Dog Crate Size
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I am pleased to be associated with a new informational website, Dog Crate Size. This website will provide information and buying advice for those dog owners looking to purchase a dog crate for their canine friend.

Dog Crates Are Popular World Wide

Dog ownership is very popular and one of the best ways to afford your dog a home is to purchase a dog crate for their use. Using a dog crate affords a level of comfort and protection to your dog, and they will be glad to have a new home.

Dog Crates as Training Aids

Dog crates also offer the additional benefit of aiding in the training of your dog. Dogs who are confined to a crate during sleeping or other down time hours are far less likely to mess in their own home and will be much easier to toilet train, too. Overall your dog should be more well rounded if he has his own dog crate for his use. You’ll be surprised at how quickly your dog will learn to love his new dog house and will find that he even sleeps in it when the door is open!

Buy the Proper Dog Crate Size

Remember to select the proper dog crate size so that the crate is not too large for your dog. A dog crate that is over sized will afford your dog the opportunity to mess in parts of the crate that he does not sleep in, thus negating whatever the benefit to improved toilet training might be.

Throwback baseball jerseys are a connection between current day baseball players and those players who played decades – or in some case centuries – ago.

Today’s modern baseball jersey’s are certainly full of glitz, glamor and color. Today’s player wears a baseball jersey that is designed by a graphic designer and produced by a complicated computer aided machine that guarantees the baseball jersey will have great color, great design and great appeal to both the baseball player and to adoring fans who are certain to want to buy the jersey.

Throwback Baseball Jerseys

Throwback jerseys were first made popular by Major League Baseball. Teams took the field in traditional baseball jerseys from bygone eras,
and also wore baseball jerseys that were only worn in other leagues such as the Negro Baseball League, etc. It didn’t take long for these old style baseball jerseys to catch on with both the players and the fans.

These vintage sports jerseys are very popular with people across the world. In fact, many of the throwback baseball jerseys purchased world wide are purchased by people who live in Japan and other Asian countries. Baseball is a popular sport in Japan and that popularity has carried over into the ecommerce of throwback baseball jerseys!

I’m trying my hand at developing some micro niche websites with the goal of earning a bit of money from Adsense and other PPC advertisements. I am very, very new to this and have just learned enough to get a couple of sites up and running.

Nothing pretty here. Just trying to capture some search engine love and rank high enough to get some Adsense click through activity. In fact, I have already learned that at least one of these four sites (probably two) are really worthless for what my intentions are. However, with my own reseller account the only cost to me is for the domain name registration, so nothing ventured nothing gained I suppose.

Here’s the list:

• Fieldsheer Motorcycle Jackets
• Rotary Phone
• Rotary Phones
• Barbie Fashion
• Bosch Blades
• Speeding Offences
• Ticket Quota
• Wooden Garden Furniture
• Red Dogwood Trees

I’d be curious to hear what your experience is with micro niche websites and what you think of my choices.

One of the struggles I have had recently is determining the best way to allow my clients to update the content on their websites. Although there are a myriad of content managment systems to choose from, in my experience most of them are too complicated for the needs of the clients I normally work with.

I have personally become a convert to using WordPress as the backend for most sites that I design. By doing so, I can update most client sites from anywhere in the world through the WordPress web based interface. This is a great advantage as I am no longer tied to the various desktop software applications in my office in order to accomplish most updates.

With the exception of blog themes that I have done, none of the clients for whom I have setup WordPress as a CMS system have ever updated the content on their sites. Not a single one. This isn’t a client failing, but rather I feel that WordPress is just a bit too complex for most clients.

Enter CushyCMS

Earlier this week I stumbled upon a simple content management system called CushyCMS. In keeping with the claims made at their website, CushyCMS clearly is simple to use. It took me five minutes to setup CushyCMS to control the content at one of my own websites. Five minutes.

The CushyCMS interface is simple, intuitive and user friendly. It’s hard for me to imagine any client who will not be able to use it to update their content. I look forward to using it on a client site that I am currently developing.

One of the best features of CushyCMS is that it allows the web developer to control which particular page sections the client can update. No longer does the developer need to worry that the client will disrupt the navigation elements on the page, for instance. By applying a simple CSS class class="cushycms" to any page element, the developer is able to limit the client to only modifying the content of those particular elements. Brilliant idea and integrated nicely into the CushCMS package.

Although I have only been testing CushyCMS for several days now, it’s clear to me that I will be able to use it on many future website projects. I recommend that you take a look at CushyCMS to see if it meets your needs and those of your clients.

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Note: This post has been republished due to new interest in it. In addition, more detailed information and instruction has been included with the post.

I have always thought that one of the main flaws of many WordPress themes is that the main page navigation, when called by using the wp_list_pages() function, applies a title to each of the navigation links with whatever value is used in the the_title() of that particular page.

Don’t get me wrong, this is a good idea, but because of the way most navigation links are designed, the page titles need to be quite short and not very descriptive. Similarly, these themes tend to also use the_title() as the main H1 or H2 tag for the page display itself. In other words, if the navigation link says “Home”, the page title for that page usually displays as “Home” as well. This may be the way a designer wants it, but often it seems that a more descriptive page title is what’s really needed.

… it also allows for keyword insertion into these page titles – something that can only increase page rankings in the search engines.

By applying a nice bit of coding and sharing it with the world, Mike Cherim gave me the idea about how to solve this problem. I adapted the code he uses to display WordPress pull quotes, and now use it to afford the WordPress user the option to add their own, more descriptive page title rather than relying on the_title() alone. By using Mike’s technique, along with the built in custom fields feature of WordPress, the user is not required to to add a more descriptive page title, and if they don’t, the code defaults to using the_title() as normal. However, it does afford the user the option to be more descriptive in their page titles. Not only is this a neat feature that allows for more descriptive titles, but it also allows for keyword insertion into these page titles – something that can only increase page rankings in the search engines. After all, which H1 page heading is more SEO friendly, “Home” or “Welcome to LifePlan Financial“?

The code below shows how I implement the page titles in the PHP code. (Sorry, I could not get the actual PHP code to display correctly in this post, so what you see below is an image.)

Essentially, the code above says the following: If the custom field named main_title is NOT empty, display the text contained in that field as the H1 title. If the custom field named main_title IS empty, display the standard WordPress the_title() tag as the H1 title.

Putting the Code to Work for You

Based upon our example above, let’s put this into action. We’ll add one custom field called “main_title”. The following instructions will demonstrate how to add this information to a post using Custom Fields.

1. From the Write Post panel, choose Advanced Editing. If you are using the Simple Editing screen, look for a button with Advanced Editing » next to the Publish button. Click the button to go to the advanced editing screen.
2. After you have written your post, scroll down to the bottom of the Advanced Editing screen and look for an area titled Custom Fields.
3. To create a new Custom Field called “main_title”, enter the text “main_title” (without the quotes) in the text entry field titled Key.
4. The newly created Key should now be assigned a Value, which in our case is the name of H1 title you would like displayed on your page. Type this text in the Value field, again without the quotes.
5. All done. If I explained this correctly, and you followed the directions, your WordPress pages will now display the custom page title field!

You can add a page title to each of your WordPress pages meta-data. In the Custom Fields section, the Key will now feature a pull down list with the previously entered Custom Fields. Choose “main_title” and then enter the new page title in the value. Click Add Custom Field.

You only need to create a new “KEY” once, after which you can assign a value to that key for every post, if you so desire. If you do not enter any value in the main_title key, the code I wrote will default to using the standard WordPress page title contained in the_title() function

You can see this technique in action right here at 1955 Design. Just navigate the menu and see what titles I have chosen to add to the pages, rather than just the default navigation text. I think it’s a great idea, and thank Mike for both the code and the concept.

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Do you want Google to love your blog? Chris Pearson has written a terrific article about optimizing your blog markup for the search engines.

The article emphasis takes on the concept of using H1 tags in the blog header, and thus neglecting to use them in the blog post titles. The advice offered seems to be so obvious that its hard to believe most of the major blog themes fail to use the technique.

I got busy this morning adapting the theme the controls this blog to output markup in the manner Chris suggests. I think it is something you might want to consider if you do blog theme development. I would love to hear what you think about his ideas.

The art of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is quite magical. I know that I have only just begun learning about it, and I suspect that no amount of study will ever give any web developer more than a glimpse at what its all about.

I consider myself a novice at both designing websites and SEO techniques. What I have learned about the process has come from information shared by others with far more expertise than I have, such as Mike Cherim over at Green-Beast.com. Mike’s article on SEO was very informative and really got me thinking about the process. Mike also gives a brief but accurate synopsis of why Google will love your website, too.

I think that most web designers and marketing gurus agree on one thing: a website designed in a semantically correct manner, using valid CSS and XHTML markup and regularly updated content, is far more likely to have a higher page ranking than a site that does not employ these practices.

With this in mind, I have been extremely happy with the page rankings I have achieved with some of the websites I have designed. In fact, my own website, Stoney Creek Web Design, has achieved what I consider to be very good page rankings by using the techniques noted in the previous paragraph. Here are a few of the results for my website:

Google Results

• Rochester Michigan web design
• 48307 web design
• Rochester Michigan website design

Yahoo Results

• Rochester Michigan web design
  
• 48307 web design
• Rochester Michigan website design

As you can see, my success at Yahoo is a bit better than at Google. Yahoo has my site listed #1 on two of those searches and #2 on the third. Google has me listed in the 4th or 5th position, but as a rule the sites above mine in ranking do not seem to have anything to do with Rochester or Michigan. Go figure.

Note: As of October 17, 2007 each of the search terms above results in a #1 ranking with both Yahoo and Google! Yeah!

I have had similar success with some of my client sites, too. Although much remains to be learned about SEO techniques, which are ever changing, it does seem like common sense, good coding practices and fresh content play a key role.

What are your tips for enhancing Search Engine Optimization?

Everyone enjoys having nice outdoor garden furniture. There’s nothing quite like have wooden garden furniture to add an element of sophistication to your garden, patio or deck.

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