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We were voted Best of the Best for "Web Design" by readers of the Auburn Journal again this year! That makes it six years! Thank you to all of our wonderful clients and individuals in the community that voted for us! -
In early 2017, Google began flagging sites without the SSL protocol, which is the International Sign of website security. They even intend to get much tougher from 2018 onwards, if your URL does not begin with HTTPS. You will feel the penalties no doubt because web security is no longer a luxury, but an absolute necessity, especially in the widespread occurrence of cyber crime and online fraud. Hackers always try to stay one chapter ahead of the game, and looking for any loopholes within the security of a site. -
We were voted Best of the Best for "Web Design" by readers of the Auburn Journal again this year! That makes it five years! Thank you to all of our wonderful clients and individuals in the community that voted for us! -
Irrespective of the business or type of products an eCommerce owner is dealing with, his prime goal is to enhance the number of sales at the end of the day. While everything has gone through a series of changes owing to mobile and technology evolution, this article only focuses on the eCommerce trends to keep eyes on. -
Let's bring SEO to your life gradually and smoothly. If you want to learn how to do-it-yourself Search Engine Optimization on your site, I want you to daily dedicate only 30 minutes of your time to SEO accomplishing one particular task. In this post, you can read this article by Alexandra Pautaran for SEO PowerSuite who explains her 30-minutes-a-day training. -
During display of web pages the browser is compelled to load a number of things. These include the CSS file, your logo and other resources. In this case, the browser caching only remembers the already loaded resources. It therefore means that when you have a visitor on your website trying to reach another page, it is unlikely that your browser will try to find your CSS file or logo again. -
As GDPR looms, it's time for businesses in California to update their terms of service. What is next after the main GDPR compliance procedures? What actions can be taken in the medium and long term? Should we wait for the laws for specific cases or scenarios? -
"It's easy to get a little snobby about trends in creative disciplines. After all, there’s nothing creative or innovative about keeping tabs on “what’s hot” — unless maybe you’re doing so just to continuously buck the trends." -
Structured Data is the next step to prove relevant data to the search engine spiders. Structured Data provides synthesized data to the web spiders when they crawl your website so that rich and informative snippets can be generated for the viewer. This whole process streamlines the search and the user gets more refined information. -
After getting the basics down, there are a few directions to go with SEO. This article explains your options.
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Making money on the internet a website is more than possible, but it's not an easy solution without having some idea of where you're going before you spend to much time and energy getting started.
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Have you ever wondered why businesses, blogs, and websites dedicate so much time and energy to getting clicks and shares on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media? It’s not just for organic exposure.
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You know that sinking feeling that you get when you find out that your site has been hacked? You may be tempted to blame your hosting provider for having poor security on their servers.
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Learn how the different parts of the internet work together to create our user experience in this continuation of our series on How the Internet Works.
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Choosing a web developer isn't easy - but with a couple simple tips, you can be sure you are getting someone you can trust and work with for the years to come. Check out this article to learn more.
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How do the web browsers get information from all over the world? This article begins to answer that question by providing a basic understanding of the two primary components of the web - the infrastructure that supports it, and the rules that hardware follows as it passes information around the globe.
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As a company, a nation, and a planet, we love the internet. But what IS the internet? This article explains what role HTML and browsers play on the web.
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The New Rules of 3xx Redirection: "Perhaps because of the downsides of redirection — especially with HTTPS — Google has worked to chip away at these axioms over the past several months. ... Google wants the entire web to switch to HTTPS. To this end, they announced a small rankings boost to encourage sites to make the switch."
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"As we look forward to 2017 — a year that hopefully won’t be plagued by the passing of so many of the world’s greatest artists and performers — the big question on every designer’s mind has to be: what will define design in 2017? These 18 trends — 17 for this year, plus 1 for the future — respond directly to the evolving ways we move through the web." -
On-page SEO is the specific practice of modifying both the content and HTML source code of a page that can be optimized, as opposed to off-page SEO which refers to links and other external signals."
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SEO, in principle, is simple. It is the practice of engaging in efforts to improve a websites visibility and likability for both users and search engines. The result is better ranking organic and pay per click results on search pages. -
Wondering if you or your company can benefit from professional SEO strategies? The answer may surprise you! -
With the new year rolling around, there's never been a better time to invest effort or funds into your website's Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. New years are a great time to get back to the basics, and SEO is no exception. -
At Bear River Web Design, we have a passion for SEO and Pay-Per-Click marketing. We would like to explain the main difference between Organic Search Marketing, or SEO, and Pay-per-Click marketing so you can decide if they are right for you.
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a successful business, no matter what you do or what you sell. Your content needs to be as high up on the page in search results as possible. -
Disaster recovery is a phrase you might have heard. Businesses rely on computers to store all of their business data. All it takes is a serious virus and you can lose everything - That's not a position you want to find yourself in. -
"Alexa.com maintains a list of the most visited sites on the internet. Here are the ten most popular sites, and the colors that they use. This visualization doesn't include colors used in images, only CSS and HTML color codes. Browsers recognize colors in six different formats; hexadecimal, RGB, RBGA, HSL, HSLA, and predefined color names. Only 4 of the six color formats were used by these sites."... -
"How we consume the web changes how we design websites. Mobile devices and the trend towards responsive design push designers to find ways to maximize web experiences for everyone, no matter what device(s) they’re using. These 17 trends — 16 for this year, plus 1 for the future — respond directly to the evolving ways we move through the web." -
Have you thought about adding video content to your website and social media? Have you heard about the advantages of video on your website, not just for SEO but more importantly, for converting website visitors into brick-and-mortar customers? This article is the first in a series on Video Production for the web, on the topic of the Anatomy of an Interview-based Video Story. Check out this story published by EContent Magazine to learn more Read More > -
When you own company that sells products or services online, you'll need to work to help it grow. Marketing, customer service, and even speedy load times are all important, but if you want to grow your eCommerce business over the coming years, there are are 3 key mistakes to avoid. -
Have you ever wanted to make a font of your own handwriting? Check out this tutorial on Lynda.com via LinkedIn to see how you can do it yourself! -
Launching a fresh website, or desire to drive some targeted traffic to your existing site? Advertising your site is an essential part of upping your viewership, and marketing will take many forms. From optimizing your website to increasing awareness, marketing your site is essential for becoming effective online.
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Have you ever saved or cached a password in FileMaker Pro and then you needed to login with a different account? Windows stores these FileMaker passwords in the Credentials Manager, which you can get to via the Control Panel if you want to remove a saved password. -
Please consider voting for Bear River Web Design for the best Local Blogger in the 2016 Sacramento A-List.
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Do you want to use AppleScript in your FileMaker solution? This can be a very powerful tool, either using the Calculated AppleScript that lets you create a calculation to use as the AppleScript text. Or, use Native AppleScript to manually enter the text of an AppleScript. -
Backlinko's Brian Dean recently released his findings on what search engine ranking factors correlate with top rankings. He and the rest of his team analyzed 1 million search results from Google to obtain this data, read more about the 8 Search Engine Ranking Factors That Correlate With Higher Rankings. -
Getting noticed online despite how unique and high quality your product or service is can be quite a challenge. With so many other websites vying for attention, you will need all the help you can get to boost traffic to your own site. Here are some great ideas to help you out. -
When checking your Joomla site for duplicate meta titles and meta descriptions, you may find that you see an error with duplicate meta tags on / [homepage] and index.php. There is a pretty simple fix for this by adding a few lines of code to your .htaccess file. Read More to learn how -
HTML5, along with CSS3 and JavaScript, helps developers to build responsive websites that look good on each device. Also, the HTML5 applications deliver optimized viewing experience on desktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets and phablets. Unlike native and hybrid mobile apps, the HTML5 mobile apps run on web browsers. -
If you are going to embrace social media for promoting your business, consider including Pinterest as part of your marketing strategy. -
Great News! "Web Design" is included in the Auburn Journal's Best of the Best ballot this year for the first time! Please consider voting for Bear River Web Design for the best Web Designer in Auburn. Thank you!
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Confused by Social Media? Simplify Your Social Media Strategy With These 3 Purpose-Driven Categories
Don't get misdirected when it comes to social media. Make your strategy a smart one by following these three simple tactics. -
We now offer a NEW proprietary website builder enables you to create a responsive website with no need to code. Simply import all of the content from your old site into a beautiful new website template that can be customized by device. All of our websites not only look great, but follow Google’s SEO best practices and come with loads of business-driving widgets. Give it a try! -
A website is considered successful if it has the ability to generate leads. Business websites are widely used to promote business to different geographies. With the emergence of the internet technology, doing business in a specific location has become the thing of the past. With the help of a website, organizations can search distant markets, geographies, etc to perform their business activities. With this, organizations have the flexibility to foster their business in the new markets. -
You can get a lot of traffic to your website without having to spend a ton of money. Below are 5 things you can do to get free traffic to your website for years to come. These things are not difficult but will require some work on your part. The 5 things you need to do to get more traffic to your site are: 1. Submit articles to directories at least 2 times a week 2. SEO you website properly 3. Start a blog that links back to your website 4. Post to forums 5. Make blog comments on other blogs that lead back to your website. -
Long story short: If they're happy with your site, mobile customers mean business. 73% of mobile searches trigger an additional action like making a phone call or visiting a business. -
Mastering Adobe Photoshop comes with practice, but the following 5 tips can improve the quality of your Photoshop Image Editing, even if you are a beginner. Read to learn more. -
Websites that do not load correctly on regular desktops can be annoying. Websites that do not load properly on a smart phone are just a nightmare and hard to remedy. If a mobile customer cannot reach the website that is in mind, then there goes a visitor and potential customer. -
Any eCommerce veteran knows that choosing a hosting service is not a subject to be taken lightly. Where downtime almost surely means big money lost, the most costly mistake you can make is not to do enough research. Where your customers valuable financial data is at stake, so is your company's reputation and future. While the advice in this article is good for any eCommerce site, we will be focusing especially on Magento, the most popular eCommerce shopping cart software available. -
Whether you are a system administrator of a large company or a casual user, viruses and worms can easily affect the computer system if the right precautionary measures aren't taken. The type of damage caused to the computer can vary from minor to severe with common issues related to slow performance, email spoofing, or total destruction of the PC. -
The customer database is critical in creating a personalised direct mail campaign, but is unfamiliar to many printers or graphic designers. This article explains what kind of information is required to make a personalised mailing possible, how it is entered, stored, maintained, extracted and used with variable data print (VDP) software to generate campaigns in which each printed piece can be tailored to the profile of each customer. -
Since WordPress is popularly known as a great blogging platform, CMS enthusiasts often debate about its use as a content management system. Using the right plugins, WordPress can also be used as a great CMS. The following list is meant for those who like to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of a particular CMS: Pros of WordPress When Used as a CMS: WordPress is known for being simple to use. -
Terms of Use Agreement is an important step a website operator/owner should take to protect their online business. Terms of Use Agreements can be used to set the ground rules between website operator and users as well as limit the conduct of users and jurisdiction in which disputes may be addressed. -
Do you recall having different versions of your website like the one designed for your smartphone and the other for your tablet? You may not be aware that Google penalizes those with duplicate content. -
Break Your Options Down - Choosing topics to blog about need not be a big task, but you do need to go about it the right way. Choosing the right topic to blog about is a make or break for your business. -
Nobody can deny that that social media has taken the world by storm. Most individuals are connected to at least one social media site so social media marketing has never been more important. Here are 3 basics that you must know when using social media for business. -
Mobilegeddon is the term for Google's newest optimization that makes mobile web sites rank higher than their non-mobile peers. Mobilegeddon can affect traffic to your web site and thus your bottom line so it is important to understand what it's all about. Mobilegeddon can be a blessing in disguise if you understand how to setup a proper mobile web site. -
Magento is one of the most popular platforms for creating online stores. If it is not fine tuned for optimal performance, the overall impression that it creates on your prospective customers is negatively impacted. Here are a few tips for performance optimization that you can implement. -
Engagement is regularly posting and replying to your subscriber's comments. Integration is making sure you have links from your website to your YouTube, Facebook and Twitter channels, so people can really see who you are and what you are up to. -
It should be the goal of a website developer or owner to try and comprehend how this algorithm works in order to create content that is deemed superior quality by Google. Know Google's Past Updates and Understand the Future: An analysis of the Panda Update of Google that rolled out in 2011 contains some timeless tips that are still important.techniques. -
Check out this guest article on useful SEO techniques we can implement right away to improve traffic to our websites. -
Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs has been known to cause problems if your server is not configured properly to support the re-writing of URLs. There are so many different types of server technologies and operating systems, so it is impossible to provide a list of all of the solutions to every problem with SEF URLs, but here are some of the common solutions we have found.
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Do you want to increase your web site’s ranking on the search engines? Here is a list of 7 free things you can do yourself to optimize your web site so that your customers can find you:
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Guide to keyboard shortcuts for Photoshop users.
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- Download or View: Filemaker 14 WebDirect Guide
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Our clients often come to me with questions about local marketing strategies they have heard of, wondering if they should try certain tactics to improve their results in the local search engine listings. Many times the strategies they are wondering about are out of date, or worse, can be harmful to their SEO strategy. -
Use inbuilt recovery feature of FileMaker to extract data from inaccessible or damaged database. The process of using this option is very simple and quick. It works in most corruption scenarios and lets you retrieve data. -
Many of my clients are asking about SEO lately. Either they are interested in increasing their visibility on search engines or they received a cold call from a SEO company offering them "guaranteed first page" results. -
Stop email spam by encrypting email addresses. Here is a handy bit of javascript code to obscure and link to email addresses in your site.
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If you want to add a Recommend button to your dynamic Joomla website that points directly to the article the visitor is viewing you have a few options. There are some modules that you can install to add a Facebook "LIKE" button into each article, however you may want to put one dynamic link in your index page so that it will work on every page instead of just articles that you have inserted the module code.
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Need to remove special reserved characters in form fields?
Here you go - setup your field like this:
onBlur="var val = form.CurrentMonth.value; if (val) form.CurrentMonth.value=val.replace(\\$|,|@|#|~|`|\%|\*|\^|\\&|\(|\)|\+|\=|\[|\-|\_|\]|\[|\}|\{|\;|\:|\\'|\<|\>|\?|\||\\\|\!|\\$|\./g,\'\') -
Here's a link to a simple javascript popup calendar:
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Here is a link to a nice javascript popup tooltip.
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If you want to advertise your business on Facebook, then your first step should be making a fan page. Knowing how to create a Facebook fan page for business purposes is a great way to start promoting your website for free. And best of all, it's fairly easy to get started.
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Missing A Temporary Folder error in Wordpress 3.2.1','missint-temp-folder-wordpress','','A wordpress site I was recently working on suddenly started getting an error "Missing a Temporary Folder" when trying to upload an image file.
There were lots of suggestions to change settings in htaccess, php.ini, create /tmp and /wwwtmp directories, but none of these worked for me. Then I found this solution:
Shivasoft Solution to Wordpress 3.2.1 "Missing a Temporary Folder" Problem\"
This solution worked for me - I simply installed Dean\'s FCKEditor for Wordpress - I did not even Activate it - and issue resolved. Hope this helps someone else! -
"Responsive Web design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation. The practice consists of a mix of flexible grids and layouts, images and an intelligent use of CSS media queries. As the user switches from their laptop to iPad, the website should automatically switch to accommodate for resolution, image size and scripting abilities. In other words, the website should have the technology to automatically respond to the user’s preferences. This would eliminate the need for a different design and development phase for each new gadget on the market." Check out this definition by Kayla Knight on Smashing Magazine... -
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HTML, HexDec Color Chart
IndianRed CD5C5C 205, 92, 92 0.804, 0.361, 0.361 LightCoral F08080 240, 128, 128 0.941, 0.502, 0.502 Salmon FA8072 250, 128, 114 0.980, 0.502, 0.447 DarkSalmon E9967A 233, 150, 122 0.914, 0.588, 0.478 LightSalmon FFA07A 255, 160, 122 1.000, 0.627, 0.478 Crimson DC143C 220, 20, 60 0.863, 0.078, 0.235 -
Searching for customizable FileMaker Solutions? The right business management software is an essential element for your overall business productivity. -
FileMaker Pro 9 introduced a new feature that enables MySQL database tables to be treated like another FileMaker table. They can be used in the relationship graph, in layouts, scripts and calculations like any table. Suddenly, there is real incentive to use ODBC resources in FileMaker Pro. This article shows you how to set up and use these resources and reviews the basics of ODBC and how it applies to FileMaker Pro. -
The introduction of custom functions in FileMaker Pro Developer 7 delivered power that most of us FileMaker Pro users have just begun to unleash. In this article, you will learn to unleash that power by creating a recursive FileMaker Pro custom function that performs a live and dynamic search and replace without the use of a script.
