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Websites Make Money

The ultimate goal of every website is to generate income. Many professional offering their services, can use a simple informational website to offer their services on the web, and potentially generate business from the website by encouraging interested visitors to initialize some form of contact. This contact can come by way of phone call or email, depending on the preferences of the website owner.

There are also E-Commerce websites. This is typically an extension of a brick and mortar establishment, but in todays market, that is not necessarily the case. There are many entrepenuers who simply resell products for a profit. They may benefit from search engine optimization to generate online sales or even use Google Adwords to pay for traffic.

Either way, the website you establish will determine your potential for earning income online. SgPro is a professional web design company based in Fort Lauderdale. If you understand the importance of a strong website, you should contact us for a professional evaluation of your needs, and the affordable solutions that we can provide. We are based in Fort Lauderdale Florida. We have worked with many small businesses in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and the Palm Beaches, to help them improve or establish a strong internet presence. For more details on web design and search engine optimization please visit our website.

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Developing a website for international traffic was daunting at first. I had looked at some of the online translators available, and was sadly disappointed. Typically free translators, will try to include their brand into the translation service that they offer. This would be either by changing the URL, or by including an I Frame or some other nuisance.

I had settled on Babelfish, a free service from Yahoo, and easy to say, that this was not a good solution. Translations were inconsistent at best. As I was new to this, I tried to incorporate Google Translator, which led me to JQuery Translate. When I say led me to, I mean that Google was not independently offering the service for large amounts of text. Remember the goal was to dynamically translate an entire page. Needless to say I “googled” Jquery translate, and arrived here: http://code.google.com/p/jquery-translate/.

Needless to say, I cut my development time in half using this option. Let me know if you need some help setting this up. It should take about a half an hour or so to implement.

Greetings, just fixed the first fresh cup of coffee…after tinkering with a new domain. I have just taken some time to start tinkering with the JQuery Plugin, JQuery UI. Simply put, is a set of components that can be easily plugged in to typical user interface situations. In my quest to find a new Date Picker utility for a project( soon to be mentioned…) I was happy to re-discover JQuery UI. If you can program a Javascript popup, you should have no problem implementing this plugin.

One of the main reason that web designers utilize these plugins is to save development time on a project. Why reinvent the wheel for something as simple as a date picker. It would take at least an hour or two to program the time conversions ( all the possible time formats..etc…) compared to the minutes it took to download, install, implement, and upload. The documentation is very easy to read, with some neat features to customize your implementation. The nice folks at JQuery UI have even developed a page that allows you to style your download before you download it, to save a little more time…lol..nice work. http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ is the link to the Customizer.

I will walk through the steps of the process and share a link to the live page for you to check out. I download the zip file, and extract to another folder. The page I was working on was already using Jquery, so I did not have to use the file provided with the download, I then copied the js file from the js folder to the js folder on my website. The next step is the css, I copied the custom-theme folder (contents are the css file and images folder) to my css directory on the website. The most important part of this process is remembering the paths to the appropriate files.

After you include the appropriate files in the [head] section of the webpage, there is some coding to include as well. You can copy from the index file in the download. This code is a javascript function that executes when the page is fully loaded into the browser. It simply assigns the appropriate components to the appropriate element(div or whatever container you choose).

Rather than past the code here, You can view source of the demo page for the code, feel free to comment or ask questions. Demo Link. Hope this post was helpful. If you need more help with a side project for your website, feel free to contact me through my web design website. I am local to Ft Lauderdale. Web Design Ft Lauderdale.

Screenshot of JayLenoShow.com before Jay Leno.

A few days ago, the Boston Herald reported that a domain squatter from Katy, Texas, owned the domain name “thejaylenoshow.com”. Former domain owner, Guadalupe Zambrano was using the url to redirect traffic to his real estate website.

I can’t imagine how this would help conversions. Hard to see how people searching for Jay Leno,  would be interested in going to a real estate website. The website at the url was not a typical domain landing page with links related to the search term (Jay Leno in this case). It was actually a full fledged real estate website.

When I first heard about this situation, I immediately thought the guy was a domain squattter who was trying to sell the url to the NBC show. Mr. Zambrano was acutally quite content doing business through this url and had no interest to sell the name, or at least, this was not reported. Judging by the website under the jaylenoshow.com url, I would tend to believe that the real estate genius from Katy, Texas, was not after money.

According to the Boston Herald report, The UN, World Intellectual Property Organization says the domain will have to be transferred to the comedian, Jay Leno.

Just  a note to anyone interested in starting an online business, and you are considering what domain name to buy, talk to a trusted web developer with regards to issues like domain name selection. I will write another article soon about using brand names in your domains. Contact me for more at http://www.sgprofl.net/.

Greetings folks,

Yesterday, I was sitting in with my employer, talking to a client about the copy he had brought with him for the new Website we are building for him. Everything was organized, all the copy was in folders, and the client was very proud of finally putting together all the copy for his new site.

I couldn’t believe it when my boss, decided to start offering new features for the website, that were outside of the scope of the quote for the site. AAargh. I am always warning clients about this as we get midway through the process, they decide they may want to include different features from the quote. Now the boss wants to increase the amount of time the project will take, without an increase in fees for the additional work. I have nothing against giving a little, especially with clients who come to a meeting with the check for the deposit. The issue with this incident is that the extra work would in no way enhance the website, other than offering more pages of content for spiders to crawl.

I understand the motivation behind it, but it was still overkill. The content provided by the client was so keyword rich, it was un necessary to create fluff pages to try to increase relevancy. Having some experience with SEO, duh, I couldn’t wait for the client to leave to have a heart to heart with the boss. SEO Content is best optimized for readers as well as Spiders. I have found the best results on copy that is sprinkled with keywords, but is a logical read for visitors.

Luckily the client was aware of what the boss was trying to do, and opted not to force a commitment from us to complete the new proposed task. That reason alone was enough to make me want to do it, because the client was so gracious. I was so glad to hear that the client and I were on the same page, when “Joe client” admitted that he was interested in providing content to the visitors that would encourage a phone call, rather than have them read 16 pages of fluff content that would in no way promote the business of the website.

Client satisfaction is always the main priority. No matter what, the client has to be happy. However, if they are already happy, then you can rest easy that you have done your job as a professional. Relax.