The Internet is quickly replacing the Yellow Pages when customers are looking for local businesses. People in your area are searching the Internet for a business like yours.
For your business to thrive in today's marketplace you need a website. Not any website will do. You need a website that highlights your products or services, is attractive, easy to navigate and gets seen by the people in your area who are looking for your kind of business.
These potential customers are looking for a business like yours, the question is will they find you, or will they find your competitors? It doesn't matter if you are a plumber or a hair stylist, customers expect you to have a website, if you don't you are losing money.
Oh sure you can list you business on the thousands of business directories and get a hit now and again but if you are serious about growth a website is a must.
Just to give you an example I will tell you about my offline services. I have a window, carpet and painting services business's you can even see my window cleaning website for a simple yet exacting website at www.nopanewindowcleaners.com . I have a website for each service I offer my customers in my local area of Vancouver.
Not only is this good for getting new customers it is essential for my local customers to have a place to go and leave me a message or just view more of my services.
What about you ? Do you know any of your friends or associates if they need a website?
What if I could offer you a complete service from building your website to promoting it until it gets to the 1st pages of Googles Search?
What if you could offer everyone who owns a website a video to promote thier online business.
The best part is I can give you 2 websites that you can use to give away a free business promo video to your prospects just for trying our service and if not happy they can keep the video as our gift.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WHAT I HAVE SAID THUSFAR THEN GO BACK TO MY PROFILE AND SEE THE ABOUT ME SECTION. YOU WILL SEE THE 2 WEBSITES YOU WILL RECIEVE AND THE SITES CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN THEN YOU SHOULD GO HERE FOR YOUR PACKAGE
It had to come sometime and it is here! Google Chrome is the new kid on the block when it comes to web browsers and I must say that it seems like I will be trading all my browsers for the Google Chrome.
I have downloaded the browser earlier today and it was installed automatically on my computer in record time. I was quite surprised to find that the Google Chrome browser is much faster than expected and that makes it a winner in my eyes at this time. The new graphic user interface is clean; another plus from me, but it was quite another story figuring out where what is on the menu. It took me a short while to discover the navigation of the Google Chrome browser and now it is already making me think twice before opening any other browser that I used in the past.
What I found comforting is the ?New incognito window? function that allow you to surf any site and leave absolutely no trace in your browser history nor does it leave any other tell tale information such as cookies. This is a function that I dreamt off for a long time, not that I want to use it to be anonymous but rather to keep my surfing habits private from advertising companies that make use of cookie tracking.
The next welcoming sight is the amount of actual screen space that is available for viewing the website that you visit. With no menu bar you claim a few inches of screen space that make it an absolute pleasure to browse web pages with continuous content that was split in the past. Another screen space saver is the browser tabs and the way that is arranged at the top of the screen. It has the same feel as Firefox but to my surprise I actually found that it is much better to use and more user-friendly.
Back to the installation; after the Google Chrome browser was installed, I cinched at the idea of downloading Flash again or to get flash to work properly with the browser ? like with Firefox. Quite to my surprise I found flash working perfectly on loading my first site with a flash file embedded into the pages. This is once again a plus point for the Google Chrome browser.
There is another screen space saver and that is the combination of the address and search bar. It is at first very strange to make use of this function if it was not used before. While using IE, not by choice, I got lazy and would just type the keyword in the address bar and hit enter. With Google setup as my default search, it just started the Google search with the keyword and it seems like this was the whole idea from Google in the first place. Well, they deserve the Noddy Badge for this nice function ? sorry if you do not understand the expression but this is a color full South African expression.
The real reason for my enthusiasm for the Google Chrome browser is the fact that I now will be able to read through my articles without having to scroll up and down through the pages as there will be enough screen space to read the bulk of the articles on my Find Article Site. The Google Chrome browser also loads much faster and will make my life much easier dealing with my Find Article site.
Like most web developers or SEO professionals, I use a vast array of tools to get the job done. I use a combination of desktop and web applications, some purchased and some free. Everyone I know has downloaded a free copy of Mozilla Firefox, but few realize that by installing some of the 1,500 free extensions they can eliminate the need for most of the other applications they currently use. Below are my 13 favorite extensions for web professionals (in no particular order):
HTML Validator (http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/) validates web pages to the W3C HTML standards with a simple green check in the corner of the page if the page validates, a red check if it doesn , and a yellow exclamation point if there are warnings. It also includes an enhanced view of source code that allows you to see where errors are within the code.
FireFTP (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/) free, secure, cross-platform FTP client that provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. This eliminates a piece of software for those of you who use a separate program for FTP.
Professor X (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2823/) lets you view header information without having to view source code. The page lides down and Professor X shows you the contents of the pages head element, including Meta, Script and Style content.
NikkelWHOIS (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2646/) iew the WHOIS information for any page by clicking the button on the top-right of the browser.
IE Tab (http://ietab.mozdev.org) sick of swapping between Internet Explorer and Firefox when testing out a web page you e developing With IE Tab you can view Internet Explorer in a Firefox Tab!
FireBug (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/) an advanced debugger console that lets you monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax.
Codetech (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1002/) web page editor that has the feel of Dreamweaver. An amazing extension for anyone doing web design that doesn want to fork out a few hundred dollars for Dreamweaver.
Server Switcher (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2409/) easily switch between sites on your development and live servers by clicking the switch server icon.
SEO for Firefox (http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html) pulls useful market research data right into Googles and Yahoo!s search results, including Google PR, Age, links, Alexa rank, WHOIS, and more. It also adds a few helpful links to the top of the search pages, including Google Trends, Google Traffic Estimator, and the Overture View Bid tool.
Yet Another Window Resizer (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2498/) allows you to resize browser window to default screen resolutions.
AdSense Preview (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2132/) preview the Google AdSense ads that would appear on that page. This is incredibly useful if you are considering putting AdSense on a page and don want to go through the hassle of signing up for an account and putting the ads up just to see what type of ads will show.
Screen grab (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1146/) takes a screenshot of the webpage and saves it as an image file. This saves a ton of time compared to the method I used to use take a screenshot and open Adobe Photoshop to crop the image.
Server Spy (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2036/) indicates what brand of HTTP server (Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on the visited site on the lower-right side of the browser.
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