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We’ve just completed a website design for a Sarasota Business. Sarasota Home Care is a small business serving Sarasota. They provide non medical home care for elderly (and other) residents. Things like, well just read the sight.

This is a 100 valid XHTML and CSS site.  It’s completely table free.  It uses horizontal lists in places.  It also applies CSS styling by using id attribute instead of the class= attribute like we usually do.  I don’t think I’ll switch to this method permanently.  It like to use the ID tag to call programmed actions often instead.  But it can be handy if your already assigning unique ID’s to elements because of programmed objects then you don’t have to clutter your code with css.  Plus that means a web designer can edit it in the future itself a programmer or myself . . .

Site hit’s #1 on Google in less than 30 days.

It’s always nice when a plan works out. If it works out even better than the client anticipates then that’s even better. Everyone wants their web site to hit #1 on Google really fast. Obviously it can’t always work that way.
One of the keys to this success was the search engine research that was done before a single word was written or anything else. The site (Ipe Decking) was made after the research with the Google Adwords Keyword Tool and a few other choice applications was done making the project go smoother and faster.

The target keyphrases were chosen very carefully and the content was written with serving this target in mind. And it all paid off. this web site is ranking #1 on Google for it’s #1 target keyphrase, #2, keyphrase, and #3 keyphrase. It’s ranking on the first page of Google for several related keyphrases as well!

Of course it’s doing just as well on several other search engines as well!

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I recently published this short 1 page web site recently. It also is a 100% CSS site (no tables). It featured some lovely photos of their product as well. More pages will probably be added soon.

Microsoft’s latest search engine, “Bing” (at bing.com) was launched yesterday. That’s far ahead of when anyone thought.

The good news is that the preview that I wrote a review about, was evidently inaccurate in some way, or at least didn’t communicate properly how Bing would work.

I’ve only done a little testing on it so far, but at the moment it looks super relevant.

Maybe this is is why Google finally stepped up it’s relevancy a bit (it still has a long way to go).

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This sums up how to export a movie from Adobe Premiere CS3. the only thing she says that you shouldn’t ever do is export a movie in a Quick Time format. Quick time movies have poor quality, high file sizes and even when the player does work, it’s missing all kinds of features that normal video players have.

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Evidently Microsoft is totally revamping their search engine again. From looking at their preview, it’s pretty clear that they don’t get search. Maybe this is why their desktop SE sucks, Windows has never had a good search feature and their Windows Live Search Engine is doing so poorly.
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