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Author: stephanie pleasants

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6 Signs Your Website is Screaming for an Update (and How to Fix Them!)

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How to Shine Like a Star in Search Results: Mastering Meta Descriptions

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How to Be an Amazing Podcast Guest

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Where to Use White Space on Your Website (And Why It Matters!)

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The Art of Collaboration: Pros and Cons of Design by Committee

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Don’t Miss Out: Optimize Your Google Business Profile Today!

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Tips

Howdy from Texas

A big howdy to ya! We are delighted to announce that we are now coming to you from the great state of Texas! We just completed a move from Southern Maryland to the Austin area of Texas. We’re still that wonderful hometown, small business web design and hosting company that

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Social Media

Kids + Facebook = MinorMonitor

I originally wrote this for my parenting blog, but I feel that this article also fits in here. It’s techy, techy is what I do. “Chronically Late”, that’s the new title I’m giving myself 😉 I’m always behind on posting, I never get to park days on time, it’s amazing

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Portfolio

Buy Joe’s Pools

Shannon was a previous client of mine, so when her husband needed a website for his pool business, she knew exactly where to turn! He already had business cards in use, so I took that and created a site to match. The site was done in WordPress to allow Shannon

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Portfolio

One client, Two sites.

I had previously done this first site, boudoirphotographynetwork.com, for Robin, but she quickly outgrew it. I knew her site had potential! We had to find a new solution and we did, we used Classipress. Classipress was originally written as a classifieds theme for WordPress. With some heavy editing, I was

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Business Operations

Hootsuite Rocks at Managing Social Networks!

I manage a few Twitter accounts and it gets annoying trying to remember the various usernames/passwords. Not to mention the time it takes to log in to each account individually. Enter Hootsuite. Hootsuite allows you to manage your social networks with one simple log in. Not only that, you can

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Email Marketing

One Gmail Account, Many Addresses

This may be old news to some, but it was new news to me. I had a customer service person tell me that someone had an email address very similar to mine, only theirs was all caps and that I should take my complaint to Gmail and ask them why

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Gmail + Multiple Addresses Per Contact + Groups

One feature that Gmail is lacking is the ability to send an email to multiple addresses for a single contact when using groups. Say you have a soccer team, each child has two parents with seperate email addresses. You put the child’s name in your contact list, add each parent’s

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Portfolio

Changing-Moments

Changing Moments is a custom photo card site. The entire site was built in php using Mal’s eCommerce for the shopping cart. The admin area allows the site owner to add products, view uploaded customer images and more. I created a logo, a flash navigation area and all graphics.

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