Posted 21 August 2009 · 2:15 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
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Our post on Wednesday described an announcement by Proxibid of their forthcoming embedding bidding service. This service will allow auctioneers to seamlessly embed Proxibid’s systems into the auctioneers’ web pages. In Wednesday’s post, we posed five questions we felt were important to ask of Proxibid and other providers who are looking to offer [...]
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Posted 24 November 2008 · 9:00 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
I’ve spoken with many auctioneers recently who are at the beginning stages of a new technology project, usually a website redesign or new build of some kind. The questions everyone asks mostly revolve around the expectations they should have of the person or company being hired to build the website.
I’ve put together some content that [...]
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Posted 20 September 2008 · 9:09 am.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe in 1993. As of July 1, 2008, it’s an ISO standard, which means that the format is open and published so that anyone can create it or use it.
There are many misconceptions about the proper use of PDFs, and today I’m going to try [...]
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Posted 6 August 2008 · 6:08 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
Flash is a very bad way to build websites. It’s not only about SEO. It’s about usability. For the same reasons that mature developers don’t use “fly-out” or “drop-down” menus, you shouldn’t use Flash because it requires you to do one of two things. You can either alienate the growing minority of users using alternative [...]
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