Heart to Heart Kingston Senior Services

Posted: Friday, May 18th 2012 by Jeff Sturgis

Heart to Heart has made improvments to their website.

Develevation is proud to announce the launch the revamped website for Hearth to Heart Kingston Senior Services. This elegant design was contributed by Marketing + Design, converted to HTML by Sean Wilkins, and input into CDyWeb's Secure CMS and tested by Develevation. Heart to Heart Care provides a variety of services for senior citizens such as shopping, fresh air outings, providing …

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The 960 Grid System

Posted: Thursday, May 3rd 2012 by Jeff Sturgis

CSS Frameworks are becoming very popular ways to streamline web development pratcies. One such framework takes advantage of the number 960 which is divisible by many other numbers.

Websites are quickly becoming standardized to a width of 960 pixels. Why 960 pixels you ask? 960 is divisible by many nice numbers. This makes it clean and easy to setup columns that take up half, a third, a quarter, or even 1/24th of the screen. 960 pixels is big enough to display beautiful websites and small enough to fit on most mobile devices. But probably the best reason …

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Kingston Web Designers - Thank you for being awesome!

Posted: Wednesday, March 28th 2012 by Jeff Sturgis

Develevation owes everything to our clients and partners. It is only fitting that we post in our blog about the relations we trust and cherish.

This blog post is a thank you to all the people that Develevation works with or has worked with in the past in and around Kingston. I personally enjoy being friendly and working with excellent talent in the area. Develevation is fortunate enough to have worked with iSTORM New Media, Suitcase Interactive, JIC Designs, CDYweb, Creative Designs as well as various other professional writers, …

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Bounce Rate and Exit Traffic

Posted: Thursday, March 15th 2012 by Jeff Sturgis

Bounce rate and exit traffic are key statistics to your websites performance. Understanding these concepts can drastically increase your visitor satisfaction and your bottom line.

Your "Bounce Rate" is the percentage of visitors who only visit a single page on your website. In general, you want people to be interested in your website, so minimizing your bounce rate is ideal. However, there are many sites designed and people love websites where they can hit a single page, find what they are looking for and leave. If this is the goal of your website, you should not …

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Installing Oauth Using PECL in Debian

Posted: Monday, March 5th 2012 by Jeff Sturgis

Need to start working on an Oauth API? This quick tutorial will show you how to install PHP Oauth package via pecl for client and server configuration.

Install pcre headers and pear if not already installed. # apt-get install libpcre3-dev pear Install oauth # pecl install oauth

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Guaranteed Top Rank SEO - Fact or Fiction

Posted: Tuesday, February 28th 2012 by Jeff Sturgis

There are many companies out there guaranteeing #1 positions in the major search engines. Are these people lying to you or can they really guarantee this? What you should know before you choose your SEO company.

SEO is the science of ranking highly in the major search engines, in particular Google, Yahoo! and Bing. Search engine traffic is considered very lucrative. Especially if the people searching are looking to buy. I don't have to spend a lot of time convincing you that the top ranking positions for search terms are generally the links that receive the most traffic. So you offer widgets …

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