Keyword Location Overview

In addition to adding keywords to your content, it is also important to place them within the HTML body of your website.  Below are areas within the header of your page that should include keywords:

Notice the TITLE tag and also the META tags

Finally within the body of your actual page, there are some “behind the scenes” keyword placement techniques highlighted below:

Keywords within the H1 tags are very important

Keywords in ALT tags and Titles of images and links are also great.

UI that looked sexy in Photoshop almost always looks overdesigned when we try it for real in the browser. Here’s a hypothesis. Simple and useful designs just don’t seem good enough when they are dead pixels. They need to be brought to life before they can be appreciated. Until that happens we overcompensate with garnish.

- Ryan From 37Signals

I am on a team of developers writing the application.  In the video you can see a trivia game that we worked with some students to write.  My role is Project Manager/Creative Director/Technical Architect.  The game was my concept although the idea is heavily inspired by the BW3’s styled trivia game.  I also helped with some of the technical architecture but the students did most of the programming work.  We showed them how we want the system to be built, what technologies we wanted them to use, some other technical guidance and they did a great job taking it from there.  Our next step is to clean up some of the user interface and bring in a graphic designer to make it look really good.

The other cool thing about this video is it was taken with our new SLR camera. We bought a Canon 7D. The goal is to be able to take some more of the images displayed on the sites we develop and even shoot some footage if necessary.  The camera shoots in 30fps at 1080p.  This should help cut costs instead of outsourcing to photographers and production companies.

Green Leaf Energy Audit Services

The Green Leaf Energy Auditing Services website launched this week highlighting another complete solution provided by Home Base Web.  Using a Word Press Template, we customized the logo, designed the website, and set up both web hosting and email services… all in about a week.

It was a pleasure working with Gary and Cindy Ungerer and we wish them the best in their new business venture.  We look forward to offering our continued support for all of our customers for all of their online needs.

According to hitwise, MySpace’s ranking in the Entertainment – Mutlimedia visitors experienced a nearly 10% drop in popularity:

MySpace loses popularity

MySpace’s initial growth focused on community and music. The chart below shows MySpace’s drop in contribution of traffic to the Music – Bands & Artists category.

MySpace Music Contribution

MySpace also recently ousted the CEO, (you know, Tom) according to their press release. They also recently slashed their workforce.

Is the end near? If so, collegehumor.com has a suggestion of what you can do with your old MySpace account.

Below is an example of how we can integrate facebook to your website. Check out our automated twitter feed on the right as well!

… or take a look at the parody: