Web Design and Web Development for Barrie, Simcoe County and the World.

As a new industry begins to grow, the need arises for a base set of standards to guide it’s growth in the right direction. Without them, an industry can grow wildly out of control making it hard for companies to be effective, and impossible for consumers to choose the best solution for their needs. Standards ensure that the industry follows a set of rules –

– that meets the needs both of consumers and of the industry itself. (more…)

This post is actually several months late since we launched Doug’s site back in the fall – but better late than never!

Introducing the Leatherwork site of Doug Nave “Leatherdreamweaver.com”!!

Doug Nave creates custom handmade Leatherwork and Fine Art. He decided that he wanted to create a site that showed both his creative and spiritual side. Doug wanted to be able to show his Leather creations primarily and also some of his Fine Art work from the past.

The result is his new site “LeatherDreamWeaver.com“.

Each year, many in the blogging community post together to increase awareness for a common cause. This year the cause is Poverty. Since I love lists and don’t have a bunch of time to actually research and write an article of my own, I figured I’d provide a list of some articles worth reading related to fighting Poverty (and promoting Conservation, Sustainabilty etc. in the process):

• Building A Sustainable Economy
• Promoting Global Conservation
• Worldvision stories
• How to Fight Poverty: 8 Programs That Work
• One International – not an article but a cool site

Monday, 28 July 2008

I’m a huge fan of top 10 lists of all types from the classic Letterman to the modern Digg meme posts. So today I’ve compiled a list of some of the key points to consider when promoting link building for your site. The interesting “Art Imitating Life (or SEO)” bit here is that lists tend to be one of the more successful viral techniques for link building…which brings me to my Link Building List – and just to be different it’s a Top 11:
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Thursday, 22 May 2008

There are a lot of myths surrounding search engine optimization (SEO). I don’t mean to gripe about it, but I just have to set the record straight – it’s time to dispel these myths and get to the bottom of what’s really going to improve your SEO. The five myths that bug me the most pertain to Meta Tags, Keyword Density, Redirects, Duplicate Content, and Dynamic URLs. (and don’t even get me started on Alt Attributes!)