My Top Three Blogging Tools

By Mark Pridham | February 16, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutesDeciding on which application to use for your blogging can be a tough choice. Some people like writing their posts in Microsoft Word, Mac Pages, or some similiar word processing application. Others write in the platform they are using for their website – WordPress, Joomla, etc. I have shuffled around a lot between applications, tried lots, found…

Using Evernote To Control Your Newsletter Subscriptions

By Mark Pridham | February 15, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you are anything like me, you are subscribed to countless newsletters and RSS feeds. And, like me, you may also have reports, updates, etc that are delivered to your inbox on a regular basis. All these emails not only fill up your inbox, but may also cause you to miss important emails, emails that…

Website Design – How Far We’ve Come

By Mark Pridham | February 13, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe very first website was launched on August 6, 1991. It was developed by Tim Berners-Lee and ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN. It was a basic website that provided information about the World Wide Web project. This is what it looked like. Pretty basic stuff. Just text and some hyperlinks. Since then,…

How To Use Facebook Graph Search

By Mark Pridham | February 12, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I gave you a handy Facebook Checklist to help you maximize the effectiveness of your Facebook Fan Page. One of the items on the list makes reference to using Facebook Graph Search to determine what type of content your Fans are interested in. Posting relevant content on your Fan page is even more important…

A Handy Facebook Checklist

By Mark Pridham | February 11, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen learning something new, it is often helpful to have a checklist in order to ensure we don’t miss anything. In the case of applications, we often need to revisit them to keep up with changes and updates. Facebook is one such application. Rules change, layouts change, and profile settings change. To help you out,…

The Benefits Of Twitter Lists

By Mark Pridham | February 10, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutesTwitter lists are a very effective way of organizing the people that you follow, but it is an often underutilized feature. This article will explain what Twitter lists are, how to create them and why you should be using them. What are Twitter lists? A Twitter List is simply a collection, or group, of Twitter…

A Big Reason Why Your Website Should Be Mobile Friendly – Google!!

By Mark Pridham | February 9, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe all know how important a website is to your business. That’s a given. And, in the last couple of years, the importance of having a mobile friendly website has increased drastically. There are lost of reasons for this. One of the main reasons is the simple fact that mobile usage has been exceeding desktop…

Are You Ignoring Your Customers?

By Mark Pridham | September 12, 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn today’s digital marketplace, being engaged with your customers is more important than ever before. With the evolution of mobile devices, users are demanding your attention in ways we never would have imagined just a few short years ago. They want real-time information, and they not only want it now, they want it in a…

More Than A Pretty Picture

By Mark Pridham | May 14, 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently had the pleasure of giving a presentation to the CBRG (Collaborative Business Referral Group), which is a Saint John networking group that focuses on passing qualified referrals to its members. The main chunk of the presentation was dedicated to the importance of having a mobile friendly website. As we all know, the usage…

5 Free Tools To Optimize Your Image

By Mark Pridham | April 1, 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a website developer, I am always concerned about optimizing every website my team and I create. This includes everything from writing clean code to optimizing images for faster download. When the Internet was younger and we had to support users on dial-up modems, image optimization was absolutely critical. Today’s high-speed networks allow us to…