tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50641130673130085062011-07-30T08:56:21.409-07:00Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495106110768060750noreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064113067313008506.post-21658811984730525152010-04-30T13:21:00.001-07:002010-04-30T13:21:01.575-07:00

tired today... time to "lay low" for a while

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what to do, clean house, work, or go to bed...

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getting my port-a-cath flushed today... and nothing to numb it up... :-(

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Has anyone ever heard of Ping.fm?

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Net Magik Pros would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!See you in 2009!

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It's been since April since I have posted something on here. If you have been keeping up and reading this, I'm very sorry. This summer, during the 2008 Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon Festival, we had a pretty bad storm with 60+ mph winds. This blew a tree onto the roof of our house, $6k and no electricity for most of the balloon festival. This made things very difficult to update the

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Here are some truths vs myths of search engine optimization.I could write this really big article about what is needed for search engine placement and what is not needed for it, but the truth is, nothing is actually NEEDED for good search engine placement. Keywords, Descriptions of pages, headers, tableless layouts, etc etc. This list goes on and on, but the fact is, there are 10 million little

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Ok, first I want to say that this is not aimed at the beginning web designer/developer. We all have to start somewhere.Recently, we have had several phone calls from people wanting to get a web site started. We are not comlpaining about that, but the phone calls have been coming in at an alarming rate. This is a good problem to have, at least better than the opposite of that!Some of these people

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SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a bunch of different things. I'm only going to talk about one thing related to SEO this time.Become an expert in your field of expertise. Get involved with writing articles for other web sites (like GoArticles.com), newspapers, magazines, books etc. Get involved with online forums and groups. Don't forget to write articles for your own web site too. Start a

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Did you know that you can use each page on your web site to get good placement for different key words? The trick is to use different key words on different web pages. You will also have to list the different keywords in a meta file on each page, but the order of those keywords in the meta file are pretty important.I'll give you an example, let's say that you own a sports store and you sell want

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Net Magik Pros would like to wish EVERYONE a Happy New Year. Don't forget to be safe if you are traveling tonight!I won't post again until next year sometime :-)

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Net Magik Pros would like to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495106110768060750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064113067313008506.post-32910953706689440232007-12-17T13:36:00.000-08:002007-12-17T13:40:56.638-08:00

Did you know that you can make your web site automatically change it's look during certain times of the year?It doesn't matter if you use .php, ColdFusion, or .asp or just about any other programming language. All you have to do (in basic simple terms) is to tell the web page to use a different style sheet during certain times of the year.It just makes your web site more festive and helps

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There are so many things out there on the web, that it is really tempting to just copy it and make it your own.If you are tempted to do this, let me give you some advice: Don't copy it until you have the owners permission. This not only makes you look bad, but it makes the company you work for look bad too. It's basically stealing. If you wouldn't go into a store and hide something under your

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Sometimes you just have to go to another web designer. Sometimes your current web designer just doesn't "get it".This has happened to Net Magik Pros recently.It's not that we are mad because we had a client leave us. We are actually happy that our former client found someone that understands what the client wanted better.What we were unhappy about was the threats that this former client used

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Ok, just to point out some differences between how the Battle Creek International Festival of Lights is being handled now v.s. the way it was run back when I was maintaining their web site. This is not a shot at the people running the IFOL now, nor is it even a shot at their current web developer. Their current web developer is very reputable and I have even referred some work to them. I don't

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Here are some things you can do to prevent spam.The reason that I'm writing this is because I have a client that called and was very upset because of an email saying that a detective agency (they didn't mention the name of the agency) was listening to her phone conversations and she was in trouble. This came with an attachment so that she could listen to the phone conversation. My client is a

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This is one of the best, most detailed answers I have read about the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day:Memorial Day started in the 1860's in various towns as a day to remember and honor the soldiers who died in the Civil War. It was originally called Dedication Day. In 1868, the first official military proclamation of the day was given, and flowers were put at the graves at

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Ok, while they really try to make some valid points here, the truth is, it depends on what you are trying to market. I have never used pay per click as I have better things to spend my hard earned money on. I'm always busy, and if I got even more busy using pay per click, (if it indeed actually works) I don't think I would be able to handle any more business than what I already have, but then

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For the longest time I have looked for a decent calendar to put on a website so that people can view appointments etc. All the time I was looking, it was right there in front of me on Google's website. If you need a calendar for your website, I would highly suggest signing up with a free Google account and get started from there.

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I agree with a lot of this article: I will put some notes below. Again, my notes will look like this:Search Engine Optimization for Small Business OwnersSmall business owners are often limited by small marketing budgets and manpower. But that doesn't mean they can't compete against larger businesses or websites when focused on search engine optimization. SEO is a basic marketing tool that

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Ok, here is the article, and I will place notes throughout this article.My notes will look like this.Can you really buy web traffic?Yes you can, but is it worth it, or are you just throwing your money down the toilet? Let's take a closer look at this article...Many people wonder about generating traffic to their websites through paid traffic offerings. This topic is highly debated among the

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Ok, I got this article in my email from Site Pro NewsThe reason that I'm putting it in my blog is that I don't necessarily agree with any of it.While it may be true that Google "has changed the rules of the game" regarding PageRank, I was not affected, nor would I care if I was affected by it. In my opinion, Google's PageRank is just a glorified popularity contest. I was through with them in high

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Ok, I'm going to vent here. You may not agree with what I am going to write, but it's my opinion.Back in 2004, I started the Cereal Festival website, the Taste of Battle Creek, and the International Festival of Lights (IFOL) here in Battle Creek.I did these websites for free. I spent a lot of my time in the summer doing the Cereal Festival and the Taste of Battle Creek websites. I spent so much

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Well, I went to my 20 year High School Reunion. We ended up taking Barb's Mom, and we had a GREAT TIME.I ended up making contact with a lot of old friends that I hadn't seen in a long time, and I ended up connecting with a lot of new friends that could have been friends when we were going to school. Either way, 20 years changes people, and it looks like in this case, it's for the better.Next time

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Barb or I have not taken a vacation in almost 2 years. Well, on October 18th, we are going to shut down NMP for a few days and take a long weekend. We will be gone until the 21st of October.We have used our website to let our customers know about this. We won't be totally out of touch as we will have a laptop with us, but it will only be for checking email once and a while, and maybe updating a

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I recently got an email news letter about optimizing your website for Yahoo!While the email went into depth about how to optimize your site for Yahoo! I think it is missing one thing. Yahoo! search engine, while good, is second to Google. and it's a distant second to Google!Here is part of the email and what it said about Yahoo! and Google:With a reported 22.1% of search traffíc Yahoo is second

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The post that I put up yesterday, I'm just as guilty of all of those things as anyone else, but as I was typing that post, I thought, "I need to keep this stuff in mind for myself when I talk to a potential customer" so that post yesterday was just as much for myself as it was for the readers of it.

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Boy oh Boy was that a really bad few days. I'm not completely over this cold (that ended up going into my chest) but I'm feeling good enough to start doing some work again.This goes out to web designers, developers, and anyone who is in business for themselves. This is some of the best advice I have ever gotten. It sounds crude, but it's a fact that needs to be paid attention to:You have two ears

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Well, I have managed to catch a really bad cold, so right now, I'm feeling very horrible, so I won't be blogging for a few days as I need to get my rest and get better. My biggest hope is that my Mother in Law doesn't catch this. She's 88 and something like this could be a death sentence for her!I shall return to blogging after I get over this cold.Until then....

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Class reunions.My 20th class reunion is coming up, unfortunately my classmates could not find me. Most of them are at the age where computers were just coming out in high schools, and the internet came out almost 8 years after we graduated.Someone from my graduating class recently wrote me and said "If I would have known what you did for a living 6 months ago, we could have had a sweet website."I

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On the personal side, here are some reasons to have a website:If you move away and still want to keep in contact with family and friends, this is a great way to let them know what is going on in your life, and save on your telephone bill!Do you have a hobby? This is a great way to display that hobbyIf you belong to a club or groupGet some supporters for a political opinion that you haveHere is

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I used to be "dead set against" database driven websites and dynamic websites. They were hard to write the code for if you didn't pay very careful attention to the details, and they still are. It has taken a long time for me to "get with the times" and start doing this very thing.Don't get me wrong, I still don't really like databases driven websites, and I suppose that part of the reason is that

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I know a lot about Accessibility for a website, but for me to say that I know everything, is far from the truth.There is a lot to know about web accessibility, and new things come out everyday for this. The main thing that needs to be understood is that having an accessible website is already a law in a lot of different regions, and if that's not enough to convince you to have an accessible

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I was talking to someone today, and they definitely get this statement. I have talked to many others that do not understand this statement.I have had people and companies that say that they want a website, and they have a digital camera and can provide the pictures. My response to them is generally "are these pictures taken by a professional?" Some of these people have a professional photographer

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After I had been in business for a few years, I met another web designer that worked in the same area as myself (the same geographical area) however, he also did different types of websites than I did. He did a lot of larger company websites, and also some small business websites too. The reason that we met is that he had the attitude of: "Don't look at other web designers/developers as

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Whenever Net Magik Pros gets a new customer, one of the first questions that is always asked is "how can we get my site to the top of the search engines?".For someone who doesn't know, this is a very valid question because they probably only know that if they get into the top of the search engines, the business will come.Unfortunately, this is not the case.Generally what we tell our potential

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Lately, I have seen a lot of hype over this Web 2.0, and honestly, I don't understand it. I compare Web 2.0 to a hot tub.Long ago, someone got the idea of putting a motorthat would move the water around in a hot tub, to the point it was almost like getting a massage while you were in the tub.The thing is, these motors have existed for longer than the hot tub, as well as hot tubs existed before

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We recently had a client that called us to cancel his website. They are going to let the name, the space and everything go. Unfortunately, this is very sad to us as we are not in the business to just take someone's money, but this person had that old 1990's attitude "If you build it, they will come" and this just isn't true. It never has been, and it never will be. And this client was confused

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