Useful Websites

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Note: This page last updated 2010-07-30.

Web Hosting Services

Data393 - does a great job hosting many of our client sites - at last count about 30 of our client sites were hosted there. The Words In A Row Search Engine Optimization website is hosted there as well. Their dedicated hosting package is amongst the most affordable I've found, and I have no complaints about their uptime or security. All in all, a very good bargain. If you sign up there, be sure to secure a dedicated IP address. They also have Windows hosting available, although we don't recommend Windows IIS hosting generally.

Website Graphics & Design

Rigney Graphics - For exceptional graphic design, we recommend Rigney Graphics. Not cheap, and worth every penny.

We work with the folks at Rigney on website re-designs and search engine optimization on sites they pick up and rescue, and on new sites they are designing. We highly recommend them for all kinds of graphics work, including some very fine high-end printing services.

Contact Bret Rigney.

SailCat Graphics - We also recommend Sailcat Graphics and have done many joint projects with them. Very reasonable rates. We especially like Michael Teague's sense of humor.
Contact Michael Teague.

Michael created the graphics used here on the Words in a Row website and on many of our clients' websites. Highly recommended.

Custom Logos from Pixellogo.com. Looking for a logo design that will give your new business an edge, but won't cost too much? Pixellogo has made many great-looking logos, at very low prices.

Step Forth - a site with many articles about Search Engine Optimization that are picked up and carried by other media. Worth poking around here. I learn something every time I visit.

Marconix Internet Center - I have used the services of Marko Topalovic, head of a Croatian programming team, for some complex programming needed for an .asp website and would recommend their services to anyone needing an .asp web programming job done at a very reasonable fee. If you need to outsource programming, this is a good way to go.

Big Mouth Media  - a thoughtful look at the positive influence that search engine optimization has upon web accessibility for variously challenged web users. It focuses on how some of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines are currently used in SEO and how the rest will be or should be used in the future for the same purpose. The paper also studies the influence search engines have over marketers and optimisers and how they have a moral responsibility to their users to make web content more accessible.

Flash Templates & Flash Intros  - Website templates, webpage hosting, e-commerce tutorials, cgi forms and webmaster software. (I've not used these - no recommendations. If you NEED Flash, they good-looking work. Flash is anathema to the search engines, however, so use cautiously)

Websites In a Flash - run by Ashton Sanders, who does very good flash work at reasonable rates. We've used their services many times and recommend them highly.

Miscellaneous

Contact my client Ned Berndt: Miami Condos - Miami condo VIP pricing opportunities in Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Brickell or Aventura and Miami-Dade county. Call 1-800-433-5960 for the Miami Condo Lifestyle!

JM Blog - the web journal site of Jere Matlock, the creator of Words in a Row. Worth a look? You decide.

The website of Eric Meyer, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) guru. For some great tips and resources if you are working with CSS, this site is hard to beat. Eric literally wrote the book on CSS (O'Reilly's "Cascading Style Sheets, The Definitive Guide"), which is my main reference book when working with CSS.

All Cheap Hosting - a searchable database of affordable web hosting providers with monthly fees under $25, free referral / reseller programs and budget-saving hosting plans. If you need cheap web hosting, it is a good place to start looking.

Web Developers Journal - This site has an excellent series of articles -- the link here will take you to one of their better articles on search engine optimization. We've learned a lot from them.

WorkZ.com Website - Jill Whalen's expertise on using Meta tags could fill pages. If you are looking to optimize your site for search engines, you would do very well to follow her advice to the letter. There are about 20 articles listed at that link.

Business Marketing Survival Kit - Joel Sussman of Optimal Marketing has put together a Business Marketing Survival Kit which has a lot of useful information, in the form of books other educational tools. Especially useful if you are new to all this web marketing stuff.

Search Engine Watch - This was originally Danny Sullivan's site and it is THE reference bible about the search engines. It has more info than you can probably use, but it is very well arranged and easy to follow. Subscribe to their newsletter for monthly updates on what the search engines are up to. They change constantly, and it pays to know what's going on with them if you hope to have a good ranking for your site.

C++ Training by BD Software; one of our web design and optimization clients. This is the site of Leor Zolman, who is something of a celebrity among programmers. Back in the early 80's he created the first C Compiler targeted exclusively for "personal computers" (back when that meant writing for CP/M, the forerunner of DOS). These days he's teaching advanced on-site training seminars in C, C++, Java, Perl and Unix. His client list is quite impressive--recently he was teaching programming at Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institution. If you have a crew of programmers it is a lot easier (and cheaper!) for Leor to go to your facility and teach them advanced programming skills or bring them up to speed right where they work than it is to fly them off to learn somewhere else.

For Your Skin

Chandler's Natural Soaps makes the best, gentlest soaps I've ever used. All natural, hand-made, and scented only with pure essential oils (or with no fragrance added). A full line of all-natural products including body oils, baby oil, powders, bath salts, lip balms, and hand & body creams. If you have dry skin, you'll love these soaps and oils because they don't strip away your own natural oils when you wash. Their foot products are stupendous. Try them, you'll like them! Chandler's Natural Soaps also ships gift baskets anywhere.

We believe Gloves in a Bottle dry skin care lotion to be the best skin protectant available anywhere. It is very effective at protecting your hands (and other exposed skin) against chemicals and toxins. We use it here when out doing yard work to protect against poison oak. If you are using synthetic chemical detergents or bleaches, or chemical fertilizers or pesticides, Gloves in a Bottle skin care lotion will help protect your skin and prevent absorption of these chemicals. It even protects your skin while wearing latex gloves--from the latex! Vital for those with allergies to household cleaning products or with latex allergies.

Travel

Bahamas Vacation Guide - a cute site with everything at your fingertips to plan and organize your vacation to the Bahamas. My friend Cheri Kroeger has done a lot of work to make this the definitive site about bahamas vacations.

Poetry

Dean Blehert

"Dean Blehert is quite simply the finest satiric poet working in America today." -- Satire Magazine.

Here's a quote from one of Dean's books:

"This is just poetry; it won't save you, but may locate you, so that a rescue party can be sent out."

Russell Salamon says the following about himself: he "lives in Los Angeles in a cupboard like a secret brew of herbs saved for the moment of escape. He is a breakout artist, an escape master. He has broken into present time often and carried away the dew from roses and put it on reader's eyebrows. He has been collecting sounds of galloping horses so that he may stampede on your eardrums. An avid collector of reality-in-the-bud before it flowers into cities, he has shaped many a moment into strange aromas and has released them on breezes. If you smell something unusual it may be your hair burning."

Russell has several books available in typeset manuscript form with an original painting on the cover, painted by himself. These are interesting to look at and enhance the quality of presentation. The paintings are "color music". The books are: Redwoods in the Rain; Breakfast in the Twelfth Century; Love Poems for Older Women; Lighting the Eyes; Say Those Stars Slowly I Am Still Learning; Technical Difficulties at the Resurrection; and the latest, Two Infinities Dancing. There is also Descent into Cleveland, a poetic novel from the 70's.

Cost: $22 for the handbound books; $20 for Descent into Cleveland; shipping is included. Order from Russell Salamon directly at 10537 Chandler Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601-2926, 818-761-4568

The poetry of Russell Salamon is worth buying and reading. I own several of his books and plan to buy more.

Personal Recommendations

Contact the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights for the truth about psychiatric abuse. This site is not for the squeamish. If you or a loved one have been victimized by a psychiatrist, contact CCHR for help. CCHR has been instrumental in closing down hundreds of barbaric psychiatric hospitals across the world, and for investigations leading to the arrest, trial and conviction of many individual psychiatrists for sexual abuse, murder of patients, criminal financial fraud, etc. This is the only group doing anything effective to bring the entire field of psychiatry under any kind of control. The more you find out about what psychiatry is really doing, the more outraged you will be.

Freedom Magazine is hard-hitting reporting that gets to the bottom of issues. In a time when Pulitzer Prizes are being awarded for lies and propaganda, when New York Times and USA Today reporters make up stories and editors resign in disgrace, it's good to know that there is at least one magazine that does not make anything up and goes to great lengths to find and expose the truth--the actual stories behind whatever sound bites the other news media are repeating. For example, discover what is behind the tremendous upsurge in violence in our schools, and what psychiatry has really been up to the last few years. Why are over six million American children being forced to take dangerous drugs every day at school?

Drug Salvage is for those who are on drugs or know people who are on drugs, and want to get off of them. Helpful, specific information about what cocaine, heroine, ecstacy and marijuana actually do, and how to help people break out of addiction.

Drug Withdrawal Program If you know someone with a drug or alcohol problem, whose happiness and health are important to you, contact Narconon now.

- Thirty-nine years ago it was the Scientologists who rolled up their sleeves and helped me overcome my dependence on dangerous street drugs. I've been clean ever since, so I know first-hand that Scientology offers practical solutions for 'unsolvable' problems like drug addiction, the inability to communicate, emotional problems, abusive family situations, alcoholism--you name it. In fact, there is a whole catalog of life-changing help to choose from. Whatever the situation, something CAN be done about it. I know - I've been there.

I've been an ordained minister of the Church of Scientology since 1976. I am proud to also be a Volunteer Minister, one of the people occasionally called into service to help when there is a disaster. Many Volunteer Ministers were there after 9/11 at Ground Zero in New York to help the survivors cope, and Volunteer Ministers flocked to Louisiana in the the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to hand out food and water. Volunteer Ministers were there in the ravaged sections of Sri Lanka and Thailand, helping bury the dead and console the survivors of the tsumani in late 2004. What Volunteer Ministers are best at, in my view, is confronting the confusion that such scenarios offer, and helping others to confront that confusion, and handle it, one particle at a time. For example, it was a small team of Volunteer Ministers who helped piece together personnel records of some of the large companies destroyed in the World Trade Center attack, so benefits could be paid to the husbands, widows and orphans of those killed; despite all official records being destroyed in the collapse of the towers. This project took months of patient work, thousands of phone calls, emails and letters. The Volunteer Ministers did it because it needed to be done.

On August 7, 2004, Mr. David Miscavige presented a global overview of the Scientology religion to over 2,000 leaders in the fields of the arts, entertainment, commerce and government. An extract from this speech appears online and covers the role of the Scientology religion in solving planetary decline -- from social reform organizations to volunteer ministers, from grass-roots programs to Scientology Churches themselves.

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