St. Petersburg Web Design Blog

Reliable information destruction, a St. Persburg company providing Florida Document Shredding has hired Dream Designs by Texx Smith to create a web site and Optimize it for the Search Engines.

Bob Sobczak works to translate raw data into easy-to-read graphics

Today, a complex system of spillways, levees, pump stations and canals controls where, when and how the water flows. As the keepers of the new order, the South Florida Water Management District and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers meticulously have tracked the water’s journey for several decades.

A few years ago, a federal scientist with no prior Web-designing experience got the idea to put the information at the public’s fingertips. The result, www.fgcu.edu/bcw/hcu.htm, has evolved into a weekly peek inside the rarely seen — and even more rarely understood — world of water management.

Just in case the complicated, multi-colored data-filled maps aren’t quite easy enough for you to interpert without a mastrers degree in hydrology, they prominently display a link to the SFL Weekly Watersheds Summary blog which contains update narrative summaries of the data.

Yup, it’s true. MtV will begin streaming video clips in place of a Google’s usual text adverts beginning sometime in this month1. Also this month some sites will get TV video clips servered up in their advert spots(2).

This is kind of exciting from a publishers stand point. Will they show the new AdWords Video adverts on my site(s)? If they do will people click on them? Will it slow down my page’s too much?

That last question is pretty important, so be a wise Web Master and test the new adverts (you can force your AdWords

Google says the biggest threat to internet privacy is . . . The United States Government!
“Web search leader Google Inc., which stores vast amounts of data on the Web surfing habits of its users, sees government intrusions rather than accidental public disclosures of data as the greatest threat to online privacy, its chief executive said on wedding.”1

It’s sorta true. The government has frequently went beyond reasonable in their quest for data on it’s citizens. 1, 2, 3, etc.), But the Google is trying to cover the obvious with their true statements. That is: They were the ones spying on us in the first place. If they weren’t collecting, storing and linking this information to people, the government , other businesses, stalkers and criminals wouldn’t be able to get it, would they.