Minnesota House Re-Election Campaign 60B

This is a new "mobile-friendly" re-election campaign  website for Minnesota House Representative Phyllis Kahn in District 60B. The website was quickly re-worked using a responsive design approach that automatically detects and adjusts the content of the website to display fluidly on different devices. Social Media icons were added so the website becomes an interactive media "hub" for the campaign. It now provides all critical information for volunteers, online campaign contributions, a list of upcoming events, and important contact information. Actions to be taken by visitors are simplified down to just three key paths:  Endorse, Donate or Engage!

City Council Election site updated

The re-election campaign website for Minneapolis City Council member Diane Hofstede who is a life-long resident of Minneapolis and the Third Ward. The website was just updated with new images along with social media links and videos that are hosted on YouTube. Today a website is crucial to any campaign — providing critical information for volunteers, online campaign contributions, a list of upcoming events, and important contact information.

Website re-launched for "green home" builder

We are pleased to announce that a whole new website look has been created for DiGiacomo Homes, a midwest builder of award-winning "Green Dream Homes". Their latest home will be featured during this spring's Parade of Homes tour: March 2- March 24, 2013. The updated website is tailored for the touch display on iPads and features wonderful photography that gives you a good sense of the comfort, style, and functionality of these state-of-the- art "energy smart" homes.

New Adventures on google+

We are currently testing the features of the new google+ service that is in beta. Stay tuned for updates. We are looking forward to the release of google+ Business services too!

Domain Name Registration

One of the most common misconceptions clients have when they want to develop a website is they must buy one or more domain names ASAP to get started, and pay the least possible price. It is really important to understand a Domain Name is really only "leased" for a period of 1 year at a time or more, it is never really "owned".

Secondly if you do buy a domain name from one of the many heavily advertised domain name registrars, make sure you stay in touch with them, even if you chose auto-renew with your credit card on file. If the card's expiration date is reached and the auto-renew system tries to make a charge on it- you still will have to be alerted to that fact it expired and then give them an updated card. Often the registrar fails to successfully contact you by email, and so "your" domain name is then placed on the open market in an auction of expired domain names. Some registrars then charge fees of 120- 180$ to you to get it back.

Third, make sure you pay the extra fees for "whois privacy" so that your name, email address, and postal address information is not publically displayed in the Whois Database of Domain Name registrations. This will prevent a flood of email spam from spammers who harvest email addresses from the public database. Our domain name registrations include privacy protection for no extra cost.

Contact us if you would like consultation on how to choose a good domain name that fits your company and works with Search Engine Optimization to bring more traffic to your site. We can immediately register the best choice of names for you as we are an official Domain Name Registrar ourselves. We also can watch over your domain names and make sure they never expire without a warning! Domain Name "anxiety" is a thing of the past for our clients.

Web 2.0 is here to stay

More that a decade after the first web browser wars, the use of the web has become accepted - and has gone far beyond the pioneering days of National Science Foundation support and University research use. We can call it WEB 2.0, and the idea of ubiquitous computing is coming to fruition. This blogger page is a good example. Next: WordPress and other Content Management System applications to provide user-generated content.