SEOChat.com posted a great article today for all you businesses out there who either do post their press releases online or are interested in doing so in the near future. It focuses on how to optimize those press releases you post online for maximum SEO advantage. Why should you care? Because it’s great content that’s on your website and therefore you want to have it integrated into your site-wide SEO strategy.

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The concept of the press release may be decades old, and in it’s modern online version, it still is and should be a major component of any business!

Many of you may or may not be aware of the struggle by Internet Service Providers to try and slow down your broadband internet connection whenever and however they feel like it, then their plan to turn around and shake down content providers like YouTube, Google, and more for big bucks in order for you to access those web sites at full speed. In the real world, we call this a protection racket, but when you have a business license and spend millions upon millions of dollars on lobbying on the local, state, and national level, they call it a business model!

The New York Times posted an article about how slowly, amazingly, it seems that the FCC is moving past its usual behavior of rubber stamping the wet dreams of the telecom industry and actually is threating to lay down some ground rules so at least this extortion at gun point will be somewhat orderly.

We feel really strongly about this topic (as you might be able to tell) as Telecom companies charge hosting companies like us an arm and a leg already for bandwidth costs so that no matter what traffic we’re getting, you get your site in just a couple milliseconds. It’s pretty hard to choke down the idea that not only should we pay what we do already to them, but now we get the privilege of paying MORE for basically providing the same level of service we provide our customers already. And to make matters worse, they want those negotiations to happen on a “per company” basis, so we’d have to negotiate specific deals with each ISP like Comcast, AOL, BellSouth, Qwest, AT&T, etc. in order to continue to keep the level of service. As you can imagine, each company would have different pricing, different terms, different bandwidth minimums and maximums, and minor contract stipulations. Yeah, I think we’ll pass on all that garbage folks, thanks but no thanks.

Fortunately, fellow Internet content providers aren’t taking this sitting down, and have organized a broad and pretty effective movement called the Save The Internet Foundation. Check out their website for more specifics and see how you can help.

All right fellow designers, developers, and anyone who likes to watch 2 skinny, geeky kids duke it out over the design and code of their websites; get ready for the XHTML Challenge!

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The Idea is to pit two sites against each-other in an all out coded duel to see who reigns supreme over the fiber optic lines of the world. The sites are compared, judged on their code, then the public votes to choose the best of the two. Its an all out brawl ya’ll. I love the idea of having websites compete, the winner picked because of quality. Design AND code is taken into consideration. Its like going to buy a home and always taking a bunch of really good builders with you so you can see exactly how well the home was built. I think in today’s world anything which helps us to reward good, efficient and well thought work needs as much support as we can give. So check it out and maybe vote on a few sites you really like. Do your good deed for the day and reward someone’s hard work.

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Here is an article posted by another company that does what we do. Its a great way to see if your website needs some attention. The focus of the article is on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) The goal of SEO, and subsequently our goal for your website, is to get your page to rank well on Google. This means that when someone types in “I drove my chevy to the levee and the levee was dry so I crashed, how do I fix my car?”, you show up offering automobile repair services. Provided that is actually what you do. There are many things which help your “page rank” and this article does a nice job of laying out some of them and some easy ways to get you out of the levee and into the limelight. Enjoy.

The Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department (SCPD) has chosen us to design and develop custom vehicle wraps for the SCPD Vehicles. Read the rest of this entry »

The New York times posted a great article on small 1-5 person companies making the investment in establishing an online presence and shows how it is paying off for them in terms of both promotion as well as customer retention. Read the rest of this entry »

Check out the prestigious Savannah River Landing Project! We developed a custom interface to be used on a 42 inch touch screen plasma screen television.

We are pleased to launch our new website! We have been working hard on it, and hopefully it will be a great way for people to learn about us and our services. Read the rest of this entry »

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Savannah Small Business Chamber
Challenges:
We have worked with Carol and Bunny a lot on other projects, so it was great to work with them on this project. They had an old site with a great domain name(www.smallbusinesschamber.org) but it was outdated and didn’t server the members or new visitors very well at all. They […]

Savannah Magazine
Challenges:
Savannah Magazine was looking to make the leap from a low traffic static website to a full-fledged database powered web application with lots of functionality for visitors and magazine subscribers. The problem was that their current hosting solution simply wasn’t cutting the mustard and when they required an upgrade that could handle the heavy […]

HiQ Internet
Challenges:
One of our good friends, Allen Edwards of HiQ Networking wanted to expand his business into some web services. We built him a great site which would help him to do that.
Solutions:
The HiQ Internet site showcases his hosted quickbooks, and data backup plans. Its has a new sleek and sharp look […]

Exploring Savannah
Challenges:
Exploring Savannah is a new magazine which focuses on tourism in Savannah and the surrounding areas. They needed the complete design package. We developed everything for them; logo, rack cards, website, magazine mockup, rate sheets, contracts etc.
Solutions:
We developed a clear and simple design which focused on making it really […]

Indian Bluff
Challenges:
Indian bluff is a parcel of land owned by Richmond Hill Development. They wanted to show it off to entice some possible buyers. the website was designed to work in conjunction with an ad they ran in the NY Times.
Solutions:
We used a lot of pictures and a pretty healthy description of […]

Pure Spectrum Lighting
Challenges:
Pure Spectrum Lighting was in need of their first site in order to promote their impressive new lighting technology with decreases energy use by over 30% compared to conventional lighting.
Solutions:
Pure Spectrum’s new site utilizes a WordPress framework to allow for them to update the site themselves and post their frequent press releases to […]

Richmond Hill Development
Challenges:
Richmond Hill Development is just that…a development company in Richmond Hill, Ga. They had no web presence and wanted something simple that they will be able to expand on in the future.
Solutions:
The site we designed and created is very simple, elegant and shows off some of their property as well as linking […]

Coastline Travel
Challenges:
Coastline’s old web site was almost a purely image driven site and did not have the #1 thing they desired, which was a way for customers to request quotes for custom tours and charters. It also was very static, with no motion or “pop” to it. “pop” is something we know a thing or […]

Parks ICF
Challenges:
Parks ICF’s previous web site was in a rut. It wasn’t ranking at all on Google, it was difficult to update, was powered by the unwieldy ASP programming language, and wasn’t designed in the style that complimented their logo or their collateral.
Solutions:
The first step was to move the new site to a PHP and […]

The New South Cafe
Challenges:

The New South Cafe needed a website which showed people who they are and the great food they serve. Bunny and Matt came to us in order to solve that problem, but also to drive more people into their doors to eat and to increase their visibility as catering experts. They […]