City of Harrington, Del., Chooses Delaware.Net

Posted on October 21, 2009 by john

The City of Harrington, Delaware recently awarded Delaware.Net the contract to rebuild their website.    Harrington researched web design companies from around the country.     The proposal from another competing municipal website design vendor for the city’s website was over $30,000 and a included a 3-year contract commitment for hosting the site.   By contrast, Delaware.Net prepared a strategy for the city to prepare a new website interface, install our proven content management system for cities, a request tracking system, a city Intranet, a new police department website, a mass emailing system, live training, and much more.  Delaware.Net saved the city over $15,000 with the project, and was able to offer more features and better support. Continue reading →

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Alternative to CivicPlus for City Websites

Posted on October 18, 2009 by john

ICON Enterprises (doing business as ‘CivicPlus’) is a company in Kansas that specializes in building municipal websites.   My company (Delaware.Net) competes with companies like this from around the country when we bid on municipal website design projects.    We lost a couple of prospective new projects to CivicPlus in 2007 when we were in the middle of producing our own Content Management System (CMS) for government websites. But in 2008, we had completed building and testing our CMS system for eGovernment websites, and we have won many municipal projects from around the USA ever since. Our new system is called CivicLogic CMS. In this article, I will explain why our solution is better than some of the other options out there, and how we can help municipalities to migrate to our solution.

Here are some of the differences between us and our competitors;

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15 ways to tell if you are ready for ecommerce

Posted on August 2, 2009 by john

Anyone can setup an ecommerce store online.   There are many ways to post products for sale in minutes, even using sites like ebay.  I speak with people that want to sell products online every day.  While many people want to make lots of money and come up high in Google, most of them aren’t ready to commit the time and resources that a true ecommerce store takes. Those who understand the demands and that are willing to commit the resources are the ones that have the most success.

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Network Solutions / Monster Commerce Hacked – 600,000 cardholders exposed

Posted on July 28, 2009 by john

Monster Commerce Hacked

In a startling news release on CNET News, it was just reported that Network Solutions and Monster Commerce, who host about 10,000 ecommerce stores, had their credit card data stolen from almost 5,000 ecommerce websites.   This is obviously a nightmare for their customers, and the cardholders that have shopped on Monster Commerce stores.  We can help them!

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Zoom your browser window easily

Posted on June 22, 2009 by john

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.

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The Long Tail – A Secret Behind SEO Dominance

Posted on March 26, 2009 by john

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.

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Free Delaware Search Engine

Posted on March 20, 2009 by john

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).

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Realtors using Blogs, Facebook, and Google for fun and profit

Posted on February 19, 2009 by john

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.

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SEO Tips – Register your domain name for 3+ years

Posted on November 3, 2008 by john

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).

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Hell Has Frozen-Over – I bought a Macbook Pro

Posted on October 24, 2008 by john

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.

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