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iContact recently unveiled iContact Free Edition, which meets the needs of new business owners and complements iContact’s existing products and services for small and medium-sized businesses. With this new addition, iContact truly has email marketing for everyone. iContact Free Edition helps businesses get their marketing efforts off the ground. It includes features that benefit any [...]

If you’ve got something to share – a story to tell, an event to promote, or an announcement to make – a Press Release is a great vehicle for communicating your news to the media, your industry and even the greater public. It’s an unapologetic forum for patting yourself on the proverbial back, sharing successes, [...]

Since its launch in 2003, WordPress has evolved into one of the most popular blogging platforms available, claiming over 25 million users. As an open source project, it’s not only free to use but it has a community of thousands of contributors all over the world creating themes, plug-ins and widgets, as well as offering [...]

Thinking about launching an ecommerce business but didn’t quite know where to start? We thought we’d break it down for you. Here are eight basic things you need to have in place before you can open your virtual doors for business. 1. Ecommerce-Capable Hosting Plan At Applied Innovations, you can host an ecommerce site on [...]

  We’re getting ready to launch the beta of the new awesome.net windows cloud hosting platform. I was showing the new awesome.net site to Will Strohl (DotNetNuke guru and all around good guy) and he said “Jess, make sure you get facebook on there and you integrate it with the open graph api so you [...]

In the highly competitive (and dare I say commoditized) web hosting industry if you speak to any hosting company and ask them what makes them different from their competitors I guarantee you’ll get the same response:  Customer Service, it’s our people, it’s how we treat you, it’s that we’re you’re business partner, we’re there for [...]

Even experienced developers can find themselves baffled by some of the intricacies of web hosting. At Applied Innovations, we make it our business to take care of all the little details so you can focus on what you do best. But we also believe that knowledge is power.  And the more we can empower you, [...]

Have you read any of the industry scuttle about Google Panda? What is Panda, exactly, anyway? Google Panda is a significant update to the Google search algorithm that was launched late last month. While Google is constantly adjusting its ranking algorithms, most changes are not immediately or broadly evident. With Panda, however, we have a [...]

In January, Microsoft announced the WebMatrix tool at CodeMash in beautiful Sandusky, OH. Our own Cara Pluff left south Florida and headed up to Sandusky. Now, as you can imagine not many people leave south Florida in the middle of January for Sandusky but she did and was kind enough to send back photos of [...]

Believe it or not I still find myself building websites after all these years.  It’s something I enjoy to do and when most people are out playing golf, I find myself playing with some new piece of software. Generally, I use a content management system (CMS) like DotNetNuke or WordPress to build a website today.  [...]