by Carlos Ramos

While some browsers such as Chrome, already feature built in translation features, you can’t always rely on that to handle translation for everyone. Fortunately, there are some great options for adding multilingual support to a website. We’ve done a few so far and have used these two approaches.

1. Automatic Translation: [...]

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by Dan Rouse

An Overview

In the early days of the web, selecting a font to use in your site design didn’t take long. Your selection had to be deemed “web safe”, meaning it’s a font that can be found on the majority of internet user’s computers. The list of web safe fonts [...]

by Al Morel & Dan Rouse

Here’s the quick answer: HostGator. But if you’re looking for the complete story, read on.

One ‘downside’ of having a dynamic (database driven) website that utilizes a Content Management System (CMS), such as WordPress, is [...]

Guest post by Tony Guarnaccia of Big Fish Marketing

One of the greatest perks of the WordPress platform is its endless affinity for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). There are many useful SEO tools in the WordPress arsenal, from internal permalink settings to SEO-friendly navigation and site structure. One of the best ways [...]

If you did not receive a link to our recent Holiday eCard, please take a quick look. This interactive holiday eCard built with HTML5, jQuery and jPlayer. As you know, much of the cool interactive tools that we used to use Flash for, have been supplanted by other technologies such as jQuery.
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By Al Morel
Last night, I spoke at the Merrimack Valley Venture Forum (www.mvvf.org) and here’s a synopsis of the speakers at the event that was ably moderated by Tim Haggerty, of  The Haggerty Companies.

Al Morel, Principal, CommAREus, New Media Services

Websites Can Have Both Form AND Function

Today, your website is your shingle that [...]

By Al Morel

Is SEO really dead?

Recently, sales and marketing expert, Ken Krogue, contributed an article to forbes.com entitled: “The Death Of SEO: The Rise of Social, PR, And Real Content.” As you can imagine, there was a great gnashing of teeth, and a general firestorm ensued.

It is clearly not the end of trying to optimize [...]

by Al Morel

WordPress was originally blogging software that has become the dominant content management system (CMS) on the internet today. According to Wikipedia, WordPress manages 22% of all new websites and manages more websites than all the other content management systems combined.

It’s interesting that it’s only in the last year, with the release of WordPress [...]

by Dan Rouse

With the release of WordPress 3.0, we were introduced to a new feature called custom post types. Since that time, CommAREus has been finding new ways to utilize this functionality to replace what was often handled by plug-ins in the past or simply managed by hand in the post editor. Despite our best [...]

Butch Stearns of the Pulse Network at the Boston IMS 2011

by Al Morel

For all the ‘Inbound Marketing’ fans out there — and who isn’t these days — many of the presentations given are available on line for your viewing [...]