Web Development Articles

Pros and Cons of an Online Community

March 1st, 2003

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Unlimited

An online community for writers and publishing professionals is a raging success by the old dot-com criteria - heaps of traffic (140,000 visitors a month) and average visit times of over seven minutes. But it’s a dud as a business venture. It has operated at a loss every year.

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PHP versus ASP comparison

February 16th, 2003

by Stephan Spencer

Why do we code in PHP rather than ASP? For reasons including price, capability, its “open source” and platform-agnostic nature, popularity, speed, security, and efficiency.

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Your Web Site Should Not Need a Manual

February 1st, 2003

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Unlimited

Usability. Boring but crucial, it’s about making your website easy and intuitive to use. Users shouldn’t need to learn how to use your site. Put stuff where people expect it.

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PHP versus Perl comparison

December 26th, 2002

by Stephan Spencer

We recommend writing web scripts in PHP, not CGI / Perl. PHP is much better suited to the Web and takes less “overhead,” meaning that scripts will run faster and the server will be able to handle more simultaneous users on your site. Here’s Why…

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The Invisible Edge

December 23rd, 2002

by Stephan Spencer and Brian Klais

521,000 people were searching across the entire Internet last week for the 21,200 products you sell, and that since 99.3% of them did not know that you sold those items, they did not visit your site. And this cost you, $5 million in missed sales opportunities. Oops!

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Speak the Customers Language

December 1st, 2002

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Unlimited

I decided to go on a virtual field trip through the corporate sites of the biggest companies in New Zealand. I’m amazed I stayed awake. You’d think by now corporates would have realised their online visitors don’t want to read marketing-speak, testaments to the brand, letters from the chief executive or assorted press releases.

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Conversion Rate Marketing

Step-by-Step Web Marketing (produced by IIR, sponsored by Google, and endorsed by the American Marketing Association) — Atlanta, GA

November 6th, 2002

Workshop by Stephan Spencer

How to Create Email Campaigns That Drive Action and Build Relationships
Learn how to develop objectives and strategies for implementing email communication campaigns that involve email newsletters and promotional emails.
Deliverable is a 2-3 month email campaign.

How to Decipher Your Web Trends to Maximize Results
Learn how to develop, track, maintain, analyze and utilize the large volumes of data available and turn that into useful information you can use to manage and optimize your business.
Deliverable is to develop historical data, current benchmarks and an understanding of what to measure, why to measure it and what it means.

Developing Strategic and Creative Methodologies For Increasing Results

Learn how to increase your conversion rate one step at a time. You goals are for prospects to make purchases, or subscribe, or register, or make referrals. Each of these goals is a “macro-action,” and you can measure its conversion rate. Every one of your macro-actions is composed of a series of smaller micro-actions.

Deliverable is to develop an efficient conversion system matching your selling process to your prospect’s buying decisions by dealing with real examples from your website.

Development Doesn’t Have to be Rocket Science
Learn how to communicate effectively with web developers about what your requirements are. Did you know that of all software development projects are failures? Did you know that 80% of development costs are incurred after the initial project is delivered?
Deliverable is to take your project from concept to wireframe, to storyboard to final prototype independent of what technology your company uses by effectively creating a prototype of an application you want to have developed.

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Legal Landmines

November 1st, 2002

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Unlimited

If you’re operating a website or conducting internet-based business, what you don’t know may hurt you. Dangers abound: your contractors could infringe on others’ copyrights and trademarks; others could infringe on yours; you could be held liable for mistakes or omissions on your website; your legal contracts with your online customers could be deemed unenforceable; and your visitors’ behaviour on your site could land you with a libel or slander lawsuit.

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Essential Ingredients for Web Site Redesign Success

Sales & Marketing Executives International - Wellington Chapter — Wellington, NZ

October 23rd, 2002

Seminar by Stephan Spencer

So you’ve decided your web site needs an overhaul. Before you start work, you and your web developers need to do a bit of planning. Going off re-building a web site half-cocked is a sure fire recipe for disaster.

From this seminar you’ll get an understanding of what should go into a Request For Proposal, a strategic brief, a creative brief, a technical specification, a content plan, an Internet marketing plan, and more. You’ll also garner practical tips to keep your web redesign project on time, within the specs, and under budget. And you’ll learn what you need to ask from your web agency to keep them on the straight and narrow, even if you’re not a “techie” or a “creative” but a mere mortal like the rest of us.

If you catch yourself saying any of the following statements to yourself or colleagues, then run — don’t walk — to this seminar!

  • Web design is just an extension of our current marketing collateral - we can reuse the text and graphics from our print pieces.
  • If more people work on it, we’ll get it done faster.
  • The Web is a place where you just try things and see what works - I have a friend who designs web sites in his spare time.
  • Documentation is a waste of time and effort
  • We can design the site ourselves and save money. We just want a group that will make the web pages we sketch out.
  • We’ll send out a Request For Proposal and get lots of good ideas back for free.
  • Web sites don’t need much maintenance. We can do it ourselves. It’ll be fun!

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Happy Googling

October 1st, 2002

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Unlimited

Google, with over two billion documents in its search database, is the most popular search engine on the planet. Here’s how to get the most out of it.

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