Everyone wants to know what a website will cost - in fact we have devoted an entire web page to explaining website design prices. Just to post here and clear things up - a simple website starts at $250-$400. More complex, multi-page sites start around $750-$1000. Extensive or feature rich web sites can cost $3,000-$10,000 or more. Give us a call (800-399-4085) for a free, custom quote based on your needs!
Its hard to believe that ‘Limewire’ remains near the top of all internet searches (at least according to yahoo’s slice of the internet search pie). As usual, i like google’s way of telling it best: first they say what searches are hot in their zeigest and they let you look at trends and compare keywords with google trends. AOL does a surprisingly good job with their effort. MSN reveals their list in their blog, look for annual updates - great!
This article on the always resourceful Search Engine Watch lists these and other links if you want to know more.
Why title this post ‘Limewire’? Its flying off the charts!
I think this is the best thing i’ve seen so far, flash earth is a sort of google earth in your browser, but better. Its full screen, and pulls data from google maps as well as yahoo, msn, nasa and othe map sources. toggle between sources with a click. Cool!
Creative Suite 3, AKA CS3 is nerly here. Adobe has announced a release part for March 27th, 2007. Dreamweaver CS3, Firefox CS3 and the Final Photoshop CS3 are all eagerly awwaited in web development shops around the world.
No-Knead bread mania is sweeping the internet, and if you haven’t heard about it yet, you will! Here is a link to the original New York Times Recipe for No-Knead Bread. Before I go any further a disclaimer - I haven’t actually made the no-knead bread yet! I do hear, however, that not only is it good, its GREAT!
A quick search for ‘No-Knead Bread’ on google yeilds over 160,000 pages, with everything from the original recipe on the NY Times site, to blogs (”no-knead bread takes over the world”) espousing no-knead bread heaven. Apparently, you simply have to try the no-knead bread to believe it. Not only is the end result fantastic, healthy and impressive - the entire process is a neat, effortless, and throughly pleasurable process. Now, I may be exaggerating here, but this is the type overzealous excitement experienced by those try the now famous bread.
Personally, I have to say I actually enjoy the process of kneading my bread. Sure, most people (especially the type taking the time to read this blog post) are busy, dashing to and fro, and just can’t be bothered to spend ten or fifteen minutes rolling, pressing, massaging and stretching a lively ball of yeasted dough in what must be one of human kinds most ancient and primal acts of cultural expression. If you get the impression from reading the last sentence that I’m not really excited about no-knead bread, you’re at least partially correct.
What, you ask, does no-kneed bread have to do with Earthbound - a website design and hosting company? Not much, really, other than my personal fascination, and as a research topic for search engine optimization and gorilla marketing. Simply put - how many people, searching for the famous no-kneed bread thats sweeping the internet world by fire at this very moment, will find my blog post and actually come visit my site? Its an interesting experiment in the hive mind of the googleplex. Or something like that! So, thanks for visiting, feel free to leave a comment, or just follow one the links above to be on your way.
It all started out because i REALLY wanted to use my UNICOMP keyboard (the modern version of the IBM model M), which has a pc type mini keyboard connector, with my new Macbook Pro. You see, i’ve switched to mac, and my old PC workstation is still around to run Quickbooks payroll and internet explorer for testing during website development. Sure, I run Paralells desktop on my Mac to run Windows or Suse Linux when I wanted to, but It really nice having the real PC running for testing purposes and for all the old applications I have installed.
I was getting sick of having two keyboards, and two mice on my desk and decided to do something. First I started looking at PS2-USB adapters and USB switches that would allow me to share the single keyboard with two computers. This would work, and the mac is happy to use this keyboard via a USB adapter, but Synergy provides an even better solution. share the single keyboard via software. Its open source, and both PC and Mac GUIs are available. after a quick install on both machines and a little configuring, i can now drag my cursor off my pc screen, onto the laptop screen, and then continuing onto the larger wide-screen panel i have attached to the laptop. as i move to the mac or the pc screen, the computer i an controlling changes - seamlessly. Whats more - I can copy and paste between platforms. copy a URL from firefox on the mac, move the cursor over to the pc screen, paste the URL in internet explorer. BOOM!
I swear, synergy is the best thing since sliced bread. Kudos (and Yes! my donation) to the folks who brought this software to life. Keep up the good work folks, for those of us who use more than one computer - PC/Mac/Unix - your software is a real time saving, productivity boosting miracle.
Now that locals have been growing wine grapes for nearly a decade, the number of wineries in the North Fork Valley of Western Colorado is continuing to grow. Quite a few Colorado Organic Wines are now available, a truly exciting development. It looks like Western Colorado’s high desert climate - cool nights, hot days, cold winters, hot dry summers - are perfect for developing the rich flavors that make our West Elk region’s wine unique. I recently completed work on the Jack Rabbit Hill website - their operation combines a biodynamic (and Certified Organic) vineyard, with a modern, small batch winery. The have also partnered with local growers to create a line of fine organic brandies and other drinks via their Peaks Spirits brand.
Want to know more? Read about the West Elks American Viticultural Region, check out this review of a few wineries in our area, or check out the folllowing links to most if not all of the local Western Colorado Wineries:
Alfred Eames Cellars
Blackbridge Winery
Black Canyon Vineyards
Jack Rabbit Hill, LLC Winery (website design & hosting by Earthbound)
Leroux Creek Vineyards (website design by Earthbound)
Monte Madeira Winery
S. Rhodes Vineyards
Slate Point Vineyards
Stone Cottage Cellars
Stoney Mesa Winery
Surface Creek Winery
Terror Creek Winery
Update: Looks like the Dreamweaver 9 Beta will instead be Dreamweaver 9 Final, aka. Dreamweaver CS3. Adobe has announced a launch date for Dreamweaver CS3 on March 27th, 2007.
Those of us who use Dreamweaver 8 for web site development every day know its shortcomings well. What we don’t know is just what awaits us in Dreamweaver 9. Since Adobe released the Photoshop CS3 Beta (a very unusual step for Adobe), its natural to hope they might be cooking up other betas for release, especially if they push back the release of the CS3 Suite. Recently, a beta of Fireworks 9 surfaced, with lots of new features, but a similar palette interface to the current Fireworks 8. Lets hope Adobe takes the time to refine the interface in Dreamweaver 9 and Fireworks 9 as far as they have with the recent Photoshop CS3 beta.
Visit Adobe.com for all the latest.
I have found myself telling a lot of people about this simple technique that uses client side (browser) javascript to create clickable ‘mailto:’ links inside your web pages that are difficult to harvest using the typical automated bot technique used by spammers. If you have ever added your email address to a web site only to have it ‘tainted’ by spammers, who pick it up from the site and start sending you a huge volume of spam. The insidious spammers even send message with subjects taken from your site.
So - here is a simple technique that foiled the spammers:
We use a little javascript to write the link into the browser:
(remove the < br / > links added by WordPress)
Its true! Earthbound continues to offer our top quality full featured business hosting at the hard-to-believe rate of $99/year. For just over $8/month you get all the hosting you need to get going with your web presence.
Register a domain name with Earthbound for $25, and you have www.your-company.com online and ready to serve your business.