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Google Places allows businesses to respond to reviews

Published On: Aug 5, 2010 10:13 pm

It’s about time and really a necessity for any type of 3rd party review service to allow for the business to respond to a review. Without a response the business is vulnerable to attack and does not have recourse. This could happen for any type of reason but sometimes it is just an unhappy customer… read more

Rotating Banners In Drupal presentation at Ft. Lauderdale Drupal Users Group

Published On: Jul 21, 2010 11:54 am

Our very own Lead Drupal Developer, Chris Parsons, recently presented to the Fort Lauderdale Drupal Users Group. In May 2010 Chris spoke to the group about creating rotating banners in Drupal and the multiple ways to accomplish this commonly request feature. Used to make slideshows, homepage billboards, portfolio displays and many other functions, rotating banners… read more

What to do when your Search Engine Ranking Drops

Published On: Jun 8, 2010 1:24 pm

A recent article over at Search Engine Round Table discussed How SEO Experts React To Search Rank Drops. The information was derived from a post on Webmaster World Forums and really comes down to common sense. Anyone working in SEO for any amount of time will know that fluctuations in the Search Engine Rankings are… read more

Go Away IE6

Published On: Jun 1, 2010 12:58 pm

With the release of HTML 5 coming, the internet and its developers have reached the point of no return. Developers have logged extra hours, dealt with extra (unnecessary) headaches, and have had to continue to plan for the browser of the internet stone age (back when dinosaurs roomed the web in 2001). Well Twitter is… read more

Google Local Business Center is now Google Places

Published On: May 26, 2010 12:13 pm

Back in April, Google announced that it had changed the name of the Google Local Business Center to Google Places. They also announced a good deal of new features that businesses should be aware of. These include: service areas, advertising with tags, customized QR codes, business photo shoots, and more favorite places. New features that… read more

Are we done with Facebook yet?

Published On: May 12, 2010 8:39 pm

Are we over Facebook yet? I sure hope so. I personally became tired of Facebook some time ago. I still left it open as a viable option for business, but only open to niche markets that actually would apply to Facebook’s medium and core demographic (the small percentage of power users not the millions of… read more

CiviCRM and Drupal Diary – Week 2

Published On: May 4, 2010 5:49 pm

This is our multi-article series on integrating CiviCRM and Drupal. Make sure you’ve read the prologue, introducing the topics to be covered. Now that we had decided to utilize Drupal & CiviCRM for our project, our next steps were as follows: Determine a schedule Install a Drupal and CiviCRM development environment Begin comping our theme… read more

SoFlaWeb Studio presents Inbound Marketing to The Hollywood Florida Chamber of Commerce

Published On: Apr 14, 2010 2:20 pm

SoFla Web Studio delivered a “Social Media for Business” presentation to the Greater Hollywood Florida Chamber of Commerce on April 13, 2010. This seminar was a primer for those businesses considering using Social Media in their overall marketing strategy but not sure where to start. Topics include: Inbound Marketing definition Social Media Definition How to… read more

CiviCRM and Drupal Diary – Week 1

Published On: Mar 28, 2010 11:06 pm

This is our multi-article series on integrating CiviCRM and Drupal. Make sure you’ve read the prologue, introducing the topics to be covered. Our Choice to use Drupal along with CiviCRM was a difficult one to make at the onset of our project. In this section I would like to explain: Project Conception Requirements Gathering Software… read more

Realities of web analytics – Apply the 3 layers of “So What Test”

Published On: Mar 11, 2010 11:01 pm

Reading one of my favorite authors (and of course blogger too) Avinash Kaushik, I came across his most recent blog post: Kill Useless Web Metrics: Apply The “Three Layers Of So What” Test Avinash appropriately describes the misconception that certain (what I call noisy) popular web metrics are as important as they seem. Even though… read more

Helping our local South Florida bloggers

Published On: Feb 23, 2010 10:13 pm

Vote for Florida Keys Girl at sunsentinel.com’s Best of Blog Awards. We are always excited to help out or local South Florida individuals and business that are willing to put in the hard work and effort necessary to create a successful online website. Fellow Greater Hollywood, Florida Chamber of Commerce member and local blogger, FloridaKeysGirl.com… read more

Drupal Case Study – Technical Overview of Aquatic Systems

Published On: Feb 17, 2010 3:41 pm

Aquatic Systems is one of the leading Lake and Wetland Management companies in the state of Florida. They restore and maintain private, commercial and public lakes, waterways, wetlands and preserves from overgrowth of algae and exotic species, poor water quality, and fish kills. Their former site was a 10-page static HTML site. Their goal was… read more