Time to talk about what's being delivered. 

I constantly get clients coming to me with their own horror stories about having their websites created by artists, not engineers or developers. What this leads to for the most part is websites that don't evolve, don't provide relatively easy ways to keep pace with burgeoning tech. This doesn't mean that engineers and developers have it right either, if someone is delivering you a proprietary development, they damn well should be able to provide support for that system for years to come. Problem is that rarely happens and there are lots of clients stuck with proprietary developments that are difficult and expensive to update and manage.

Getting married, thinking about it? We just launched the withoutahitchbridalshow.com website. Make sure you get yourself to the site and purchase tickets now!

I am very pround to announce the launch of Dunnett Classic Drums, a world reknowned drum maker. ROnn Dunnett and I were hands on for a year building this site, its' very customized to say the least. Ronn also takes his own photographs and they are incredible, please check out the site and let me know what you think!

DUNNETT DRUMS

First of all some Background. It occurs to me that the changs in this OS are significant.

We feature Professional Wedding DJ Services with our DJ's personally trained by Professional Premier Wedding DJ and Author of the Book "How to Hire a Wedding DJ", Colin De Cristofaro. Sound Explosion Entertainment will definitely bring the elegance and party to your wedding. Click For More Information About Our Wedding Services!
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We are always booking weddings one year in advance, so be sure to book early! Contact Us for Event Specific Pricing via our Convenient Contact Form <http://www.soundexplosionent.com/contact-us>

Are Seeking a Professional DJ Service for your Night Club or Pub? We have Professional Disc Jockeys who cater to all tastes in music including the ultimate underground club sounds you have experienced in big city night clubs to the best of current Top 40. 

Sound Explosion Entertainment features Top Tier Club DJ's such as DJ Tantrum, DJ Clarence To, DJ Cole Geier, DJ Dougystyle, & DJ Dirty Santos. 

Our extensive line up of Disc Jockeys available for your club or private event will take you to a new dimension.

Be sure to check out our International Division of DJ's as we add new profiles each week, including German DJ Sensation Sven Jacobsen, and French Sensation DJ Fred Buckanon!

Book one of our Club DJs, please visit our Club DJ Division
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Just launched Bookless Math www.booklessmath.com

Bookless Math have created a new card based concept to help you and your kids grasp the math much easier. The site is full enabled for ecommerce.

We are proud to announce the launch of this societies very important website. The COHO Society is an important partner for the COHO salmon. Please visit the site and support them if you can. They also have festival every summer in conjunciton with the COHO Run.

The Coho Society of the North Shore is in its 32^nd year of raising public awareness of current and potential threats to local waterways and fisheries and helping to resolve these issues through protecting, enhancing and restoring salmonid habitats.

Advanced Healing Arts is a group of practioners that offer a wide variety of serivces: 

The also offers insightful videos. Please check it out today!

www.advancedhealingarts.ca

Web GooRu is proud to annouce the launch of the safetygroup.co website.

SAFE-NET INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING INC. is a team of professionals offering services to companies who are committed to achieving outstanding business results. We help companies transform cultures primarily through disciplined metric based activities directed at managing workplace safety and risk. We do this helping with cultural transformation, leadership assessment and coaching, forensic auditing and skill training.

We are proud to launch the newly developed website www.assuredthermal.com Brett and his crew specialize in getting a handle on those nasty bedbugs. You'll want to know him sooner or later I'm afraid (but that's a good thing).

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We are proud to launch the North Shore Indoor Soccer League's new website www.nssoccer.com The newly developed Dome is North Vancouver's only indoor facility like this.

We are proud to announce the launch of a very important website. Tri City Business www.tricitybusiness.ca Colin and his company provide exvcellent Internet Marketing and SEO services. You may want to pay double when you see what he can do for your online business.

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What's in a domain name?

You need a domain, or rather your business does. There are aspects to consider that elude you, so here is some insight.

We are proud to announce the launch of the Sound Explosion Website www.soundexplosionent.com DJ's, music and bookings all available.

Sound Explosion Entertainment features the French Connection DJ Fred Buckanon straight from the European Night Scene, Vinyl Sensation DJ Babybliss, DJ GrandPri, DJ Tantrum, NGST's Clarence To & Mark Jackson, DJake Berlin and Kevin Sanders.

Not all webhosts are the same! Some are based on windows servers and use asp databases, most now are on Unix servers running the Apache web host system. I usually see more legacy style solutions on the windows server. 

Joomla works best on Apache, and very well with the Cpanel package installed on top of that. This helps control the apache permissions regarding the Joomla directory. Some Host although on Unix and Apache, run their own custom control panels (like Go Daddy) and quite frankly these never work well, and Joomla sites will suffer.

We are proud to launch the Randy A Roy Photography website www.randyaroy.com Randy has some great shots to show you, and he is quite able to provide what you need. Give Randy a call when you need a photographer!

We are pround to annouce the launch of the new website www.2ndlookdayspa.com Located in the Coquitlam Mall the spa has plenty of great services to pamper you with. They have monthly specials and you can even buy gift certificates on line. 

Check them out, and don't forget to tell them what you think of their website!

You need a domain, or rather your business does. There are aspects to consider that elude you, so here is some insight.

We have registered probably well over a thousand domain names for a myriad of clients. In the early days of the internet there was a "land rush" for domain names, and some people set up "domain farms". Those are places and companies that spend all day snapping up names, and turning them around for sale. That avenue is available of course, and may be appropriate if it pertains to a brand or trademark or even product name.

Here we go with the basics. I get asked all the time to detail the steps necessary to get going with a website. I'm talking primarily about Business websites here. I will also qualify this by saying I have a minimum requirement for business sites and the base line is this: If your site cannot be viewed the same way on all devices from smart phones to laptops and desktops on Mac, PC, Unix, Windows Phone 7, iOs and android, then the site fails. Delivering the message the same is of the highest order, the corporate message must be consistent.

You know what tech is the first out the door with this minimum requirement? Flash! That's right, the thing people ask for the most, is not business grade and has no place on a business website. Imagine a potential client visiting your flash website and cannot view it because it requires a plugin or flat-out just won't work on that device. This means no in my world, sorry flash. There is other tech out there that has issues as well, so make sure you test your site in every browser ad device you can. Don't worry about not being able to use flash though, we can get very creative and come up with alternatives.

This is fantastic news. New client Randy A Roy Photography and his site that shows off his work has already landed on page one of Google. This is due to two very key elements; 1) Sites developed by Web GooRu are optimized to very SEO friendly 2) our strategic partnership with our SEO partner is proving to be the key ingredient and getting clients sites way up the ranking and results much faster then ever before. Quite remarkable really, it used to take much longer.

We are proud to launch the Ambient Air website www.ambientair.ca Taking care of your heating and ventilation needs in the tri-city area. On call if you need them and friendly service as well. Put them in your book, you'll be happy you did.

Web GooRu has just re-launched thier site. Complete with new services, logo and a slight name change. The company has ramped up services for the new and redifining website development market.

Along with the new look and attitude is are new services, which are perfectly in line with the what the advance of the technology is requiring. Developing and design websites has changed again, and more focus is being put on SEO and marketing. Good thing to, becasue the devevelopment has gotten quicker and more resourceful.

We are pround to not only have developed this website but to also participate as a sponsor. Toonies For Kids www.tooniesforkids.info This society assists children and families in distress, they need your help.

The basic needs and well-being of less fortunate children in the Lower Mainland are too often overlooked and even forgotten. At the Toonies for Kids Society, the well-being of children is our first priority. We want to give all children an equal opportunity to excel at life and reach their full potential.

Quite simply, Content Mangement is the editing of your site, but there are many distinctions. Writers pen their articles and submit to an editor to allude to the newspaper industry (works well here). Those articles are then "fitted" into the publication after the copy has been (re) formatted for the publication.

Your website can be approached much the same way, the artilces are written, checked and then published. When a company such as Web GooRu supplies Content Management, it goes something like this:

If you are using Wordpress and intend to use it to build your business site, then STOP! Switch over to Joomla! And never look back. Continue down the path of Wordpress and get stuck in their development chasing Joomla! Somehow Wordpress has gained traction and has become quite popular. Folks may not know the difference and attach themselves to Wordpress because it looks easy. Make no mistake, Wordpress is not for businesses (yet). It has a long way to go to offer the resources required to support a business website.

Joomla! Comes from humble beginnings. It started as MAMBO a commercial product that the authors (from Australia) released in to the open source world. Problem was the authors had intended to bring MAMBO back into the commercial world after the Open Source community further developed it. That rubbed the open source community the wrong way and they “forked” the development and named the new development JOOMLA! Since then the CMS has attracted unprecedented developers of components, modules, plugins and templates. Their Forum alone has been the most active on the planet reaching 1 million posts a couple of years ago.

A to-do and calendar application. Informant rocks, at least for me. I'm able to track the 52 projects I have on the go. Each project has dozens of tasks associated. It allows you to assign a task to a project, and date it, tag it, give it a context, add a child task, assign importance, mark completeness, make it repeat, assign to another calendar and add alarms.

That's pretty much everything you'd want to do. The folks that make the app respond quickly to requests, and the app itself gets updated regularly.

Here's the relative quick and dirty...

1. Find a domain name

There is a huge difference. I'm a developer so I'll be biased about this, but there is some logic here.

Website designers are typically graphic artists/designers. They make things look good, and assist in the layout. A web developer makes the site work, and function with all the resources, and in all the web browsers. A developer may even hire a web designer to help finish off the look and feel of the site.

The Content Management Sytem (CMS) world is charging hard and making huge waves in the industry. CMS's have evolved in the last 7 years or so into a defacto development platform for many developers, namely myself.

CMS's have replaced many of the tools we used to use to develop websites. The evolution of the internet has matured the tools so that now developers can quickly bring a site to market. It used to take quite a long time to hand code a site. Now using CMS's that time has greatly been reduced. Not only can we build sites faster, but much more accurately too.

The iPhone brings an element to my business that I was not expecting. The iPhone has made it into my toolbox as must have tool for my business all day long. That means that I'm on it constantly, and rarely speaking on the phone, but using apps, email and the browser constantly. That means I have to keep an eye on my data traffic. If you have unlimited data then you don't need to know this. If you don't then read on.

Your iPhone has WIFI capability and that is the main thing that sold me. Now when I go out, I scan for available networks and connect when I can. Coffee shops, groceries and what have you. The fact that I can connect over Wifi, means that my cell carrier cannot charge me for the data. That's huge cause if it did not have it, I'd be paying huge for data. As it stands now, I'm actually under my data cap each month as I am careful where I get internet access on the iPhone. Yes it works wherever I get coverage, but the Wifi means I can work all day long and respond to email when I have to.

Welcome to iphone blog. Here I will review iphone apps and discuss features of the iphone. For now hardware reviews will focus on the Apple 3gs and the Apple iPhone OS 4.1. If you do not have the latest update I suggest you get it. If your phone is jail broken and you are concerned about the update DON'T DO IT until you have researched the process.

The recent update to the iPhone OS was done around the same time as the iTunes upgrade to v10. The most significant addition to the OS and itunes was the addition of PING. I musical twitter style social media...Jury is still out.

Keep your website safe!

In my experience website management is a must. If left unchecked your website could easily become hacked or controlled by another. Why does this happen? Simple, the internet is a place of evolution, it does not stop expanding, or evolving, and if your website does not keep pace it becomes vulnerable very fast.

SPAM! UGH!

We all get it, all day long. Spam now accounts for well over 90% of email sent around the world. That doesn't mean we are not sending much mail, because we are in a very huge way. It's just that spammers are prolific, and it wasn't that hard to be that prevalant. A few scripts and a spammer an proliferate the net with mindless junk. It's not going to go away, at least not completely. In fact the powers that be have even suggested that perhaps we will pay for every mail sent! YIKES!! Let's hope it does not go that way.

Here is how I deal with email, and the 15 unique email accounts I run with:

Just published! A new interactive Project Manager

For registered members, we have launched a project management system that allows you to be more intereactive with the development of your project. All of the people involved in your project can interact with with the pn-line manager according to level of access granted to them.

You can create tasks and assiign them to milestones, Create calendar items, Upload any type of file, Customize and use your own private forum and of course cutomize your own profile.

Vista and XP

1. Go to your control panel (start>>control panel)
2. Locate the Regional and language Options launch it
3. The Regional and Language Options window opens, Choose KEYBOARDS and LANGUAGE
4. SELECT CHANGE KEYBOARD.
5. The TEXT SERVICES AND INPUT LANGUAGES opens, Delete them all EXCEPT-US in the drop down list
6. Select OK

This is how to blog. The component is made by IDO and all operations can happen from the front end. These instructions are for IDO Blog only and may not work for any other blog. Please note the Blog menu item in the Main Menu.

All blogs are written to the BLOGS category and as such we can deal with it just as we do with any other category.