However if you are looking to make more money and grow to a national level you need to do something bigger. There are some great ways to market yourself on a national or even a global level. Probably the best way is to build yourself a website. With a website you can reach out to everyone that has a computer. So you are looking at almost every household in the US and a lot in other countries.

Building A Website

Almost anyone can build a website. You could just ask your neighbor if they know anyone who builds a website. More times than not, they do, but very rarely can that person build you a professional one. But, if you are really serious about making yourself and your website known you need to find a professional. A company that I work for is Chosen. We are not just a business but we are a small business of experts. We do not charge high prices that you would get at a bigger company or even with a bigger name. Our prices are inexpensive, but our work is of high quality.

We also develop all our customer sites. So you are not getting something from someone halfway around the world. We pride ourselves in helping to build small to mid businesses not just with their website, but with business development altogether. We don’t just build you something and then walk away. We make sure that you are happy with what you get and periodically do checkups with our clients to see if there is anything that needs changing or updated.

Marketing Your Site

Once you have yourself a website you need to market it. Now some people wonder what this means and ask “isn’t getting a website marketing.” Well yes but if you don’t market your site then no one is going to see it. This is where SEO, SEM, sitemap building, PPC and other means of trafficking come into play. I will offer brief descriptions on each.

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the process of making your site more visible by search engines. This is done with keywords, title tags, alt tags, heading, and other web elements. SEM or Search Engine Marketing is the process of marketing your site with the many different search engines. This takes place by letting these search engine know that you exist. Sitemap Building is the process of creating a sitemap for search engines. A sitemap is a easier and quicker way of showing search engines your site. So the faster they see your site the faster they bring people to your site. Probably the fastest way to build traffic to your site is with PPC or Pay Per Click campaigns. What these are, are the little ads that you see all over sites now. Most of the time they are Google Ads solicited through Google Adsense accounts. The process by you submitting your site with whatever company you are using. Most of the time Google. It also involves you select catchy keywords that best describes your site, and applying them to the account, and in time these words show up in engines, and lead visitors to your site. If someone clicks your ad, you pay for that click, but this can get expensive with the more keywords that you have or can be really cheap.

Probably the next most notable way of marketing your site is through Social Media network sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and others. There are many more ways to market your site and thus ensure it gets seen.

Summary

So if you are a company that would like to become a global company all you have to so is get on the web. Once you apply some of the above measures, talked about and you will see your sales climb. Who knows maybe they will climb enough that you can retire and have others run the business.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

Please check out Chosen. 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 national-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. Please mention that you came from shanestrong.com.

Add Your jQuery Scripts

We are going to use Google’s AJAX Library to add our jQuery library to our header. You may ask why we would do this well including the jQuery library from a external source will make less stress on your server and we all know that Google’s servers can handle the stress.

<head>
//Google Hosted
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
//Your Script
<script type="text/javascript">
   jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
      $(".cornerpeel").hover(function() { //Hover Over
         $(".cornerpeel img , .message").stop()
	 .animate({ //Expand the Message and the Hover Image
	    width: '138px',
	    height: '138px'
	 }, 600);
      } , function() {
         $(".cornerpeel img").stop() //Hover Out Go Back To Original
	 .animate({
	    width: '50px',
	    height: '50px'
	 }, 200);
	 $(".message").stop() //Hover Out Go Back To Original
	 .animate({
            width: '50px',
	    height: '50px'
	 }, 180); //This should be a tad faster than the image because IE is known to glitch
      });
   });
</script>
</head>

Create Your Styles

These are your styles and can be changed up depending on where your image is and what size you want to start out with.

.cornerpeel {position: relative;}
.cornerpeel img {
  width: 50px; 
  height: 50px;
  z-index: 101;
  position: absolute;
  right: 0; 
  top: 0;
}
.cornerpeel .message {
  width: 50px; 
  height: 50px;
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 100;
  right: 0; 
  top: 0;
  background: #fffcf9 url(http://www.shanestrong.com/jQuery/cornerpeel/rss.jpg) no-repeat right top;
  text-indent: -9999px;
}

Create Your Corner Peice

This is were you create your hoverable corner piece. This will be placed somewhere in your header area or right inside your body tag.

<div class="cornerpeel">
   <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ShaneStrong">
      <img src="http://www.shanestrong.com/jQuery/cornerpeel/corner_img.png" alt="" />
      <span class="message">Subscribe To My Feed</span>
   </a>
</div>

Your Finished

Well that was it, that is all that you need to create your self a corner peel. If you would like to see this in action you can download my script at the bottom. There is a ton of things that you can do with jQuery that can make your site seem more flashy without having to find a flash developer. jQuery is one of the fastest growing languages around. If you have any tutorials that you would like to publish on my site please go to my contact page.

jQuery Corner Peel: jQuery Corner Peel (71)

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

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.

How to use jQuery Accordion

You do not have to use this for WordPress, you can use this on almost anything to make more space. Here is how you would go about using the Accordion widget.

Include your scripts

These should go into your head section of your web page.

<head>
//Default jQuery Style Sheet
<link type="text/css" href="http://jqueryui.com/latest/themes/base/ui.all.css" rel="stylesheet" />
//Google Hosted
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/ui/ui.accordion.js"></script>
</head>

What happens next?

Now you have to create your accordion script. This is going to be hard for anyone who has never worked with jQuery so get ready.

//Your accordion script
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
    $("your_id or your_class").accordion();
});
</script>

That code can either go in your head section or your footer. Ok so I kind of lied about that part being hard to do. But this next part is going to be even harder yet.

//This is where you create you info
<div id="your_id" class="your_class">
//You only need either a class or a id.
//What ever you want to use the Accordion widget
//should have the same HTML element after your class
//or ID.
    <h3><a href="#">This will be the first area's heading</a></h3>
        <div>
            <p>This is your content in area 1</p>
        </div>
    <h3><a href="#">This will be the second area's heading</a></h3>       
        <div>
            <p>This is your content in area 2</p>
            <img src="http://www.shanestrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/jQuery-hover.jpg" />
        </div>
    <h3><a href="#">This will be the third area's heading</a></h3>
        <div>
            <p>This is your content in area 3</p>
            <p>Another paragraph</p>
        </div>
    <h3><a href="#">This will be the fourth area's heading</a></h3>
        <div>
            <p>This is your content in area 4</p>
            <ul>
                <li>List Item One</li>
                <li>List Item Two</li>
                <li>List Item Three</li>
            </ul>
        </div>
</div>

That is all there is to jQuery Accordion

The only thing left to do is check it out for yourself I have created a page that has all the code. If you would like to just see jQuery Accordion in action you can go to the link below. If you would like to save the page you can just go to it and (Right Click and go to Save Page As).

jQuery Accordion: jQuery Accordion (83)

jQuery Accordion Extras

If you would like to learn more about this great jQuery widget just go to Here

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

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.

Getting Started with Your Blog

If you haven’t yet gotten a web hosting plan, then it’s time to take the first step in making your blog public. Assuming you have a domain name, it’s time to decide how much you want to pay and for what services. The good news is hosting plans for blogging purposes are relatively cheap and easy to use. Look for a plan that offers some sort of advanced tool as like site builder or metrics reports, for instance.

Getting the WordPress Software

It is easy enough to obtain the WordPress program. Simply visit the website www.WordPress.org. It is a free program that is written in open source programming language so cost is not an issue and there is plenty of advice out there to help you. After you have downloaded the WordPress files, make sure you get them over to your file structure through your hosting FTP. That information should have been provided when you secured your hosting plan. When selecting a plan, keep in mind non-technical features like customer service and the ability to use special payment plans or promotions.

Setting up your WordPress Site and Blog

After the program file is on your site via FTP and you have selected your favorite theme via the control panel, go ahead and get acquainted with the point and click posting process so that when you have an idea to blog about you can quickly get it published with no delay. Try a couple of test runs and remember to go out and find some great themes to use as you refine the look and feel of your blog.

As you become more familiar with WordPress and the blogging process, you may wish to enhance your experience and learn about the more advanced functions involved in posting to the net, like managing videos and podcasts, for instance.

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Google Ads

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.

Other Ad Companies

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’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.

SEO Packages

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.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

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.

The first thing you have to do is find out what is making your site slow in the first place. If you have no clue on how to do this, find tools that will tell you your issues. For instance if I was going to make my site faster for instance, I use Firefox as my main browser and it has many different tools/plugins that you can tell needs to be changed. So, open up your browser and download the Firefox plugins Firebug and YSlow. Firebug really doesn’t help with making your site faster but it is a great tool if you are trying to learn things about coding. With YSlow you can test your site and see what is making your site so slow. It grades everything involved with your site. The only problem with this is if you dont understand what it is telling you then it really won’t help you. That is why it is sometimes better to get someone else, who knows what they are doing, to make your site faster for you.

What I Would Do

The first thing would be to go into YSlow and see what is causing your site to be so sluggish. If you aren’t using Firefox there is a lot of different tools all over the internet that you can use. Here is a good place to start Faster Web Page.

How Old Is Your JavaScript Files

If it was a javascript issue then I would minimize the amount of javascript that is being used and compress it so that the browser can read it faster. Having multiple javascript and/or old javascript files will make your site load much slower than having them up to date and compressed into one file or maybe two.

What About My Stylesheets

If it is a stylesheet issue then I would combine as many stylesheets into one as I could and compress them also. I find that the best thing to do is to have a compressed file and another copy of the file that is not compressed. That way if you need to make changes it is easy to change. Then you just make a new compressed file.

How Many Images Do I Have

If there is an image issue then I will take a look at what images are on the site and how large they are. Some persons don’t know that if you are making an image for the internet, and you don’t have a auto compression system in place then your image is going to be huge, most of the times. This will slow down the browser a ton. The best thing to do is to save the images ready for web. If you dont know how to do that then we can go back to YSlow and they have a great tool that will do it for you. If you go under tools at the bottom you will see All Smush.it. This compresses your images down to there compression rating and then lets you save them to your computer and all that you have to do next is upload them to your site.

Who Is My Host

My last and most important issue for most sites is who you have hosting your site. If your site is slow because of the company that is hosting it then you need to go somewhere else. For instance some really good companies to buy a server from are Hostmonster, Bluehost, Hostgator and many more. But some persons are getting hosted from neighbors, friends or uncles. What kind of hosting do you think that is. If you are not looking to spend the money to buy a server for your self you can find companies that can host your site for you at reasonable prices. For instance my company Chosen has different hosting packages. Our lowest is $25 a month which includes support and up to 3 emails. We have servers from Hostmonster. They are in my opinion the best hosting company out there. They have the best support and they have very little to none down time.

Final Thoughts

So that were a few different things that you should check into if you have a slow site. If none of these work for you 9 times out of 10 your site is too large, and, you need to think about a remake or paying someone to go through and tell you what need to be done to make the site faster. Your site should be updated about every couple of years if not every year. This doesn’t mean a new design to the site. No this means having someone go into the code of the site and optimize whatever they can to bring your site up-to-date.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

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.

Google has stopped using PageRank in there webmasters tools. Google feels that PageRank is not something that is of much importance. I am here to tell you that is not the case. If you are a Search Engine Optimizer or a Search Engine Marketer then you will know that a high PageRank means that you are doing a good job.

Let’s take into consideration if your site has a PageRank of 0 or 1, with 0 being the lowest on the PageRank scale. That means your site probably isn’t getting but maybe 30 hits a day and most of the time those are all bots. This means your site is making no money. In order to raise your PageRank you will need to either pay someone to get your site SEO and SEM ready. If you can get your site SEO or SEM ready then your page rank could jump up to say 2 or 3 and maybe even 4. Now if you have a PageRank of 3 or 4 you are probably getting around 80-250 hits a day to your site. Now, I dont know about you but I would much rather have 80-250 hits a day over the 0 or 1 page rank. Just think what your site would be making you if your PageRank was up to say 6 or 7. Well it would be a ton more than a PageRank of 1 or 2.

High PR Sites

If you can achieve a PageRank of a higher number you will get more and more people consistently coming to your site. Look at any of the high PageRank sites out there. For example let see who has a PageRank of 10. Well we all know Google is going to be at the top of the list. But some of the others are adobe.com, cisco.com, apache.org, apple.com, nasa.gov, microsoft.com, and many more. Can you make a guess on how many times a day these sites are getting hits? Well the answer is millions-billions a day. That means their sites are probably making millions of dollars every day . If you look at a list of sites that have a PageRank from 7 to 10 you will see that of all these sites you have probably been to each one multiple times. Now multiply your multiple times of going there times billions of people and you will get a really big number with a bigger money value behind it.

PageRank Overview

So lets see a higher PageRank brings in more income to your site. Which in turn means a bigger site and bigger bank account. In order to get your PageRank higher what do you need to do? Spend the money and get someone to do some basic SEO and SEM to your site. This way you will get found and your traffic will start to rise and your Page Rank will start to rise. Which means you income will start to rise. So to everyone who is wondering if PageRank really matters yes it does. It matters in many different ways most of all money profit.
For a list of some high page rank sites go to http://www.doheth.co.uk/info/list-of-web-sites-with-high-page-rank.php

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

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.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

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.

The main thing that you have to notice is that the Wordpress page, whether it is a ‘portfolio page’ or a ‘contact page’, will be set for long term that is it won’t have a extreme change, and if it does, you are changing it up.

As for a blog post or post, you might be creating these every day. They are supposed to be informative and/or updates about the topic that you write about on your blog. For example, you are a school and on your main page is your blog. Well, you may want to keep talking about various things about your school, hence frequently posting updated information on the school. For instance, if this coming Sunday, the your school will be playing a team that they might just be able to beat, updates on the blog could include information about the people, the upcoming game with maybe stats on the players and other any other interesting stuff about the game. That way if the your school looses the game that post will not be on the school’s blog page for a long time. At least it is only there until another post update is made.

Pages Versus Posts

There are five real reasons why pages are different than posts.

1. They are not involved with the blog.
2. You can use different page templates with them.
3. Pages are static text, they don’t change often.
4. Pages can have a hierarchy
5. Pages can have sub pages inside there main pages.

So your pages really have nothing to do with your blog. They are static text and don’t change that often. They are not time dependent. Most of the time these pages include (about, contact, services, and other informative pages about your site).

Posts In View

Posts are primarily meant for updating and link building. You use your posts to gain traffic to your site through SEO, SEM, and other means. With posts you tend to make regular entries into your blog, unlike pages, you need to change your posts almost weekly if not a couple of times a week. Most of the time your blog post show up on your home page in a certain order. More times than not the order is constructed by date of the post. With the newest posts at the top of the page and the older get put to the back of the list. Blog posts use categories and tags to organize your posts. Given the categories and tags each are automatically given a RSS feed so that you may get updates on the groups.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

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.

What you have to do first.

Well probably the easiest to create, and unknown to many, is called a snarfer file. A snarfer file is a file that you add to your theme folder so that you can use it as a template. Let me give you a scenario. You would like to have a template specifically for your ‘about’ page. That way you can add other elements into the page that your other pages don’t have. Or maybe you don’t want comments for this page. Simply go to the theme folder on your server and create a file named About.php. The first thing that you have to do with this file is add the following code to the top:

< ?php
/*
Template Name: //What you want the template name to be 
*/
?>

Next you have to add the rest of the code to create the template. One of the easiest things to do is just add all the code from the Page.php file and change it as you need. That way it won’t look different from your other pages but you can still add and delete what ever you want, hence creating a slightly different template for your desired page. After you have completed the customization of the new template file all you have to do is set the page to use the template page.

Almost Done

To finish your template page login to WordPress and go to your newly created page. Now go to the right side of the page and you should see a place that says template with a drop down menu. Drop that down and your template name should be right there. Select it and save and you are done.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you need assistance with web design, web development, search engine optimization, 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, 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.

Top Ten SEO Tool List

Search Engine Genie
Website Grader
Google Adwords
Google Analytics
SEO Quake
SiteExplorer
Google Trends
Search Status
seomoz.org
Word Tracker

What The SEO Tool Does

Search Engine Genie – 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.
Website Grader by HubSpot – 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.
Google Adwords – 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.
Google Analytics – 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.
SEO Quake – 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.
Site Explorer by Yahoo – This is a useful tool for the yahoo search engine. I prefer Google’s Analytics over this because it has more to it.
Google Trand – 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.
Search Status – I really enjoy using Search Status because of its simplicity. I am a Firefox user and this is a Firefox plugin.
seomoz.org – 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.
Word tracker – 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.

SEO Packages

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.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

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.

Practical

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’s. Well I am finally getting there after 5 months of hard work. One thing that most people don’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.

SEO Consists

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’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’t try to learn SEO or teach your self SEO because you could become one of those experts.

SEO Packages

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.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

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.

jQuery Hover State

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.

$(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("background", "url('Path To Your Image')");
	$(this).css("cursor", "pointer");
    }
    //tell the browser to change the background to nothing when 
    //going outside the object area
    function out(event) {
	    $(this).css("background", "");
	}
});

jQuery Hover with a click event

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.

$(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("background", "url('Path To Your Image')");
	$(this).css("cursor", "pointer");
    }
    //tell the browser to change the background to nothing 
    //when going outside the object area
    function out(event) {
	$(this).css("background", "");
    }
    //This adds the click event to your object and tells it where to go
    $('#YOURID').click(function() {
	window.location=$(this).find("a").attr("href");
    });
});

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.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

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.

Magento CMS Manage Pages

Now that you have these folder in your Magento site we have to go through the admin to tell the site to use the new theme. First log in to your admin and go to the CMS tab and them manage pages.

Custom Design Pages

Inside there you will have to change every pages custom design to your new theme name you installed.

System Configure Design

Next you will have to go to the System tab and then Configure. Inside the Configuration section go under Design and change all of the relevant fields to your new theme name. Make sure you save everything and your theme should be up and ready to go.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

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.