Archive for July, 2008

Web Design Firm Offers Help to Small Companies

By Marian Bond • business@rgj.com
RGJ Business Section: July 22, 2008
After being a Web design developer for a local company, Kristy Crabtree decided to open her own company. Westward Strategy & Design Group was established to offer professional services to the small companies that might not want to invest large sums of money to get onto [...]


Build a Better Web with Web Standards and Opera

I came across this article over the weekend, which propelled me to take a look at the Opera Web Standards Curriculum. I have not delved into it too deep yet, but on the surface it seems to be a fantastic resource for anyone looking to push themselves and their web design coding practices forward.
I have [...]


Sports Attack’s Snap Attack in the News

The Ball Game
Rob Sabo, 7/14/2008 - NNBW.biz
A new football-tossing machine by Verdi-based Sports Attack LLC might just give the tiny 13-year-old company a leg-up in the sports throwing-machine industry.
Sports Attack last week introduced its “Snap Attack,” a throwing machine that simulates the quarterback snap, as well as the passing and kicking aspects of football. The [...]


Update: Top 10 Rankings in under 2 weeks with 1 link

It’s been one month since I originally wrote about our client, Creating Effective Organization, and how their new website received top ten rankings in under 2 weeks. I thought I would revisit the subject and check their rankings a month later.
Not much has changed in the past month. The title tags and the descriptions are [...]


SEO Myth: Having a Blog Means Top Rankings

Webmasters and site owners everywhere are looking for the holy grail of search engine optimization. They’re looking for that one thing they can do to get top rankings in the search engines. They want SEO to be easy. They don’t want to invest in time-consuming link building, article marketing, social media marketing, or website usability [...]


Green Marketing in an Economic Downturn

Everyone wants to go green. It’s become hip to be environmentally conscience. At the same time we’ve hit very uncertain economic times. Every day we read headlines on record setting gas prices and more housing foreclosures. With things looking so uncertain many businesses are searching for ways to utilize their greenbacks more effectively, but also [...]