Don’t think of Web standards as restrictive rules that limit your freedom to develop and run your website as you please. Web standards offer a lot of advantages for business owners. Simply put, Web standards are our guide to the World Wide Web. They make business websites more accessible to Web users and more visible in searches. They also allow for easier website development and maintenance. Web Standards Make Your Website More Accessible to the Public Compliance with Web standards…

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Sometimes it’s easy to forget about all of the other social media applications out there besides just Facebook and Twitter. Take a look at this: Social media spending is estimated to be 10% of marketing budgets in 2011 (source: CMO Survey by Duke University) StumbleUpon, despite having less than 1/10th the US users of Facebook and ~1/100th the engagement, sends more outbound traffic (source: Statcounter via The Next Web) Quora, the social Q+A site is nearing 500,000 users and momentum…

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