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Pleasanton Web Design Blog

http://www.pleasantonwebdesignblog.com

Information on Web design, technology, and culture from my vantage point here in Pleasanton, California.

Added on: Sep 23rd, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Troy
Listed in: Web Design Web Development
Tags: web design graphic design search engine optimization web development Web Promotion

Recent Posts

Google: Major Changes in Local Business Listings

Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 10:44 in web design

Or should I say, “Google breaks local business listings.” I noticed a major change last week, with the number one spot in local business listings of the moderately competetive keyphrase “bay area web design” being taken by a c...
Google and Bing to Include Twitter Tweets in Search Results

Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 09:37 in web design

Search leaders Google and Bing have reached and agreement with Twitter to include “tweets” in their search results. “Tweets” are the short messages that are generated by the numerous Twitter users. This new “real time...
5 Reasons Not To Start Your Internet Business

Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 00:20 in web design

These may seem obvious, but I have seen them all! 1. Your concept is not unique. Too many would-be entrepeneurs see a successful online business and think “If they can do it why can’t I?” Well, there are probably a lot of reasons, n...
Internet Explorer 8 Problems

Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 10:08 in web design

Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 8 was released a few months ago, and since then my automatic updates have been bugging me to install it. In fact I did intall it on one of my machines when it first came out. I do web design and development, and in...
Enabling SEF Urls in Drupal 6

Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 21:12 in SEO, drupal, .htaccess, sef urls

I have never really understood why web applications, like Drupal, that have the capability of producing search engine friendly (SEF) URLs don’t have them enabled by default. Who doesn’t like SEF Urls? To Enable SEF URLs in Drupal 6, foll...
CSS Problem - Background-Position in IE7

Posted on Friday August 21st, 2009 at 23:58 in css, web design, web development, internet explorer

I ran aross this problem with the way Internet Explore 7 (IE7) handles the background-position css property, and thought I’d post it just in case I could save someone some time. I was working on a layout, and it looked great in IE8, Firefox ...