Posts by: Glendale Designs
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Shopping Carts: Advantages & Differences July 27, 2010
Advantages and Differences of the Miva Merchant Shopping Cart in Comparison to Open Source Carts. When building an ecommerce website, it is crucial to have cart software that fits the needs of your business. It does not matter how great your product is, if the customer cannot navigate your website’s cart software or does not [...]
Posted in Miva Merchant, Shopping Carts.
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Featured Miva Merchant Store: Silkflowers.net June 10, 2010
Silkflowers.net is where beauty & functionality meet. This Miva Merchant stores stunning design and highly complex implementation was done by glendaledesigns.com Miva Merchant specialists Because of the stores amazing use of white space and calculated positioning of products on the storefront it displays dozens of products and categories in such a way that it is [...]
Posted in Miva Merchant, Recent Work.
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Featured Miva Merchant Store: ShopWildPlanet.com May 27, 2010
We were recently commissioned to integrate a brand spanking new and shiny CSS layout for Wild Planet Entertainment, Inc. into Miva Merchant – all on an extremely tight timeline with an exuberant amount of add-on functionality, making your life as a shopper on their site much easier! Wild Planet Toys Inc. believes in the power [...]
Posted in Miva Merchant, Recent Work.
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Optimizing your Images for your WordPress Post of Page April 27, 2010
Contributing Writer: Sabine Sharp – Glendale Designs, Glendale Arizona You may have already written your article and would like to insert an image or two. Images are a great way to enhance your articles. But before you just insert this image into your post you need to optimize the image for faster load time and [...]
Posted in WordPress Tutorials.
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Adding a Page to your WordPress site (V 2.9.2) April 25, 2010
This simple tutorial with help you in posting a WordPress page to your site. Again you will need to log into your admin panel: http://yourdomainname.com/locationWhereYourBlogIs/wp-login.php WordPress Page You have now landed in your WordPress admin which it may look similar to this: On your site, you probably have “Pages” and “Posts” – so what is [...]
Posted in Tutorials, WordPress Tutorials.
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WordPress (Version 9.2.2) – Adding a Post and Images to your site April 25, 2010
Tutorial on how to add a Post to WordPress Version 9.2.2
Posted in WordPress, WordPress Tutorials.
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Dash Medical’s – New Layout & Functionality April 21, 2010
DASH Medical sells protective gloves for Dental, Emergency Medical, Automotive, Laboratory, Police, Fire, Child and Health Care industries to name a few. They hired Glendale Designs to update and re-design the following design. After creating a new layout, we integrated this new concept in Miva Merchant allowing them to utilize custom fields. Additionally they wanted [...]
Posted in Miva Merchant, Recent Work.
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Wealth Engineering, Choosing Technology April 5, 2010
We considered Adobe’s Contribute; however in the end to accommodate his complete wish list, we selected WordPress which would offer future flexibility as well.
Posted in Recent Work, WordPress.
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Unleash Your Shopping Cart – Increase Conversions & Exposure! March 25, 2010
SearchSpring’s powerful features also include: Fuzzy Search, Auto Complete, Related Searches, as well as Synonyms. Synonyms help to fill gaps between your customers search queries and the keywords associated with your products and other searchable content.
Posted in Miva Merchant, Online Marketing / SEO.
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If you re-format the hard drive, is the data gone? March 10, 2010
Contributing Writer: James Sharp – Glendale Designs Are you planning on selling your old computer, or donating it? The dilemma with doing this is you presently have all your personal information on your computer. Many people believe that if you reformat your hard drive and restore to factory setting, your information is gone. In actuality, [...]
Posted in Windows Tips.
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Strategic Financial Planning – WordPress March 7, 2010
Author: James Sharp – Glendale Designs We are happy to release Strategic Financial Planning’s new WordPress site! Strategic came to us looking for help in accomplishing the following goals: – To develop a new professional look and feel that which appeals to their clientele. – Being a financial planner, it was critical for them to [...]
Posted in Recent Work, WordPress.
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The Start of a New Year January 2, 2010
The staff at Glendale Designs would like to wish you a safe and prosperous New Year! Thank you for all your support in 2009, we look forward to working with you in 2010. Share and Enjoy:
Posted in Press.
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Focusing on Social Marketing Success December 29, 2009
Social Marketing success story for Factory Direct Models in conjunction with The Future of Flight Aviation Center, Alaska Airlines & Horizon Air! Event sold out in less than a minute!
Posted in Online Marketing / SEO, Social Marketing.
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Writing for my website? I thought I was finished! December 9, 2009
Author: James Sharp – Glendale Designs It amazes me how many websites are created each day! I’m not sure that anyone can tell how many new sites are actually posted daily, but one indicator would be the domain name registrations. Granted, you have new domain names, expired and transferred domain names. But to give you [...]
Posted in Online Marketing / SEO.
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“As the World Turns” – Twitter and 8 Ways to Do it Well November 24, 2009
Social marketing is an essential tool to promote your business (or non-profit organization). Your customers expect it and even small businesses are increasingly entering the social media domain.
Posted in Social Marketing.
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Miva Merchant 5.5 Quick Start Guide November 4, 2009
for Integrating Miva Merchant into Your Existing Site Courtesy of Miva Merchant Welcome to Miva Merchant® 5.5! This guide will walk you through setting up your Miva Merchant® store using your usual website design program, such as Dreamweaver® . In most cases, you will be creating an e-commerce store to have the same look and [...]
Posted in Miva Merchant.
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Featured Miva Merchant Store: Toys & Models November 3, 2009
Author: Sabine Sharp – Glendale Designs Our current featured Miva Merchant store is Toys and Models, located in New Jersey. Toys & Models is not your standard ecommerce site, as they only sell wholesale to stores and distributors. They produce the highest quality aviation models that will exceed the customer’s expectations and remain affordable to [...]
Posted in Miva Merchant, Recent Work.
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Straight from Google – Which is better, HTML or XML Sitemap? October 22, 2009
While the XML sitemap can help Google (and other search engines) help you find all important pages on your site, it is still better to ALSO have an HTML sitemap. The HTML sitemap will not only help search engines find all your pages, but actually make it easier for your site visitors, which are by far more important, to navigate through your site content and find what they are looking for quickly.
Posted in Google, Online Marketing / SEO.
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You need a website but where do you begin? October 6, 2009
Author: James Sharp – Glendale Designs You are probably at a point in either your business or personal live where you come to the conclusion that you have to have a web site. This could be for a number of reasons but you are unsure on how to act on it. One of your first [...]
Posted in Content Management Systems.
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The Google Local Business Center September 23, 2009
If you don’t already have a Google listing for your local business, you should most definitely add one. Simply go to…
Posted in Google, Online Marketing / SEO.
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Google doesn’t use the Keyword Meta Tag in Rankings September 23, 2009
Finally we heard it from the horse’s mouth! Matt Cutts explains that Google does not use the keyword meta tag to determine ranking anymore in their core search results.
Posted in Google, Online Marketing / SEO.
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Matt Cutts – W3C Validation not a Ranking Factor in Google September 17, 2009
Here we go – Matt Cutts explains why W3C validation should be used when developing any site (if at all possible, as sometimes it is not, depending on the browser) and also why Google doesn’t look at site/page validation when determining ranking…
Posted in Google, Online Marketing / SEO.
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Some companies and how they operate simply amaze me… buyer beware! September 17, 2009
Web Design and Search Engine Optimization (SEO), seems to have its fair share of these suppliers, this is why we decided to provide you with a buyer beware article and let you make your own opinion on selecting a reputable company.
Posted in Online Marketing / SEO.
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Adding a Twitter Feed to any Web Page September 14, 2009
This is a short tutorial, showing you how to add a live twitter feed to a static site (or any site for that matter).
Posted in Social Marketing, WordPress.
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Organizing your Working Files for Backup July 30, 2009
Author: James Sharp – Glendale Designs Help….. My computer went down and I lost all my files! Have you ever been in that situation? I have received many calls from my customers and had to try and recover files. Think about it, months or years worth of work going down in a blink of a [...]
Posted in Windows Tips.
