Be prepared for iOS7: released today
iOS7 was released today during Apple’s iPhone 5C launch. While previous upgrades to iOS have mostly gone unnoticed by the casual observer, iOS7 represents a complete overhaul of the software that Apple iPhones and tablets run. From a developer’s point of view, possibly the biggest change is that apps will now update automatically through a read more…
Falling PC sales show the importance of mobile-ready design
There was a point in time when Microsoft Windows was seen as some kind of unstoppable natural monopoly in the software ecosystem. Everybody used Windows. It came pre-installed on nearly every new PC. But a fundamental shift in the way that people access content has changed that equation. Worldwide PC sales fell by 12% last read more…
How drip marketing can help your brand on Twitter
When you log into Twitter, it seems seems like the same people are always right at the top of your feed. How do they do it? Do they just sit at the computer or on their phone all day, posting motivational quotes and links to their blog? These people accumulate thousands of followers and all read more…
Will Google Fiber boost internet speeds in the U.S.?
Google is a highly-profitable search engine, but it has recently begun an expansion into the ISP market, competing against companies like Time Warner Communications and CenturyLink. Google is building expensive new fiber optics infrastructure in the Kansas City area; Austin, Texas; and Provo, Utah. This will enable them to provide much faster speeds than what read more…
How much do you know about fonts?
Web typography has come a long way in only a few short years. Not that long ago, most online content was displayed in only a few “Web-safe” fonts. Now there are more sophisticated ways of displaying text. One of the most popular ways of bringing custom fonts into a web layout is to use an read more…
Help Your Marketing Email Reach Customers
Having the most up-to-date security settings on your email server is important not only for security reasons, but also for increasing the effectiveness of your online marketing campaigns. Many services your customers or clients use to receive email filter the messages people receive before they ever hit their inboxes to try and stop malicious phishing read more…
The Twitter Series, Pt 1: Learning the Basics
While a lot of businesses have heard about Twitter, they’re confused about how to best leverage it for their own businesses – or they don’t think it’s applicable to their business model at all. To clear up some of the confusion and help you understand how your company can utilize Twitter, we’re going to a read more…
A Guide to Google Analytics for Small Businesses
Yesterday, we posted about a guide in which Google explains how the search engine works. We’re going to follow a similar theme today, providing you with a guide to Google Analytics. This guide is easy-to-follow and takes you through the process of setting up Google Analytics and then configuring it to provide meaningful data for read more…
How Search Works – Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
On Friday, Google announced an interactive infograph, called “How Search Works.” The title pretty much explains it all. Google breaks the infograph into three parts: Crawling and Indexing Algorithms Fighting Spam Crawling and Indexing Here Google explains how they find and organize all the information out there on the World Wide Web. Algorithms In this read more…
Why Is My Site Not Ranking?
At Digital Dogs, we offer a whole schmear of website services – web design, web development, and all kinds of online marketing (SEO, PPC, social media). However, some clients come to us looking for a specific service. Perhaps they already have a great web design, and they just want to increase online visibility, so they read more…
