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Keyword Strategy for SEO
Sunday, May 02nd, 2010 | Author:

A good keyword strategy should be one of your first if not your first part to a good SEO plan. Defining what keywords you want to target is very crucial and should never be skipped. If you skip defining what keywords you want to target then you are just going to be shooting in the dark and have no real direction which will give you very low traffic or traffic that is not your target audience.

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Choosing a good domain name for SEO
Friday, April 09th, 2010 | Author:

A lot of people feel that choosing a good domain name is easy to do, simply choose your business name as the web site URL. This option is most of the time true and for most brick and mortor businesses the best option. But unless you business name is rich in the keywords your target customers are looking for you are not likly going to rank very easily on the search engines. Most of the time I suggest someone looking to rank high in search engines to use a keyword rich domain name. But there are a few things you need to consider which I will discuss in this article.

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How to Design a Web Site Using MS Paint
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 | Author:

Most web Designers now a days use expensive programs like Adobe Dreamweaver or Adobe Fireworks to create their web sites. Well these programs have a lot of functionality but they also have heavy price tag as well. As a starting out web designer I did not have access to programs like this until I had designed a couple sites. So I needed a way I could create my Web Designs with what I had when I started and that was a Laptop with Windows XP, an internet connection, and the willingness to learn. What I needed was a way I could layout the way I wanted my web page to look and then extract parts of the images for my web site.

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Why every web site needs SEO
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | Author:

Every site needs some form of SEO or advertising or else the web site is absolutly useless because no one will see it there. Now when I speak of SEO and advertising it can be as simple as adding some new content every few days or telling some friends about your site. Or as difficult and expensive as having someone completly optimize your website for search engines and purchasing PPC ads off of Google or Yahoo.

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CSS Positioning
Saturday, January 02nd, 2010 | Author:

So this is a topic where a lot of people have many different opinions on the best way to do CSS positioning and so give you a little perspective as to how frustrating it can be. I saw an pie graph the other day that showed a layout of a Web Designers time spent on a web site and about 1/5 was “Time spent trying to get CSS position to work, then giving up and using tables” and this is such a true statement. I can’t tell you how many times that has happened to me. But by using tables you are flexible in your layout but not as flexible as using CSS positioning. The major benefit of using CSS is if you want to change the look you don’t have to change every page, just the CSS.

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New MikeNet PC Content Management Software
Monday, December 28th, 2009 | Author:

Aside from being a Network Administrator, I absolutly love doing websites and I have my own little web site design business on the side. Due to possible ethical conflicts I am not going to list the company name here but if you Google I am sure you will find it.

With all that being said I also love creating Web Applications to make people’s life a little easier. I am currently working an Content Management System for web pages that is easy to install and easy to use. I am hoping to be done with this project in the next week or so since I am going to lock my self in my office until I can get it done. I am looking for some Beta testers that would be willing to try my CMS for me and in return you will receive a subscription to my newsletter along with a free copy of the full finished version of the CMS for your personal use.

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Building your own Web Server
Monday, December 14th, 2009 | Author:

Creating web sites is fun and very easy to do just check out my previous articles on creating a web site. But to publish your web site you have to have either free web hosting, purchased web hosting or your own web hosting. Here we will discuss setting up your own web hosting server from home and the ups and down of doing so. There are also a few things that you should be aware of when you setup your own web server.

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Creating Facebook Applications
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | Author:

Facebook applications are what keep most of us comming back to Facebook. Whether we are addicted to FarmVille, FarmTown, Mafia Wars or any other game you my play on Facebook. These are all Facebook applications and anyone who has knowledge of web prorgamming can take advantage of the facebook platform for their games or applications.

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Open Source Development with LAMP
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | Author:

LAMP or Linux Apache MySQL and PHP is what open source web development is often refered to because all of these applications are open source there for they are free to download and use. All of the applications listed above are meant for create web sites or web applications and are very powerful programs. In this article we will go over each one, what it is and where you can get it. In later articles we will discuss installing these applications for use on your server.

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Favorite 5 Web Design Tools
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | Author:

I have written a couple of articles describing different tools and I enjoy using and I like to include all of the free tools you can use. Well here are my 5 favorite web design tools that are absolutly free to use.

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