Trouble With Small Webpage Text?

This site offers a useful guide to making font sizes bigger and smaller – no matter what web browser you’re using. Here’s how you do it with your mouse or keyboard: Tip: If you have a mouse with a wheel and are using any of the below browsers, you can increase and decrease the size…

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To Blog or Not To Blog?

Google likes sites that are regularly updated; this is an inarguable fact. Blogging is a simple way to indicate you’re engaged with your business, which creates the kind of relevance that gets you a good search engine ranking. That said, sometimes blogging can be a waste of your time and money. When to Skip It:…

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Tax Time – Small Business Tips for Ontario

Since the majority of my customers are Ontario-based small businesses (I love a good startup!), here’s a blog entry to help you through tax season. These are a few resources I’ve found useful in running AloeRoot – hopefully you can make use of them too. BDC Canada’s list of potential business expenses – each item…

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Responsive / Mobile-Friendly Design: What Is It?

People are surfing the web on  screens of all sizes, and if you’re building a site in 2014 you need to consider that your content may be viewed on a variety of devices: desktop monitors laptop monitors television screens tablet computers (iPads, Notes) smartphones A moble-friendly (or responsive) site is one that’s designed to adjust…

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3 (Plus 2) Canada Post Tools You Won’t Want To Miss

Here are three Canada Post tools I’ve personally found very useful this month: 1. Find a Canadian postal code here on Canada Post’s site. 2. Look here for their suggested holiday mailing dates to make sure your items arrive on time. 3. Find a post office that’s open late here. Bonus tools: sign up here…

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