Blog Design follow Up...

Last May I wrote an article here about a company by the name of Carolina Custom fences LLC and their Sales Manager Keith Bloemendaal

In the earlier article I described the process we set up for the development of a new site for Carolina Custom Fences, how we inspired keith Bloemendaal to start blogging on Wordpress.com simply to test his desire to keep up with a blogs and to see if he actually enjoyed the process. He Did!

As in any project, along the way we ran into delays and certain set backs. One of which was a big change at Carolina Custom Fences LLC. As it turns out, the changes brought with them large changes in our project and I am glad to say they were all for the best for everyone involved. The project received a new name and a new owner, and our relationship with Keith Bloemendaal became even stronger. Keith bought the website project from his former employer Carolina Custom Fences and started a new company with it - Raleigh Fence Contractors LLC.

All the delays from within Carolina Custom had allowed Keith to really see the power of blogging with his Wordpress.com blog. He had made contacts in the social network that is blogging and had made friends with other construction niche bloggers. So once he had ownership of the new site, Keith was ready to get it up and running as fast as possible.

We worked hard to accomodate Keith because I knew how important this new website would be for his new business. From the date Keith sent us the paperwork stating he owned the site outright to go-live as a working website took us just over 6 days. I am personally very proud of the work we did for Keith and Raleigh Fence Contractors LLC.

The new site had a completely new look and it was designed with a focus on what Keith wanted the site to do... Provide information for prospective fence customers in his niche market.

This is the result of our development work:

And as you can see from this screenshot of Google, Raleigh Fence
is doing well in organic search in a very competitive market. Using the
Keyword phrase "Raleigh Fence Contractor" one finds this one month old
site on the first page of Google in organic search. Phenomenal results
for any site and even though the keyword phrase is related to the site
URL the result is still worthy of praise.

Keith is very happy with his new site and has been singled out by other websites for having a very good clean and interesting small business website blog. We will be posting an article on our iBusinesslogic.com/blog site soon detailing the fantastic results of Keith's social marketing efforts.

By Now the World is aware that we run our blogs on Wordpress. We have tried the others, but there is just no denying the features and capabilities of Wordpress as a content publishing and management platform for the web.

Today we will share a feature Wordpress calls "shortcodes"... Yes, Wordpress offers shortcuts in code which make the process of creating interesting articles even easier, and they explain the entire process here:

What are the WordPress shortcodes?

What is a shortcode?

A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. Shortcode = shortcut.

What shortcodes does WordPress use?

[audio] converts a link to an mp3 file into an audio player. See full instructions here.

[caption] adds a caption to an image. See full instructions here.

[digg] embeds a voting button for your link on Digg. See full instructions here.

[flickr] embeds a Flickr video. See full instructions here.

[gallery] displays a thumbnail gallery of images attached to that post or page. See full instructions here.

[googlemaps] embeds Google Maps. See full instructions here.

[googlevideo] embeds a Google Video. See full instructions here.

[livevideo] embeds a video from LiveVideo. See full instructions here.

[odeo] embeds an Odeo audio file. See full instructions here.

[podtech] embeds audio or video from the PodTech Network. See full instructions here.

[polldaddy] embeds a PollDaddy poll(use without the space). See full instructions here.

[redlasso] embeds a video from Redlasso. See full instructions here.

[rockyou] embeds a slideshow from RockYou. See full instructions here.

[slideshare] embeds a slideshow from Slideshare.net. See full instructions here.

[sourcecode] preserves the formatting of source code. See full instructions here.

[splashcast] embeds Splashcast media. See full instructions here.

[vimeo] embeds a Vimeo video. See full instructions here.

[youtube] embeds a YouTube video. See full instructions here.

Keep an eye on this page for more!

Filed under: Audio, Flickr, Kyte, Music, Photos, Shortcode, Vimeo, code, embed, video.

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Arctic Spring Water of Tampa Bay, Florida selected iBusinessLogic.com to design the new Arctic Water website and blog.

The owner of Arctic Spring of Clearwater, Nick Chachula is very interested in the inherent power of content management websites and blogs. He was intrigued by the idea that he could reduce his overall Pay Per Click advertising budget by utilizing a website built upon blog technology.

Nick’s old website was built just 2 years ago but he found it very difficult to update and his webmaster was not always available to make changes. Nick is excited about the very real possibility that he can manage his own business website after a short training session with iBusinessLogic’s Scott Pooler.

“Adding content in the form of blog posts to any website will build up the page rank and therefore the organic search standing of that site” said Scott Pooler, CEO of iBusinessLogic.com of Largo, Florida. “We are pleased to be working with an established and reliable company like Arctic Spring”. When companies like this come to us for a new way to run their websites we are always happy to help!

The following is a screen shot of the first mock up of the new Arctic Spring water site. Changes will be made before it is officially launched but Nick Chachula is really excited by the fresh and clean look of the new site.

Read More Here: iBusinessLogic.com/Blog

See the completed site here:

Arctic Spring Water of Tampa Bay, Florida

Our parent company, iBusinessLogic Corporation hit the news wire today and scored with an article in Yahoo News. We are pretty excited that our eBay Stores design and AuctionLogic software will be presented on the main stage in Jay Berkowitz's keynote speech at eBay Live 2008.

Being picked up by Yahoo News is just icing on the cake.

Read More Here: iBusinessLogic blog

Thanks PRWeb!

Follow the link to read the Yahoo News release

This video will give you a quick idea of the basis of the upcoming Jay Berkowitz presentation at eBay Live 2008. Our parent company, iBusinessLogic is very pleased to be working with Jay and proud that he has included our work in his upcoming eBay Live keynote speech.

Enjoy this preview, but don't mis the live show in Chicago!