Dancing at Pleasanton Downtown Free Concert

June 7th, 2010

Dancing at Pleasanton Downtown Free Concert

Pleasanton Free Concert in the Park: Hot Rods Band
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Sax Player – Hot Rods

June 7th, 2010

Sax Player -  Hot Rods

Pleasanton Free Concert in the Park: Hot Rods Band
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Greetings from PDA. No tarps or rocks please.

June 7th, 2010

Greetings form PDA. No tarps or rocks please.

Spokesperson for the Pleasanton Downtown Association going over some housekeeping.

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Guitar and Bass – Hot Rods Band

June 7th, 2010

Guitar and Bass - Hot Rods Band

Pleasanton Free Concert in the Park: Hot Rods Band
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Hot Rods

June 7th, 2010

Hot Rods

Pleasanton Free Concert in the Park: Hot Rods Band
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Slideshow Transition Problem in IE7 and IE8

May 16th, 2010

I most recently ran into this problem using JoomlaWorks FrontPage Slideshow (for Joomla 1.5), but have seen it before in other JavaScript slideshow scripts. During the transition, you will see dots in the dark/black areas of the image being transitioned. These dot’s can be white, but are actually whatever the color of the background behind the slideshow image is. The problem is actually that both IE7 and IE8 interpret the black areas of the images as transparent. Why? Probably just the typical IE browser bug (try FireFox or Chrome if you aren’t already using them).

Here’s what it look’s like:

Internet Explorer Slideshow Transition Problem

How do you get rid of it? There are two ways that I’m aware of:

1) Set the background to black. This will probably make your slideshow darker overall, which may or may not be acceptable, depending on the context.

2) Edit your image to make the black, just not quite black. If you are using Photoshop, do the following:

  • Choose “Select > Color Range”
  • Click on the eyedropper with the “+”
  • Click on a black area, then click “OK.”  This should select all the black in the image.
  • Fill the selection with a not-quite-black color.
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eBook Preview 2: SEO Off-Page Factors

April 24th, 2010

Myth #2: Search engine optimization alone will result in good ranking in competitive searches.

Doing well in competitive searches primarily depends on off-page factors – factors not directly modifiable by the Webmaster. Why? Because we webmasters are all trying to tweak our pages so they will appear at the top of the SERPs. The “customer” of the search engine is the person performing the search, not the webmaster trying to promote his or her site. Not the business owner looking for leads. Not the spammer trying to make a quick buck. So the search engine engineers look at other factors to determine the quality, importance and authority of the websites they list in their results. What are some of these factors?

Domain Age: How long the domain has been registered by the same entity. Search engines, especially Google, look at this as a trust factor and will give a significant boost to sites that have been around for a while.

Domain Registration Length: Registering your domain for only one year will penalize you as a possible spammer. Domain registration is inexpensive, so register all domains you plan on promoting for at least two years.

Incoming Links: Link juice, link authority, PageRank and backlinks all refer to this important measure. Links pointing to your site are a vote of confidence in your content. The more reputable the site that links to you, the more weight that links carries in the search engine algorithm. Links must be relevent to the context of your site.

Hilltop Authority: In a nutshell, hilltop authority is comparative a measure of how many times a web page is referenced in the initial search engine result set by other web pages in that result set. The rank of the initial result set is based on various factors such as keyword relevance and the other off-page factors previously mentioned. The search engine then reorders the result set giving a boost to the web pages that are linked to by other pages in that result set.

Bay Area SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Services

Web Promotion Articles

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Swimming Pool Constrution Company – Website Redesign

April 19th, 2010

Before

Pool Construction Website Before

After 

Pool Construction Website Redesigned

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Anti-DUI Program at Foothill High School in Pleasanton

April 14th, 2010

Juniors and Seniors gathered on Foothill Road in front of the Foothill High School campus on Tuesday to witness the enactment of the aftermath of a fatal accident caused by a teen drunken driver.

Police, firefighters and paramedics were involved in the exercise, dubbed “Every 15 Minutes” for the frequency at which a person is killed in an alcohol- or drug-related accident in the United States.

Source: Pleasanton Weekly

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Pleasanton Custom Cabinetry Website

April 9th, 2010

Pleasanton Custom Cabinetry

Just completed this Website for a custom cabinet maker in Pleasanton. Check out their work. It’s pretty cool!

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