http://blog.leanwsiweb.com Learn About Digital Marketing and the Internet | WSI Dubai Abu Dhabi and UAE Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:28:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ support@leanwsiweb.com (Gaby Abi Aad) support@leanwsiweb.com (Gaby Abi Aad) 1440 http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1091640447/wsi_logo_web_500x500_reasonably_small.jpg http://blog.leanwsiweb.com 144 144 Internet Marketing and Web Podcast by WSI UAE Internet, Marketing, Web, Marketing, SEO, Web, Design, Analytics, Paid, Advertising, Information, Architecture Gaby Abi Aad Gaby Abi Aad support@leanwsiweb.com no no http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/10/why-seo-does-not-get-you-business.html http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/10/why-seo-does-not-get-you-business.html#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:28:34 +0000 admin http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/?p=278 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/10/why-seo-does-not-get-you-business.html/feed 2 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/08/3-easy-ways-to-make-your-website-more-interactive.html http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/08/3-easy-ways-to-make-your-website-more-interactive.html#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:34:45 +0000 admin http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/?p=273 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/08/3-easy-ways-to-make-your-website-more-interactive.html/feed 0 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/08/1-simple-idea-to-grow-your-email-database.html http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/08/1-simple-idea-to-grow-your-email-database.html#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:06:12 +0000 admin http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/?p=269 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/08/1-simple-idea-to-grow-your-email-database.html/feed 0 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/08/dotnetnuke-version-6-released.html http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/08/dotnetnuke-version-6-released.html#comments Sun, 07 Aug 2011 08:32:42 +0000 admin http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/?p=257 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/08/dotnetnuke-version-6-released.html/feed 0 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/07/website-as-a-service-quick-and-affordable.html http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/07/website-as-a-service-quick-and-affordable.html#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:24:11 +0000 admin http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/?p=252 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/07/website-as-a-service-quick-and-affordable.html/feed 0 0:00:01 If you are a small business looking to get your website up and running quickly and at an affordable price, listen to our audio podcast about the concept of website-as-a-service and a few examples of platforms you could use.   If you are a small business looking to get your website up and running quickly and at an affordable price, listen to our audio podcast about the concept of website-as-a-service and a few examples of platforms you could use.   Uncategorized Gaby Abi Aad no no http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/06/your-website-open-vs-proprietary-platforms.html http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/06/your-website-open-vs-proprietary-platforms.html#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2011 07:24:36 +0000 admin http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/?p=223 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/06/your-website-open-vs-proprietary-platforms.html/feed 0 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/06/choose-a-cms-5-defining-questions.html http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/06/choose-a-cms-5-defining-questions.html#comments Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:32:53 +0000 admin http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/?p=221 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2011/06/choose-a-cms-5-defining-questions.html/feed 1 0:00:01 UPDATE: Listen to our Audio Podcast related to this article here The Right Web Platform for Your Business – Questions To Ask. It’s been a long time since my last blog post and over the past 5-6 months, it’s been apparent to me that[...] UPDATE: Listen to our Audio Podcast related to this article here The Right Web Platform for Your Business – Questions To Ask. It’s been a long time since my last blog post and over the past 5-6 months, it’s been apparent to me that a lot of the businesses in the UAE completely let the choice of a web platform to their web design agency. Though it is only natural to rely on experts for your web content management (WCM) or Content Management System (CMS), businesses must at least challenge the decision of the agency or ask for the reasoning behind such choice. I stumble upon many clients asking me to quote them a website on WordPress, when I ask them why WordPress, the frequent answer I get is “well my friend runs a similar business and he has WordPress”… I am all for social proof and recommendations from friends but a website is a long term investment, and unless you want to spend time and effort building a website and dumping it a year later, take the time to understand your web agency’s choice. Here are some questions you should ask yourself to help you make a choice for a CMS: 1. Do you have more than 1 person who may need to add or edit content to the website. If so this means you need to have a CMS that allows for authoring and publishing workflows eg WordPress, Joomla, DotNetNuke, etc 2. Do you foresee your business getting into ecommerce and in need of a shopping cart. If so then you really want a CMS that can scale as your business grows. I am certainly no expert in WordPress but I surely would look into a CMS that has good ecommerce extensions eg Joomla+VirtueMart or DNN+Catalook, or any other module for that matter. 3. Are you an enterprise or a large organization that has plenty of Microsoft based systems eg Sharepoint and others. You may then want to seriously consider a CMS that is Micrososft based, perhaps DotNetNuke in this case would prove a much wiser choice than Joomla. 4. Are you more or less a one person kind of a web department and have not much experience in web technologies, perhaps then a simple and very intuitive platform like WSI eFusion is what you need. 5. Do you expect to have multiple languages in the future? then it’s important to choose a CMS that can support this feature.  One important note here, the catch is to have your web pages in different languages mirrored in your system, i.e. if your visitor is on the About Us Page in English and wants to go to the Arabic site, your system should take him straight to the About Us page in Arabic.  Not all CMS’s support this feature. So to conclude, deciding on which platform best suits your business is a pivotal decision, make sure you understand the choice that your agency is recommending and you’ll be on your path to having the right platform for you, your business and your customers.   Uncategorized Gaby Abi Aad no no http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2010/11/new-business-uae-website-features.html http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2010/11/new-business-uae-website-features.html#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:39:21 +0000 admin http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/?p=195 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2010/11/new-business-uae-website-features.html/feed 0 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2010/11/how-video-marketing-is-changing-the-way-we-find-prospects-and-convert-sales.html http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2010/11/how-video-marketing-is-changing-the-way-we-find-prospects-and-convert-sales.html#comments Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:16:32 +0000 admin http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/?p=190 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2010/11/how-video-marketing-is-changing-the-way-we-find-prospects-and-convert-sales.html/feed 0 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2010/11/free-whitepaper-blogging-to-build-a-reputation-online.html http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2010/11/free-whitepaper-blogging-to-build-a-reputation-online.html#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:04:37 +0000 admin http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/?p=185 http://blog.leanwsiweb.com/2010/11/free-whitepaper-blogging-to-build-a-reputation-online.html/feed 0