Happy Holidays!
It’s that time of the year again when we look back at all the things we have accomplished within the year and send our best wishes and thanks to everyone who have helped us. And for that reason, on behalf of the whole team at Digilite Web Solutions, I would like to tell you that we are very grateful having you as our partner/ client/ supporter and friend.
Together we made it through this rough year and I wish you and yours a great holiday season and a successful new year.
Sincerely yours,
Hovsep Seraydarian
Digilite Web Solutions
Toronto, Ontario
www.digilite.ca
Daily Deals Industry in Canada
How big the daily deal market is in Canada?
This infographic provides a monthly summary for the Daily Deal Industry in Canada. It provides the names of the biggest daily deal companies and how much of the market they control. It breaks down the most popular daily deals of the month. Finally it supplies fiscal data for daily deal revenue.
Source: http://visual.ly/canadian-daily-deal-industry
50 Critical Questions About Your Website
- Can you tell someone how to get to your site without having to spell anything?
- Are the URLs human-readable or are they full of special characters and dynamically-generated gobbledygook?
- Do you have an About page?
- Can visitors tell what your site is about without visiting your About page?
- Is your contact information readily available on every page – or at least from every page?
- If not, what are you hiding from? Your customers?
- Is your home page doing you any favors or is it merely an “Enter Site” gateway?
- Do you have an RSS Feed?
- Did you decorate for the holidays?
- When is the last time you added new content?
- Why has it been so long?
- Is your site ranking highly in search engines for relevant keywords?
- What about for your name? Or your business name?
- What are your relevant keywords, anyway?
- Is anyone linking to you these days?
- If not, what can you do to make this happen?
- Who are you linking to these days?
- How long does it take your site to load at your mother’s house?
- Do you need to download anything on her computer to even see your site?
- What is the single most important thing you want a visitor to do?
- Is that clear from looking at your site?
- Does your site look professional, or does it look like a teenager’s MySpace page?
- Do you link out to your other web presences (social network profiles, Twitter account, YouTube page, Flickr photostream)?
- Is it clear what content is protected by Copyright and what is free to take and re-use?
- What one thing can you do to your site today to increase visitors?
- Are you commenting on blogs and building relationships with other site-owners in your industry or niche?
- How does your site look on a mobile device?
- An iPhone?
- Blackberry?
- Cheapo-plastic-freebie phone?
- Amazon Kindle?
- Is your site usable with images turned off?
- On a computer with no Flash or Javascript?
- In every web browser?
- How many clicks does it take for a visitor to give you money?
- Is your site “fine for the moment” or is it flexible enough to be fine for the next 5 years?
- Are your ads annoying?
- How easy is it for a visitor to leave a comment or write a review?
- Can your site run without you?
- Is the entire site backed up?
- Is the important stuff backed up multiple times in multiple formats in multiple physical locations?
- How long would it take to turn your entire site navy blue with white text?
- Is this time measured in seconds (awesome), minutes (good), or hours (you’re doing things wrong)?
- Is your branding consistent between your site, your printed material, your storefront, and you as a person?
- Do your product descriptions sound like they were written by a person or by a mentally-ill robot programmed with the vocabulary of an out-of-work Madison Avenue ad guy whose last account was for one of those food processors they sell on TV at 2am?
- Do you care about your website?
- Is it important to you?
- Are your readers and customers important to you as people, not just as eyeballs with wallets?
- Would you be sad – actually sad – if your site disappeared tomorrow?
- What would you do if it did?
Age of the eCommerce Geek Infographics
5/25 is Geek Day: Originated in Spain as “Oguilo Friki”. Geek Price Day is an initiative to condone geek culture. The date was chosen to commemorate the release of the first Star Wars film. A New Hope, which opened on the 25th of May in 1977.
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Launch of “Salon Les Amis” website
We have launched the website of “Salon Les Amis”.
Here is a section from their site about their salon
take a look at the website www.salonlesamis.com
Digilite Web Solutions First Portfolio Video
an introduction to our Portfolio and some of our past works.
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
25 Twitter Tools to Make Tweeting Easier, Faster
Twitter Analytics Tools
Use these online Twitter tools to measure your Twitter influence, reach, trends and popularity. Some offer more advanced analytics while others are simple tools you can use to see who is tweeting about you.
1. Friend or Follow: find out if Twitter users you follow are following you back. You can also check if they are following the people following them.
2. Tweet Effect: this Twitter tool is designed to filter Twitter data to show which of your own tweets made people follow or leave you.
3. TweetLevel: a tool used to measure an individual’s importance on Twitter. Four key ranking metrics — influence, popularity, engagement and trust — are scored.
4. TweetReach: search for a URL, Twitter name or phrase or hash tag and generate a report of the reach and exposure data for those tweets.
5. TweetStats: graph Twitter stats including tweets per hour, tweets per month, tweet timeline and reply statistics.
6. Tweettronics: Twitter metrics and brand monitoring tools. You can graph moving averages and trends, identify common phrases and words and many other options. Searches can be generated by topic, brand or person.
7. Twinfluence: determine which major factors control your influence and power on Twitter. Measurements are provided for reach, velocity and social capitol.
8. Twitalyzer: an analytics platform for Twitter that is available at three different levels of paid services (with a free trial available). Analysis is offered for sentiment, tagging, click-tracking and more.
9. Twitter Analyzer: view graphs of your daily tweets, chats, popularity, reach and subjects.
10. Twitter Grader: see how influential you are on Twitter. Simply type in your Twitter username and click the Grade button to see results.
Tools to Manage and Synchronize Twitter
You can use a number of Twitter tools to post short messages across multiple social media platforms from one single service. Other management tools simply help you tweet better.
11. Babller: the Babller service lets you read and post status updates on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin in a variety of languages. Babller will automatically translate your status to any of the selected languages.
12. BiggerTwitter: a Web-based tool that can be used to post tweets longer than 140 characters on Twitter. BiggerTwitter works by placing a link in the tweet.
13. Hellotxt: a social tool (for Web or mobile platforms) that lets you update Twitter and other social networking sites by clicking a single button. Currently, it supports 50 social network sites.
14. Lazyscope: lets you see shared links in your twitter stream without clicking through to view the site. You can use the tool to discover and follow streams from Twitter or any website.
15. LiveGo: a Web tool that lets you stay connected to multiple social networks including Twitter, Facebook, Instant Messenger clients and online email accounts, such as Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo.
16. Natter: an online service that monitors your tweets and posts to your Facebook. Comments posted on Facebook are also posted to Twitter.
Twitter Tools for Websites
These Twitter tools let you display your latest tweets on your website, blog or other Web-based publishing space. Some Web tools may also be designed to allow other twitter users to have messages left in the display tweeted for them.
17. Jotabl: a “shoutbox” that you can display on your website and in which site visitors can leave comments. Your visitors can sign in via Twitter to add their message, and even have it tweeted for them.
18. TurnSocial: a free social toolbar that lets small business websites add popular social media and location based applications, in addition to content from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Foursquare and more.
19. Twitter Widgets: Twitter’s own widgets are compatible with any website and most social networks. You can customize this widget to display your latest updates on MySpace, Blogger, Facebook and Typepad, or you can get the code to use the widget on any of your personal Web pages.
Twitter URL Shrinker (URL Shorten) Services
A URL shrinker is an important Twitter tool. It’s an online service that takes a long URL you want to include in your Tweet and shrinks it down to save character space in your Tweet.
20. Bit.ly: shrink tweet URLs to 20 characters, plus track and share the shrunken URLs.
21. Goo.gl: Google’s own URL shortener. Offers short URLs, reliable service and good uptime.
22. ReTwtme: shorten, share, and track URLs posted on Twitter and other online publishing spaces.
23. t.co: Twitter’s own link service is used on all links included in Direct Message notification emails and can be used to shorten URLs — but only those posted on Twitter. It won’t work for other social platforms.
24. TinyURL: shrink your URLs to 23 characters on Twitter or any online publishing space.
25. v.gd: automatically generates URLs that are typically 18 characters long and offers statistics for the link.
