St. Petersburg Web Design Blog

Why would someone want to put plain text over an image? For the search engines! They treat any text near the top of the page as far more important and far more telling when it comes to determining what a page is actually about. Therefore in struggle between search engine optimization and web design or the battle between eye appealing sites and sites that get indexed properly by the search engines, every one wants their targeted keyphrases at the top of the page in a heading tag and they want a nice image at the top of the page as well.

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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.

We’ve all heard the rumors. They’ve working on the “Holy Grail” of the computer world. Pieces of inexpensive paper-like material that are disposable and reusable and can display digital content. They’ve come close several times and there are a few projects out there that could, if successful, change the world.

Now they’re saying ¹ they almost have ready something that’s going to do it. It’s the newspaper and magazine people that seem the most interested in it for right now. Without have any real idea what the demand for a product like this the newspapers and magazine publishers have made it clear that they are interested. It seems they feel (or are being led to believe) that using this content delivery method instead of paper will save significantly on the 70% of production costs that are paper related.

I don’t know if I’ll prefer reading my newspaper on a piece of electric paper that can be easy stuffed in a pocket (I’m not fond of newspapers that don’t fold easily and leave ink on my hands), but I do know I’m rooting for this technology.
It’ll create more demand for web designers and computer graphics design.

Here’s a list of some of the sites I’ve done for superpages.com Please remember that these are all editable by the client with a web based tool. The appearance could have been changed drasticlly since I designed the web site.

• Tampa’s Gold Club Gentlemen’s Club
• Anglin’s Landscaping
• Couture Painting
• Shapes Fitness for Women
• A Mobile Break Service
• Cunningham’s Pump and Well
• Insurance Marketing Specialists
• Gulf Coast Surplus
• Anteres Diamond Company
• JMI Mobile Detailing
• J. Michael Conaway - Attorney
• James Thomerson Attorney
• Collins And Hensley, Law Office
• Terrence L Ivey, Attorney and Couselor at Law
• AccessIT

Compared to my regular work I consider most of these sites to be sub-par. At this former employer of mine, site quality is not prioity one. Getting as many web sites out as quickly as you can, being nice on the phone and making more “up-sales”.

Service at my own Florida Web Design is far beyond what I could give the clients at superpages.com (they don’t even do photography). And my prices still beat them by a long shot.