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Monday, June 24, 2013

Social Media: Is your hash tag working for you ?


Your hashtag can tell a lot about your online activity if you make sure to use it. When used properly anyone can find out every thing you want them to know via a search engine like google. When it matters the most, make sure you use your hash tag. The hash tag should definitely be included in your marketing plan. Right now,  before everyone else figures out just how effective a hash tag is. 





Screen Shot of #chicagohparties on google

Screenshot of #chicagohparties on Facebook

Screenshot of #chicagohparties on twitter

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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Special Offer: Website Package



I decided to add One professional bio to the website package. 
So, let's recap here. 
This is what you get.
Hosting ( I will host)
Domain
Unlimited email accounts
One cms power website
Unlimited pages
You may select one FREE logo from my FREE logo designs selection .
1 custom header that I will design
Blog 
Calendar (Events can be integrated with facebook events)
Contact & Booking Form (Info is sent to your inbox)
Photo Gallery (photo resizing if needed)
Video Gallery
Music Page (music conversion if needed)
Newsletter (built into your website)
Social Media Integration (auto post options for Facebook and twitter share buttons) 

This is also a responsive design.

Here are your options:
A.) The initial cost is $300.00 after that the cost is $100.00 a month. 

or 

B.) The initial cost is $300.00 and $300.00 upon completion.  Hosting for one year, no monthly cost and no support. 






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Friday, June 7, 2013

Web Design: What is Responsive Web design ?



What is "responsive web design"?
Well according to Wikipedia:
Responsive web design (often abbreviated to RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones).
Why is it important?
Well according to Pew Internet:
Nearly nine in ten smartphone owners (87%) use their phones to access the internet or email, with 78% of these users saying that they go online using their phone on a typical day.4 Put differently, that means that on a typical day 68% of all smartphone owners go online using their phone. Although smartphone ownership varies significantly based on demographic factors, within the smartphone owner population there is relatively little variation when it comes to using one’s phone to go online. Age is the primary differentiator—fully 94% of smartphone owners ages 18-29 use their phones to go online, with eight in ten (81%) doing so on a typical day.
Now add the number of users who are using a tablet to surf the internet and the number increases. So if your website is not responsive, then you are loosing out.
This is the reason that the new design of this site is totally responsive, and dynamically changes based upon the viewing area of the device you are using.  Try it yourself.  Just adjust your browser size slowly and you will see the design change from a desktop view, to a tablet, then to a mobile device.  How did we accomplish this? Well, it took a bit of time but:
  • Get a responsive template.  I just love Yootheme and their warp framework for this. But there is more to do than that.
  • You need to assign an auto size css class to our images so they will adjust in size to the device.
  • You need to assign css to modules that you want seen on just the desktop, just a tablet, or just a mobile phone.
  • If you have videos then you need to do some css work also so they adjust in size also.
It was a fun and great experience redoing our Joomla! site to be a responsive web site.  How long did it take?  Well the css for out video delivery from youtube took around 4 hours to work out all the kinks.  Then customizing the other css took another couple of hours. As for assigning the auto resize css class tot eh images, that took a few minutes using SQL on the database itself.
 So if you delay in converting your template on your Joomla! site to be responsive, then plan on your competition crushing you!


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Monday, June 3, 2013

Social Media: Salary Guide

Social Media Jobs and Salaries Guide
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