A document or book in PDF format is great, I can take it with me on my flash drive and pretty much be able to read it anywhere, or I can put it on my PDA and read it whenever I feel like it. I really like the whole PDF idea.

However, something that was at one time a lean and mean program has become this bloated thing that is slow opening, slow shutting down and is always wanting to update itself in one way or another. Not to mention with every new version there are tons of new features, but the one feature I loved is gone, the hand. Used to I could drag around a document that did not fit on the screen using the hand, now I have to use the slider bars, it was so much easier the old way.

Perhaps the most common question we get from clients, when discussing a website, is "What will my ranking in Google be?". Well that is a very tough question to be sure, a good question, but not one that we can really answer with any degree of exactness.

The reason we have such a hard time answering the question correctly is that we are adverse to lying to clients. We really can not give a definitive answer. Honestly, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not rocket science, but it does require patience, hard work on our part as well as the client and a bit of good fortune.

You can break down basic Search Engine Optimization into three general steps:

1. Key Word Phrases, which words or phrases are relevant to what you are trying to accomplish with your site.
2. Optimize the page to include the Key Word content you have decided upon and make sure the page is readable by humans and search engines alike.
3. Get other websites to link to your site, not by using a link farm, but by getting other sites that are related to yours to link up with you.

Do you have an AOL email address that you just can’t give up? Have you had your AOL email address for years and years now and it is just unthinkable to get rid of it? But deep down you are sick of the way the AOL email client makes you write emails, tiny screens, silly spell checker, lockups and heaven forbid if you want to embed a graphic image in an email!

Well there is something you can do, you can check, send and compose emails using Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail.

Q: What do websites, and a loaf of bread have in common?
A: They get old, stale and moldy.

We as a society like change, in some ways. Most people have a hard time with personal changes that require them to leave their "comfort zone". How many of us know someone that keeps a job they really just do not like because it is easier to continue working there rather than change jobs for the better (one hopes it is better at least)? How about someone that never bothers to move from a house they have clearly outgrown because of how hard it is to pack everything away and move it?

And more importantly, why should we build it for you?

Within 10 years of designing websites we have seen a lot of things change.  Websites are more interactive,  page layouts are more standardized,  the compulsion to have a rainbow of colors has declined and the amount of animated cartoons are, thankfully, fewer and far between.  The world wide web has clearly evolved into more attractive and effective tool.

However, the real jaw dropper for us is the realization that there are many companies that still do not have any presence on the web. Regularly, we hear companies tell us that they don't need a website. Seriously, the web is here to stay,  so why not use it to their advantage?