lifeBLUE Blog

Our team shares their experience and insight on topics such as design, technology and the wonderful world wide web.
This blog gives our staff a chance to express their opinions and points of view while providing our clients with a sense of who the people behind lifeBLUE really are. Please enjoy reading and we always appreciate feedback and comments.
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June 30th, 2009

Top Ten Time Wasters On The Internet

The web is a vast landscape and in this months newsletter we explore a handful of fun and occasionally useful points of interest. At times, ecommerce, online marketing, researching and online information can overshadow all the wonderful distractions to be found on the net.
The Internet is an interactive medium, so unlike your TV it is […]

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June 30th, 2009 in Uncategorized | Comments (0)
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June 22nd, 2009

Ideas worth spreading

TED is Technology, Entertainment, Design. This website is the most inspiring website that Ive came across for people that are in design, entertainment, business, culture, arts, science and much much more. It allows you to see into the minds of people from all over the world. To help you have a better world view of […]

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June 22nd, 2009 in Uncategorized | Comments (0)
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June 19th, 2009

What’s That Binging In Your Ears?

In short, Microsoft says of its new search engine, “Bing is a search engine that finds and organizes the answers you need so you can make faster, more informed decisions.”
Great! But will it be able to grind away at the 65-70% market share Google currently keeps? Ironically, looks as though Microsoft will try and do […]

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June 19th, 2009 in Marketing | Comments (0)
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June 8th, 2009

Most SEO’s Fail Client Services 101

Has this email shown up in your inbox before:
“Dear yourwebsite.com,
I recently came across your website and noticed that it was difficult to find on the search engines. We’d like to offer our SEO services to you. Please reply.”

Yes, it’s obviously a spammer but not too far from what many “SEO companies” […]

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June 8th, 2009 in Marketing, Web Business Basics 101 | Comments (0)
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June 3rd, 2009

Firefox: not just another web browser…

It’s true, there’s so much more…
For most, Firefox is just another web browser. As long as it allows you to surf the web, play online games, search for a local salon and check your email, who cares what it’s called. It’s yet another browser to add to the list of browser icons already […]

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June 3rd, 2009 in Nerd Matrix, Web Development | Comments (1)
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May 22nd, 2009

Create A Buzz

So, you want to make a buzz?  Do you want to make impact?
Get in line… or you could cut in line.
Most people try to create a buzz by taking the “please everyone” road.  The thinking usually falls in line with “maximize our popularity by making sure we don’t do anything that someone won’t like.”  It […]

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May 22nd, 2009 in Marketing | Comments (0)
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May 20th, 2009

Facebook Connect, Part I (Or, How You Got on Grandma’s Bad Side)

Look around the web and you’ll usually notice three things:

A good site will have good user management.
There are a lot of poorly designed sites out there.
Someone is blabbing about it on Facebook.

We’re here to help you with all three. You already know we can design great sites – but did you know we can make […]

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May 20th, 2009 in Web Design, Web Development | Comments (1)
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May 18th, 2009

SEO Strategy Explored

What is an SEO strategy anyway?
I remember wondering this and discovering mixed opinions and differing ideas on how to best define this often mentioned but rarely explained component of website ownership.
Particularly it seems to depend on who you ask. Bring the question to your technical team and get one perspective, and usually the most detailed […]

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May 18th, 2009 in SEO | Comments (0)