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CouchOne’s J Chris Anderson On Decentralizing Twitter – And the Rest Of the Web

admin — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:34:28 +0000

J Chris Anderson, CFO of CouchOne, has been hosting a curious CouchApp on his personal site: Twebz. Twebz is a “decentralized Twitter client.” We were curious about what that meant, so I did an interview with Anderson about the project. He says it’s a just a demonstration of what CouchApps are capable of. But it also hints at what CouchDB is really trying to accomplish: a radical re-architecting of the Web into a more decentralized system. Read on for the full interview.

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Content Management Systems Explained

wunruh — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:39:30 +0000

Content Management Systems we support are robust, widely-supported by the development community, powerful, and free to own (open-source). Once we install, design, and modify a system, we train you on how to keep your site up to date and current with content you add anytime!

WordPress- once for blogs, now excels for any dynamic site! Easy to Use!
Joomla- powerful web presence system, create a community online!
Zencart- top notch, extremely powerful online shopping cart/store!
Gallery- photographer’s best friend, create and sell multimedia easily!
MediaWiki- like wikipedia? Make your own Wiki, great for instructions!
phpBB- the classic online bulletin board, your own web forum!
Moodle- educational web presence. Easily get your classes online!
Pligg- social media center, great for sharing links and info

Click Here for a General Price List on Our Services.

Podcast: How to Develop a Future-Compatible Site

wunruh — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:46:30 +0000

You can’t afford to be slow to adapt online if you hope to be prepared for the future of mobile, or m-commerce. Today’s podcast also covers the importance of web-compatible colors, and Andrew discusses the traditional aspects of graphic design that still hold true even as we design for the future of the internet.

If you are unable to play the podcast using the player below, you can download the podcast directly with this link and listen to the .mp3 with your own player.

By 2011, more people will be accessing the internet by cell phones than by desktop computers. So take a look at your site on a blackberry, an iPhone, or any other cellphone you may have accessible and ask yourself if this is what you want your customers to see. If it looks fine to you, then you probably don’t need our services.

On the other hand, if your site is built on tables, or is reliant on flash, there’s a chance you might want to take ten minutes and listed to our podcast today to learn how we approach forwad-thinking maximum compatibility in our web design.

Look for a bonus podcast tomorrow where we’ll discuss the strategy we apply in developing site navigation.

Website Design and Competitive Keyword Analysis

wunruh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:32:21 +0000

Here at Domozych Media we understand that building web sites is more than just designing a beautiful web page. Web sites are information humans find interesting and a space for search engines indexing the content itself, creating a semantic map of relevance for potential searchers.

At the same time, a website should bring the real world branding image in line with the larger web presence. Creating content that will attract traffic and links can take time, and often there is something of a sandbox effect that is overlayed across new domains by the search engines until they’ve determined the site’s value against the backdrop of the internet as a whole.

When you contact us, we’ll begin by discussing with you what your needs are–do you want to offer services, sell products, or simply create an informative site highlighting your business? If you are an artist, are you wanting a digital portfolio space you can easily update? If you are a musician, perhaps you’d like to sell .mp3s and ringtones, or have a calendar where you can update performance dates.

No matter what your needs, we can identify the most likely search terms people will use to find your information, then work the content and the layout of your site around specific keyword phrases that align with those terms. There are a number of ways to do this, and I have years of experience in efficiently and precisely identifying what people are searching for in any given keyword sector. The content is as important as the form and function if your site is going to be seen by the people who are searching for what you have to offer, which is why Andrew and I work together on each aspect of any given project.

Once the competitive keyword analysis is complete, I provide Andrew with a map of the most valuable terms which he uses to structure the site itself. From there, I work with him to find the best configuration of unique text that emphasizes your services, products, and information. This information architecture underlies the site from the very beginning, so as you grow you know you’re organically adding to a semantically relevant backbone in a direction that won’t decrease your relevance over time.

Also, the competitive analysis will show exactly what your competitors online are doing, and often will reveal points of differentiation where you can leverage your unique strengths against their existing sites. Obviously, this blog piece can only deal with the more abstract nature of keyword analysis, and every site design will be different, but some very basic principles are universal. If you’d like to know more about the research and optimization aspects of website design, web presence, and social media in general, my longer report entitled ‘Quaint Media and Today’s Memetic Ecology’ is available to read for free and you can contact us directly using the form below:

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Podcast: Designing for Maximum Compatibility

wunruh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:41:47 +0000

Today’s podcast (which you can listen to using the player at the bottom of this post, or by downloading directly) is the beginning of a number of podcasts which will highlight how we focus on building sites people can easily use, without confusion. At the end of the day, your website is a solution to a specific concern, that of connecting with people who are interested in what you have to offer. Creating a space where people can learn about your services, products, and brand is the purpose behind putting your site up online.

While this podcast discusses the compatibility issues that arise with flash specifically, we will also be explaining how interactivity can be created using simpler approaches which emphasize your content rather than relying on the bells and whistles of over-the-top animations and flash intro screens. While there are a lot of useful ways to use flash in a website, often relying on graphics and interactivity can limit who is able to use your site. This is something we strive to avoid.

Instead, we explain in today’s audio how the technological changes in browsers and the upcoming advances in html itself are creating new opportunities in how web design can frame content, and how we at Domozych Media are preparing our clients to meet the coming revolution in mobile commerce.

Here are a few related articles on this, from the excellent blog Web Design Ledger:

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email us using the form below and we will happily address your questions in upcoming podcasts.

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Web Design for Internet Marketing

wunruh — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:17:09 +0000

It’s not a secret in the internet marketing world that web design needs to be simple, flexible, and fast. Our tableless approach creates exquisite squeeze pages to harness cross-compatible accessibility on any internet-ready device. Sony mylos, Palm Pilots, Blackberry phones, iPhones, Wiis, Xboxes, and Playstations, netbooks – if you can use it to surf the net, you can read a squeeze page and landing page we built.

Successful sales pages online are different from web structures built for internal networks. Joint venture partnerships are driven by email marketing. Below is a borrowed image, taken from Flickr and used under the creative commons license (something I wrote about on this blog previously), which can be seen as an array of ‘touch-points’ to find potential leads using a social network:

At the center of this hub is where you want to be able to communicate your brand message, your internet presence, with the support of a flexible infrastructure that can be adapted to each of your offers. Internet marketing moves at a different pace than the quaint world of traditional media, brick and mortar office hours. The internet is global, and open, and accessible everywhere – with the right web design, and the right marketing architecture in place, you can be too.

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Watch Sesame Street – Mad Men – Youtube Clip

wunruh — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:42:57 +0000

Above is a wonderful and ‘viral’ video from SesameStreet and their youtube channel. It illustrates some basic truths about marketing, both in content and in the form in which that content is distributed. As a media object, as hypertext, it is flexible – even plasticized. It can be copied, forwarded, resized, and updated from behind with new overlays. Layers upon layers of code can be added to it, and it have a specific address where it can be thought to exist – yet it also exists on countless other sites that have also embedded it on their pages as well – and with over four hundred thousand hits it can be said to be a successful video for the profile SesameStreet which uploaded it to youtube.

Domozych Media understands the nature of new media, and can help you integrate audio and video components within a greater structure. When you embed a video into your site, you may want it available on youtube… or vimeo, or viddler, or revver, or one of a number of other third-party sites depending on your audience… or you may want the video itself to be private and accessed only by customers who’ve paid for the video – as is the case with some online training products. Either way, we can build you that scaffolding for your online vision.

Building a web presence means modularity, focus, and preparation. A small business owner who knows precisely where they’re putting advertising and marketing energy can make a pretty good assessment of any given strategy.

By focusing on simplicity and compatibility, and building for the user (not the client! – read this report to learn why!) a web designer can take advantage of the existing social networks more efficiently, and can adapt to changing technology more readily. Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed now make up the primary focus of trends, and help one to think in terms of clouds and presence rather than sites and indexing traffic. While it says web design, graphic designers, hosting, Flash, database development, and marketing based in New York on the domain when you search us out online, we also have the critical approach to media that is necessary in our transmedia world.

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Search Term Research

wunruh — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:37:34 +0000

We survey keywords connected with your site to find ways to connect you with those who are actively searching for your products or services. So it was with great interest I read the article ‘The Myth of Great Search Engine Results’ by Danny Sullivan posted on Search Engine Land. Search engines are themselves always evolving, and the strategies involved with reaching a searching audience change as well. Staying on top of the latest research and implementing a web design structure that is flexible enough to adapt to new approaches is our passion.

Currently we are developing a comprehensive research brief for a client which includes country-specific analysis of keywords and related communities related to the site itself. This kind of groundwork often suggests a site structure, reflecting in the layout the actual information needs of the research audience that will access this site. Another way is highlighted in the article above, where Danny takes on Bing, Yahoo, and Google’s results for the term Search Term Research and evaluates their results. Remember, as he points out, the search engines still have a long way to go before they’re perfect.

This leaves a lot of room for specialization and growth. Organic search engine results grow over time. Knowing where search engines are going to look is only half the battle – we can also prepare and present sitemaps to the search engines themselves once the site is constructed, further engaging with the search engine technology.

What we do with search term research may appear complicated, and the list of tools for search term research itself can be somewhat daunting, at least at first glance.

I’ve written elsewhere about the problem of metrics in social media but with keywords we can see precisely how many people, on average, are conducting searches. Keyword research does not carry with it the same ambiguity about numbers that social media experts must struggle with, instead a comprehensive survey can be made of precisely what has been searched for and said about a given keyword in exhaustive detail. This research can provide a precise map within which your message can be placed. Information retrieval is a social issue, and the internet is a series of nested, interlocking file sharing networks. With the right search term research you can be sure you’re maximizing your exposure across the net.

Our comprehensive brief may highlight opportunities for communication around your keyword. This process often shows areas of competition and trends that otherwise slip by unnoticed. One such tool is the Google Keyword Tool that suggests related keywords, an excellent way to creatively assess a specific topic. If search term research is a new concept to you, may we suggest you might take a few minutes researching terms related to your interest, and see if you can picture how this semantic mapping might help in your unique situation?

You can always email us directly with your web design and internet marketing questions using the form below.

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Podcast: How Site Navigation Strategy Increases Website Traffic

wunruh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:20:10 +0000

In this podcast, Andrew and I discuss how we discover the most applicable site navigation structure based on keyword analysis. In creating a web site, every aspect of the site is important. Here we discuss why this is, and provide a few pointers on how to break out of the traditional web design.

This is a bonus podcast, in response to a question, and you can play it using the player at the bottom of this page, or download the .mp3 directly to your computer or device. Look for our next podcast on search engine optimization next week, and don’t hesitate to contact us at 518-595-9734 if you’d like a website remodeling consultation.

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CouchOne’s J Chris Anderson On Decentralizing Twitter – And the Rest Of the Web

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Content Management Systems Explained

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Podcast: How to Develop a Future-Compatible Site

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Website Design and Competitive Keyword Analysis

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Podcast: Designing for Maximum Compatibility

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Web Design for Internet Marketing

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Watch Sesame Street – Mad Men – Youtube Clip

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Search Term Research

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