Danconia Media at Tri-Town Ice Arena
As a sponsor of the Tri-Town Ice Arena in Hooksett, NH - the Granite State's first two-rink complex - Danconia Media has its logo featured on the ice. We've partnered with Tri-Town in the past, having redesigned the complex's website and outfitting it with a robust, user-friendly content management system (CMS). Check out the logo below!
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Danconia Media in the New Hampshire Union Leader
Danconia Media was featured in the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Granite State's largest newspaper, on December 30 as a result of the website we donated to the New Hampshire American Legion Riders. Check out the article below!
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Does Your Children’s Nonprofit Need a Donated Website?
This holiday season, Danconia Media is giving back by donating a free website to one nonprofit or charity organization whose goal is to help children. We are giving away a web development package that would normally sell for tens of thousands of dollars to help a deserving organization better promote its cause. As part of the package, the chosen organization will receive:
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Google Instant Preview and Its Effect on SEO
Yesterday, Google rolled out a new feature that allows users to preview web pages without clicking on the links. It's one of several changes the world's most popular search engine has unveiled in recent months that is favorable to websites that provide valuable content. Instant previews make having a well-designed website more vital than ever: If users don't like the way your preview looks, they're likely to not click through to your site.
When visitors type queries, they're now given the option to preview the results by clicking on or hovering over a magnifying glass icon. The previews appear to be the latest cached version of the web pages. So, if you've just modified a web page, it could take days or more for Google to display the altered version as a preview. The frequency that your site is indexed depends on how important Google deems it; the more quality links you have pointing to it, the better off you are.
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Joomla! 1.6 Beta Version Released
Yesterday, the Joomla Project released the beta 9 version of Joomla 1.6. Version 8 was released on August 23, and about 70 bugs in it have been resolved in the latest release. The community expects Joomla 1.6 beta 10 to be released on September 20.
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Make Your Data Come to Life with FusionCharts
If you have data to showcase, it can be quite challenging to capture your viewers' attention. Few things make people's eyes glaze over faster than traditional charts. One way to display data in a more exciting way is by using FusionCharts, which use Flash animation to make data lively.
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Save Yourself a Headache: Purchase Your Own Domain Name
When you're dealing with an outside firm for your web work, it's very important that you maintain ownership of your domain. If you plan to launch a website and don't yet have the domain, buy it on your own before contracting with a web development company. In a perfect world, this wouldn't be an issue, but contractual relationships can turn sour and not having control over your domain could seriously hinder your business's progress.
Purchasing your own domain name couldn't be much easier. There are a wide variety of sites � including GoDaddy, NameCheap, Network Solutions and Yahoo! Domains � where you can purchase the domains within minutes using your credit card. Pricing varies, but it's usually in the $10 range. You can purchase ownership for several years at a time or be charged a small amount annually. Domain ownership is not the same as hosting.
While the purchasing process is simple, finding a decent domain that's available can be quite frustrating. For some of our clients, we research domains and then recommend they buy them on their own so they can be sure they'll maintain control no matter what. If a firm has a problem with this approach, you really have to wonder whether it's wise to do business with them.
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A Wise Investment: A CMS to Maintain Your Site
Today, very few businesses can get away with having a static site that never gets updated. If you want your website to generate revenue, rather than just look pretty, it's essential that yours is able to be easily updated. You can pay a firm by the hour or on retainer to do the updates for you, but the easier, and more economical, way to go about it is to invest in a content management system (CMS), which can be used by novices to add, modify and remove content.
Why is keeping your site updated so important?
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Has Your Site Seen a Drop in Traffic?
If your site has seen a decrease it traffic in the past month, it may be because of a Google algorithm update that's been dubbed �Mayday" by the search community. The change, which took effect around the beginning of May, especially impacted large sites that get a sizable amount of their traffic from so-called long-tail queries. While some sites have been impacted minimally by the change, other webmasters have been reporting near-catastrophic drops in traffic.
Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, says the tweak �changes how we assess which sites are the best match for long-tail queries.� The algorithm update went through a vetting process, according to Cutts, and it is not tied to the long-awaited infrastructure change known as �Caffeine.� At Search Engine Land, former Googler Vanessa Fox noted: �Before, pages that didn't have high quality signals might still rank well if they had high relevance signals. And perhaps now, those high relevance signals don't have as much weight in ranking if the page doesn't have the right quality signals.�
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Yes, Business Cards Are Important
Even though business networking is increasingly going virtual, physical business cards are still very much important. As long as you're still meeting potential clients in person, they're worth taking seriously. You want your business card to stand out in the stack because of its design and paper quality so you're more likely to be remembered down the line. The more your business card stands out, the more likely you are to do the same.
When you're handing someone your business card, you're making an important first impression. The quality of your business card is a reflection of your professionalism. Homemade cards are never acceptable. They scream of amateurism. You might be the best at what you do, but to a new prospect there are only a few ways to judge: by your word and how you present yourself.
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