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Once upon a time, browsing the internet on a PC largely meant choosing between a Netscape browser or Internet Explorer.  With Internet Explorer loaded by default with Windows, it quickly became game over for Netscape.  Users became comfortable, Microsoft became complacent with their 90%+ browser market share, and progress in web technology came grinding virtually to a halt in a browser world without choice.

The Perth web design and development market has been growing increasingly mature over the past few years.  So what is the current situation?  How many Perth and WA-based web design businesses can provide any given specific service?

The Australian Web Industry Association lists 55 business members in Western Australia.  Below are totals of WA-based web design and development business that offer the specified services.  Sensis lists 458 businesses as advertising "Internet and Web Services" in the Perth Yellow Pages.

Some things really are difficult to imagine living without. How did we search before Google? Share images before Flickr? Connect with long lost friends before Facebook? In a distant past, barely memorable now that the internet is so ubiquitous, people actually installed software on their computers for everything they did rather than using the internet for everything.

Here are the RealmSurfer picks of the top 10 free software applications that no business should be without.

Any good business owner will tell you that if you want to be more than just an employee in your own business then you need to grow it to the point that you have resources working for you, leaving you to step out of the day-to-day activities and focus on strategy and further growth. Arguably, the most valuable resource your business has is its employees. However, probably your next most valuable resource is, without a doubt, your business website.

Internet marketing is perhaps the most important aspect of business website management. So what is internet marketing, and how do you get started?

You have a new online e-commerce store. Your web developer has set up your store to process e-commerce transactions in a secure environment for you. Now all you need is some tips on how to get your online store running well and making some money. Here are a few e-commerce marketing and promotion tips to get you started.

Have you recently launched a new business website, and want to get the necessary search engine traffic to make it a profitable investment? If you're new to online business, odds are that you're almost certainly new to setting up your website so that it can perform well in the rankings of the major search engines.

Thinking of starting a new business, primarily internet based? Are you starting a business and not sure the role your new business' website should play? Most find it somewhat daunting starting a new business from scratch, let alone trying to figure out a whole new specialised field, that of internet business management and marketing.

Chances are that whether or not you are not a technology guru, you keep hearing talk of internet technologies in terms of a never ending stream of acronyms. XHTML, CSS, J2EE, PHP, ASP.NET, JSP, SQL, HTTP, SSL, VOIP, P2P, XML, RSS... Sound familiar -- or a bit like Klingon?

One of the major barriers to understanding potential customers on the internet is the fact that many of the interactions our site visitors have with us are nameless, faceless and one-sided.