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Posted by admin on August 24, 2010

WordPress Different Background on Each Page

I ran into a recent problem that required me to set a different background image / theme in WordPress for individual pages and found a very simple solution. Follow these easy steps and you will be well on your way to customizing individual pages.

On the “Edit Page” page of the WordPress admin panel, you can define “Custom Fields”. For each page, create a custom field named “background-image”. The value should be a URL like “http://my-domain.tld/my-picture.png”.

Use the Theme Editor to edit the Page Template (page.php) of your current theme and add the following HTML/CSS between get_header() and <div id=”content”>.

<style type=“text/css”>
body {

background-image: url(‘<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘background-image‘, true); ?>’

}

</style>

This is a simple way to have customized background images for individual pages in WordPress.

Origionally found at Sean  Hakes, Inc – Denver SEO / SEO Denver

Categories: WordPress Design
Posted by admin on August 18, 2010

Pasadena SEO – Moving on up

Written by: Sean Hakes [SEO Consultant]

We’ve got a great web presence in Pasadena, not to mention a lot of great Pasadena businesses who rely on our powerful performance seo services. Since I started marketing to Pasadena we were lucky enough to pick up a guy who I can trust to run a satellite office in the Pasadena SEO market.

For more info keep your eye out on Pasadena SEO.com.

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Posted by admin on August 15, 2010

YellowPages.com Review – Deann Mayeda

I recently published a YP.com review on my Denver SEO blog located at blog.seanhakes.com. I won’t take too much time in recapping my disgust with how YP, formally YellowPages.com treats their customers and why it’s important as a small business owner to avoid YP.com (AT&T Interactive) at all cost – you can thank me later.

YP.com is unethical. They promote dishonest sales tactics that are designed to capture small businesses in stealthy, long-term contracts that are designed to keep small business owners locked into a product and service that is anything other than a good idea.

Here’s a few quotes from my SEO blog. It also calls out the lack of attention by the press & media contact from AT&T Interactive, Deann Mayeda. If Deann worked for me you can bet she’d be fired.

As a Digital Advertising & Media buyer I cannot recommend YellowPages.com – period. Their crafty sales tactics combined with a long term contracts are the exact tools that YellowPages.com rely on to lock into your cash and drive less than desirable results – you can take that to the bank.

Here’s where it gets personal:

One of our clients were snickered into a stealthy contract that was based on a powerful sales presentation that to our client sounded well, too good to be true – and it was.

I decided to get involved. I emailed Deann Mayeda, the Press and Media Contact for AT&T Interactive asking for her help and delivering my clients message of dissatisfaction. My complaint seemed as it had very little importance and was quickly handed off to a local sales rep in Denver.

The sales rep/manager called me to discuss my clients dissatisfaction. He soon offered to dissolve the contract in best customer service interest. The problem is; the contract was never dissolved as agreed and was quickly forked over to a local collections team. I gave it one more shot. Here was my most recent email to Deann Mayeda – Deann never responded or even acknowledged my correspondence.

SENT JULY 5 2010

Deann,
I hop you had a nice 4th of July weekend.
This email is in regards to an email I sent several months ago regarding an issue we had with one of our advertisers that we felt was misled into purchasing one of your pay per click products. The person whom I spoke with said they had no problem with releasing our client of their contractual obligations and talking at a later time about getting them into a different product.
My client was recently billed for another $5,000 and is now getting letters for a demand in payment.
I am somewhat dumbfounded by the lack of responsibility and am starting to see a trend with other advertisers having similar problems. We have a very large client base and of that client base we have some very large players as well as many SBAs with YP – some of which have similar complaints. Do you have a point person I can consult with in the near future or do you recommend me contacting the sales reps directly?
I would appreciate YP releasing our client as agreed from their contractual obligations. I will re-evaluate your local sales reps proposal at a later time to see if you have newer products/services we’d like to explore at another time.

Thanks for your help.
Ms. Mayeda never returned my email.
Posted by admin on August 2, 2010

Choosing the Right SEO Firm For Your Web Design Project

Choosing the right SEO firm weather it’s a Las Vegas SEO firm, a Utah SEO firm or a Denver SEO Company for your website optimization work is sometimes overwhelming. You need to consider several factors before deciding on an SEO firm. There are several questions which need to be answered; whether you want to go with a large firm with lots of employees or whether you want to go with an individual SEO consultant.

For some, choosing the right person might be a very difficult task because there is no industry standard in place to help identify a good SEO firm. Different Denver SEO consultants and firms use different techniques for optimizing and therefore results may significantly vary too. Before you decide on an SEO strategy and SEO company, be very clear on the type of relationship, results and pricing you want.

Why You Should Hire an SEO Professional SEO is a very complicated and detailed process and if not handled professionally by an expert the results could cost you traffic and worse your site could be banned from Google. So hire a professional with years of experience, client references and results you can see. Hire a professional for your SEO work if:

  • You do not have the right SEO knowledge
  • You do not have the right tools for SEO
  • You do not have sufficient time to do keyword research
  • You do not have the resources to maintain SEO rankings

Understand Your SEO needs Before starting your SEO project, decide what your SEO requirements really are. If you understand what you want you can filter out the SEO firms that don’t meet them. Some questions to ask:

  • What are my objectives for the SEO?
  • Do I want organic or PPC search or both?
  • Do I want a local or national firm?
  • How often do I want to be able to communicate with my SEO firm?
  • How do I want results delivered?
  • Will I implement the SEO recommendations or have the SEO firm do it?
  • Do I want an SEO audit of my site?
  • Who is my target audience?
  • Do I want to include off page optimization?

Important Tips for Selecting the Right SEO Firm There are many factors to be considered before selecting a reputable SEO firm. So let’s look at some important points before hiring:

  • Select a firm which follows ethical SEO methods
  • Sign a contract detailing the approach, deliverables, pricing and timeline before starting the project
  • Check client references

This list is a starting point to help throw some light on to the important aspects of selecting an SEO firm. Regardless of the firm you choose, big or small, it’s your budget so spend it wisely and select the right firm for your SEO project.

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Posted by admin on July 28, 2010

Denver based Web Design & SEO Agency Expands Phoenix Market

Denver based Web Design & SEO Company, Sean Hakes, Inc announced just two days ago about expanding their Phoenix SEO branch to Tucson AZ in a highly anticipated move that would bring their market penetration rate just over 65%.

Today on the Sean Hakes.com blog – they announced they had successfully acquired the Tucson SEO Agency along with Tucson SEO.com.

For more information regarding the acquisition you can visit the Sean Hakes blog at blog.seanhakes.com.

Posted by admin on July 27, 2010

Web Design Tricks for Colorado Companies

1. CSS Grid Builder

Yahoo has developed CSS Grid Builder which is an online lightweight CSS framework. It comes with more than 1000 page layout. The CSS Grid Builder permits you to quickly generate a CSS-based, web-standards compliant page layout in very little time.

2. CSS Sprite Generator

Using CSS sprites is the best way to develop the web page performance by dropping the number of HTTP requests which are required for rendering images, but it requires lots of measuring, planning, and coding if the work is to be done manually.

3. Blueprint: A CSS Framework

Blueprint decreases the amount of CSS code one just needs to write it down by including the common style that is generally used by the developers like CSS reset and page layouts.

4. CSSTidy

This is an open source application that fixes, parses, and optimizes CSS code. It helps in reducing the size of the file and also standardizes CSS code by automatically formatting it.

5. logicss: CSS Framework

This is the collection of PHP utilities and CSS files which helps in reducing the time of web development. It helps the developers to create customizable elastic, fixed or fluid grid layout.

6. layouts

This is a simple CSS framework that is utilized to create web-standards compliant page layouts. Layouts provide with 5 preset widths which support fixed width or fluid width and are inspired by Yahoo!’s Grids CSS.

7. Clean AJAX

Clean AJAX speeds up Ajax development as it cuts down the amount of code which one has to write, it also gives access to proven design patterns which are utilized in Ajax applications.

8. Sajax

This is an open source framework developed it accelerates the creation of Ajax applications. It also forwards support to important technologies such as Cold Fusion, ASP, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby.

9. DOMTool

The DOMTool was formed to reduce the time which is required to code DOM structures. It is quiet easy to create DOM statements, it is like copying the HTML code into the DOMTool and clicking a button. This is not meant to be used as a copy-and-paste solution. Here one also needs to optimize and verify the output, it also gives you a great starting point.

10. JSUnit

This is unit testing framework which is used for JavaScript. Lot of time is consumed while testing JavaScript manually. This is also prone to numerous errors, but JSUnit offers to its developer an automated and simpler way of doing the unit tests.

Posted by admin on July 25, 2010

SEO + WEB DESIGN = CRITICAL – WHY?

Today the world has changed from what it was in the past. Business whether small or large should have its web presence otherwise they are considered as scams by the people. All of them should have website and only after that people will be able to get all the information of the business. Web designing is important for making websites and it is much more than just looks of the website. Web design includes designing of the website which is appealing and should contain all the information regarding the business. Colorado  SEO designs with great quality and affordable web design will ensure royal customers and also excellent brand image of the business. SEO designs by the professionals give good design with optimised text and keywords as well as tags so that the website gets enough traffic.

Web designing and SEO are important because without it there will be no presence of your business. These days everything is done via internet. Many businesses are done online and people sell their products online through their website. Thus, for these, web designing and SEO are the most important factors to be considered. To increase the business and we can say to have any sort of business in today’s world, we need a website and web presence. This could be done with the help of web designing and SEO. To increase sales, the owner of the website can take several approaches like pay per click, Google Ad words, traffic exchange etc. SEO web pages are made by the people to make exceptionally great profit.

If anybody wants to sell their products through the website then SEO web designed pages will speak about the particular service or the products which the company is offering to the people or clients. With the help of good web designing and SEO, the viewers can be attracted and their attention can be drawn towards the service or the products offered. In short, you cannot stand in today’s world without the help of web designing and Denver SEO.