Rapid Web Design

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rapidweb — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:07:30 +0000

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Hairtopia Studio

rapidweb — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:58:10 +0000

Leslye Lebron opened Hairtopia Studio in November, 2011 and came to Rapid Web Design for her website. She wanted a website that was easy to use and would allow her to showcase her Stylists talents with a Before/After gallery. She also wanted to update the site with seasonal specials and, of course, integrate with Facebook, where she receives a lot of traffic. Within just a few weeks of launching the site, Leslye received a request from her website for a wedding party for hair styling and make-up! Hairtopia Studio is one of Sarasota’s finest downtown salons – give it a try!

EZ Pro Trading

rapidweb — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:13:25 +0000

EZ Pro Trading is a website that is easy to use and provides it’s clients with a valuable tool. The owner of EZ Pro Trading is a trading Guru in the e-Mini S&P and has a growing following. He is able to share his knowledge of trading the e-Mini S&P with his followers through a membership plan that allows members to access a protected page which has an embedded Chat Room. We configured the Chat Room (we subscribe through ParaChat) so that it is a one way only chat. Mark types in the trades he takes and instantly across the world, his members are aware of what trades to take along with stops & limits. Mark is over 98% accurate and his fees are very reasonable. We also set up a blog where Mark posts his results each and every day, along with a Performance table that lists his monthly performance over the last 2 years.

Website Design

rapidweb — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:58:00 +0000

Designing your website can be a tricky proposition. Anyone unfamiliar with website development is usually only concerned with how their website looks, not with the functionality. At Rapid Web Design, we believe both are important and we collaborate with our clients to achieve an optimal level of each.

Website Hosting

rapidweb — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:56:16 +0000

Reliable website hosting is important to insure that your website is available to your customers when they need it. Our website hosting company maintains a 99.9% uptime on their servers. In addition to website hosting, having secure backups of your website on a regular basis is equally important. At Rapid Web Design, we utilize a plugin called BackupBuddy, which allows for automatic backups of your entire website on a pre-determined schedule. We then store these backups offsite to insure reliability.

Search Engine Optimization

rapidweb — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:54:17 +0000

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be confusing. You don’t need to understand it, you just need it to work. SEO is important to your website because that is how the search engines find and rank your website. Websites that are not optimized for the search engines will typically receive lower rankings than those that do search engine optimization. Just having a website may not be enough for your business.

More Than Fitness

rapidweb — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:01:55 +0000

More Than Fitness is part of a business run by Gloria Ponziano which helps people achieve optimum well being through Body, Mind & Spirit. One of Gloria’s goals was to have a warm, comfortable feel for her visitors when they go to her site. When considering her website design, we collaborated on layout, content and images in order to produce the right feel and functionality of her site. Complete with a Blog and easy to navigate categories and archives, this site is a pleasure to visit and use. This website design also incorporates the use of an autoresponder, AWeber, which allows Gloria to capture the names and email addresses of her most valued clients. We helped set up a campaign that sends automated emails to her clients each week with a free gift (an audio file or a video recording) and she subtly promotes her services such as Life Coaching, Custom Audio CD’s and Social Media Marketing, to name a few.

Website Headers & Website Images

rapidweb — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:42:29 +0000

Are you one of the many people who have decided to take the plunge and build your own website? Only to find out that once you’ve gone through hours of tutorials and YouTube videos that you kinda got the hang of building a site but it just doesn’t have that pizzaz you were looking for. The reason why is probably quite simple, website headers & website images can make ALL THE DIFFERENCE in the world as to how your website looks. Yeah, getting the right template, column widths and general layout is surely important, but take the same website and put a professional header on it and load it with some dazzling website images and it immediately transforms to something brilliant! But are you telling me that now I have to invest more hours into learning how to become a graphic artist as well? Absolutely not! You can create professional website headers as well as some cool website images (not pictures; I’m referring to buttons, arrows, pricing tables and the like) by using a program designed by a Professional Graphic Designer for average people. It’s called DigiResults and operates on the Sumo Paint platform. Sumo Paint is an online Web Image Editor that has a very powerful FREE version available to anyone. Using Sumo Paint along with the DigiResults templates, you can create a host of professional website headers & website images. Here’s a partial list of all of the things you can create to make your website look professional.

Custom Website Headers
Custom Bullets
Custom Book Covers
Custom Shopping Bag
Satisfaction & Guarantee Badges
Warning Boxes
Custom Buttons
Arrows, Symbols & more

There’s way more stuff in here but I just wanted to give you an idea of all the great things offered in the DigiResults program. What impressed me the most was the price! All of this for $19.95! Yep, that’s not a typo, it’s $19.95 for everything, video tutorials included. If you’re a DIY kind of person, this is the best $19.95 you will spend on your website. Enjoy and let me know what your URL is so I can check out the great work.

How To Host Online Webinars

rapidweb — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:05:18 +0000

Many of us have participated in online trainings and webinars, but have you ever wanted to know how to host your own online webinar? And then wondered how much does it cost and how easy (or difficult) it is to get started? I’ve been on many webinars and online trainings and have used several different platforms for hosting online webinars. While there are many companies to choose from, my favorite is GatherPlace. I prefer them for a few reasons. First, you can simply click a button and begin Hosting a Session without having to first create a session and then post or send a link with the webinar ID to the invitees. When you first click Host a Session, you can send out invites right from your admin console. Nice ‘n easy, just how I like it. Another great benefit is that they allow you to Host a session from both PC and Mac computers. No special downloads or setups, just click and go. As expected, they allow guests to participate in the session from any PC or Mac, as well as from any browser. This doesn’t sound like such a big deal on the surface, because most people use a PC and most people use one of the popular browsers. But when you start an online business that has a membership and you host online webinars or trainings, you (or your web guy) always winds up trying to appease the few oddball members who have a home-built PC with a foreign browser. It can cost you unnecessary time and money. I have run into zero issues with anyone joining any of the sessions we’ve hosted. Zero, nada, none. That’s good. Another feature I like about GatherPlace is that they have a tiered pricing structure that starts out pretty cheap and works it’s way up as your membership (and working capital) grow, so you don’t have to mortgage the farm to get started. And on top of that, they offer a 14 day free trial to let you get to play around with it to make sure you know what you’re doing before you go LIVE. It’s always a good idea to look professional in front of an audience. Besides all of the special features mentioned so far, GatherPlace offers all of the standard features that most of the other companies do. These include things like annotations on your presentation, the ability to record your sessions, VOIP teleconferencing, forms to embed on your site for joining a session, text chat, the ability to give presentation control to any participant in the session, multi-monitor support, conference lock-out (don’t allow anyone else to join), private branding and more. For the money, I’m a fan of GatherPlace, and I think if you give it a try you will be too.

My Quick Trades

rapidweb — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:03:28 +0000

This website design sports a clean, simple and professional look while packing a punch. The owner of My Quick Trades is a trading Guru and shares his knowledge of online trading with his followers through a membership plan that allows members to access a protected page which has an embedded Chat Room. We configured the Chat Room (we subscribe through ParaChat) so that it is a one way only chat. Mark types in the trades he takes and instantly across the world, his members are aware of what trades to take along with stops & limits. Mark is over 85% accurate and his fees are very reasonable. We also set up a blog where Mark posts his results each and every day, along with a Performance table that lists his monthly performance over the last 2 years.