Studio Mercury

11/14/2021

Is your website still using jpeg and PNG formats? Switch to next-gen graphic formats to boost load time by 30%. Cool side effect - your site will become more visible in search (SEO). Do it now so that you can outrank the competition!

12/03/2016

Analysis of Trump's website, and what it says about his approach. donaldjtrump.com surprisingly doesn't use a CMS (like Drupal/WordPress) which would empower his marketing team. Over a dozen tracking technologies such as Google Analytics / Remarketing, Floodlight, and Omniture track and follow visitors even outside of the website. Wistia powers video, which contains some of the most sophisticated analytics on the planet. It's a sophisticated and watchful system without a filter. Imagine that.

11/27/2015

Researching web hosts usually leads to a lot of spam. PC Mag wrapped up their business choice awards 2015 for web hosting services, and I couldn't agree more.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2487406,00.asp

Every business needs a website, and here are the best Web-hosting services as rated best by PCMag readers.

04/10/2012

To reach more FB users, you need to understand EdgeRank: http://bit.ly/HxBzE4

04/06/2012

Pinterest now the third most popular social network: http://goo.gl/T1keI

03/23/2012

Photoshop CS6 Beta is available FREE. Download it: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs6/

03/22/2012

Rockin a Macbook Pro. Not too traumatic for this ol' PC guy.

03/12/2012

Testing out a great new application from Social Volt

09/07/2011

Forget about all the buggy online shopping carts you've used in the past. I think X.commerce is going to be the secure standard for online merchants in the future.

X.commerce is one of the first platforms to enable developers, merchants and service providers to create innovative solutions in the commerce space. Using an open environment, X.commerce offers the fundamental technologies needed for end-to-end commerce – shopping carts, payment services, inventory ...

08/31/2011

The signs are clear - QR codes are a great technology to help clients connect with you.

08/15/2011

*Authors* - *cut out the money grubbing publisher!* Studio Mercury will publish, promote, password protect and handle electronic delivery of your publication for less than $1,000. No printing costs, no delivery fees, we don't take *any* of your cut. All profits go to you!

08/12/2011

SimplyIcon: This hidden treasure may not be popular, but it's the best way to make those little icons that you see next to web addresses (favicons) it has other features too. And it's free - free is good.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Icons-Related/SimplyIcon.shtml