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Sailboat Home Listings

October 23, 2012 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

Sailboat Home Listings

We had already developed Chuck Eichner’s primary real estate site, but in addition he wanted a specialty niche real estate site that focused specifically on local homes with sailboat access to Charlotte Harbor. Punta Gorda Isles and other waterfront communities in the area have homes on canals that either don’t lead to the harbor, or […]

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Don’t Fall For The AdWord Express Scam

December 5, 2011 by Sonja Ray 2 Comments

AdWord Express is a scam

AdWord Express — not to be confused with Google’s AdWords Express — sent me a spam the other day touting their “exclusive top placement” service to put my site at the top of “ALL MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES.” They actually guarantee that my site will appear above all other sites on every search engine for my […]

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Filed Under: AdWords, Google, Search Engines

The Cardillo Group

October 3, 2011 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

The Cardillo Group

This real estate site combines blogging and real estate MLS listings for an effective visitor experience. Visitors can browse or search real estate listings (pulled from the IDX feed from the local MLS service) and keep up with local news and activities. Showcasing property listings by homes, condos and land in a selection of local […]

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Peace River Dog Fanciers

October 2, 2011 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

Peace River Dog Fanciers

Peace River Dog Fanciers was another pro bono project. I have served on the club’s Board of Directors for several years and I also act as the group’s Webmaster. One of my first actions was to rebuild the site from scratch using WordPress; the old site was created using an old Microsoft online sitebuilder that […]

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Ryan’s Subs & Sports Grill

September 18, 2011 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

Ryan's Subs & Sports Grill

My neighbor needed a simple website with his restaurant’s menu, prices, and operating hours. This fills the bill. Yummy mouthwatering photos, menu, Facebook link. Even a map to the location. Ryan’s Subs & Sports Grill

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Firefox 5/6 — No New Windows!

July 21, 2011 by Sonja Ray 7 Comments

Firefox

I have Firefox 5 and Firefox 6 installed on my Mac. Nice browser, still my favorite, but it’s got a bug that’s making me batty! If I have the focused Firefox window on my secondary monitor, I can’t open a new window. I also can’t do anything that would normally result in a new window, […]

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Filed Under: Browsers, Rants

Lion: The King of All Operating Systems?

July 21, 2011 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

Lion: First Impressions

Read my account of my initial Lion impressions.

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Filed Under: Apple and Macs

StudioPress Themes

July 21, 2011 by Sonja Ray 4 Comments

TwentyFifty uses the StudioPress Freelance theme.

I broke down not long ago and bought the StudioPress Pro Plus All-Theme Package — a collection of themes that are all based on StudioPress’s Genesis framework. I have not previously been a WordPress power-user, and I hadn’t previously used WordPress all that much. So I’ve been reluctant to spend money on commercial themes when […]

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Filed Under: WordPress

Do Ugly Sites Perform Better?

August 9, 2009 by Sonja Ray 6 Comments

MacGregor has a content-rich, incredibly useful, but butt-ugly site.

In my opinion, ugly sites can perform very well, and there are a number of factors that can contribute to that: First, ugly sites are often sites that were originally built back in the 1990s by some business owner who had no web design sense or technical knowledge but wanted to promote his business online.

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Filed Under: Usability, Web Site Design

Client Shoots Self in Foot

August 8, 2009 by Sonja Ray 2 Comments

So I have — er, had — this client. Let’s call him Mr. X. I didn’t design his website originally; I inherited him from a colleague who had designed it and was hosting it, and who wanted to get out of the business altogether. The colleague had Mr. X’s domain registered in his own account, […]

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Filed Under: Clients, Domains and Domain Names

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