St. Petersburg Web Design Blog

This is a test of a new WorPress Plug-in called the Lightbox-Plugin. What does it do? It presents photos in the original lightbox script style. Which is to open a photo from a thumbnail without leaving the page and while dimming the rest of the screen.

Here’s the photo:

See I told it was a nice way to present photos! It’s easy to install, easy to use, and really does present photos in a clever and eye-appealing way.
A note on usage:

1. This isn’t a very effective means of displaying large sized photos either. Large size photos don’t fit on most monitors, and if it doesn’t fit, the close button gets pushed off the screen and Noobs (new users) get freaked out. We don’t want to freak out the Noobs do we?

Well this is an easy question. Not only can I answer it easily and quickly but I can point you to a few tools that can help you measure the page rank of any web site you view in your browser.

Google’s Page Rank is a number form 0-9 that Google places on every page in it’s index (or database if you prefer). The higher the number the more important Google thinks your web site is. In addition to 1 - 9, there is the additional ranking of n/a that means the page is not in Google’s index, either because it has come across it yet, Google thinks it’s not important enough to include or it has been banned.

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The google sandbox isn’t actually a place or a thing at all. It certinley a place where google employees play during breaks. The google sandbox alludes to a term that programmers of web “Content Management Systems” (CMS) where the users of their web content management systems (typically not programmers or even technically inclined at all) could learn to post articles and stories using that partcular CMS by praticing. The sandbox was an area where they cpuld pratice and ewxperiment with all aspects of the systems methods of making articles without saving them permanently and displaying them to the public as real articles.

Google’s Sandbox isn’t quite that, but it’s similiar. Evidently google in their all knowing wisdom has decided that it takes several months for a web site to decide what they are about. Perhaps a lot of people change thier message and keywords alot during this first period. I’m sure they’ve read the tags on way more sites than me. When I do a site, it’s get fully planned before implemented so there isn’t much changing after it goes live. But I understand not everyone has my skill or even uses a professional.

The Googlew sandbox is actually a status unofficialy given to web sites by google. They may have them in their index but they usually won’t list them in the search results unless the search is for the address. Yes, some people still type the address into a search enginge instead of the address bar. This period can last from a few weeks to a few months.

Little is know about how it exactly works. In fact some people in the search engine optimization business try to say it doesn’t exsist. Well rest assured it does. I have discovered two things about the google sandbox however:

• Whatever the cause, new sites do not get listed in google’s search engine results for a considerable longer period than other web sites.
• This effect can be mitigated (not entirely), by submission fromm someone who has successfully submitted sites that were index by google in the past.

Credit Solutions LLC has ordered a Premium web site design for thier main site, which targets mainly Debt Consolidation, Debt Settlement and Credit Repair Services. It’s a redo and fix of a site I created years ago but was turned over to a company in India which made some, um, not so functional changes.

I’m handling the search enginge optimization service for this company. It’s quite beyond just the basic search engine optimization service I provide. It’s a custom package actually, it’s skipping all the paid directories and focusing on specific hand-picked free web site directories. Not the way I would usually do it, but I’m confident it will have positive results. Already after only tow weeks more links to the site from pages indexed by search engines are showing up. Being a brand new web site, it’s still in the “google sand box” so we’ll see what kind of google PageRank it’ll have after it emerges from the google sandbox in a few months.

This was a Florida Web Site Design Project.