When discussing the role of a business coach, there is one thing that must be cleared up immediately. Your team is composed of all people depending on you for direction. Obviously the higher you are in the organisation, the deeper and wider your team will be.

What this means is a business coach who is a CEO has the entire organisation counting on him or her for direction. The manager of a sales call centre will coach the staff working on the telephones who contact customers. A project team leader is a coach for team members. Even a lone business employee, who has no one answering to him or her, must successfully coach personal performance in a way that leads to successful production on the job.

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Your website is where your business resides – it’s like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practise good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.

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I have created an extremely simple example of creating a text shadow using simple CSS code.

The CSS:

body {
font: Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif;
text-align: center; color: #000;
text-shadow: 0px 10px 10px #333;
}
h1 {

font: bold 65px/60px Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif;
text-align: center; color: #000;
text-shadow: 0px 2px 6px #333;

}

Internet Explorer CSS Text Shadow Hack

.text_shadow{
filter: Shadow(Color=#999999, Direction=135, Strength=5);
height: 1%;
}

It was really that simple. Either add it to your stlye sheet or in the head section of your page and you’re set to go.

There is an example here.

Short and simple

I’ve been testing and using several jQuery plugins for a while now. I look for the best ones to add to my website projects and implement them to the best of my knowledge and ability. I decided that I should make some available to readers, so here goes…

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Together with The Proniit Group I have put together this great list of more than 1800 free one way text link directories to advertise and market your website. Remember that it is all free. You should be able to send to all of these directories unless some have been removed or abandoned since this post. Please pass this on to your friends and family that would need this awesome resource.

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I have bee following Google’s Webmaster help on YouTube and I have noticed one very common statement from all of the staff at Google.

For almost any question asked the usual answer is that webmasters should be paying careful and close attention to quality content.

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It’s such a lazy Sunday sitting outside with my laptop in the cold feeling as miserable as ever. I was brainstorming the best way to implement some of the better photo gallery scripts into some of my projects and boy oh boy, did I ever come across some of the most amazing ones that I have ever seen. I thought that I should share it with the visitors to this site as an informative piece of useful information.

Below you will find a list of the best free and open source photo gallery scripts that I have come across today:

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The design behind our online store and it’s backend are almost finalized. We are taking extra precautions to ensure that this is done without any hiccups as we expect the store to soar upon it’s release.

We are still looking for more designers to join the store and sell their fashion online. If you are such a designer please feel free to contact me and if you know of anyone please send them my details.

You can find the store here: http://www.devilishlysaintful.co.za/

Journeys through the internet have revealed so much to me on so many different levels. People offer so much of non sense on the internet to make a quick buck that the innocent surfer might get caught up coughing up money for something that doesn’t work in any way what so ever. The solution, DIY! There is no better way. Period. Thankfully open source and other free-to-use sources of information give the best alternative to premium options.

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Forgive me for being so excited that I managed to implement the open source social network, Pligg, on a site aptly named Boys Will Be Boys.

The reason I took the time to develop this network is simple my passion for design and implementation of worthy websites and the fact that I love creating things that have meaning.

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