http://www.jasonciment.com Learn How to Make Your Web Design Dazzle, Use Better Ecommerce or CMS Software, Optimize Search Engine Web Traffic and Increase Web Conversion Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:54:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In effective search marketing campaigns, the more experienced business aims to minimize its PPC spend and maximize the results. The first thing towards achieving dual success as described is you need to install some analytics tools. The best place to start for now since it is free is www.google.com/analytics. It takes literally five ... http://www.jasonciment.com/ppc-pay-per-click/the-1st-step-in-reducing-your-ppc-budget-is-analytics-and-conversion/ OK. Here's the story behind this free windows software today. So I'm working on a new laptop with Microsoft's Vista operating system. And 4 weeks into the new laptop I get the ACER black screen of death. It's worse than the blue screen because the computer boots up, flashes the microsoft ... http://www.jasonciment.com/software/free-software-to-recover-lost-windows-files/ Today's software tip is geared to web design individuals and companies. Have you ever looked at a web page - especially when you are debugging code - and you see a hexadecimal value and you want to know what color it represents? Well, this nifty little html color generator type of ... http://www.jasonciment.com/software/html-color-code-calculator-rgb-color-generator-web-page-color-choosing-tool/ EvePearl.com has that interesting business combination of a products AND services shopping cart / ecommerce platform like WebCart© that could deliver a customized look and feel for each of her product sets. But at the same time she needed a content platform to offer up information related to her makeover ... http://www.jasonciment.com/portfolio/redesign-web-site-of-evepearlcom-beautician-to-the-stars/ Living in Los Angeles has its perks and one of them is that L.A. has become a hub of technology companies. One of the most noteworthy associations in the technology space on the West Coast is the Digital Coast Roundtable. Their roster of members has some real industry stalwarts like ... http://www.jasonciment.com/case-studies/case-study-web-redesign-for-digitalcoastorg-cms-membership-portal/ So this is not necessarily a new web design project but I am posting about it now because it is in a similar industry to EvePearl.com and since I've gotten my feet pretty wet with cosmetics, it makes sense to put  up a little information about this site too. CMKCosmetics.com is an ... http://www.jasonciment.com/portfolio/design-new-ecommerce-web-site-cmkcosmeticscom-discount-cosmetics/ There's a new trend in the firefox plugin world where the original developers get so busy they don't have the time to update their plugins as new releases of firefox are introduced. Leave it up to the technogeeks to fill in the gaps. One of the most noteworthy firefox plugins is ... http://www.jasonciment.com/daily-tips/seo-open-plugin-for-firefox-30-is-now-updated/ Thanks for your interest in subscribing to my blog posts. There are several different ways to do it. If you'd like to receive the posts I write sent to you by email once a day, please enter your email address below. If you have an RSS reader, then you can ... http://www.jasonciment.com/consulting/subscribe-by-email-or-rss/ The Godfather' doctrine and Israel in the Middle East [rating:4.5] Coppola's film offers lessons in diplomacy that we can't refuse. This is a copy of the article published in the Los Angeles Times this week in the editorial section. I was totally blown away by the application of the Godfather masterpiece ... http://www.jasonciment.com/israel-middle-east/the-godfather-movie-as-a-metaphor-for-us-politics-and-the-middle-east/