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Having completed a month long testing of CloudFlare, a content distribution network (CDN), we decided to go ahead and activate it on some of our live sites.

The testing of our new web-form is complete: it is ready for roll-out for our websites.

Within the last couple of weeks, Google updated it site speed algorithm, which calculates how well a website is configured for optimal site speed. We have been working hard keeping our websites as fast as possible: last fall, Google made it clear that site speed is going to be an important factor in Google's search ranking algorithm. As a result of our efforts, our websites obtained a site speed of 80 to 95 on average.

Over the last few months Google has been sending signals that the speed at which web pages are rendered would be an important factor in its secret and almighty algorithm that decides how websites are ranked.

The rivalry between web browsers to woo customers with the best online experience recently got even fiercer. In the last 18 months Mozilla Firefox, the long time runner­­-up to Internet Explorer, faced serious competition from Opera and Chrome. Both of these browsers gained the reputation for being ultra-fast, yet sturdy.

TrainingFX is a two phase web development project. We have certainly been very excited about the project, as Internet marketing is key to TrainingFX's business strategy.

According to the owner, investing in the Internet is the best way to go about executing the growth objectives of TrainingFX  of TrainingFX.

Princeton Castle Resort has been an exciting and challenging web development project for several reasons. Our team managed the project entirely by remote communication. We had never met the client until we traveled to Princeton for the final client training and the project launch.

The development time of the website was very tight in order to get the site ready before the main season starts.

Have you made the decision to have a professional website built and reap the benefits of a powerful Internet marketing program for your business.

Is it expensive? How much can I expect to pay? It always depends on business goals. In any case, your website plays an increasingly important role  in marketing your business.

When creating your business website there are many tempting shortcuts.You can use an off-the-shelf template. The downside is that a template will never be able to represent the true personality of your business.

There must be careful considerations before you set out to have your business website built.There is an overwhelmingly wide range of choices and technical solutions available from various vendors.

• Should I have my own IT expert create a solution?
• Should I contract an Internet marketing company or a marketing agency?
• Should I try to do it all on my own?

To answer these questions, it's important to first define your specific business goals. Your website, an integral part of your business and your marketing strategy, can serve several different functions.It could serve as a direct response advertising tool or as a brand builder.

Based on the 2009 retail numbers, Forrester Research posted a five year forecast for e-commerce growth. The numbers are reflecting US retail data, but market trends South of the border are viewed as a fairly accurate in terms of predicting what is happening here in Canada and Vancouver BC.

Online sales are steadily chipping sales volume away from offline stores. Currently, online sales represent about 7% of total retail sales volume.

Alec Brownstein was a burnt out copywriter desperate to get away from his boring job and to do what he considered to be genuine creative work.

He sent out his resume and credentials to all of the leading creative agencies but failed to get an interview. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

Brownstein came up with an ingenious idea for connecting to North America's top creative directors. He collected the names for the most prominent agencies and placed a Pay-Per-Click ad for each of them.

Google just keeps getting better! Now there's a comprehensive new refreshment for the search screen which has taken effect worldwide.

Overall, the new design has a friendlier feel to it and provides a more intuitive navigation to the search options displayed on the left-side panel.

How do you conduct a Google search in Persian, Russian, or Thai if your keyboard is standard English? And how can you Google a non-English search term if you don't have a non English keyboard? It's super easy!

Google held Atmosphere 2010, on April 12 at Google HQ in Mountain View, California. Based on the significant media attention this event received, along with the interviews and newsworthy presentations, it will likely be one of the highlights of the web community in 2010. It was a rare occasion for Google executives to publicly spell out the company's long term vision for how the Internet is developing and the role Google wishes to play in its' development.