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The holiday season is over and we are gearing up for a strong Spring season. Many website owners are updating their websites now to take advantage of RSS feeds, blogs, and trying out Google AdWords. If you are thinking of updating your site or trying something new out, think of your friends at McCord Web Services first! We'll treat your right.
Best Regards,
Nancy McCord
Contact Forms For Every Website
Most of the time your hosting company has thought about contact form integration for your website before you have had to. But just in case your web host has not provided you with a script library or helpful code to get you started, there is a solution! That solution is www.MyContactForm.com. It is not often that we can not integrate a contact form into a website or get one of our scripts in our library to work, but it does happen. Now instead of paying a programmer $100 to trouble shoot the problem, we have found an easy online solution.
Using the premier non-branded, no advertising upgraded service for $24.99 per year, anyone can have a contact form integrated into their website without any programming knowledge or script installation. The contact form looks seamless with your website and offers the ability to use your own form fields and the ability to have the pages match those of your website.
Some websites have opted due to technological difficulties to completely bypass having a contact form and simply hope that the web viewer will phone them or click a link to open their own email client and send them a note. Some simply show their street address and phone number on the contact page of their website. Now every one can have an online form that the viewer can complete and send with one click regardless of web host, lack of a cgi-bin, possible server security issues, or budget that does not afford customized programming expenses.
Check out MyContactForm.com and let us know what you think.
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Internet Explorer 7 Tips
Internet Explorer 7 is here and Microsoft is downloading it to most users using the automatic update feature. You can still decide to move up to Internet Explorer 7 or not, you are not forced to update, but you may definitely want to consider doing so.
We've tested Internet Explorer all during the beta period and loved it until version 3 which we had to remove. But now we are back using the final version and are glad to say that the bugs are gone.
Some of the features that we like best about Internet Explorer 7 are:
- Integrated RSS feed sensing tool
- Ability to read and subscribe to web feeds inside the browser
- Clean uncluttered look
- Excellent print your way features - no more cut off pages for any website
- Love the tabbed browsing
- Neat view your tabs as photo thumbnail option look for this on the tab bar at the very far right end - looks like four dots in a row
- Integrated search box using your selected search provider in the top right
- Additional security options
- Ability to manage browser add-ons easily
Out of this entire list the best two from our personal point of view are the tabbed browsing feature and the ability to scale a page to print your way for any website.
If you don't have Internet Explorer 7 yet, you can download it here and get started with it today. A few users have had problems installing Internet Explorer 7, so make sure to do a system restore point before you install it just incase you are one of the few who's systems are simply not compatible with this new version.
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Louisiana Wave Studio Launched
We've just launched a new website for the 
Louisiana Wave Studio. This movie and television water and wind special effect wave tank filming studio is based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Now this is one site you should definitely click in to check out. The Louisiana Wave Studio was the filming location and the unique wave tank that was used to film many of the stunt water sequences and boating scenes for the movie "The Guardian" starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher.
This new website showcases photos and video which I know you will find interesting to get a backlot view on just how the movie industry creates the magic of wind and water scenes in a controlled studio setting. Personally I was totally amazed at how miniature models are used to create incredibly life-like big-screen footage. Ahh, the mystery and magic of the film industry is revealed!
The design of the website for the Louisiana Wave Studio is simple yet elegant and easily expandable. The interesting and unique logo created by Alexander Galant set the color tones and the wave theme inspired a special background graphic customized to work with the site's new color scheme. Style sheets were used to create the "rollover type" effect used in the navigation but in a very search engine friendly way. With integrated video, lots of photos, and interesting content, this site is sure to capture your attention and that of film producers too.
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