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New Quick Launch Website Completed

We’ve just finished a new Quick Launch website for the Global Movement Against Radical Islam. You can view it at www.GMARI.com. Quick Launch is our super fast web presence program that allows you to cost efficiently have a great looking website completed in record time using pre-made website templates.

This template is from Dreamweaver CS3’s template library and has been customized to fit the client’s needs. The site was completed in one day – now that’s a quick launch! We’ve got lots of great templates to select from and some can handle more customization than others, but take a look if you need a budget website done fast.

 

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LinkedIn Penalty – Have You Been Caught?

If you are loading a large contact list into LinkedIn, be aware that you may run into their user penalty. What I am speaking about is a step by LinkedIn to trim spam and to keep their application about connections.

For me, I am definitely not a spammer. However I did get caught by the filter just the same. LinkedIn encourages you to load your address books and lists and to connect with every person you have ever contacted. However, if some of these people do not remember you or if you were a casual acquaintance, they can mark your invitation as “I do not know this person” and ding you. Get three or four dings and LinkedIn will not let you connect with anyone unless you know their email address.

So be careful about loading a large list you may get caught too. At this point LinkedIn says contact their customer service department to say you understand the rules and they will re enable the ability to connect but make sure to not let that happen again.

If you’ve had similar issues with LinkedIn, let me know what you did to resolve them. By the way one of our European friends mentioned that Xing.com is the application in Europe so look soon for our Xing profile and connect with us there too.

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Our New Website Design

This past weekend I have launched a new website design for the parent website for The Web Authority blog. You can check it out at www.McCordWeb.com. The design is simply yet classic in nature and built in CSS. It features a menu from f-Source which builds complex CSS, XML, SEO friendly navigations.

I have moved my pages to a wider screen layout to accommodate the growing screen widths and have tried to simplify my design to keep the eyes focused on content. Additionally I have reorganized the architecture of the site.

Simply won’t appeal to everyone, but the layout is clean, uncluttered, and streamlined. In addition to a rework of our website, I have revised my firms business strategy to focus on what generates our income. We started out eight years ago doing web design, but have now grown into more of a web service provider than a designer.

That being said we’ve just recently launched a new website for a client. You can view the work at www.AMWarnerInsurance.com. This design is more complex and elegant. Take a look at both and let me know what you think.

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Google Chrome – No IE Smasher

Well I downloaded Google Chrome on Tuesday and have taken it for a run. Yawn, it is just another browser you’ll download and then discard. I personally found it highly unexciting and too simple in design. Simple can be good, but Google Chrome is not even classic in design.

The one thing that I did like was the ability to drag a URL directly from the address bar into a bar spot for a super easy bookmark. However, I found the inability to nail down the bookmarks to a side bar location like I do with IE 7 annoying to say the least.

Will Google Chrome be more than a novelty? Probably not. Of course there are some people who like anything new and will try it and swear by it, but I am still sticking with IE 7. I like the polish and finesse of IE 7.

You might be thinking, she doesn’t like it because it’s new. No, I am not adverse to change, but I have to tell you for as much time as I am online, I need a workhorse browser, one that makes things easy for me. I want bookmarks and favorites where I want them, I want a slim control profile, I want secure browsing sure, but I want one that is easy to use too.