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Website Content & Usability

Is Your Website like a Pencil or a Pen?

September 12, 2011 Website Content & Usability
Pens and Pencils?  Yeah, it's not the best metaphor.  But's back to school time - work with me here!

It’s that time of year again… back to school time for many parents. But for many businesses – esp those in the US and UK, tourism and otherwise – this is also the time when the summer crowds are starting to thin, the sprint is sliding back into marathon mode, and it’s time to start [...]

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3 Tips for Tricking Out your Youtube Embeds

August 8, 2011 Website Content & Usability

Video content is VERY HOT and en vogue these days – and why not? Video cameras are now both cheap and high quality, and the tools are available to edit and publish your videos without a lot of hassle. Youtube (owned by Google, did you know?) is the king of video content hosting, with an [...]

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Is Your Website like a Coffee Shop or a Glass Tower?

June 6, 2011 Website Content & Usability

This past weekend I found myself in a bit of a conundrum – a frustrating one, for sure.  I’ll spare you the specifics, but I was looking for a specialized tour operator and needed someone with a solid reputation to look after a worried traveler friend of mine. It wasn’t exactly a slim niche – [...]

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Why Photos on your Travel Website Can be a Bad Idea

May 2, 2011 Website Content & Usability

This past weekend, I was planning a few segments of my summer travels – to the US East Coast, if you’re curious. I can see why travel agents still have good business, because some of the website I was using frankly, sucked. These were both the official tourism websites as well as independent tour operators [...]

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The Page On Your Travel Website Everybody Is Talking About

February 7, 2011 Website Content & Usability
about us

In our kick-in-the-pants guide, Why Your Website Sucks – And How to Fix It, we pay special attention to one special page of your website.  It’s not your homepage, and it’s not your sales pages.  It’s a page that is super critical for almost all travel and tourism businesses, and a lot of people screw [...]

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Let’s Play “Guess What This Business Does”

February 1, 2011 Website Content & Usability
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I’ve had more conversations than I’d like to count about online branding lately. But darned if it isn’t awfully important – just like in the real world, the first time I “meet” you and your company I’m quickly evaluating lots of different details to make a judgement call on what I think about you.  In [...]

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There’s No Perfect Website

October 18, 2010 Website Content & Usability
why your website sucks

So, unless you were under a rock (which happens to me regularly, in fact), you no doubt heard all the fuss about our DIY Guide launch, Why Your Website Sucks and How to Fix It.  I’m happy to keep singing its praises because after a six month birthing process, I’m elated by the quality result [...]

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Why Your Website Will Never Meet Everyone’s Expectations

September 20, 2010 Website Content & Usability
why your website sucks

Last week we had what has to be by far the biggest launch in TOP’s history, our simplified guide to website usability: Why Your Website sucks, and How to Fix It.  If you didn’t pick one up last week, be sure to check it out. We’ve had some terrific feedback already, there’s a couple of [...]

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Why Your Website Sucks

September 14, 2010 Website Content & Usability
why your website sucks

For what it’s worth, the most popular service here at Travel Online Partners is our professional website review.  I suppose part of that is because it’s what I did for years in the corporate world (so it’s a very good package) and few companies offer that service to small businesses at such a low cost. [...]

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Do You Need Pretty Pictures to Sell a Travel Product?

June 7, 2010 Website Content & Usability

I’ve just spent the best part of an hour wanderlusting at all the gorgeous websites in this roundup of inspirational travel website designs.  They are beautiful websites.  Some are more effective and usable than others, but all definitely easy on the eyes. I couldn’t help but notice the comment “Frederica” left: I noted that these [...]

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