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Special Christmas discount is being offered on design and coding. December 11, 2007 (TopHosts News Brief) – Clifton, New Jersey-based Web host FastNext is offering discounted prices on Web design and coding services.

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TopHosts.com

Web design experts A1 Web Design have noted that many businesses are failing to adequately prepare for the cost centers of internet marketing, and are therefore failing to leverage the benefit of having a website to their full advantage.

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PRWeb via Yahoo! News

SiteKreator, an award-winning service whichenables small businesses to instantly design and host elegant, feature-richand engaging Web sites, was selected by the editors at CNET Webware as afinalist in the first ever ‘Webware 100′ awards.

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SYS-CON Media

The rel=”nofollow” tag is a HTML attribute to instruct search engines not to assign any value for the given link. It is generally used in forums and websites where the web master does not want to provide link value to its members. Especially in cases where the links were posted through some automated bots to gain higher rankings in SERPs.

Nofollow tag helps to avoid the tricks and clearly informs spiders with a sign “DO NOT INDEX THIS LINK”. Links with Nofollow tag will not be counted as a backlink.

As a web master you can instruct NOT to crawl any one page or the whole directory using the robots.txt file. For example:

Disallow: /pagename.html
Disallow: /foldername/

WILMINGTON, N.C., May 21 /PRNewswire/ — Inclinix, Inc. has unveiled its updated web site at http://www.inclinix.com/ with a dynamic, new look.

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RedNova

A Web-design franchising company and its owner will return US$160,000 to customers and are banned for life from selling franchises under a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

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PC World via Yahoo! News

The hype about Web 2.0 is making sites lazy about good design, says usability guru Jakob Nielsen.

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BBC News

Microsoft Experts present a series of LIVE webcasts on the newest technologies: AJAX, Silverlight and Orcas. Be the first to know about them and get behind the driving wheel of developing next generation applications.

Notes:

• Each Webcast / Live Meeting Session has a Maximum Capacity of 200 participants. You are advised to join in the Live Meeting Session 15 minutes prior to the scheduled time to ensure your participation
• You need to register for each Webcast that you intend to attend. Registering for one Webcast does not register you for all webcasts in the series.

Webcasts on Next Generation Web

Title	Speaker
ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit May 17, 2:30 – 4:00 PM Silverlight: Light up the web! May 18, 2:30 – 4:00 PM Silverlight Media capabilities May 21, 2:30 – 4:00 PM

If you’ve been in the search engine optimization business for any length of time you’ve heard the saying that, “search engines are blind, deaf and dumb,” meaning that your web site should be designed so that the spiders can easily crawl through the site’s pages and determine what the site is about. In other words, in order to be highly ranked organically, a web site needs to be crawlable and have excellent content; it does not need to look pretty.

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The Website Optimizer allows you to experiment multivariate ad testing to determine the most effective ways in getting conversions. You have the flexibility to choose the particular part of a page to test — headline, image, promo text. Website Optimizer provides you the reliable reports and a suggested course of action in order to optimize your site for maximum business results.

• Choose your test page. Choose a page that you drive traffic to using AdWords, or a page that you like to increase the conversion rate.

• Identify your conversion page. Typically, a page that lets user do desired action – makes a purchase, fills out an interest form, or downloads a white paper.

• Determine which page sections you’d like to experiment with on your test page. Use page sections such as a headline, image, or promotional text.