Amazon tax law in Illinois removed.
In March 2011, the Illinois legislature passed the Main Street Fairness Act, a bill that states that all companies who have any type of presence in Illinois and sell to Illinois customers, online, must charge an Illinois sales tax, from each of the company’s Illinos residents. Gov. Pat Quinn signed that bill. Gov. Quinn and many legislators thought that the law would help the Illinois government increase revenue by about $153 million, in 2011, but that didn’t happen, since some Illinois companies left the state, to avoid collecting the tax from their Illinois customers. New York, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and North Carolina passed similar laws, so those laws might affect many businesses who sell products, online, or consider doing that. In 2011, the Performance Marketing Association filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County, to challenge the law. In April 2012, Cook Co. Circuit Judge Robert Lopez Cepero ruled that the law is unconstitutional. However, the Illinois Department of Revenue might appeal, so we still don’t know whether the law will be enforced. For small companies who are considering selling products, online, the effect of paying state sales taxes could be large, in terms of the cost to comply. Those companies might need to pay C.P.A.’s for many hours of work, if the companies are required to charge different amounts of sales taxes, depending upon the homestate of each customer. One of the reasons for the large increase of ecommerce is that it’s relatively easy to start a website and sell products, online. If many states enact laws that charge sales taxes on online sales, in those states, many new companies will decide that it’s not worth the work of complying, causing the companies to not sell, online. No one knows the affect of Illinois law, since it might be overturned. If the state appeals and wins, the law will probably discourage some companies from selling, online, to Illinois customers. If the law isn’t enforced, that will probably cause more companies to sell, online, to Illinois customers, creating more jobs.
Want to Create an Awesome Website? Read This!
If you ever want to get noticed, if you want to make your business a success then you simply HAVE to get it online and here are the tips and tricks to make your site the success you want it to be.
The design of your web site is the crux of how your site begins, you wan to start with a site that is eye appealing yet professional and tasteful. Do not use garish and extreme colors on your site unless for some reason you would need to, you don’t want people to come by your site and say; “Oh my, this is tacky and I am going elsewhere!”
When designing your web site take into consideration who may visit your site. Is the site for a business person? An athlete? A banker? A cook? Whomever your site audience is is exactly who you are building your site for.
Web development can be super easy once you know how everything in a website fits together and how it all comes together to make your site the best of the best.
Web development is when you take the updated content that you have, make sure you place tags so that others can find your site among all the others and make your site clean and simple, no gaudy and had to maneuver in and you will have what we call web development.
Site description is the information that lets a customer who visits your site what your site is all about, information about you and your company, what you are selling or offering as well as how to contact you and other pertinent information they may need.
Site description is the crux of your site, without it your clients will not know anything about you, who you are and what you are on the web for, whether you blog, sell or simply have a message board, a website and its’ description is most important.
Another aspect of site descriptions is the use of tags along with how you will be describing your site, tags are words used in search engines to decipher what each website offers on its’ home pages as well as the overall site itself, make your tags as useful and concise as possible, else you will loose both your search engine rankings as well as followers to your site.
Another web development that you need to keep in mind is the content or better still the evolving content of your site.
Content site management or more commonly referred to as CMS is applications that will endeavor you to make your site unique from any and all others, with tools that will help you to engage your readers and buyers, you can pick out the right words to place the right content in the areas needed on your web site.
Evolving content is king on any website, ever been to a site that hasn’t changed in oh, say…months? Well, you won’t be going there anymore I bet!
Your content needs to be fresh and up-to-date if you want to keep repeat clients and loyal customers coming back.
Evolving content needs to be updated at the very least, once a week, any less than that and your customer base is going to slide off quick, better yet, updating your site every two to three days can boost your sites’ rankings a hundredfold.
Usability of a website is being able to navigate the site and find what you are looking for quickly and easily without having to hunt yourself to death.
When you find yourself at a site that is ‘busy’ and ill-arranged where none of the links are connected with each other or the links are ‘dead’ meaning they go nowhere and no useful information is found, then that site is no longer usable.
Usability is just that, making your website usable, if it isn’t then, if you build it NO ONE will come.
The call to action on getting your site ranked as high as possible in the Search Engine Optimization game, otherwise known as SEO require diligence on your part.
You must remember that anything doing is worth doing well and making a superior web site is no different. Be prepared to spend days even weeks to tweak your site so that you have poured out everything you have into it and making it look professional and ready for business is what you are aiming for.
Remember the days of doing book reports in high school and even college? Well, you do an outline and from that outline you do a draft and from that draft you make the final presentation, pretty much works the same way with your web presence.
A call to action means getting the site you want up and running the way that you want it with all the steps we have mentioned. Such as call us at 1-877-50-TWEET(89338) for more information archwayinternetmarketing.com
Content Management Systmens in review Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress
There are many types of content management systems that can be used, when building a website. The three most popular CMS’s are Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress.
Drupal, which was founded in 2001, is sometimes called the Developer’s CMS. It’s used by developers because of the flexible code and more advanced features, for a complex website. It has fewer steps, to install, compared to Joomla and WordPress. A disadvantage of Drupal is its advanced features, which cause it to be expensive and time-consuming for beginner developers.
Joomla, which was founded in 2003, has an easily customizable interface. It has features that allow users to easily personalize their sites, without editing the original code, keeping its functionality. A disadvantage of Joomla is that the coding can be inflexible. It can be difficult for a less-experienced developer to integrate the software.
WordPress which was founded in 2003, is a free service that allows users to create blogs. It’s easier to use, including for beginners. It allows developers to use comments, trackbacks, blogger profiles, and pining services. A disadvantages is that it isn’t developer-friendly, and it has fewer users than Drupal and Joomla. Some WordPress software and plugin upgrade cause more glitches than fixes, harming the site.
Google seems to give the most koodo’s to wordpress sites which is why I still suggest it to most of my clients.
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