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26 key points to know prior to building a website

26 key points to know prior to building a website

So, you’re considering building a new website. You have an idea for a product, you’re starting a new company, or you’ve been charged with taking your 2002 antiquated website and modernizing it. The challenges you’ll face are many. The list of consolidated resources are few. There are schools dedicated to helping people to develop a website but you simply don’t have the time to go back to school. There’s nothing to worry about. Pixaal has a checklist for you. Granted, it doesn’t actually show you how to do any of the things you need such as creating a site map or deciding what sort of buttons you need,…

4 free helpful apps for getting around London during the Olympics

4 free helpful apps for getting around London during the Olympics

If you are in London enjoying the Olympics and having the time of your life, you still need to remain organized especially if the area is unfamiliar to you, therefore you can spend more time having fun with less worry of how to get from A to B using these 4 free helpful apps to getting around London. …

4 free apps to help you get that vacation before the end of summer

4 free apps to help you get that vacation before the end of summer

The end of summer is nearing (unfortunately) and for most of us that means that harsh weather will be drifting our way. Fortunately we have had great weather this summer as long as we stayed indoors where the air conditioning is and away from the heat of the sun, but that is no way to spend our summers! Before the end of summer, you should take an adventure that will be memorable and one that will make it in your History book, to do so, you need easy ways of finding, booking and planning that vacation that you deserve. Here are 4 free (yes, free) Apps that will help you get that vacation before the end of summer….

Paid Apps Stay at the Top of the Charts Longer Than the Freebies

Paid Apps Stay at the Top of the Charts Longer Than the Freebies

According to a new study of recent chart activity on the App Store, apps that are costing money are more “sticky” on the top apps chart than free apps. Distimo released the study today revealing that many apps considered paid apps are much more likely to hold their spot on the top of the charts for longer periods of time than their free app brethren. Lately there has been a trend of apps on the App Store going free, and the charts have been changing rapidly with each new free application lasting only an average of one week, while some paid apps held their spot at the top of the charts for over a hundred…

Emptying Your Wallets: This Free Ride We Enjoy Might End Early

Emptying Your Wallets: This Free Ride We Enjoy Might End Early

As the Internet becomes more prominent in people’s lives, they are expecting more things for free, and companies are seemingly happy to oblige. But there is always a price to pay. So does anyone care to take a guess as to who will be paying that massive bill? You will! But let’s take a step back for a moment. The idea of giving things away for free online really became Google’s sticking point. It’s a topic covered quite well in Jeff Jarvis’ What Would Google Do. And while Google surely wasn’t the first company to give away their products and services for free, they made this model work better than any other…

Google Releases Free Fonts and New Open Source Tool

Google Releases Free Fonts and New Open Source Tool

Google has released 18 free fonts for the web in an attempt to leave the boring old fonts behind and move into the future of downloadable text-styles. In a Google I/O conference on Wednesday, the company released 18 freely usable fonts and an open-source tool, Google Font API, designed to smooth over browser issues in displaying these downloaded fonts. “With the Google Font API, using these fonts on your web page is almost as easy as using the standard set of so-called “web-safe” fonts that come installed on most computers,” said Ralph Levien and David Kuettel of the Google Font API team in a blog…

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