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Blogroll: Springtime, The Only Pretty Ring Time

April 7, 2008 7:04 am

          This weekend had to be one of the most glorious times since last year. I failed to realize how terrible winter really is in comparison to the freedom and beauty that spring and summer have. There are so many people that enjoy the snow (which is fine! I like snow too) but I’d much rather give up seeing snow at all in order to be able to go outside without a coat on and the sun shining down warming my body. What a great way to get a boost in mood. I’ve already seen changes in the personalities of those around me; people get happier when they see the sun out and it isn’t gloomy looking outside.

          I’m hoping that this weather stays nice and that there is no stop to the ever increasing temperature. Just a little bit warmer and I’ll be golden. I love that time when spring is turning into summer, the temperature is just right and it hasn’t become too hot or humid yet. The trees are still dead and dreary looking but soon enough their leaves will come out and everything will look alive. Can you tell how excited I am? Living in the Chicago area my whole life you would think that the coming and going of winter would be something that one would get used to. After twenty one years and some change I still have not become totally unaware of the changes; I hope that I won’t ever become fully immune.

          There is no doubt about it, Spring is coming! I could do a little dance but it doesn’t transfer well over the computer. (*dances*) Well… that will do.

Blogroll: Funny Video

January 21, 2008 11:56 am

       So over the weekend I found this funny video that I wanted to share. It is featured here at Cracked.com. If you know the internet at all, this video will make you laugh.

Web Design Service: Denied

January 3, 2008 8:02 am

          I find it frustrating that some people choose the judge our completed websites based upon the fact that they think the design and layout looks “cookie-cutter”. Any well informed person would realize that our sites are made based upon what the client wants. If this means that the client has no imagination and wants a pretty generic website then that is what we’ll give them. If they wanted a totally bitchin’ website design that was built from the ground up, well we can do that too. We can do anything that a client wants from us. I’ve recently started working off Craig’s List to get leads and do some networking and you’d be surprised the responses I get. “Your website designs look cookie cutter and generic.” “Maybe if I were a hardware store, I’d choose you.” These people act like they know what they are talking about, when in fact they don’t. If they did know, they wouldn’t be asking someone else to do the work for them. Would they? I feel insulted by these types of people with massive ego’s because by telling us these comments they feel better about themselves.

          I’ve looked at a lot of our web designs on the site and I feel like they are all over the board as far as web design. I think we’ve done a great job on all the websites we’ve taken part in. Even the one’s that I feel look generic because I’m not judging them on what the customer wanted with their web design. I’m looking at how it was put together, the functionality, and how good the individual designs are. This is how you look at a website to judge it’s design. People are so nearsighted that they take one quick look and automatically turn up their noses.

          I feel like people are too quick to judge and be negative towards us before they even try to realize our potential. Trying to talk to these people is like trying to talk to a brick wall. They aren’t listening at all and they won’t budge.Typical. Although with any business comes rejection before you can build your way up to the top. This is the way of it and there is nothing to change it. I hope to someone sees this blog who was a total dink and sees that they acting like one. Maybe then they would see that just because they are they one’s hiring for the job it doesn’t make them superior in any way because in the end, they are the ones asking for help. They are the ones who aren’t capable. I don’t mean to offend anyone who is needing help for web design. Just the ones that need to be brought down a notch. I suppose some positive advice for these types of people would be: He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking. Looking to learn about web design? Visit us at DreamCo Design Web Design.

Website Marketing: Links

December 20, 2007 10:43 am

       I just read something on the Internet yesterday about website marketing and linking and how the way most websites have it set up now is a bad way to go about things. I don’t know what to think about it. I’ll tell you what I read first. Basically, the way websites go around and exchange links with other websites is fine and good but putting the links into a big directory that goes: name - link, name - link, etc. is an unprofessional and silly way to do things. The reasons that I read were justified. The biggest of them being that search engines are changing around how they count links and what they consider to be an actual solid link. The more content behind a link the better. I can understand that. Also that there are so many automated link farmers out there that website marketing or link exchanging has gotten to be kind of ridiculous. This was a lot to chew on for me.

       I’m on the fence about doing content filled links for a couple reasons. I like the idea about it because it would force actual people to write content for the people their exchanging links for. That way automated systems and stuff like that aren’t getting all these links without doing anything. It would be good to stop that. One the other hand, writing content for each link that comes in or that I want to connect to me would be time

consuming beyond belief! With all that writing I would have to have four computers and eight hands to type on them all. I feel like content links would not really be a benefit to smaller companies who don’t have the manpower to crank out all this content for links. Therefore, the big guys win again, who would probably have link content writer up the wahzoo. I also think that for link purposes no one is going to want to read the content anyways. You can write anything you want because in the end, who really looks at the links page? No one but people looking to exchange links, that’s why the way to get to the links is sometimes hidden so well even Sherlock Holmes couldn’t find it.

       So the real question is; is it worth it to have everyone write content for their links? Wouldn’t it just end up being the same way it is now, just taking up more space for all that content? I think so, because there would be people writing content for the larger companies like no other and they would end up being on top either way. Nothing changes and it never will. You can try to optimize the system as much as you want but there will always be people figuring out a way to get around the walls and bend the rules. It’s society.

       In the end I can’t make up my mind about this topic. I suppose that’s why the rules for website marketing and link exchanging haven’t changed. I think there’s a lot of people up here on this fence with me. If you want to learn more about website marketing go to DreamCo Design - Marketing. Want to know more about web design? Visit us at DreamCo Design - Web Design.

Video Game Web Design: Nothing

December 19, 2007 9:23 am

       I was just trying to look on the internet for some tips about video game web design. You probably find it hard to believe but there really was almost nothing out there that was helpful! Everything that I saw was for gaming website templates or actual video game design. I mean, I went through the first ten to fifteen pages and found maybe 4 things about gaming web design tips, and two of those web addresses were for DreamCo Design and this blog! Hilarious. It’s ok though because now I know that whenver someone looks up gaming web design tips or gaming web design, they’ll probably end up here looking at our website or my post, because there is nothing better out there on the internet. At least, not in the first few pages. I end up getting bored looking through more than a couple pages. And anyways, isn’t the most relevant stuff suppose to be at the beginning? So it really is worthless to go any farther than ten pages because if nothing your looking at now is helping, the stuff in the back isn’t going to either. It’s not like it’s hiding or something.

       Seeing as how there is so little out there on the internet directly about tips on video game web design or gaming web design, I now realize why so many gaming websites are either amatuer looking or not completed or not even started! Is it possible that no one really knows much about it? No, that can’t be. It must be information that people don’t want to share. They must be hiding it in a small chest in the middle of the Earth. The key is in the hands of some sort of super mutant. Another possible explination is this wealth of information hidden away in someone’s crawl space. One of those people who don’t ever throw anything away. Knowing this, it’s probably shoved all the way to the back with spiders nesting all over it.

       We’ll I guess since it looks like I’m going to be your leading expert on video game web design. I’d better do a good job. For more information on video game web design check us out at DreamCo Design - Video Game Web Design. For more information on other types of web design take a look at DreamCo Design - Web Design.