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A new Internet Marketing Division for an established Atlanta Web Development Company.

[This post is by Texx Smith himself, often posts here are created by our content department]

One of the marketing web sites made for this client

Sometimes we are hired to do work for other Web Design or internet marketing firms. Often they just me, sometimes they want my whole staff. In this case, I’ve been hired on as a sub-contractor to start up the brand new Internet Marketing Division of a well established and successful Web Development company in the Atlanta GA area.

I worked with the business owner and revamped the companies web site to a “you based” conversion driving sales tool with a conservative, professional yet colorful web presence. I also created a new web site that specifically speaks to one of the new services. That’s the part anyone could have done. What I was brought in for was helping creating this new division at this established company. Specifically I helped to define or created: Continue reading “Subcontract – Atlanta Area” »

You may think WordPress is just for blogs.  It may be true that WordPress was first created with blogging in mind.  It may also be true that WordPress is most commonly used for blogs versus traditional web sites.  However, we’ve always been innovators here at Dream Designs, after all we have the Einstein of Web Design leading us.  We frequently, but not always use WordPress to create a “traditional” appearing web site.

WordPress sites don't have to behave like a blog . . .

Why would we do this?  We’ll talk about that later in the article but first we’d like to announce a new member in the Dream Designs family of clients:

Atlanta Computer Repair:
We’ve created a WordPress web site for them using our Cheap WordPress Design package.  This means the client gets a great looking web site and is able to update, add and manage the content of  the web site, including each picture on the each article or page themselves.

How is it different than a traditional WordPress Blog?
There are non traditional adjustments to this implementation of WordPress:

• Custom jQuery Slider at the top of the home page
• Custom home page
• It has no articles (yet)
  • A new page which will list all the blog posts (articles) is ready to go, but won’t be implemented until there are actually some posts.
• A custom “bottom section”
• Automated Database backups
• SEO features

We’ve just created an mobile theme for this blog.  We hope you enjoy it.  We like it because it’s “responsive”  which means it automatically adjusts for any size screen.  It even has some server side programming to resize images!  It can be used as a full screen desktop theme as well but we like the full sized theme we have.

We’ve combined our new mobile theme, which we are tentatively calling Flxi, with a a “sniffer” script which detects the device being used.  If it’s a tablet or phone then it gives them the same content but with the Flxi theme. It also includes a link in the footer to bypass this script and view the mobile version.  Once in the mobile version, the link in the footer will switch you back to the desktop version.  We did this because our main theme looks great and is highly readable in all but the smallest of devices.

Here’s a link to bypass the preview it.  Remember, it will look different depending on the size of the device.  For instance if you are on a desktop PC or a laptop it will have three columns.  If it’s a much smaller device, then it will only have one column so please try it on a couple devices…

Mobile theme

It’s an important questions for web designers and web design managers. Especially when it come to the more specific question of Which version Of Internet Explorer (IE) are people using.
Nowadays with the advent of HTML 5 being released into the wild and CSS 3 being released into the wild, both before they are even finished by the way, it’s important to know which features you can use in your web designs because most of these new features don’t work in all browsers.

If you turn to Google for the answer to this question you’ll most likely be pointed to a one of the big tech websites like twocows.com or something and there you’ll see an old or a newer chart that shows how many people visited the web site and what browser they were using.  The problem is that they are a tech web site visited by Technical people.  Technical people on tech web sites are far more likely to use web browsers likely Firefox and Opera and less likely web browsers like IE and Chrome because of the security and social issues involved.  (IE is part of a scheme to monopolize the world computer and internet technology, while Chrome is too, it’s also actively defrauds advertisers by making all typed in addresses count as click on an advertisement when it wasn’t.)

So we checked our clients websites, We tried to get a wide sampling of “typical”web sites that have mostly U.S. Based web traffic; we are using fresh (last 30 days), combined data from several web sites and averaged it together and then rounded the results to the nearest whole percentage point:

Here’s what we found (to protect the clients, we are used percentages, not raw numbers):

Browsers:

• IE: 47%
  • The IE browsers by version as a percentage of IE users, not as a percentage of all users:
  • IE 9: 10%
  • IE 8: 65%
  • IE 7: 17%
  • IE 6: 3%
  • IE 5.5: 0%
• Firefox: 17% Continue reading “Which Browsers and Devices are Used the Most?” »

Ok, maybe I DO spend too much time in Photoshop.  I think all you other Photoshop Pros will find this just as funny as I did.

And yes, he’s actually got some good advice for you noobs out there!

Our Basic Local Internet Marketing package, has just been trimmed down and deeply discounted for those small businesses who’d like to get listed in the local sections of the three big search engines.  It’s an inexpensive and simple way to be introduced to the benefits of local internet marketing.

Learn about our  Basic Local Internet Marketing Package new low price and what it entails.

If you’d like more we still do much much more so drop us a line and we’ll work out a custom marketing campaign just for you.