Creating a Blog
Blog with success part 1: creating a blog
  • Blogs

Anyone can become an author online by starting a blog to publicize ideas and thoughts. But for many, a blog is much more than simply an online diary: if you want to mix it with the industry professionals and become a successful blogger, there are certain guidelines to be aware of. In this short series, we will guide you on the journey to blogging with success. We begin with part 1: creating a...

Blog with success part 1: creating a blog
What is APNG?
APNG (Animated Portable Network Graphics): Basics and tutorial
  • Web design

GIFs are extremely popular for spicing up your own posts and news on social media. It seems difficult to imagine an online world without the expressive animations in the format of the same name – but APNG (Animated Portable Network Graphics) is an alternative that in some respects even stands out from GIFs. What exactly is behind this animated PNG? How can you create animations in this format?

APNG (Animated Portable Network Graphics): Basics and tutorial
CC – Emails to indirect recipients
CC – How to include indirect email recipients
  • Technical matters

Carbon copy (CC) allows transparency in communication. A CC address field can be found in any email program. Recipients you enter in the CC field will receive messages as a copy for their information, allowing them to stay in the loop. The feature is not suitable for advertising emails, newsletters or public circulars. We explain why this is the case.

CC – How to include indirect email recipients
Blog analysis: the most important figures
Blog analysis: the most important figures for your blog
  • Blogs

Anyone can blog! Free blogging software and simple tools enable you to get cracking with your blog in no time. But if you want to be successful in the long term and build a loyal readership with your content, there’s a lot more to be done. Regular blog analyses with appropriate analysis tools help bloggers (i.e. companies) to optimize their content, understand their readers better and thus benefit...

Blog analysis: the most important figures for your blog
Performance marketing
Performance marketing: measuring advertising success
  • Online sales

Advertising is a science in itself: self-employed people, entrepreneurs, and experienced advertisers know this. How well it’s received by potential customers can’t always be measured accurately. However, when it comes to online advertising, this problem can be countered with performance marketing. Within this subfield, in which the most diverse strategies are used, from SEO and SEA to newsletter...

Performance marketing: measuring advertising success
CSS compression for consistent loading times
CSS compression for consistent loading times
  • Web design

It’s rare to see creative information directly placed into HTML code. Colors, fonts, and sizes of HTML elements are normally defined in style sheets, such as CSS. The more complex a website becomes, the more the range and amount of required CSS files increase. The extra burden can have a considerable effect on your website’s loading time, but this can be avoided by compressing your CSS.

CSS compression for consistent loading times
Create your own product photos
Product photography: taking your own professional photos
  • Online sales

One advantage brick-and-mortar retailers have over their e-commerce counterparts is that customers are able to experience products with all of their senses before they’re purchased. Online shopping, on the other hand, only provides potential customers with descriptions and product photos. What follows is that high-quality photos are all the more important for online shops. Find out how to create...

Product photography: taking your own professional photos
Product photography for your online store
Product photography: the best tips for store owners
  • Online sales

When out shopping, most people actually pick up products to feel their quality, structure, and weight, occasionally even smelling or listening to them. This gives customers the chance of forming an emotional connection with the product, which can then lead to a successful sale. Since an online store cannot offer customers the same experience, quality product photos are instead needed in order to...

Product photography: the best tips for store owners
The most useful Photoshop shortcuts
The most useful Photoshop shortcuts
  • Web design

Endless clicking through the many menus when working with Photoshop is a major disadvantage for users of the photo editing software giant. But thanks to certain Photoshop shortcuts, users have the option of employing keyboard combinations to skip straight to certain actions. We’ve compiled the best of these Photoshop tricks for Windows and Mac OS here.

The most useful Photoshop shortcuts
Blind Carbon Copy (BCC)
Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) – How to send blind carbon copies of your emails
  • Technical matters

The BCC feature found in your email program allows you to send blind carbon copies of your messages to anonymous third parties. Although it may sound unethical and can be seen by some conversation partners as a breach of trust, the inclusion of BCC recipients is useful and justified in exceptional circumstances. We explain when this is the case.

Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) – How to send blind carbon copies of your emails