayPal it helps to have access to my account when I’m on the go travelling or away from my computer. The app is good as it lets me see all my recent account activity and I can also send money through PayPal directly from the app.

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Billings

This is the name of the application that i’ve been using on my Mac to send invoices and track billable time spent on tasks. It’s a simple application and is nowhere near as complicated as other invoicing packages. It’s now been made available for iPhone and it automatically syncs with my Mac to keep both applications current. I can send invoices, add billable time, add billable tasks, track mileage, track expenses plus lots more through the app itself.

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Rowmote Pro

This app let’s me control my ENTIRE Mac from my iPhone. It serves as my clicker when speaking with a presentation, it acts as my touchscreen wireless mouse & trackpad, it controls dvd’s & itunes…and pretty much EVERYTHING else on my Mac. I can even shut my Mac down from this app. Just incredible!

I love this app the most for it’s clicker feature which allows me to use it with Keynote/Powerpoint when doing presentations & workshops on stage.

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Xe.com

As I subscribe to different forums and buy products online in all sorts of different currencies, the Xe.com app gives me the price of something that i’m looking at buying/subscribing to.

So as you can see, I can pretty much run my entire business from my iPhone without having to spend lots of cash on remote access systems or carry around my MacBook.

Using iPhone for business? Don’t miss these 11 apps is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway

I have spent many days at a time researching different options which would allow me to implement the membership site model into my clients’ and my own websites & blogs.

The two options that I would recommend using are Nanacast or WishList Member, depending on your needs.

Below, I will outline some reasons as to why I only recommend these two options if you want to create a membership based website.

Nanacast

• allows unlimited memberships to be created under one account
• Content fully hosted with Nanacast
• ability to setup one-click upsells and genuine one-time-offers (OTO’s) – full sales funnel automation
• time delayed content
• payment gateway integration with PayPal, Authorize.net and 2Checkout
• extensive affiliate management tools (plus function to make new members your affiliates automatically)
• perfect integration with email autoresponders (i use Aweber and it works perfectly with a parser)
• full HTML customisable login/signup/checkout pages
• multiple payment setups – one-off, recurring etc
• ability to pay affiliate commissions directly from control panel
• FULL integration with Disk.com and Kunaki.com and Vervante.com for physical product automation & delivery
• full support desk to help with any queries
• advanced incoming & outgoing API integration
• WordPress plugin with MemberLock
• lots of buttons & graphics for call to actions

Nanacast offer a 7-day trial period on their ‘Viral Premium’ package which allows you to do all of the above plus SO MUCH MORE! All you have to do is sign up and activate the 7-day trial (if their system doesn’t let you do this, just open a support ticket with them and ask them to activate your 7-day trial).

WishList Member

• Easily create different membership levels (i.e. bronze, silver gold etc)
• Easy WordPress installation – control entire membership site from WordPress plugin (nanacast is controlled externally through their own control panel)
• Sequential content delivery (I prefer nanacast for this particular feature)
• Control content for members only with teasers
• Shopping cart integration with paypal, clickbank & more
• easy autoresponder integration
• easy to upgrade/downgrade members to different membership
• very easy control panel interface
• lots of “how to” videos & tutorials
• graphic bank to use for content
• all content is hosted ON your WordPress site (as opposed to Nanacast content which is hosted on Nanacast and not on WordPress)
• 30-day money back guarantee

WishList member do not offer a trial like Nanacast, but they do offer a 30-day money back guarantee so you can buy a licence, test the system and if it’s not for you get a refund. Find out more about WishList Member

Creating a membership site? is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway

My very good friend Lee Rickler of Point and Stare who specialises in web development, in particular WordPress development wrote the “A-to-Z of Web Development” which really demonstrates his expertise of all things web dev. Everything listed is a technique and/or tool that Lee and his web development company employ when working for their clients.

Some of Lee’s clients include Apple, Microsoft, Canon & Nokia – i’m not just name-dropping but that tells you how good this guy is at what he does. Lee has kindly allowed me to re-publish his article here for the Internet Marketing Highway readers and will be providing more articles for us as a guest author.

Point and Stare specialise in WordPress development in London and I highly recommend visiting their website to have a look at the rest of Lee’s work.

A – Accessibility
This needs to be built in from the off, giving functionality and benefit to as wide an audience as possible.

B – Brand guidelines
Adherence to these promotes good front-end structure and balance throughout.

C – CSS
A Cascading Style Sheet is used to enable the separation of document content from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.

D – Doctype
A declaration at the start of an XML document that identifies the root element and DTD of a document. Essentially this tells the browser how to render the page content.

E – Elastic interface
An elastic interface scales with browser text size (default is usually 16px) by using em values for all elements.

F – Formats
Ensure all files are produced and named correctly. Best practice is to use all lower case and no spaces.

G – GIF
Extensively used format best used for displaying images primarily comprised of solid areas of colour.

H – HTML
HTML elements are the basic components for HTML markup. Validating HTML is produced by Point and Stare on all projects.

I – Internet Explorer
The browser from Microsoft. The devil. The one that gives most development companies the shivers. On every project we test across all major browsers and OS.

J – JavaScript
JavaScript has become one of the most popular programming languages on the web and can be used, as an element of AJAX, to add motion, dynamics and depth to a website.

K – Keywords
Keywords are essential within the main content to define the message as well as meta information used by some search engines.

L – Layout
Proportional, liquid and hybrid layout are also referred to as dynamic design. Many units of measure exist with the most popular being pixel, em and percentage.

M – Metadata
Metadata is included in the page header allowing for the inclusion of elements such as simple descriptive text, dates or keywords.

N – Naming conventions
Name files with relevance and consistency. latest_news_button.gif is more screen reader and SEO friendly than Untitled 24.gif

O – Open source
We strongly believe in both producing and using open source code allowing others to share our knowledge and saving clients time and money.

P – Pixels v Points
A Pixel is a single dot on the computer screen offering significant design control whereas a Point corresponded to a physical size of printed text on paper.

Q – Query String
A query string is the part of a URL that contains data to be passed to the web applications. Where possible we use URL encoding to turn these strings into English.

R – RSS
An RSS feed can benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically and also benefit readers who want to subscribe to up-to-the-minute information.

S – Socialising
Using social tools like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc are paramount to achieving maximum reach for your information or content.

T – Tips and Tricks
Learning new tips and tricks helps keep our minds active and your projects fresh. Learn something new everyday.

U – Usability
The elegance and clarity with which users interact with a website. For obvious reasons, high on our list of priorities.

V – Validation
All Point and Stare projects go through stringent tests to ensure W3C validation specification compliance.

W – W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee in October, 1994 to ensure compatibility and agreement among industry members in the adoption of new standards.

X – XHTML
XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is a family of XML markup languages that extend HTML, the language in which web pages are written. The essential difference between XHTML and HTML is that XHTML must be well-formed, while HTML need not be.

Y – Yahoo! Site Explorer
A service provided by Yahoo! which allows viewing of information on websites in Yahoo!’s search index. Yahoo! validation keys are just one standard SEO element included in all projects.

Z – z-index
z-index is a CSS property that sets the stack order of specific elements. This allows elements to be overlaid on top of each other giving a faux 3d effect.

The A-to-Z of Web Development is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway

Any blog owner should have a few reliable ping sites that they use to feed their RSS updates to, in order to let the Internet know that their blog/website has something new on it.

Here is a list of reliable ping sites that I and other leading Internet Marketers recommend for use with your blogs…

If you are using WordPress to blog then go to the ‘Writing’ settings from your admin section and add the following sites to the ‘Update Services’ section. Whilst you do that, download and install the plugin called MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer which will help you setup your ping list to avoid being imposed with a ping ban. Basically, WordPress automatically (i.e. by default setting) pings pingomatic everytime you add, edit, save as draft, schedule a new post…doing this too often will be seen as spam and you’ll get banned from pinging. The plugin limits this and only pings the sites when you actually publish a new post and not when you amend an existing post or save a draft.

Here is the list….enjoy:

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

Ping List for RSS feeds, blogs, etc is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway