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To keep your customers involved in your business online, simple website navigation is an important factor. Imagine a natural flowing positive website experience, and consider these tips for a web design that is easy to navigate your way through.

The sections of your small business website that you want your websurfers to naturally land on should stick out like a sore thumb. Think about which parts of your website you want visitors to be sure not to miss. When someone cannot locate their particular topic of interest, chances are they could bounce off to another website. The object is to keep them digging for more, and eventually bookmark you and refer you to others.

In order for your website visitors to navigate easily, it may be a good idea to add a sitemap to sections with numerous pages. When a single tab grows large enough you may even want to make a short guide list for reference. On my website I created a Resources Sitemap which covers everything under my “Resources” tab on one page.

Consider having tabs across the top so your potential customers can find what they are looking for quickly and easily. Make the custom website design intended for function so everything is simple to find.

Group your most important links together on a sidebar at the left or right. Highlighting the links you think are the most important and using bold appropriately can easily guide your website visitors where they need to go as well.

Visit my blog and website on a regular basis for web design related tips, news and advice, and contact me by email to discuss your own small business custom website design.

The communication evolution began in primative times with smoke signals. Soon with the invention of electricity, morse code and telegraphs became our primary forms of communication. Letters in the mail took a very long time until the telephone’s invention in 1876.

The telephone’s become a mainstream way to talk to people so far away, even to this day. From the telephone we added electronic mail, or e mail replacing envelopes and postage, currently referred to as “snail mail”.

The way we communicate is constantly changing. The primary form or communication used to be the telephone, although it still is very popular, video chatting is the growing alternative. With video chat on instant messenger, Skype, and even chatrooms such as Stickam and Tinychat, we’re becoming more comfortable with seeing who we’re talking to.

Smartphones have video and microphone capabilities built right into them and give the user the option of video conferencing at any time of the day. We use social media like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to keep in touch with every detail about each other’s lives, up to the minute. Communication with people isn’t the only factor, but now we even have the need to communicate with robots and programs.

With online shopping, banking and even remotely controlling lights and appliances in your home, we’re seeing communication go beyond the realm of just people. We have gadgets to communicate with other gadgets around the home and office, from the TV remote to the bluetooth on your cell phone.

How many more hours will we spend on the phone with a computer voice prompting us through a neverending path of virtual menus just with the hope and intention to instead have someone to whom we can explain our needs? Our evolution in technology has taken away the personal touch of talking to an actual person in the customer service department.

Now anyone can get in touch with anyone else with ease. I see 5 year olds with cell phones and his grandpa is checking his hotmail online. Grandma’s bluetooth is connected to her iPhone and my older relatives are reuniting and connecting on Facebook. It’s a great time to grab the communication revolution by the horns and see what it has in store for you.

I do website design to the latest standards in either a custom CMS content management system, or smaller, static websites for small business. Whether your needs are simple or of epic proportions, I can help you get the web design you’re looking for. Bookmark my blog and website for tips and advice in the world of web design, and contact me by phone or email today to discuss any of your small business website design needs.

Test drive the new Firefox 4 Beta and let the designers know what you think. Giving feedback to software design companies is a great way to offer your input about any bugs or defects in the programs they release.

As a web designer, I test code in many different browsers, and there’s nothing wrong with testing out a beta and replying to them with your opinions. Let them know what games work, how fast pages and videos load, and whether your favorite add-ons are compatible with the new version of Firefox. Let them know what websites have problems and if everything functions normally. My experience indicates no problems with the new Firefox 4.0, and my add-ons, including the webmaster toolbar, all work just fine.

You can even take Firefox 4 with you on your Android phone or Nokia N900 and enjoy all your favorite features such as add-ons, Sync, and the Awesome Bar anywhere you go.

Test drive the new Firefox 4 Beta and let them know what you think. From a web designer’s perspective, Firefox is probably the most useful website browser available. Keep posted on my website and blog for news, tips and advice in website design and other internet related topics.

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Listen to this truth behind custom CMS web design services report subtitled: A Report on Real World CMS User Experience. This conversation between myself and my dad, Jim Degerstrom, co-owners of Custom CMS Design, LLC, presents a major revelation about CMS Content Management Systems.

Many website owners launch an Content Management System and neglect to take advantage of the ability to add content. Having a CMS allows the website owner to take our advice and add original quality content often.

Download this custom CMS web design report in pdf or you could right click and open in a new tab to read along as you listen.

Consider these marketing tips and advice to maximize your CMS custom web design. Call and email me with any questions. There is no substitute to an easy to use custom content management system to help generate business and more website traffic.

When planning to design a website many considerations should be thought about. You get what you pay for, and cutting corners is definitely the wrong way to succeed. There’s no reason to design a website that needs to be scrapped and redesigned 6 months down the road. Your web design plan should be thinking years ahead towards business goals and potential growth.

Even with a small business you want to promote a professional image online, and it’s rare that you’ll find a product or service that doesn’t have competition. Unless you have something that’s absolutely unique, there’s always competition out there, and people tend to pick the top websites that give a great first impression. Do it right the first time instead of pulling your hair out later.

When you’re in a business with little competition, you corner that market, but when there are great numbers of others that do the same thing you do, you may not be in demand. Your website needs to give the first impression that you’re the biggest and best at what you do, helping you obtain credibility. The idea is to compete with all the other businesses that are in your same business niche. It’s not who you are and what you do, but it’s the PERCEPTION of who you are and what you CAN do for someone when your potential customers find your website online.

Online shoppers want to go with the top website for what they need, and these are usually larger companies or corporations. They want to spend their money wisely and already know what the competition offers. Anyone shopping online has done research and gathered information on the product that interests them before they even get to your website.

Marketing sales and strategy is what it’s about. Let’s say your competition has a 500 page website online for the same products or services you offer on a 5 page site. Online visitors would probably find your competition first unless you have a well-developed, growing website. If all your budget can handle for now is a 5 page website, perhaps further development as your business grows could be an option.

Bookmark my blog and website for tips and advice in the world of website design. Contact me today with some ideas for a small business website today. Review some of these Business Marketing Tips and Advice as well.

Utilizing SEO to improve your website’s stickiness could be a great way to gain more traffic from website visitors and possibly increase the income of your business. The more visitors that arrive at your website strengthens any chances to gain more potential customers. The first challenge is to define how stickiness and SEO work.

First to define the difference between stickiness and SEO. SEO is what gets websurfers online to arrive on your website, whereas stickiness is what keeps them there. Of course more information on your website will encourage your website visitors to dig more into your information and resources, but the key is to have what you offer to be easily accessible. Using links that direct your online visitors to what they are looking for is important so navigation is easy for them.

Of course, directing website visitors to your website to just harvest information and leave is worthless unless you can convert some of those visitors into paying customers. The importance lies in defining your business and making it clear what you offer, and what makes your company stand out above the rest. Define your business niche and give examples of why you stand above the rest. Give your website visitors a “call to action” to interest them in what you do and desire to use your services.

In my case, custom CMS website design services, I’ve gotten all my customers to Google page one for key phrases that describe their business niche. Using nondeceitful methods and techniques of SEO in a variety of ways is what separates CodeRepair from a majority of web design services offered today. Promotion is not just about a pretty website or flashy photos and videos, but just like a car, what is under the hood to drive your business to success makes an impact. Learn more about using SEO to promote your business.

Need a website for your small business? Feel free to email me with questions or bookmark my blog and website for tips and advice on custom CMS small business website design.

Review these blog writing tips and advice to get more traffic to your website. Writing can be a great way to attract search engines and therefore more visitors to your website or blog. Website visitors can convert to customers, clients and even get others to bookmark you.

Write about subjects that your are an expert on or that interest you. Your posts should reflect your passion about the subject from a level of expertise. Have a smooth flow from one point to the next, on current topics, in terms that are easy to understand for your readers.

Write in short paragraphs making it easier for your audience to absorb and appreciate. Make a list of blog post topics and expand on each one of them a little at a time, then go back to add more when you feel inspired. Tell your readers about a problem you had and how you fixed it with a personal experience. Give your audience specific details and paint them a picture for a clear understanding of the points you’re trying to convey.

Give your post a catchy title loaded with keywords for your business niche. Make the blog title something that catches the reader’s attention and makes them want to read on. Offering something for free is a great way to get people to your website. Offering tips, advice and tutorials is a simple way to give something to your audience for free.

Writing often on your website or blog increases your chances of being indexed by search engines. More visitors means more potential customers, clients, and in turn could increase your business’ income. You’d be pleased to see a rise in sales just for a little effort writing, and there’s no better time than the present.

Bookmark my blog and website for more tips and advice on website design and other internet related topics, and have a look at some more tips on writing articles or posts for your blog. Don’t have a website or a blog? Contact me by phone or email to discuss your expectations.

You can use Tinychat for video, text and microphone conferencing whether for business or with friends. With no download necessary, Tinychat is a great alternative to Skype, allowing up to 12 broadcasts. Just make a room then send the link to those you want to invite to video conference.

Although the interface is simple, there are a couple steps in order to get started with your video conference room. Name a chatroom and click create, make a screen name, password, enter your email, check the over 18 box and enter the captcha. The “Start Broadcasting” button at the top left gives the option of video camera, microphone or both. You can even import other camera options with an application from manycam.com to change lens options or add a tropical background to yourself.

Tinychat, by allowing multiple broadcasts at once makes communication in real time easy. Change your text color with the command /color= or change your nickname by double clicking on your name. Tinychat supports multiple browsers, but perhaps not the new beta version of IE9. Try out Tinychat to talk to clients or friends and get your video on today!

Some tinychat commands:
/color (changes the color of your chat)
/topic this is the room topic (changes the room topic, if you are a room operator)
/msg nickname this is private (sends a private message to another user in the room)
/ignore nickname (blocks their chat messages from appearing on your screen)
/ban nickname (kicks and bans the user from the room, if you are a room operator)
/banlist (displays the ban/forgive list, if you are a room operator)
/oper nickname (makes that user a room operator like you)
/broadcast nickname (allows that user to broadcast)
/close nickname (closes that user’s broadcast if you had allowed them)

Spending time removing email and blog comment spam is a nuisance, so take these tips and advice to save it instead.

When filtering spam comments on your blog, a few considerations need to be focused on. Identify whether you are looking at an actual comment made by a human or one from a program designed to add comments and for the purposes of gaining backlinks. These bots can be eliminated and a large portion of this spam could be filtered by requiring visitors to enter a captcha in order to comment. That way you know every comment posted was entered by a human.

Another great way to filter a large portion of blog comment spam is to use plugins and add-ons that are designed to detect and delete them. They can lessen the load of the number of comments that need to be tossed in the trash and keep your blog spam free.

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Besides some of the add-ons and plugins that are offered with most blogs, you may still have to filter some spam that gets through those defenses. When you notice a comment has nothing to do with the post you wrote, chances are you can delete it for being spam. Sometimes you can recoginze blog spam comments by the website it links back to.

Have a look at this WordPress CAPTCHA Plugin Video Tutorial and other tips and advice on Filtering WordPress Blog Spam.

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.