http://www.appliedwebvitals.com/blog Web Design and Development Discussion Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:06:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As we mentioned in an earlier post, Applied Web Vitals is developing a line of website templates for the Adobe Contribute platform. These Contribute templates will be designed for plug-in-play use and will incorporate the latest SEO standards as well as clean, light XHTML and CSS code. We anticipate our ... http://www.appliedwebvitals.com/blog/54/adobe-contribute-website-templates-requesting-input/ Quick announcement to Applied Web Vitals' clients and others using the latest version of WordPress, version 2.6---the plugin PodPress, used for podcasting and video casting, is not working with the latest versions of WordPress. This issue has been outstanding for several weeks now and a resolutions does not appear ... http://www.appliedwebvitals.com/blog/51/podpress-plugin-down_freeware-dependence/ Our weekly Web Technology Discussion group will resume on Wednesday August 20th at 7pm - at The Market Commons Barnes & Noble cafe in Myrtle Beach. We will not be meeting 8/6 or 8/13. Unless I get a special request otherwise, the main topic for 8/20 will be e-commerce. ... http://www.appliedwebvitals.com/blog/43/web-discussion-resuming-august-20/ We are pleased to share the launch our most recent client site, The Teak Hut at theteakhut.com. This South Carolina company has been in operation for a number years as a brick-&-mortar business. Several months ago, Applied Web Vitals was consulted to explore the move to e-commerce. At ... http://www.appliedwebvitals.com/blog/41/new-client-site-launched-e-commerce-contribute/ Applied Web Vitals is planning to release a line of website templates for the Adobe Contribute CS3 platform. The line of fully developed templates will be designed for plug and play use, for quick installation and launch. Contribute CS3 is a website editing software program for the PC and Mac, developed ... http://www.appliedwebvitals.com/blog/39/adobe_contribute_cs3_website_templates/ By popular demand . . . the Wednesday web technology discussion group has been moved to 7PM each week. We will continue to meet in the same place, Barnes & Noble cafe at Myrtle Beach Market Common. If you haven't been yet, attendance is free and open to everyone ... http://www.appliedwebvitals.com/blog/37/myrtle-beach-web-discussion-moved-to-wednesday-7pm/ If you didn't know, the accessibility of flash is (or has thus far been) significantly less than that of standard HTML. If you knew that, did you know that there have been some advancement in the ability for search engines (Google) to read and index flash? Well, don't take this ... http://www.appliedwebvitals.com/blog/35/flash-vs-html-the-gap-is-narrowing/ Assuming that my web guy died is actually giving him the benefit of the doubt; I have no idea where his is. Falling off the face of the earth is always a plausible explanation. Emails aren't bouncing and voice mail isn't full so it's probably more likely that he's made ... http://www.appliedwebvitals.com/blog/34/hiring-a-web-design-professional/ The web technology discussion group of Myrtle Beach has been meeting every Wednesday at 6PM at the Market Common Barnes & Nobles (in the cafe). I'm writing to get your feedback on timing. Is 6PM the best time for you? Or would 7 or 8PM work better. Some of our small ... http://www.appliedwebvitals.com/blog/32/myrtle-beach-web-discussion-group/ This week's Web Technology Discussion revolved around search engine optimization (SEO) and the must-have components to improve your site's search engine ranking. To that end, we have put together the following SEO Punch List and corresponding podcast. While there most definitely is more to the subject and process of SEO ... http://www.appliedwebvitals.com/blog/28/seo-punch-list-podcast-of-web-technology-discussion/