Category: websites

  • Global Auction Guide launches new website

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    Aaron Traffas
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    Popular Internet auction calendar Global Auction Guide recently soft-launched a completely redesigned website. The most exciting feature is the enhanced, personalized auctioneer pages which now include video, blog entries and social media updates. Global Auction Guide is one of several top-tier players in the Internet auction calendar space. Where Global Auction Guide excels is in the syndication…

  • The end of the sitemap as we know it

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    Aaron Traffas
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    Back in the days of the FAQ and the image map (remember when you would hover your mouse over a picture and different parts of the graphic would link to different pages?), web designers used a website element known as a sitemap or site index. Modern sitemaps are valuable tools that are submitted to search…

  • Your website is more important than social networking

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    Aaron Traffas
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    Social networking is one of many buzzwords that has recently risen to fad proportions. It seems that any time the subject of marketing arises, the topic quickly turns to importance of social networking. The power of social networking lies in the creation of personal relationships. We’ve mentioned before that you should use social networking to…

  • Bidding histories develop bidder trust

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    Aaron Traffas
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    Last week’s post dealt with grokking that there is no functional difference between a minimum or starting bid and a reserve on an item. A post last month pointed out that it’s bad to try to be sneaky when protecting a reserve on an item and that it’s much better to be upfront with the…

  • Amazon fail

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    Aaron Traffas
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    Recent website design work has caused us to do some research into the current design techniques and trends among website authors regarding web stanards. We looked into the definitive guide on the subject, Jeffrey Zeldman‘s Designing with Web Standards, and were excited to find that a third edition is coming this year. While imagining how…