We build a lot of sites here at Oturia, and I mean A LOT. I think I’ve personally built out 5 or 6 this week, but that doesn’t include projects that are ongoing works.

And I never get tired of it, not even a little bit. I love building sites, whether from scratch or using a template a customer has come to us with. I think I’ll always love building sites, even if the web design industry itself makes me sick.

I’ve always harbored a bit of animosity towards other designers, especially those who engage in price gouging and crap work. But there are worse evils in the web design industry today, and I’m finding myself face-to-face with them more and more each day.

We’ve been building websites for a long time. Over the course of the last 8 years, the internet has evolved dramatically and, like all of life’s trends, it evolves faster than many of its users can keep up with.

I’m not here to talk about the latest bleeding-edge technology or the hottest new website gadgets. What I want to discuss today are some of the most serious web design disasters plaguing the internet today, and how you can avoid them.

In a response to Apple’s iPad, Amazon.com has introduced its third-generation Kindle.

The smaller and faster device includes a sharper display, a longer battery life and twice the amount of storage found in earlier models. The new Kindle also allows users to link up to a local Wi-Fi network for faster downloads. However, it will still offer the free Internet service it uses with AT&T.

If you aren’t fully utilizing social media in order to reach new customers you may be costing yourself a lot of business.

According to a study by Boom Media, a Facebook fan is worth $71.84 in business. That figure signifies the amount of money a fan will spend on the product or service they are following compared to a non-fan. Facebook fans are more likely to remain loyal customers and should be considered multiple purchase customers, rather than one-time shoppers. In the same way that social networking is about building relationships with people, your business is building relationships with customers.

The Internet has long been a tool for business but the social networking arena is not only becoming another way to connect with customers, its becoming a must for any business or organization looking to expand its reach in the 21st Century.

Last month, Facebook announced it had reached the 500 million mark in registered users, and Twitter, who has 120 million registered users, is also a major force in the social networking landscape. Those numbers are making social networking an attractive tool for businesses to expand their reach and social media advertising is an industry beginning to gain a lot of momentum.

Increasing traffic to your Web site for the purpose of improving online sales or lead generation is an important part of any business using the Internet as a new market place. No matter what you are selling, nearly every product imaginable can benefit from having a presence on your Web site. But if you didn’t already know that then you wouldn’t be here, would you?

We live in a world where there is usually, “an app for that,” no matter what that is. But a new Google software allows more people to experiment with making their own applications which might be a potential business tool for those looking to increase their presence in the ever growing world of smartphones.

New software released by Google and a beta version of the Web site for App Inventor for Android went live last week. You can find the site at Google Labs and it includes a video demonstrating how easy it can be to make your own app and ideas for potential apps you can create for any Android phone.

Maybe you think its time that your business started using social networking but you don’t know what that really means. You have seen other businesses successfully use Facebook and Twitter to reach new customers, so you decide its time for you to jump into social networking as a business tool. However, before you start there are some mistakes you should avoid in order to make sure you are using social network tools in the most effective way. Here are four tips to keep in mind before you enter the social networking frontier.