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.

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First off you have to go out and find a Magento theme. Some of these are quite expensive but come with much more than just your typical free one. The first place I would check for themes is ecommerce-themes they have quite a few really nice looking themes for you to download. After getting your theme, it should come in a zip file extract those on your computer. Inside the extracted folder you should get two folder called app and skin.
The next thing you have to do is add those folders to your Magento installation. This requires you to ftp into your site. The app and skin folders go in different places. The app folder needs to be uploaded to your magento/app/design/frontend/default directory and your skin folder needs to be uploaded in your magento/skin/frontend/default directory.

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.

Magento And Hosting

Something that I would recommend would be getting a server from peer1 hosting. They have managed private cloud servers with vm ware hosting. This will make it easy to work with multiple operating systems and have a great IT support team on call 24/7/365. For more information check out peer1.com private cloud documentation and pricing.

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.

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Traffic Meta Breakdown

Back in the day all traffic came from your meta tags and your keywords. Don’t get me wrong these are still very useful but they don’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’t practical it is possible but when you search web design you get 343,000,000 that is how many pages are being crawled with the words web design. Now I am not saying don’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 Lansing Web Design and Michigan Web Design. 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.
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.

Best Ways To Produce Traffic

Here is a list of some really good ways to build traffic to your site.
1) Submitting – You must submit your site to search engines.
2) Use a favicon.ico
3) Depending on what your site is about submit it to other sites with that kind of material.
4) Have a lot of content. This still has to be good content. Pictures really bring in lots of traffic.
5) Use your META tags effectively. META help
6) Advertise with google or other advertising companies.
7) Use Social Media by talking about your site.

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’t. Building a vast amount of traffic takes time and some times money.

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.

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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’t understand that their is much more to a site then just having a idea of “I need a site” or “my company needs a site.” 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’t really think their is a “best” I feel that it really depends on the situation and the developers preference. A short list of some of the free CMS’s out their:

Most Known

• WordPress
• Drupal
• Joomla

Not So Known

• Frog CMS
• Media Wiki
• Typo3 CMS
• Moodle
• Dolphin
• Pligg CMS
• Movable Type
• Xoops
• Geeklog
• e107
• Mambo
• Nucleus CMS

My Opinion

This is just a few of the vast amount of CMS’s out their that you can choose from. Note that all of these are free open source CMS’s. I have mt own opinion about these CMS’s and I believe even though Drupal and Joomla are two of the biggest CMS’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’s to see what you build a preference to. If you have tried out any of the CMS’s on the list or any that are not on the list please feel free to leave a comment about them.

Web Design And Development

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 Chosen. 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.

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One of the aspects that I am going to have this do is make it so that you can register possible client and actual clients. With the actual clients this will allow you to register client and keep track of money that has been received from them and money that is still in the waiting. I felt that something that would be useful is a emailing system that sends you a email that a client needs to make a payment and it also sends a email to the client so that they know.

Another aspect that I am going to have this do is calculate the taxes on money received. Also a place for you to input expenses. I have a lot to do with this and would love input on the subject I would like to have this out to the public by this summer. I am at first building this to my needs and then building it to everyone’s needs. If you would like to send me any helpful info you can send it to accounting[at]shanestrong.com or you can write a comment about it.

In order for me to fund this project I need some help. Donations would be great you can send the via paypal to shanestrong05[at]gmail.com. Or if you have any web design or web development work you can contact Chosen Development.

I am currently looking for a full time job in the web design industry. Preferably somewhere in the Lansing Area. I consider myself highly skilled in XHTML, CSS, and WordPress other skills are MySQL, PHP, Java, VB, and currently learning ASP.net and ASP. If possible I would like to become a Lansing Web Developer somewhere in the Lansing Area. I feel that the Lansing Web Industry is going up even though it is a little slow right now.

Thanks You For Your Help

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Working for an advertising agency we see and here about almost everything. I am a co-owner of Chosen Development, we do everything from websites down to walking dogs. We don’t do just Logo Designs or consider our selves to being a Logo Design Company. Some of the logos that we have created were Church Logo Designs and Business Logos. Most of the people who come to our company want a logo designed for something like $20 and yes we could do that but people really need to notice that if you spend $20 on a Logo Design you are going to get $20 worth of work.

What Logo Designs Should Consist Of

Alright if you look at some of the most popular Logo Designs some of these designs might of went for hundreds of thousands of dollars. For instance if you take some of the Sport Logo Designs like Nike for instance I don’t know off hand how much they paid for there Logo but everyone knows what it is. I can definitely tell you that it wasn’t a $20 Logo Design. Most of the really popular companies might have paid up to a couple million dollars for a Logo Design. There are a few companies out there that have paid little to nothing for their Logo. For instance one of the biggest companies in the world Google not that many people know Google’s Logo but it sucks you should look it up. For a Logo Design for a small company it is a good thing to pay for something that will be worth it. For a price perspective I would have to say that a good Logo would be between $500 to $1500 and for a cheaper logo you could spend anywhere from free to $100.

Some Really Bad and I Hope Cheap Logo Designs

We took a look at some of the really bad Logos that have been designed developed. Some of these might not be appropriate for kids but that is who most of these are focused towards.

Logos found by Chosen Development – Graphic Website Logo Design.

Here is some of the Logos that I have found that are bad.
Well to start one of the newest the Pepsi Logo.
New Logo –
Old Logo –
I don’t know about you but the new logo is horrible.

Here are some other bad Logo’s.




There are quite a few Logos out there that have probably been done for either free or by somebody that has no clue what they are doing. One of our biggest mottoes here at Chosen Development is let the professionals do what they are good at. Basically it like a plumber you aren’t going to call them and say what they should do because you know that they know that they know what they are doing. So with that Logo Design is something that every business needs but would you like to pay a little and get something like these or would you rather pay a little more and get something worth your money and time.

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As I said we are going to be published in a book the name of it we are not able to give out yet. This is happening because the publishing company sees us as a different business. We aren’t the normal start up business. We came into the web design and development business with nothing but a goal. We don’t want to make millions like everyone else yeah that would be nice, more money to share with the community. We here at Chosen are looking for everyone to make money. If you take a look at our site at Chosen Development we do not look like everyone else our business site is different. I find it to be more appealing to everyone not just to clients and we here think that is how it should be. Not to point out other sites in the Lansing Area in the Web Development business but if you look at there sites you will not be impressed. Not to be mean but there sites suck, there is no creativity and the customer usability is horrible. Some of these companies make ten’s of millions of dollars a year but are they helping the people that need it no. In order to make Michigan a state known for more than a falling state, we as a community need to work together to bring more and more work to the area. One of the biggest things that we do to help the community besides getting involved with Churches, we point all the work that we don’t have the time to do or man power we send it towards our competitors. Chosen Development is based out of Saint Johns and we are one of the two web design and development companies in Saint Johns. The other is Dynamite Inc. owned be Jeremy Lound, we are currently business partners with him and his growing business.

We here at Chosen Development do all things in the advertising spectrum, we specialize in web design and development, logo design, and SEO. With web design we do thing not necessarily cheaper than everyone but if you compare everyone to our prices we are probably the best you will get for the money and time. We believe in the saying quality not quantity. We would rather make less money and make a better site than make two or three crappy sites for cheap that end up being cheap. One of the biggest thing that our business partner Jeremy helped us with is that people look at web development and design as something that you can test or you can try it to see if you want it. Well it isn’t it is more like painting a room. You dont go find a painter and ask him to paint one room to see if you like it. It ends up being either you get the room painted or not and if you get it painted you pay the painter upfront. We are taking this to heart with out business model, from now on anything no matter what price we are doing a $100 up front payment just to get with us to discuss everything. This will be treated as a deposit so you can get it back but we are finding that people don’t want it back because of the quality of work we are giving them.

Lansing Michigan is a dying state we are one of the worst unemployment states in the US. My father works with a company that makes parts for GM, Ford, and all the other automotive companies in Michigan and he has been laid off since around Christmas time. He was one of the last people to get laid off. This is a common thing in Michigan, companies laying people off right and left. Michigan needs some help and Chosen Development is hoping to be one that can help. We are looking to keep any specific office to only 10 people but that doesn’t limit the amount of offices we can have. By the year 2020 we are aiming to be in at lease 10 different states and some people might see that as a small challenge but it isn’t we here at Chosen started this company with nothing but our computers, nothing in our reserve. We here believe that God is the one that started this company and is the one that wont let it fail. We are going to take Chosen to every limit possible and God and Jesus Christ are going to be there watch over us. This is not to say that we aren’t going to slip and fall but if we do we will get back up and try again. We have made a business goal and this is a weird goal but one I think every business should adopt. We have a community prayer time everyday and we pray for each other and everyone that is having troubles. Everyone of Chosen’s employees has there own Bible and reads it regularly.

Well I hope that I have covered everything and pray that everyone takes this to heart. Thank You

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Shane Strong
Chosen Development

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background {#XXXXXX transparent no-repeat url(image);}

You can put all the information for that property in side of one thing. It is kind of like padding, margin, border, and others you can either code each separate or just as one like this-

separate- padding-left:0; padding-right:0; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0;

just as one- padding:0; You can use that for everything but say you have a 2px padding on the right it would look like this padding: 0 2px 0 0;. That means padding: TOP RIGHT BOTTOM LEFT; this is quite simular for margins also. Now borders are a little different you can either say border: 4px and other stuff; or if you only want a border on a certain side then you have to write out border-right, border-left, border-top, and border-bottom. Well that was all I am posting about until next time.

Shane Strong
Chosen Development

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See now in order for this to really do some SEO on my site I have to have this post say something about my keywords. Well these are my keywords right at the current time Chosen Development, ChosenDevelopment, Powered by WordPress, shane, strong, shane strong, text messaging online, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, and Chosen. The reason for some of these keywords can explain them selves like all of the Chosen, ChosenDevelopment, and the Chosen Development this is the start up company that I work for and in order for its site to get better we need to get the home page in the top searches so by having the word Chosen in my post I am upping the SEO of the Chosen site and my site at the same time. Now if you look that all of the Chosen words are a link and that ups the SEO even more.

Well if you keep looking at the keywords in this post you will see some like Powered by WordPress and some people would think why would he have that as a keyword or even the Text Messaging Online. Well in order to do some good or great SEO on your site you have to know what keywords that you can use to make it to the top of that key word. Now think Powered by WordPress this is a weird keyword buy it gets over a couple hundred thousand hits a month so now with me having Powered by WordPress in my site the SEO for that search will slowly take me to the top of a search when someone searches for Powered by WordPress. The Text Messaging Online keyword this is in relation to the Text Messaging widget I created on my site. Some of the others like Shane, Shane Strong, and ShaneStrong are just ones that will lift my name to the top of searches. Now people should know the keywords are not everything to SEO even if you get the best keywords. In order for you to get to the top of the list you either have to do something like this were you create a lot of posts to up your SEO or you can pay search engines like Google or Yahoo to put you at the top. So if you would like to up your Search Engine Optimization then get posting or open the wallet and dish out the money.

Probably the best link to use to check your SEO is Website.Grader.com. There are a lot of SEO sites out there but this one breaks down your site in many different ways. Thank you to all the viewers and if you have any questions dont hesitate to comment or go to my Contact Page where you can get my email. I am going to attempt to talk about SEO almost once a week if you would like to keep in touch.

Shane Strong
Chosen Development

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HTML h1-h6 these are your heading tags which looks like this <h1>This is a h5</h1>

HTML p this is your paragraph tag which looks like this <p>this is one paragraph</p>

HTML a this is your link tag which looks like this <a href=”http://www.shanestrong.com”>Shane Strong Home Page</a>

HTML img is the image tag which looks like this <img src=”constr4.gif” width=”144″ height=”50″ />

HTML b is the bold tag which looks like this <b>This is bold</b>

HTML big defines big text and it looks like this <big>This is big</big>

HTML em defines emphasized text and it looks like this <em> this is emphasized</em>

These are just some there are tons of others such as title, body, head, html, underline, italic, super and sub script and alot more. For some help on these tags you can go to one of my favorite sites http://www.w3schools.com. If you have any questions about writing tags just leave me a comment and I will get back with you or you can contact me to any of the emails on the Contact page.

Shane Strong
Chosen Development

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The business has a very broad focus on many different plains of advertising. The top focus right now for Chosen Development is web design. I myself am part of the company and have the position of front and back end web developer. We here at Chosen can do SEO, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML, XML, and Ruby on Rails. If you would like to look at some of our work you can go to the Chosen website, JoeSak, or Clay McIlrath. Most of our sites are powered by wordpress. We have created a few different wordpress blog theme, we do wordpress seo, can give wordpress help, and we can make new wordpress blog sites. Us here at Chosen have all came from close to nothing and are looking to take the advertising industry by storm.

Shane Strong
Chosen Development

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