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“.

Note: This is a re-post of my latest SEO Blog post for LyrisHQ.com:

Sitemaps are essential to creating a successful site from both a usability perspective and (of course) a search engine perspective. Implementing an HTML sitemap is a relatively simple task for any Web site, but the implementation of an XML sitemap (the standard sitemap’s cooler, more important big brother) is a trickier proposition and if it’s set up incorrectly, it could actually be detrimental to your rankings.

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A redirect is a way to automatically push Web-site visitors from one Web page to another. It’s most often used when changing the information architecture of a site (i.e., moving a page from one spot to another, or removing a page and redirecting anyone who has bookmarked it to a new relevant page), or when moving content between domains (i.e., moving a white paper from your blog site to your corporate site).

Redirects can be individual pages, assets or directories, but they can also be used for entire sites or domains. (more…)

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