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A new converted website design for Masterson Construction of Los Angeles and Orange County, California launched recently in a cms content management system. Jack Masterson wanted a well-designed layout with quality search engine optimization to attract visitor traffic. My intent is to eventually redesign the blog as well to match the “new look”.

Masterson Construction is a licensed general contractor in California for residential and commercial construction, remodeling, and additions. The conversion of Masterson Construction has recently been completed from static pages to a custom CMS content management system design. His website has been designed for better search engine optimization by concentrating on how the competition hit google page one and focusing on what people search for to find this business niche.

Success online depends on a growing website. The benefit of having a custom CMS website design is that you can add content to your website without paying your designer for each revision. This allows Jack to upgrade his website constantly by investing time instead of money.

High quality similar to the revised design is what you can expect from CodeRepair. Learn more about the advantages of a cms custom website design by exploring our site, or email us from any page with questions about a new custom website redesign for your small business or for a prompt quote on your next web design project.

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Protecting your computer with an antivirus program is extremely important to ensure the security of your system. Choosing an antivirus which is both safe and secure isn’t always easy. Many antivirus programs are actually adware, malware or spyware which can be more harmful to your computer than good. Many antivirus programs force you to purchase their complete package in order to continue using their software, and make it difficult to be deleted off of your system.

My choice for computer protection is a free download from Rising Antivirus. It’s important to choose an antivirus which is both safe and secure. Many antivirus programs out there are adware, malware or spyware and may force you to purchase the complete package in order to continue using their software. Rising Antivirus is a free download which is adware-free, malware-free, and spyware free.

You can protect your computer with this free download from Rising Antivirus and keep your computer safe from threats. I’ve been using it for a while and have been very happy with the protection Rising has given my computer.

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Use VirusTotal to Analyze Suspicious Files
AML Free Registry Cleaner
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A new custom website design for Haggetts Aluminum Awnings of Central Florida launched recently in a cms content management system. They wanted a well-designed layout with quality search engine optimization to attract visitor traffic. Their business is custom aluminum awnings manufactured and installed from their factory in Kissimmee, Florida.

The site features colorful awning photos in the top header, and a custom video tour of their factory on the home page to show how their custom aluminum awnings are manufactured. Other pages include product descriptions with photos, a photo gallery, and an awning colors gallery created in advanced web design techniques using xhtml with css instead of flash. Each page of this custom cms web design lists contact information and extra awning photos in the right sidebar, and a FAQs page with more aluminum awning information.

With a custom aluminum awning website in a CMS content management system, the website owner has the ability to add content without paying a web designer to make each revision. Learn more about the advantages of a cms web design by exploring our website, or email us from any page for a prompt quote on your next web design project.

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After recently inviting a friend to join Twitter, she replied with an invitation to visit and join her website as a member. I did so, but upon navigating about the site, noticed some things to fix, and upon viewing the source code, realized that there was more wrong than meets the eye.

During this website review, the first thing I noticed was a title description with “.net” in it. Also a metadescription of over 400 characters displayed as three sentences. I continued viewing the code and realized there were more errors the more I looked. I then decided to run her website through Website Grader to see what it would come up with, and found that she scored a 15/100, after being online for a couple years. “Why?” I asked myself, and realized she had let it sit there without adding any content to it since the day it launched.

One thing many small business website owners do not practice, is adding content as often as possible, to give search engines what I like to call “Google Fuel”. They launch a website and think they can kick back and watch money roll in, but that’s not how it works. Regardless of what other web designers say, having a quality website that attracts traffic and repeat visitors to convert to paying customers takes hard work. Adding content often may seem like a chore, but it helps in making a static site more well known with search engines and visitors alike.

This recent website review gave me insight of small business website owners’ tendancy to leave a site sitting idle expecting traffic to come to them. Adding content can be vital for the life of a website, and should be updated regularly.

I recently visited a site known as Website Grader. I found it as an extremely useful tool telling me of what needs to be improved, and what is appropriate in MY website. Though I was disappointed with the score, it helped me realize what needs improvement.

Using Website Grader gives a small business website owner insight on the properties of a website that can be improved. I’ve read reviews that website designers wrote saying a high grade could give small business website owners a “false sense of security”. Point taken. Regardless, the grader site gives a view of many factors necessary to be monitored in order to have an efficient running website. Some of these factors include: Domain stability, readability, page rank, traffic rank, inbound links and a final grade. By studying the report, small business website owners can see where their website excels and where it is lacking, and try to correct those errors.

By checking your small business website on Website Grader, small business website owners can gain perspective on what’s right and wrong with a site. This information can be used to improve the accessibility of a website, and enhance a website’s page rank with Google. I advise running your small business website through website.grader.com in order to find out where your website ranks.

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Of the approximate 6 million small business enterprises in the USA, those with 20 or fewer employees are still the vast majority. 5.23 million have fewer than 20 employees, and only 760,000 have 20 or more. These are the latest published statistics from the US Census Bureau, and the breakdown is rounded off as follows:

Total Number of Small Businesses in USA by Size

20,000 with 500+ employees
110,000 with 100+ employees
630,000 with 20+ employees
5,230,000 with 20 or less

5,990,000 Total Number

Micro small business website ownership of at least one home page is more than 70%. Of those, only 5% have added a small business blog to their site according to a NY Times piece reported in December 2007, and entitled Blogging’s a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool.

Based on this 5% which may be slightly higher according to others tracking data, there are only 299,500 small business websites with blogs. If you are one of the 30% of small business owners without a website, or one of the 95% without a blog, my advice is starting now with this low cost marketing tool to promote your small business. Let us know how we can help with your strategy of keeping up with or staying ahead of the competition.

A series of new pages were added to the Code Repair main site with tools for website design for established web developers, or do-it-yourself site owners interested in custom small business website design. Four new sections provide reviews on a variety of great tools for website design.

Visit these links to learn about Website Design Tools, Web Browser Add Ons, HTML Coding Software, and PDF Creation Software.

The majority of the resources reviewed at the links above are free. Questions? Please email us about any of the tools that we use and recommend for custom website design.

The advice theme for www.CodeRepair.com has been revised under new ownership to commercial services for custom website design, custom blog design, and standard package website design, plus web graphics.

This site was previously managed by my father, and I am the new owner, Roger Degerstrom. The format was changed from a Joomla cms based system to custom XHTML 1.1 and CSS2, and topics on this blog include design advice, custom blogs, website design, related news, podcasts, site promotion, various reviews, and search engine optimization.

I apologize for the sudden change or any inconvenience. The time required managing several sites can be difficult, and he continues working full time and long hours in his custom web design business, blog, and podcast, and he will continue as a mentor to Code Repair as this site is now strictly design related.

I welcome small business owners interested in low cost standard or fully custom websites designed in XHTML 1.1 with CSS2, or custom Blogger blogs. With the change of ownership, yet all in the family, my slogan relates to that plus the advantages of using the latest XHTML code with “The Next Generation in Custom Website Design”.