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Visiting Jerusalem’s Souvenier Shops

A crowded narrow street leads from the Jaffa Gate to deep inside the Old City of Jerusalem, a cobblestone divider between the Christian, Muslim and Jewish Quarters. It descends the gentle slope of the hill toward the Via Dolorosa, the painful path and last walk of Jesus of Nazareth as he carried the cross to […]

A Lovely Photo Blog

For those like us into nature photography, check out this lovely, photographic photo blog, shutterbug. This particular link goes to a lovely photograph of a lady bug on purple flowers. You move through the favorite pages of photographs by clicking the small arrow along the right side of the photo’s box. The design is lovely […]

Step-By-Step Website Development

Today’s businesses require letterhead and envelopes, business cards, ads in the Yellow Pages, and web pages as part of their business stationary. Even if you have the smallest of businesses with a limited clientèle, a website is part of your professional arsenal to attract and keep clients. People new to the Internet or web pages […]

Step-By-Step Website Development – Check List

The following is a simplified checklist for the development and design of a Website ($ indicates potential additional fees): Development Gathering of information related to site content Website Name (Domain Name) Research Competition Researched Website Title Chosen Website Host Research Website Host Chosen and Registered $ Website Name Chosen Website Name Purchase $ Website Structure […]

Website Development and Design Form Instructions

Web Site Development Web Site Development Introduction Web Site Development Checklist Site Development Form Explanation and Instructions Web Site Development Form Web Site Structure Chart The process of beginning or redesigning a web site begins with a step-by-step process of gathering information about your web site content, information, links, format, and structure. To follow is […]

Website Development and Design Form

Complete the following questions to the best of your ability. The answers are not final and can be changed at any time during the process of developing and designing your Website. Company Information Company Name:   Address/Location:   Phone:   Fax:   Cell:   Email:   Owner Name:   Phone:   Email:   Website Support: […]

Website Structure Chart

The following sets an initial structure for your website. Imagine your website like a tree with the main branch as your first page and the related pages as branches of that tree. Typical content is included (cross off if not applicable) to help organize your site’s structure. Main Page 1. Purpose 2. Product List 3. […]

Introduction to Website Development

Got to have a web page! Don’t you? Of course you do! Everyone must have one. Well, maybe not everyone, but if you are in business or have something worthwhile to contribute to the world as a whole, then you should join those among the 4.3 billion web pages online…give or take a few. Whether […]

Start With Compliance

Before you can get your web page noticed, you have to make sure all the parts fit together and it works properly. Why? Well, in order to be seen, the page has to work. In other words, all the pieces and parts must be read by the user’s Internet browser, interpreted, and displayed upon the […]

Validating the Code Behind the Page

Checking Content Begin your web page validation by checking the content of your page. It’s actually fairly simple. Is everything spelled correctly? Are the sentences compete? Is the grammar right? While this should be done at the time of creation, after you’ve messed around with the code for a while, you often have a fresh […]

Test Driving WordPress

There is a lot to think about in preparation for putting WordPress on our site and ramming our site down its throat. The first thing I needed to do was set up a “test” area on my site to start working on all of this. If it is a complete failure, then I can delete […]

Get Ready for Search Engines

Preparing your Website for search engines means tackling the following: Searcher’s Needs Search Engine Requirements Meta Tags Content Viability Internal Links External Links Linkability How Do Search Engines Work? There are several kinds of search engines. Some collect their own data through “robots” or “spiders”, software that crawls through the web, tracking the various links […]

The Keywords Inside

Imagine a search engine spider or robot as a giant filter or colander. It pours your web pages through the colander and all the stuff it decides is useless is left in the colander and the useful stuff pours through, entering their searchable database ready for the search engine user to sift through with their […]

Web Page Optimization

There are two main aspects to preparing your pages for exposure to the World Wide Web. First is validation, the process of checking and rechecking the structure and design elements of a page to meet the standards. The other is a form of site maintenance, often called optimization – the process of fixing, repairing, maintaining, […]

Linkability – Link Popularity

After you’ve validated your web page’s code, content for search engines, is there anything else you can do to maximize your search engine ranking? Yes, there is. It’s known as “linkability” or “link popularity”. Google and other modern search engines are now determining a website’s ranking using the theory that if everyone is talking about […]