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Proper website design strategies are important to give value to what you have online. Using the appropriate strategies to promote your business website could not only increase your clientele, but also assure that you aren’t penalized for deceitful means of gaining popularity online.

The purpose of a good business website is to get attention from search engines, and in turn receive the traffic you need to turn your visitors into potential customers. Use natural methods of SEO such as having orignial content, adding pages to your website frequently, blogging often to increase SEO, and using valid code to be indexed by search engines. Because there is so much importance in the engine that drives your website, having the best there is to offer would put your business website on the cutting edge of taking on the competition. That’s exactly what CodeRepair offers.

Turn your visitors into customers by offering them a call to action, and give them reasons why your company stands out above the rest. Bookmark my blog and website for tips and advice for your small business to get the boost it needs to be competitive in today’s market, and contact me today by phone or email for more details on how to obtain a website that generates the income you as a business owner desire. For more about ideas to get started promoting online, review my post on small business website home page advice.

CodeRepair’s score is much like today’s date, 10/10/10; a 10 in quality, 10 in search engine optimization, and a 10 in advanced coding. Perhaps in commemoration to binary code, today could be a great day to launch a new custom CMS website design, or even start writing on a new blog.

Learn how to count to 1,023 in binary on your fingers. Hug your computer and digital devices because without binary they wouldn’t exist. Make a note on social media websites that today is 10/10/10 and perhaps a great day to get married because you’ll always remember the anniversary.

Shatter based GreenPois0n jailbreak for fourth generation Apple i-devices such as iPhone 4, iPod touch 4G, and iPad are ready to release at 10:10am GMT today. Jailbreaking is a process that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to run any code on their devices, as opposed to only that code authorized by Apple. Those not supported include the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and the iPod touch 3G.

Greenpois0n is a multi-platform jailbreak for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It uses the SHAtter exploit, and is a very simple and easy to use GUI jailbreak. An exploit is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software.

Start a podcast, join a new social media website, or write on a new blog. This day only comes around once every century, so make sure to do something and make it count. Do you have a small business and want a website to promote yourself? Contact me today for some great ideas to get you more customers and sales through traffic online.

Custom CMS web design makes dynamic web pages with unbloated code, and allows the administrator to make updates in perfect code from plain text. I offer high quality web design service for a fraction of the cost of the big companies with deep pockets and high overhead. I’m sure by now you realize that if you expect to launch a website and kick your feet up to wait for money to roll in, it just won’t happen.

When you go to a surgeon you’re paying for his expertise, not by the hour. In the same way when you go to a car dealer, you can’t just say “I want a car, how much”, because you have to be qualified for just what you’re looking for. The difference with CodeRepair from other website design companies is like the difference between a Porsche and a Pinto.

I offer my customers to be registered as the administrator so that they own the website. Why pay a big company more money than you need to for a website that isn’t even in your own name? Then next thing you get locked into a monthly fee with the threat of losing the website if you decide to stop paying. Having a top of the line CMS content management system allows adding content as often as possible without any extra charge.

I even offer marketing services by adding content to your website and performing maintenance duties. Why have a website sit there when you could be adding content to it constantly to make it grow? Search engines love a growing websites, and having someone adding a couple of blog posts a week could be a great option to get you more website traffic.

I also offer other options such as website management, custom templates, logo design and graphics. Obviously the big websites are the ones you need to compete with. Get the quality with CodeRepair that you could expect from a company with a huge staff for a fraction of the price. Call or contact me by email today!

Email is a commonly vulnerable place to pick up computer viruses, unlike the snail-mail you pick up in your mailbox outside. These attacks are becoming more prevalent lately than in past years. Webcams, instant messanger and email are some common ports a potential hacker could find a way into your computer. Keeping a safeguard on these vulnerable accesses is important to protect you from potential attacks.

Never accept a file through instant messenger unless you know the sender very well. Only open email messages that are from those you know that aren’t marked spam. Even on facebook you can get infected simply opening a message from the wrong person. Many times those on your friends list will pick up a bug and unknowingly pass it onto all their friends.

There is approximately one ID theft every 2 seconds, and you could report hackers and ID theft to get these statistics decreased. Keep your antivirus software up to date as well to fend off possible intruders. Don’t bother opening up junk mail on your email either, I usually just empty the whole folder after a quick visual scan.

Don’t be surprised when I tell you that a virus can be transmitted through email disguised as just about anything, including photos and music. Each email service provider uses different file scans for protection from potential risks, but filter your email appropriately anyway. The next time you go to either mailbox, make sure you realize that the e-mail, is more deadly than the mail.

Do you have a web design project or a business blog you’d like to get set up and running? Perhaps your existing blog or website design could use a boost in search engine optimization. Have a look in my Resources Section of this website for some great free and safe things to do online, contact me by phone or email today for a free quote, and bookmark my blog for tips and advice on web design and computers.

Refer to these brainstorming tips and advice when you have a task at hand that requires problem solving techniques. When doing web design projects, I find myself using these techniques whether coming up with website page ideas or blog posts.

No matter what project you’re working on, whether for business or scholastic purposes, brainstorming can be an effective strategy. When you have to come up with something from nothing, it’s helpful to have some resources to refer to. Brainstorming is one way to create your own resources with your own imagination.

Make a file on notepad and title it “thinktank” where you can save your concepts. Begin to brainstorm and jot down any ideas you may come up with, no matter how trivial they may seem. Even the most insignificant thoughts could be the inspiration for the creative process. Visit your thinktank regularly to add or expand on your thoughts and ideas.

The more concepts you come up with and write down, the better chances one of them could turn into a great idea. The effort is about quantity, not quality when brainstorming, so write or type as much as possible during your session. Do this for at least 20 minutes or until you just can’t come up with anything else. Think of it like popping popcorn in a microwave. Once the “pops” occur only every 4 seconds, it’s time to take the bag out of the oven.

Bookmark my blog for tips and advice on topics that could be helpful for you whether you’re in web design or not. Questions? Contact us by phone and ask for Roger or email us with any questions about custom small business web graphic design.

You can make your own GIF files for blog posts and even in web design projects. This is a widely used graphics format for the Internet that allows transparency and animation. By simply adding animation to a blog post or website, you might just spice it up enough to entice your visitors into staying longer.

GIF files, also known as Graphics Interchange Format is a widely used graphics format that allows animation and transparency. GIFs can be created either using software or a website. The limitation of this format is that it the maximum number of colors is 256, but can often give the illusion of more colors. Some GIF creation websites include gickr.com, picasion.com, makeagif.com and loogix.com.

You can usually upload about a dozen pics to use in your GIF animation and have a variety of options to choose from such as speed, size, looping and the number of pics allowed. The size generally spans from 100 to 400 pix and the speed generally goes from slow to fast, with some other customization available. Once you finished creating your GIF, if it’s under 150 kb, you could even use it as an emoticon on your instant messenger.

GIFs are ideal to spice up a blog post or integrate into your web design. You can upload GIFs to enhance your webpage visitor’s experience instead of photos. Use these tips to dazzle your website design or blog with an animated GIF today.

The differences between writing on a blog for your business or just writing for personal reasons revolve around the need to be indexed by search engines. Obviously when writing for a business website, you want to generate traffic in order to attract potential customers. Writing for a personal blog, you can use less formal language and be less concerned about keywords, tags and labels.

Whether writing for your company or for personal purposes, you should speak casually but professionally to your audience. Write about topics that interest you and are knowledgable about in either instance. The focus on SEO isn’t as important writing for personal purposes as writing for business. Focus on keywords in the title, use appropriate tags and labels, and keep the topics closely related to your own occupation.

When writing for your business blog, you need to focus more on writing about subjects that are involved within your business niche. A personal blog doesn’t need SEO to generate traffic, because there is no product or service being sold. With your company blog, you may have to pay to have it optimized for search engines. Gear your writing to whether you have a personal blog or a company blog. Know the difference and adjust your writing accordingly.

To the left are the before and after photos of a cabinet I considered using for display on a website design. The top photo had flaws I wouldn’t even attempt to display for a blog post. With some quick touch ups, the photo became good enough to post on a cabinet website page.

You’ll notice the “new handle” on the bottom (as well as the reflection) was a simple copy and paste of the drawer below. The lock and hole at the bottom was covered up with a simple copy and paste as well, from a blank portion of the cabinet. Finally the flaws such as the scratch and number “90″ at the top were removed with the same copy and paste method.

When you have photos that aren’t quite the quality that you would want to display online, from a website designer’s point of view, there are many methods to edit the photo. Therefore, you can use photos with imperfections and convert them into a quality image.

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Some sidebar ideas for a main website or blog is one of the first hurdles to get over when deciding on the creation of a new web design. Keep in mind that different sidebars could be applied for each section, tab, or page of your website. Review these ideas that could inspire you to plan out your website design a little easier.

Sidebar Ideas for the Main Website:

• A social networking feed such as Twitter or Facebook
• Provide a search box for easy navigation for your visitors
• Contact information to make it easy for visitors to contact you
• Add your picture to help create a relationship with your readers
• Subscription buttons to provide methods to subscribe to your blog

Sidebar Ideas for Your Blog:

• Provide a search box for easy blog navigation for your visitors
• Links to archives by date to make it easy for readers to locate old content
• Add a popular posts link to redirect your visitors to your readers’ favorites
• Add a list of recent posts on your blog’s sidebar to encourage additional page views
• A categories list should be added to help your blog readers find posts on a particular topic

If you are running your blog on WordPress, there are a variety of add-ons that can make it easy to customize your sidebar any way you choose, and change it as often as you like. A well designed website is about easy navigation by your visitors, so consider these web design sidebar ideas to use in your small business website.

There was a need for a new custom CMS website design template for my site and a cleaner layout for easier navigation.  I decided to do an entirely new design and change a few things around for the desired look.  Compare the old home page at the left of this blog post and the new one to the right.  By moving the sidebar from the left to the right, using a lighter scheme of colors and changing the fonts, button styles and background, this is a look that I can be proud of to represent my business.

In order to solve the situation with having a clean, easy to navigate website, moving the Custom Google Search Box to the top of the sidebar seemed like a good idea.  Also now it’s easy to add different items into the sidebar exclusive to certain sections of my website.  This clean layout with lighter colors gives my website visitors a more pleasant browsing experience.

As a result, by using a new custom CMS design template for my website, navigation is easier and an improved browsing experience is attained.  Customizing the sidebar for each section is the next step, but for now, enjoy exploring my site for more tips and advice on small business website design.