Web Design

Tonight I gave a talk on Social Media to the California Central Valley HDI Chapter and students at Modesto’s Institute of Technology. It was an honor to have such a wide range of people to talk to. When surveying the members on what they wanted to hear about in regards to social media I received such a wide range of response I decid [...]

The biggest hurdles for me over the years has been how to focus my marketing efforts when trying to reach people for the various businesses that I have started or been a part of. The frustration I’ve had is the difference in traffic between traditional search and the traffic various review sites get. As a person who provides service [...]

My hosting company ran some updates on my server. After the updates I got errors attempting to upload images through WordPress and Joomla sites on my server. The error I received on WordPress was an HTTP error in red text. In Joomla it would actually kick me out to an Internal Server Error similar to a 404 Not Found page. It was pretty fr [...]

It seems like every day there is a new social network popping up with hopes and dreams of capturing the precious time of us internet users. Business owners have always gravitated to where the people are focusing their attention. When the radio took attention away from the newspaper, businesses focused their attention on radio. When tv sta [...]

Cyber Monday is the Black Friday of the web. Online retailers will pull out all of the stops this year to get the attention of potential online customers. Over the years the tactics have changed and competition is only a click away. The holiday season is a great time to run promotions and try new things in an attempt to get more traffic t [...]

Earlier today I had a vision. I saw a world where good blog content could be unlocked for a viewer browsing a website in exchange for clicking a Facebook Like Button. They could read a post excerpt or an introduction and if they wanted to read the rest of the article they would click the Facebook “Like” button to unlock it. I [...]

Earlier today I gave a presentation to a group of business people I network with on the kind of content their website should contain. The presentation went well. I enjoy using the people that I am speaking to as examples in my presentations so that the examples are tangible. With the content fresh on my mind I recorded the presentation an [...]

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a long process of organizing content, building links, and researching. Because most people have no idea what SEO really is, companies have found ways to charge for it with out really providing much end result. The best option is for you to do it yourself or work with someone local who can do it for you. [...]

Earlier today during the F8 Conference, Facebook announced some of their new social plugins that can be used through any website. I instantly got excited about this because now I can enable my websites with a Facebook Plugin that will allow viewers to not only share the specific page on my website they were viewing but also “like [...]