Slack – modern, in-house communication
What is Slack – what can it be used for?
  • Social media

What is Slack? This program with its memorable name is used for internal company communication but what exactly can Slack do? And is it worth switching over to it? We outline some of Slack’s key features so you can decide for yourself whether the new Silicon Valley program might be something for you or your company.

What is Slack – what can it be used for?
Reading habits on the web
Reading habits on the web: keep your online content snappy
  • Web design

When it comes to content design, trends are always moving forward. Long-established patterns in the offline world have moved into the digital age and evolved into a whole new way of reading web pages. In both conveying and consuming information, our online behavior has changed our communication and reading habits. Online content is now scanned rather than read word-for-word. These developments...

Reading habits on the web: keep your online content snappy
What is geo-targeting?
Geo-targeting: the regional optimization of web content and how it works
  • Web analytics

Geotargeting is a unique way of directly addressing a target group using its geographical information. Many websites and applications used on mobile devices use the device data in order to locate their users. Knowing an individual user’s location allows website owners and app providers to tailor their content and advertising directly to the user in his or her respective region. But geotargeting...

Geo-targeting: the regional optimization of web content and how it works
Micro influencers: the better brand ambassadors?
Micro influencers and what they mean for social media marketing
  • Social media

In the world of social media marketing, micro influencers are gaining a more and more prominent role as brand ambassadors. Users are more inclined to trust ‘smaller’ opinion leaders and their recommendations, because they see them as more authentic and interact with them regarding a specific topic. Their credibility and expert status make them particularly appealing to brands, which is why micro...

Micro influencers and what they mean for social media marketing
Canonical tag: how to avoid duplicate content
Canonical tag: what’s behind the canonical URL?
  • Search engine marketing

When certain website content is used multiple times, it’s not always due to inattentiveness, but could be intentional: international websites or online stores, for example, display lots of similar content. To ensure that search engines don’t classify this as duplicate content, there are certain methods, such as the canonical tag, which enable you to link to the original content.

Canonical tag: what’s behind the canonical URL?
Intelligent search: using the search function
Intelligent search: a user-friendly search bar for your online shop
  • Website creation

For many customers, the search bar is the first port of call when visiting an online shop. It is the most important tool for research and shopping online; something which most e-commerce retailers have been aware of now for quite some time. But a search bar is often not enough. Many retailers choose to use very basic standard solutions, despite the fact that an intelligent search with features...

Intelligent search: a user-friendly search bar for your online shop
SVG format: how to embed SVG vector graphics
SVG format: how to embed graphic files into your website
  • Website creation

Increasing the size of a raster graphic beyond its actual resolution comes with a loss of quality, which can lead to serious problems in your responsive web design, including increased loading times and a lower ranking in search engine results pages. Optimizing GIF, PNG, and JPG images to display properly across different devices can rapidly turn into a mammoth task. Because of this, vector...

SVG format: how to embed graphic files into your website
Introduction to Node.js
Node.js: the JavaScript runtime environment at a glance
  • Web development

With the software platform, Node.js, you can use JavaScript server-side and benefit from the asynchronous, event-based programming and the range of options for developing server applications. In this Node.js tutorial, we give you an overview of the program’s modular structure, explain how you can install program modules at any time using the integrated package manager, NPM, and use them to set up...

Node.js: the JavaScript runtime environment at a glance
Log analysis: User statistics from the server log
Log analysis: What the web server log reveals about your visitors
  • Web analytics

How many pages are accessed by a single user when they’re visiting your website? And which links or search queries did they use to lead them to you? To answer such questions, well-known web analysis tools like Google Analytics seem to be the only option. But the web server’s automatically generated log file also provides a solid foundation for user information. The following guide discusses the...

Log analysis: What the web server log reveals about your visitors
The inverted pyramid principle: how it works
The inverted pyramid: how to optimize your writing style for online reader behavior
  • Web design

We read online texts differently to how we read printed newspapers: Online, we quickly skim through the most important paragraphs, filter through the relevant information, and click on the next link. The requirements for a text are clear: information must be easily and quickly found. The most effective way to achieve this is by using the inverted pyramid principle. Our article explains what this...

The inverted pyramid: how to optimize your writing style for online reader behavior