John McKown: President of Delaware.Net, Inc.
You can zoom the content of your web browser easily. On a PC, hold the CTRL key and use the plus sign (+) key to zoom in, and use the minus sign (-) key to zoom out. You can reset the zoom using CTRL ZERO (0). On the Mac, use the same procedure, but use the Apple command key instead of the CTRL key. This works in most popular browsers.
Here is one of the plays that comes right out of my Search Engine Optimization (SEO) playbook. This tip should make you more money with your website, but it also unfortunately takes more work for you to implement. This technique is one of the tips that high performance website owners use to dominate Google.
For those of you that have a real brick and mortar business in Delaware, you can now get a free listing for your business on Delaware.com (a site that I own). Premier listings are also available for only $50 a year. This is an easy way to get a powerful inbound link to your website (Google likes those inbound links).
We are in the Web 3.0 world now. Realtors are just starting to get it, but most of them don’t get it. Not all of it. Not yet.
It took a while, but Realtors are finally coming around to Web 2.0, Web 3.0, social networking, whatever you want to call it. It is becoming clear to Realtors (finally) that building a website and waiting around for Google to find it simply doesn’t work. This is a good thing! It means that they are waking up to the reality that we are LEAVING THE INFORMATION AGE and that we are ENTERING THE PARTICIPATION AGE. While this is a positive step, and Realtors are using more of these social solutions online, many see them just as a tool for profit instead of a tool for SHARING THEIR KNOWLEDGE and building credibility.
A prospective customer came in to see me today, and right away I found several things in their website that were holding them back from better search engine results and sales. One of the first things that I do when I evaluate a website is to look at the domain name registration of the domain name. The most glaring thing I found right away was that their domain name was about to expire in TWO MONTHS. This is most likely having a negative affect on their Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
My old PC laptop served me well, but….
I loved my Acer Ferarri laptop when I got it two years ago. Fast, good looking, lots of features like a card reader. It has served me well. When I got the Ferarri, it had Windows XP preloaded on it. I immediately wiped it and installed XP fresh. Ran great for quite while. But a few months ago, I decided that it was time to wipe XP and reload it again, because it was starting to slow down (as windows does over time). This time, I decided to give Vista a shot, since it works OK on some of our other systems here at the office.
More after the jump.
Delaware Today’s Magazine’s November 2008 issue did a feature on “Women Shaping Business” in Delaware. You can see the article that mentions Kelly on page 76 of the magazine. Kelly is the President of Incorporating Services Ltd., which is based in Dover, Delaware. The article mentions how Kelly assisted the company in tripling sales over a three-year period. ISL has 35 employees and three offices. You can see the whole article online now.
Graphic Designer
We are looking for someone that is right out of college, or someone that has experience designing websites. Programming experience is not required. Applicants should be proficient with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. We will train this employee on design layout, usability, web application integration, search engine optimization, navigation building, and analytics. More information is available online here.
Sales Account Executive
If you love the web, and you have sales experience, this could be your dream job. Applicants will be expected to have a technical background, and understand popular web site terminology. You will be expected to write proposals for clients, so business writing ability is a must. More information here.
I’ve never really been a fan of Comcast since day 1. Their lack of customer support is legendary, and here in Delaware, you can’t call them 24×7 even for billing. Now, Comcast just announced that they will be placing speed limits on their residential customers. The New York Times has an article on it today.
Delaware.Net has built many websites for municipalities, and one of the major reasons why we are chosen for projects is our integration of the public website with complaint systems, content management systems, mass emailing systems, intranets, project management and – online bill-pay systems (or OBPP). A solid municipal website design effort requires all of these components to be successful, and an online bill-payment is one of the most important features that municipalities need. In this article, I will provide an overview of what is involved in building one of these systems, so that your city/town can plan how to integrate a bill-pay system. Read the rest of this entry »
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