This can be seen clearly in the growth of the Internet and the website design industry.

In December, 1990, there was one website online, info.cern.ch, created by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web. The number grew slowly. Two years later, in Dec. 1992, only 50 websites were online. It took five years, until June 1995, before the number of websites on the Internet passed 20,000.

Then the dot-com boom hit. The web grew from 23,500 sites in June ’95 to over 10,000,000 by spring 2000. Website development became one of the fastest growing industries in the world.

• In 1995 there were fewer than 1,000 web development companies in the USA.
• By 2005 there were over 30,000 website design companies in the U.S. alone.
• By 2008, that number surged to 50,000.
• The USA Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a growth rate of 13% per year until 2018.

The Future of Website Design

The web isn’t getting any smaller.

• In July, 2010, Netcraft’s Web Study identified 205,714,253 unique domain based websites.
• In 2008, Google passed 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) individual pages in their index.
• Forrester predicts that ecommerce will continue to grow at a steady pace of 10% per year.

Skilled website designers find the most effective way to get commercial messages across using color, type, illustration, photography and layout. While advances in technology and content management systems have made basic website design easier for the novice, other technologies such as interactive media, mobile design and search engine optimization overwhelm the novice webmaster.

As the web continues to grow in size and technological offerings, and the competition for business increases, the demand for skilled website developers that can deliver a competitive edge isn’t likely to decrease.

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If you use Outlook, right-click the message in the folder view, then choose options. In an open message, choose View | Options. The “headers” are hidden information that tell who REALLY sent an email. In this case, even though the “from” field says paypal.com, that can be forged. A quick peek at the email headers tells me that the email was really sent by troery@yehey.com and belongs in the trash bin.

P.S. So what do you think? Early April Fools joke? Or for real?

For the first time, since tracking began back in 1945, direct mail spending has dropped.

According to the Winterberry Report “A Channel in Transformation: Vertical Market Trends in Direct Mail 2009” direct mail spending dropped 1.7 billion in 2008. Winterberry predicts a fall of up to 9% in 2009.

Consumers’ ever-growing involvement in digital media was a factor
eMarketer

87% of service providers are getting more demand for digital marketing, such as e-mail and search.

The drop in direct mail is not the lesson to take hime. It’s a symptom of the lesson. The lesson is that consumers are in control. Push marketing isn’t working. The sooner marketers learn that, the better.

Any two sets of statistics rarely agree. That’s because numbers are so easy to manipulate. But when it comes to search engine marketshare, two stats giants agree. Search engine marketshare seems to be frozen.

Google is no longer gaining, and the top 5 search engines have established pecking order. The numbers vary by miniscule amounts, with Compete shaving a few points off Google and throwing it to the competition, but the overall breakdowns aren’t much different.

Search Engine Marketshare 2009 Piechart:

Search engine marketshare has barely budged for six months. According to eMarketer,
“the US search market is not expected to change for the foreseeable future…”
and
“Google’s share of total US search queries seems to be stabilizing in the 60% to 70% range…”