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	<title>Shane Strong &#187; Shane</title>
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		<title>Figuring Out What To Blog About</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Figuring out what to blog about. That is one of the hardest questions most bloggers have to think about. The best thing to do is work on writing a couple posts in a series. Or you could write about a specific topic. Some blogs are easy because they have a very specific thing that they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Figuring out what to blog about.  That is one of the hardest questions most bloggers have to think about.  The best thing to do is work on writing a couple posts in a series.  Or you could write about a specific topic.  Some blogs are easy because they have a very specific thing that they post about.  For instance sports blogs, they are probably one of the easiest to post on.  That is because there is always different changes happening in the sports world.  Another easy one is celebrity gossip.  What I am trying to get at with this post isn&#8217;t to tell you what to blog about.  By no means you should blog about one thing.  The best way to blog is try out many different thing to blog about until you find what you like to blog about.  Also if you are into SEO or any other marketing strategies.  What you blog about can determine how much your site changes in the amount of visitors.  For example I primarily blog about SEO, SEM, WordPress, jQuery, and other web stuff.  This is some information that I enjoy to blog about and like to share my opinions and experiences with my readers.  The reason that you pick things to blog about is so that you site will gain visitors from what you blog about.  But if you choose to blog about anything and everything.  Then you will not find yourself gaining visitors and consistent followers.</p>
<h3>Shane&#8217;s Opinions</h3>
<p>I personally think that every person should have a blog or a place where they write about what they like.  With this it should be a place that anyone can read and comment on.  This is a great way to share your opinions about what you blog.  This can create conversations that can lead to friendships and even job opportunities.  Business owners don&#8217;t normally have a lot of time to read different sites but you will find that once they find a site they like.  They will keep coming back.  Let alone everyone should have there own blog.  I feel that with everyone having a blog it will let them share everything they want with the world.  If you are looking to get a blog or start a blog.  There are a ton of different free sites out there that you can start blogging (blogspot, wordpress, and more).  I think the best thing is to not only have a blog but have a website that houses your blog.  This should be a personal site that is just about you.  What I would recommend if you are in need of a website is to contact chosen.  Chosen is a small company that looks to grow individuals and companies.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>If by chance you are in need of any web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you. </p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a ton of ways to get more traffic to your site but really there are only a couple ways to build your sites value. How is your site measured by the amount of traffic it gets, how much it makes in profit in a given month, what its PageRank is. There is a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a ton of ways to get more traffic to your site but really there are only a couple ways to build your sites value.  How is your site measured by the amount of traffic it gets, how much it makes in profit in a given month, what its PageRank is.  There is a lot of different ways to make your site valuable.  I prefer to do the easy way by how much your site makes in a given month.  The reason that I consider this easy is because you have so many different ways to go about doing this.  Most of these ways depend on how much traffic/popularity your site has.  One of the easiest ways is to put ads on your site.  You can choose from many different advertising companies.  This is where it gets hard because if your site does not have the traffic/popularity then most of these companies will not accept you.</p>
<h3>Google Ads</h3>
<p>Google everyone knows them and probably everyone has seen multiple ads by them.  They will accept every site.  Not just because they have the money to do so but they can measure where the person who clicked on the ad came from.  For instance If you put ads up on your site by Google.  You have to register where you live with them.  Now not saying that you should but yeah you could go to a neighboring town and click on your ads and yes you will probably get money for it.  But, Google is smart if it finds a pattern in clicks and area of the clicks then it will suspect something and you can get prosecuted for it.  What does this mean you will loose your ability to use Google ads and could be fined and possible jail time.  In order to setup Google ads on your site all that you have to do is register with Google Adsence it is really easy to find just go to Google and search for Google ads or ads.  You do not have to have a Google email to register.  Once you setup your account then all you have to do is go through the tutorials inside Google Adsence to get the feel for how to go about making money.  The really tough part about making money with Google is where to put the ads.  For instance you want the ads in places that people are going to click them and they dont look like ads.  There are different kinds of ads and ad sizes that you can choose from.  I am using there rss feed ads and there regular ads.</p>
<h3>Other Ad Companies</h3>
<p>There are a ton of other really good ad companies but the two that I like the most is Chitika Ads and Text Link Ads.  Both of these ad companies pay pretty good especially Text Link Ads.  The only problem with these ad companies is you have to have a high amount of traffic to your site before they will accept you.  A really good way to increase your traffic to your site is with Optimization.  This can be done in many different ways the best is to get everything optimized.  This includes SEO (Search Engine Optimization), SEM (Search Engine Marketing), Title and Alt Tags, Content Emphasis, Creating Ads For Your Self, and much more.  The best is to do all of them but if you are looking for some quick traffic.  Then you best bet is to create a ad with a high end company (Google).  Google is extremely cheap for creating ads it would only cost you around $50-$100 a month for good ads and it goes up from there.  Now even with creating ads for yourself this doesn&#8217;t mean that your site is going to get enough of a boost that it needs.  That is why I said that it is best to get everything done.  That way you are building traffic from multiple areas.  Whether it be Search Engines, Advertising, or Keywords.</p>
<h3>SEO Packages</h3>
<p>If you are in need of any Search Engine Optimization I do have packages and I can teach people how to do SEO. My monthly packages for SEO all depend on how much you want done. I charge $25US an hour. With that my recommended package would be 20 hours a month this will give you the best outcome. Of course the more hours you do the better outcome you will get but at 20 hours a month I can really get enough done to your site that it will show improvement a lot quicker and will make you more money faster. I also have a bunch more different packages and prices for web based projects, you can go to Work Prices.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>If by chance you are in need of any web design, web development, search engine optimization, editing, content creation or marketing done to one of your sites please feel free to contact me or Chosen. Chosen is a small, but growing Lansing-based firm offering Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, Web Editing, and Web Marketing skills. We have done work for clients and companies, by preference, but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.</p>
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		<title>Shane&#8217;s New Site Launches</title>
		<link>http://www.shanestrong.com/web-development/shanes-new-site-launches</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Shane Strong launched a few different sites. One was launched by Shane and Alex Tourtillott. Two more were launched by Shane and Chosen Development. Our first site is a small site using the Chosen CMS. This site was designed by Alex Tourtillott and Developed by Shane. This site is called www.neighborhoodres.org. They are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week Shane Strong launched a few different sites.  One was launched by Shane and Alex Tourtillott.  Two more were launched by Shane and Chosen Development.  Our first site is a small site using the Chosen CMS.  This site was designed by Alex Tourtillott and Developed by Shane.  This site is called www.neighborhoodres.org.  They are a small adult and elder care service.  You can view them in my portfolio.  The next site was designed by Clayton McIlrath from Chosen Development and Developed by Shane Strong also from Chosen Development.  This site is for a small branch of a bigger Church based out of Lansing, MI called Mount Hope.  The small branch is from Saint Johns Michigan and it is called Saint Johns Mount Hope.  You can go to my portfolio and see the church site or you can go to www.mthopestjohns.com.  The last and final site that I finished this week was Calvary International Fellowship Ministries.  This is a start up church based out of East Lansing, MI.  This site was designed and developed by Shane Strong.  You can see this site in my portfolio or you can go to www.cifministries.com.  The last was a theme Shane developed for a WordPress site at brog.brandinginc.net.  You can also see that in my portfolio.  That is it for sites this week.   I am hoping to have updates to most of my themes by the end of next week, with some new customized functions for most of them. I also hope to share some new themes that will have the customizations.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>If you need assistance with web design, web development, search engine optimization, editing, content creation or marketing done to one of your sites please feel free to contact me or Chosen. Chosen is a small, but growing Lansing-based firm offering Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, Web Editing, and Web Marketing skills. We have done work for clients and companies, by preference, but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you. </p>
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		<title>Top 10 SEO Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you use for SEO? What do you consider the best tools? I have a list of SEO tools that I use daily. My list is a little more than 10 but I figured for simplicity I will give you the top 10 SEO tools that I use. The reason I am putting together [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do you use for SEO?  What do you consider the best tools? I have a list of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rankpay.net">SEO tools </a>that I use daily.  My list is a little more than 10 but I figured for simplicity I will give you the top 10 SEO tools that I use.  The reason I am putting together a list of my top ten is because I see a trend from other SEO experts bot saying that I am a expert but I would like to be.  There are a ton of SEO tools out there that are free of charge and these tools are evolving at a rapid speed.  My big question with SEO is where will it go next.  Well what everyone really wants is the list so here it is.</p>
<h3>Top Ten SEO Tool List</h3>
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<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.searchenginegenie.com/" title="Search Engine Genie">Search Engine Genie</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.websitegrader.com" title="Website Grader">Website Grader</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" title="Google Adwords">Google Adwords</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/analytics/" title="Google Analytics">Google Analytics</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036" title="SEO Quake">SEO Quake</a></li>
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<li><a target="_blank" href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites" title="Site Explorer">SiteExplorer</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/trends" title="Google Trends">Google Trends</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321" title="Search Status">Search Status</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.seomoz.org/tools" title="SEO Moz">seomoz.org</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wordtracker.com/" title="Word Tracker">Word Tracker</a></li>
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<h3>What The SEO Tool Does</h3>
<p><b>Search Engine Genie</b> &#8211; This site is not well known but it has quite a few really nice SEO tools that are free to use and they have a ton of really helpful articles.<br />
<b>Website Grader by HubSpot</b> &#8211; I use this site to get a good idea of where a site is and where it might need to be and get to.  HubSpot has a paid version of this that has a ton of really great SEO tools.  They have a free week trial of the system if I were you I would jump at the trial and see if you like it.<br />
<b>Google Adwords</b> &#8211; This is a great way to find out how heavily a keyword is being targeted.  I use this when ever i am looking for the really good keyword to get a site going.<br />
<b>Google Analytics</b> &#8211; Great tool if you are not using it you are loosing out.  My main use for this is to see what is bringing traffic into my site or my client sites.  With the name Google behind this you know that you are going to 1 get it for free and 2 get something that is great.<br />
<b>SEO Quake</b> &#8211; This is a plugin for Firefox that gives you a ton of really useful info that you need for SEO.  I know a few different people that this is the only tool that they use for SEO.<br />
<b>Site Explorer by Yahoo</b> &#8211; This is a useful tool for the yahoo search engine.  I prefer Google&#8217;s Analytics over this because it has more to it.<br />
<b>Google Trand</b> &#8211; Great tool by Google this lets you find the trends of the time so that you can find the really good keywords and SEO articles to write for traffic purposes.<br />
<b>Search Status</b> &#8211; I really enjoy using Search Status because of its simplicity.  I am a Firefox user and this is a Firefox plugin.<br />
<b>seomoz.org</b> &#8211; These people really know what they are doing with SEO.  They have a ton of free tools and they also have some really great paid tools.<br />
<b>Word tracker</b> &#8211; I personally have not used this service but i have heard from a ton of people that they are great.  It is a paid service but they do have a free trial.</p>
<h3>SEO Packages</h3>
<p>If you are in need of any Search Engine Optimization I do have packages and I can teach people how to do SEO. My monthly packages for SEO all depend on how much you want done. I charge $25US an hour. With that my recommended package would be 20 hours a month this will give you the best outcome. Of course the more hours you do the better outcome you will get but at 20 hours a month I can really get enough done to your site that it will show improvement a lot quicker and will make you more money faster. I also have a bunch more different packages and prices for web based projects, you can go to Work Prices.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.</p>
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		<title>SEO Optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is SEO and how can it help me? That is the question you should be asking your self if you have a web site. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. How do you get your site to the top of search engines? Well this is a really great place to start. SEO optimization can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is SEO and how can it help me?  That is the question you should be asking your self if you have a web site.  SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.  How do you get your site to the top of search engines?  Well this is a really great place to start.  SEO optimization can improve the traffic of your site and the sales of your site.  Basically SEO is what happens when you tell search engines what exactly you want people to search and find you as.  Well some people say that this can be hard because there are so many sites out there that it is almost impossible to get to the top.  Well those people are wrong.  With some great planning and strategy any site can make it to the top of any search engine.  For a example if you search the word Chosen in Google you will get 169,000,000 hits for just the word Chosen.  Well one of the companies that I own is Chosen LLC.  One of our sites is chosendevelopment.com you will find it at around 7 or 8 and rising.  Now we just started doing SEO on our Chosen Development site about 3 months ago.  Yes we spent a lot of time and planing in order to get to where we are now.</p>
<h3>Practical</h3>
<p>Now for a little practical look at SEO.  If someone came to me and said I want to be number one for the word Google I would look at you and tell you to talk to this company called Google.  Some things are not able to happen.  One of the biggest things with SEO is that it takes time.  Look at my site for instance I live in Michigan around the Lansing Area.  Now I am trying to get to the top for Lansing Web Design, Lansing Web Development, Michigan Web Design, Michigan Web Development, and a ton of other Michigan and Lansing combination&#8217;s.  Well I am finally getting there after 5 months of hard work.  One thing that most people don&#8217;t understand is that in order to get to the top for a certain word or phrase you have to beat out the competition.  That means you have to do research on what other people do, how they do it, where there flaws are, and how can you beat them.</p>
<h3>SEO Consists</h3>
<p>SEO and SEM are two totally different things people think that one goes with the other.  Well they are kind of right in the fact that they both assist each other.  SEM is Search Engine Marketing, this consists of stuff like Google Adsence, Post Writing, Building Backlinks, and a bunch of other things.  SEO is mainly focused around Meta tags and search engine submissions.  Meta tags are not a really big thing for SEO.  That is what people say.  Well I feel that they are still a very big thing.  Meta tags direct search engines on what to index on your site.  There are a ton&#8217;s of different Meta tag that you can use in SEO but the most important ones are Keywords, Descriptions, and Titles.  The last thing that I will leave you with is that everyone can do SEO and SEM.  SEM is a little easier for people because of all the social media places out there.  SEO is really hard and takes a lot of planning.  I would recommend everyone to leave SEO to the people that consider them self experts.  I am not saying don&#8217;t try to learn SEO or teach your self SEO because you could become one of those experts.</p>
<h3>SEO Packages</h3>
<p>If you are in need of any Search Engine Optimization I do have packages and I can teach people how to do SEO.  My monthly packages for SEO all depend on how much you want done.  I charge $25US an hour.  With that my recommended package would be 20 hours a month this will give you the best outcome.  Of course the more hours you do the better outcome you will get but at 20 hours a month I can really get enough done to your site that it will show improvement a lot quicker and will make you more money faster.  I also have a bunch more different packages and prices for web based projects, you can go to <a title="Web Design, Development, SEO, SEM, Marketing, Consulting, and Optimization" href="http://www.shanestrong.com/work-prices">Work Prices</a>.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.</p>
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		<title>jQuery Hover</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a developer I hate the fact that Internet Explorer is not up to date with their web browser. For instance the w3 has approved that you can use the :hover selector on anything not just a tags. Now most browsers do support the :hover selector but IE. Why they can&#8217;t catch up with times [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a developer I hate the fact that Internet Explorer is not up to date with their web browser.  For instance the w3 has approved that you can use the :hover selector on anything not just a tags.  Now most browsers do support the :hover selector but IE.  Why they can&#8217;t catch up with times and be like everyone else is beyond my comprehension.  Well one really useful thing to fix this problem is jQuery Hover.  You can use jQuery Hover to give any object a hover state and it will work in IE and all other browsers.  Also you can have jQuery pull out the a tags href from inside any element.  For instance if you have some blocks with different information that you want to link to a certain page all you will have to do is make a box and call the a tags href.</p>
<h3>jQuery Hover State</h3>
<p>So to show you how to do this I am going to use my site under my main post on the homepage I have some of my recent post.  Now I want to have the full post area to have a jQuery hover state that changes the background.  So I would do this.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="js" style="font-family:monospace;">$(document).ready(function() {
    //call the jQuery Hover Over and Out
    $('#YOURID').hover(over, out);
    //Tell the browser to change the background when hovered over
    function over(event) {
        $(this).css(&quot;background&quot;, &quot;url('Path To Your Image')&quot;);
	$(this).css(&quot;cursor&quot;, &quot;pointer&quot;);
    }
    //tell the browser to change the background to nothing when 
    //going outside the object area
    function out(event) {
	    $(this).css(&quot;background&quot;, &quot;&quot;);
	}
});</pre></div></div>

<h3>jQuery Hover with a click event</h3>
<p>If you want jQuery to do a hover state only then that will work for you but if you want to get the a tags href, so that when you click on the object area it will take you to that page.  You would have to add this after your jQuery hover code.  So now your jQuery code should be.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="js" style="font-family:monospace;">$(document).ready(function() {
    //call the jQuery Hover Over and Out
    $('#YOURID').hover(over, out);
    //Tell the browser to change the background when hovered over
    function over(event) {
        $(this).css(&quot;background&quot;, &quot;url('Path To Your Image')&quot;);
	$(this).css(&quot;cursor&quot;, &quot;pointer&quot;);
    }
    //tell the browser to change the background to nothing 
    //when going outside the object area
    function out(event) {
	$(this).css(&quot;background&quot;, &quot;&quot;);
    }
    //This adds the click event to your object and tells it where to go
    $('#YOURID').click(function() {
	window.location=$(this).find(&quot;a&quot;).attr(&quot;href&quot;);
    });
});</pre></div></div>

<p>This is very useful to get around the IE problem and if someone checks your site they can see that you know jQuery.  If you need any help with this just let me know.  I would be more than willing to help.</p>
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		<title>How To jQuery Toggle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[jQuery was made to change the way that you write JavaScript. jQuery has tons of really nice effects that you can experiment with. One of my favorite things to do with jQuery is to do a toggle this is a really simple effect to do but will make people go WOW when they see it. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jQuery was made to change the way that you write JavaScript.  jQuery has tons of really nice effects that you can experiment with.  One of my favorite things to do with jQuery is to do a toggle this is a really simple effect to do but will make people go WOW when they see it.  You can use the toggle effect in multiple different way most of the time people just use the toggle up to down or toggle left to right.  But some people don&#8217;t know that you can use jQuery toggle to go from your upper left or right corner to the opposite corner.  Well here is some code that you can reference on different ways to toggle.</p>
<h2>Lets do the easy toggles first</h2>
<h3>Top To Bottom</h3>
<p>I am doing this for the comments section of most WordPress sites.  First you have to give the identify what the outer most container is of your comments section.  Mine is id comments.  So just to the top of my comments section I need to create a button but you don&#8217;t have to use a button it is just the easiest to explain.  So you should have something that looks like this.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="html" style="font-family:monospace;">&lt;button id=&quot;comments_bottom&quot;&gt;This Is A Toggle Button&lt;/button&gt;
&lt;div id=&quot;comment&quot;&gt;
//Your Comment Code
&lt;/div&gt;</pre></div></div>

<p>You will notice that I gave the button a id that is so that jQuery can find it.  Next you have to create your js file.  I would name it something like toggle.js.  It should look like this depending on which way you want your content to toggle.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="js" style="font-family:monospace;">//Top To Bottom
$(document).ready(function() {
	$(&quot;#comment&quot;).hide();
	$(&quot;#comments_button&quot;).click(function() {
		$(&quot;#comment&quot;).animate({height: &quot;toggle&quot;}, 1000);
	});
});
//Left To Right Or Right To Left
//In order to do either you must float your #comment 
//the direction you want your content to come from!
$(document).ready(function() {
	$(&quot;#comment&quot;).hide();
	$(&quot;#comments_button&quot;).click(function() {
		$(&quot;#comment&quot;).animate({width: &quot;toggle&quot;}, 1000);
	});
});
//Upper Left To Lower Right Or Upper Right To Lower Left
//These ones you also have to float from the direction 
//they are coming from!
$(document).ready(function() {
	$(&quot;#comment&quot;).hide();
	$(&quot;#comments_button&quot;).click(function() {
		$(&quot;#comment&quot;).animate({width: &quot;toggle&quot;, 
                    height: &quot;toggle&quot;}, 1000);
	});
});</pre></div></div>

<p>Now all you have to do is call your jQuery script and a jQuery library and your toggle up to down should work.  I use the Google library because of how quick it is.  You can find more info about the Google library here  <a target="_blank" href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/">jQuery Library</a></p>
<h3>Other Ways To Toggle</h3>
<p>There are a few other ways to do a toggle like from bottom to top and bottom corners to top corners.  There is also some other things that you can do with toggle like fading.  jQuery has a lot of really easy and light things that you can do to your site to make it just that much better.  If I were you I would take a look at their site <a target="_blank" href="http://jquery.com">jQuery</a>.</p>
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		<title>Build A Website Traffic Jam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people look at their website and go why am I not getting traffic to it. Well if you just look at the site it won&#8217;t build any traffic. My question to you is would you like to have a traffic jam on your website. I would because that means my site is getting so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most people look at their website and go why am I not getting traffic to it.  Well if you just look at the site it won&#8217;t build any traffic.  My question to you is would you like to have a traffic jam on your website.  I would because that means my site is getting so much traffic I am going to have to upgrade my servers.  Wouldn&#8217;t that be great so much traffic that your server crashes.  Most people have no idea on how to create traffic to their site let alone just doing that basics to gain traffic.  Well I am going to give you a breakdown of some of the basics to building traffic.  Just so you know building traffic takes time and sometimes money.</p>
<h3>Traffic Meta Breakdown</h3>
<p>Back in the day all traffic came from your meta tags and your keywords.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong these are still very useful but they don&#8217;t build you as much traffic because of the millions of website out there.  To give you an example I would love to be the number 1 site on Google for web design well that really isn&#8217;t practical it is possible but when you search <strong>web design</strong> you get 343,000,000 that is how many pages are being crawled with the words <strong>web design</strong>.  Now I am not saying don&#8217;t try to get to the top of the list.  Defiantly try but try for something a little smaller like for instance I am from Michigan and so I am trying to get top for <strong>Lansing Web Design</strong> and <strong>Michigan Web Design</strong>.  If you search Lansing Web Design I am close to the top.  Now if I use keywords like that and try to focus on a smaller scale my site will rise on the bigger scale.<br />
Your keyword meta tag is important but you have two other tags that are even more important your title meta tag and description meta tag.  Your title meta tag is different from your normal title tag because it is what the browsers look at first and way a lot of their decisions on.  The regular title tag is also very important it should be used everywhere that it is possible.</p>
<h3>Best Ways To Produce Traffic</h3>
<p>Here is a list of some really good ways to build traffic to your site.<br />
1) Submitting &#8211; You must submit your site to search engines.<br />
2) Use a favicon.ico<br />
3) Depending on what your site is about submit it to other sites with that kind of material.<br />
4) Have a lot of content.  This still has to be good content.  Pictures really bring in lots of traffic.<br />
5) Use your META tags effectively. <a target="_blank" href="http://webnet77.com/webstuff/optimize.html">META help</a><br />
6) Advertise with google or other advertising companies.<br />
7) Use Social Media by talking about your site.</p>
<p>Probably the fastest way to get traffic to your site is pay per click.  Yes it is going to cost you but in the long run of things it will be worth it.  Some people think that after doing these things your site will just magically appear at the top of Google or Yahoo but it won&#8217;t.  Building a vast amount of traffic takes time and some times money.</p>
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<p>If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact <a target="_blank" href="http://www.chosendevelopment.com">Chosen</a>. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.chosendevelopment.com">Chosen</a> is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.</p>
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		<title>Choosing A CMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Website Planning What is it that you are looking for in your site? What would you like your site to do? How often are you planning on updating your site? Would you like to have the ability to change your site? Well these are some of the questions that we ask a client that comes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Website Planning</h3>
<p>What is it that you are looking for in your site?  What would you like your site to do?  How often are you planning on updating your site?  Would you like to have the ability to change your site?  Well these are some of the questions that we ask a client that comes to us wanting a site.  Most people don&#8217;t understand that their is much more to a site then just having a idea of &#8220;I need a site&#8221; or &#8220;my company needs a site.&#8221;  With these questions that I have asked it starts me thinking would it be better for my client to have a CMS or not.  A CMS is a Content Management System it is used to give the buyer the ability to make small changes to the site pages in case they may need to change some text or something little.  Once I find out that my client may need a CMS then comes the point of giving the client a CMS that will work with their needs.  For instance if a client came to me and said that they would like a site that has a blog area that they could update daily.  The first thing that comes to my mind is WordPress.  Let alone WordPress is very user friendly it has so many capabilities and plugins that are free.  If my client came to me and said that they would like a site that they would only have to change about every 6 months or more.  I would probably look at either building the site with static information or using a smaller CMS.  My personal preference would be Frog CMS.  It is easy to learn and is easy to customize because of its small size.  Their are a lot of different opinions on what is the best CMS.  I don&#8217;t really think their is a &#8220;best&#8221; I feel that it really depends on the situation and the developers preference.  A short list of some of the free CMS&#8217;s out their:</p>
<h3>Most Known</h3>
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://drupal.org/">Drupal</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/">Joomla</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Not So Known</h3>
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.madebyfrog.com/">Frog CMS</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki">Media Wiki</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://typo3.com/">Typo3 CMS</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://moodle.org/">Moodle</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/">Dolphin</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.pligg.com/">Pligg CMS</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.movabletype.org/">Movable Type</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xoops.org/">Xoops</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.geeklog.net/">Geeklog</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://e107.org/news.php">e107</a></li>
<li>Mambo</li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://nucleuscms.org/">Nucleus CMS</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>My Opinion</h3>
<p>This is just a few of the vast amount of CMS&#8217;s out their that you can choose from.  Note that all of these are free open source CMS&#8217;s.  I have mt own opinion about these CMS&#8217;s and I believe even though Drupal and Joomla are two of the biggest CMS&#8217;s they are two of the most complicated.  I personally would stick with WordPress for blog sites and for smaller sites I would go with Frog CMS but this is my personal opinion.  I would say defiantly try out multiple CMS&#8217;s to see what you build a preference to.  If you have tried out any of the CMS&#8217;s on the list or any that are not on the list please feel free to leave a comment about them.</p>
<h3>Web Design And Development</h3>
<p>If you by change need web design or web development done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact <a target="_blank" href="http://chosendevelopment.com" title="Chosen">Chosen</a>.  Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm.  We are small but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills.  We have done work for clients and companies.  We prefer client work but we also take contract work.  We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California.  We would love to hear from you.  </p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Release 2.8 With the new release of WordPress 2.8 the developers really took in what people had to say and made some vast changes to the content management system. One of the biggest changes that the team made that the end user and really the admin won&#8217;t really see is the database changes. The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>New Release 2.8</h3>
<p>With the new release of WordPress 2.8 the developers really took in what people had to say and made some vast changes to the content management system.  One of the biggest changes that the team made that the end user and really the admin won&#8217;t really see is the database changes.  The WordPress team made the database much more efficient and much faster that allows for faster page load in the admin and load for the site.  WordPress added some much needed functionality that helps the developer perform much faster.  Some of those changes include.</p>
<h3>Functionality Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Theme and Plugin Editor</li>
<li>Theme Installer</li>
<li>Plugin Management</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Changes</h3>
<p>These are just some of the changes that WordPress implemented in the 2.8 release.  All three of these changes speed up the development process on creating a theme for a site.  I will be the first one to say that I use previously developed themes and recreate off of them because it is much faster just to use already created code.  With using a already created theme it used to be a pain to have to ftp into your site and add the theme into the theme directory for your site.  With the implementation of the Theme Installer you can upload a theme in its zip file or you can search the WordPress database for a theme.  Much faster than having to go out and download the theme and then upload it to the theme folder.  Now I have always been against using the theme/plugin editor that was built into the content management system but now that it is changed I have been using it for little changes but I still use a outside code editor.  They made some great changes with it like the ability for line numbers and the function dropdown at the bottom of it.  The new creation of how you manage plugins is great with the ability to deactivate each plugin individually and delete each one without having to go to the top of the page and click the dropdown and select delete.  Probably the best thing with the plugin managment upgrade is the update feature that allows you to update each plugin right there.</p>
<h3>Stuff Not Really Noticed</h3>
<p>WordPress has implemented quite a few thing that the end user will not really notice but will be really affective like the ability to automatically update time when it is daylight savings time.  Also the ability to control the columns on the dashboard page is also a plus for the admin so they can stay updated with whatever it is they have on the dashboard.  Another little change that helps the admin users is the recreation of the widget panel.  Now with more intuitive activity, it makes it easier to add widgets to the sidebars.  One of my favorite things that WordPress implemented is a popup banner to inform the admin that they have not changed the auto generated password.</p>
<h3>Your Questions</h3>
<p>The only question about this new installation of WordPress is what could they possibly do to the platform next to make it even better?  If you have any ideas and don&#8217;t want to submit them please leave a comment on the post and I will submit them for you.</p>
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		<title>WordPress Functions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress is the top in Blogging Content Management Systems by far with its vast following and well known product. Not to mention WordPress has some of the best functionality for the end user. I have talked a little in the past about WordPress and how to set in up and how to create parts. Well [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress is the top in <strong>Blogging Content Management Systems</strong> by far with its vast following and well known product.  Not to mention WordPress has some of the best functionality for the end user.  I have talked a little in the past about WordPress and how to set in up and how to create parts.  Well now I really want to get into the heavier insides of WordPress.  Things that maybe the majority of end users will not understand.</p>
<h3>Most Valuable Function</h3>
<p>I am going to start off this functions post talking about probably the most heavily used WordPress function called <strong>bloginfo</strong>.  This is a really useful function if you can understand it.  It is quite easy to start the function because it is built in to WordPress all you have to do is call the function and give it what parameters you would like it to have.  The code to call this function looks something like this &lt; ?php bloginfo(&#8216;YOUR PARAMETERS&#8217;); ?&gt;.  As you can see it is quite easy to call this function but in order to understand what you can do with this function is another hurdle.</p>
<h3>List of the Parameters</h3>
<ul class="half">
<li>admin_email</li>
<li>atom_url</li>
<li>charset</li>
<li>comments_atom_url</li>
<li>comments_rss2_url</li>
<li>description</li>
<li>home</li>
<li>html_type</li>
<li>language</li>
<li>name</li>
<li>pingback_url</li>
<li>rdf_url</li>
</ul>
<ul class="half">
<li>rss2_url</li>
<li>rss_url</li>
<li>siteurl</li>
<li>stylesheet_directory</li>
<li>stylesheet_url</li>
<li>template_directory</li>
<li>template_url</li>
<li>text_direction</li>
<li>url</li>
<li>version</li>
<li>wpurl</li>
</ul>
<p>Well that looks like a long list of stuff but a lot of those come in handy quite often.  I am not going to go into what they all do but I will talk to you about a couple of them so that you have some idea of what you can do with them.</p>
<h3>Most Common Parameters</h3>
<p>The first one that I am going to talk about is the url.  Well to me this one is self explanatory what this does for your site is echos out the url of the site.  So if your site is http://www.example.com then the bloginfo function for url would echo out your url.  So if you needed to do an a tag and you wanted to echo out your url all you would have to do is say  now a lot of people would look at that and say why wouldn&#8217;t I just write my url in their instead.  Well if you write your url in there it will only work for your url and so if you are creating a theme then you wouldn&#8217;t be able to sell this theme.  now I am going to move on to another parameter known as name.  All that this does is echos out what you called your blog and you can change this inside the admin section of WordPress.  So a practical use for this would be putting it inside of the a tag that we just used so it would look like this &lt;?php bloginfo(&#8216;name&#8217;); ?&gt;.  That way if you named your blog EXAMPLE the link would say EXAMPLE.  The last parameter that I am going to talk about is description this is also known as your tag line.  You can also set this up inside of the admin section of your blog.  This comes in handy quite often in the header and footer sections of a site.  Mainly because almost every company has a tag line or MATO that they try to emphasize on.  So by saying &lt;?php bloginfo(&#8216;description&#8217;); ?&gt; you can plaster your MATO all over your site.  Well that is my last example for you I really hope that you start messing around with the other parameters because they can come in really great use to you and your site.</p>
<h3>Additional Help &#8211; Chosen LLC</h3>
<p>If you are in need of some help with your WordPress site or any other web related issues you can either contact me or you can go to the Chosen Development site for more help.  We are based out of Saint Johns, Michigan and we specialize in Design and Development we do seminars in the Lansing Area on all different types of web information.  Chosen is a growing company of about 8 people 4 full time and 4 part time.  We would love to hear from you about possible Design or Development work and if you are from the Lansing Area we would be willing to meet with you.</p>
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		<title>About Shane Strong</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 07:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lansing Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lansing Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lansing Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shane Strong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that you really don&#8217;t see on most blogs is a really good place to get to know the owner. Well this is because there really isn&#8217;t a easy way to do this. Yeah you have your about page and maybe people can contact the owner and get to know them. Well I know [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing that you really don&#8217;t see on most blogs is a really good place to get to know the owner.  Well this is because there really isn&#8217;t a easy way to do this.  Yeah you have your about page and maybe people can contact the owner and get to know them.  Well I know I wouldn&#8217;t do that, maybe read the about page but that is it.  So in this post I am going to tell you some stuff about Shane Strong me.</p>
<p>I grew up in a little town called Olivet this town is about 30 min south west from Lansing Michigan.  I went to school there all my life.  I was that kid that everyone was friends with but I didn&#8217;t really have all to many good friend.  Maybe this was because I only wanted two of three close friends.  All through out school I was really good at math and science but I was not the greatest when it came to reading, spelling, or history.  I started playing a lot of sports in 7th grade and found that I liked them quite a bit.  I was playing <a target="_blank" href="http://www.myshopping.com.au/PT--257_Personal_Fitness_Basketball__fs_13246_e__">basketball</a>, track, and golf.  Most of my child hood I was set that I would become a electrical engineer and build up to be a nuclear engineer.</p>
<p>Then high school happened.  I was still into sports trying out for Golf, Basketball, and Baseball.  Most of my school time was set to getting better at sports.  I was really fixed on golf.  It was a sport that my grandpa taught me before he died and I guess it was because of him that I became such a great golfer.  I player basketball for my freshmen ans sophomore years in high school but couldn&#8217;t make the cut my junior or senior year.  I played baseball my freshmen, sophomore, and senior years.  Took off the junior year so I could get better at golf.  That was my real charge in high school.  I became a Varsity player my sophomore year playing almost every game and if I wasn&#8217;t playing on Varsity I was number 1 on JV.  My Junior year of golf I dropped 2 strokes on my game and was driving the ball about 310 yards.  Ending the season the number 1 player on the team and getting awarded all-conference 1st class.  That means I was in the top ten of all the players in our league.  My senior year rolled around and I was pumped ready to become the number one player in our league.  I started the year up one stroke from the year before but driving the ball about 315 yards still not bad but that one stroke would kill me.  I finished the year out in 5th place still getting all-conference first class and MVP of the Olivet team and Captain award.  Both Junior and Senior year for some reason I would choke at the regional round and not make it to state.  Not the worst thing ever but no one had ever went to state in golf for Olivet and I could of been the first.  I really feel that my biggest set back was that I wanted the Olivet golf team to get bigger than just me and didn&#8217;t focus quite enough on my personal game.  Well of all my high school year my senior year was the best I broke up with my horrid girl friend that was holding me back from quite a few thing.  I took 2 college classes Calculus 2 and Intro to Information Systems.  Then it was time to graduate and I really was still stuck wondering what am I going to do next.  Of the two Colleges I submitted my application to three contacted me back.  Michigan Tech and Ferris State University.  Oh yeah the third Olivet College they wanted me to go there because of what I did in the two classes well I was there.  I actually had the opportunity to take a course that wasn&#8217;t offered there and I would have my own personal teacher.  I ended up choosing Ferris why that was I couldn&#8217;t tell you but that is for another day.</p>
<p>Well that was the start of my life in a quick nut shell.  I will inform you next time how I became a Web Developer and owning a business.</p>
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