http://www.ameravant.com/posts?format=rss en-us Web Biz 10 Steps to choosing the best web designer Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:02:38 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/website-designers-santa-barbara-and-goleta-how-to-choose-a-good-designer http://www.ameravant.com/posts/website-designers-santa-barbara-and-goleta-how-to-choose-a-good-designer Web Biz For great tips how to review your website to see if it is performing. Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:14:42 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/santa-barbara-website-designer-teams-with-search-engine-optimization-expert-on-cox-media-tv http://www.ameravant.com/posts/santa-barbara-website-designer-teams-with-search-engine-optimization-expert-on-cox-media-tv Web Biz Web Marketing Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:15:56 -0800 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/google-ranks-ameravant-1-santa-barbara-web-designer http://www.ameravant.com/posts/google-ranks-ameravant-1-santa-barbara-web-designer Web Biz What Ameravant learned and shares about having a successful small business Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:06:54 -0800 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/what-you-should-know-about-starting-a-small-business http://www.ameravant.com/posts/what-you-should-know-about-starting-a-small-business Web Biz At the September meeting of awcsb.org Amber Sims Hinterplattner, Michael Kramer, and Cindy Faith Swain spoke about how to enhance your business through effective online communications. Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:58:16 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/women-in-communicatons-santa-barbara-chapter-hosts-michael-kramer-of-amervant-for-a-social-media-discussion http://www.ameravant.com/posts/women-in-communicatons-santa-barbara-chapter-hosts-michael-kramer-of-amervant-for-a-social-media-discussion Web Biz Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:57:13 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/ameravant-releases-siteninja-cms http://www.ameravant.com/posts/ameravant-releases-siteninja-cms Web Biz Young entrepreneurs enjoy new website. 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The Chamber will now be able to spend more of their money on programs and staff that create and support opportunities for the Goleta and Santa Barbara communities. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:55:55 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/goleta-valley-chamber-goes-green-virtual http://www.ameravant.com/posts/goleta-valley-chamber-goes-green-virtual Web Biz If you are a business owner in Santa Barbara or Goleta, and want more web site traffic, follow the guidelines in this article. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:20:41 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/santa-barbara-goleta-business-websites-want-more-traffic http://www.ameravant.com/posts/santa-barbara-goleta-business-websites-want-more-traffic Web Biz Spending on search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) in North America is expected to hit $26 billion by 2013. Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:20:25 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/search-engine-marketing-sem-spending-is-rising http://www.ameravant.com/posts/search-engine-marketing-sem-spending-is-rising Web Biz Attract more visitors to your business. Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:41:46 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/santa-barbara-small-business-websites http://www.ameravant.com/posts/santa-barbara-small-business-websites Web Biz Santa Barbara's Premier Networking Mixer Event for High-Technology Professionals, Cutting-Edge Entrepeneurs, Innovators, and Business Leaders Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:57:26 -0800 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/santa-barbara-tech-brew-business-networking-event http://www.ameravant.com/posts/santa-barbara-tech-brew-business-networking-event Developer Discussion If a blog post receives a good amount of attention from humans, it will also start getting attention from spam bots and scrapers. This puts both your website content and your contributing visitors at risk of being spammed. Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:37:36 -0800 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/protecting-your-website-forms-and-visitors-from-spam http://www.ameravant.com/posts/protecting-your-website-forms-and-visitors-from-spam Web Biz FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Partnership builds on successful joint venture. Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:25:17 -0800 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/ameravant-web-studio-announces-partnership-with-seo-firm-firstclickseo http://www.ameravant.com/posts/ameravant-web-studio-announces-partnership-with-seo-firm-firstclickseo Web Biz Want FREE effective eNewsletter marketing? Want to avoid mothly fees from 3rd party companies like Constant Contant and Listrak? Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:49:05 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/free-internet-newsletter-web-site-campaigns http://www.ameravant.com/posts/free-internet-newsletter-web-site-campaigns Web Biz There’s no better time than now to put the web to work to help you grow and support your business! Web marketing is a powerful marketing tool, but steps need to be taken in a logical order. Republished from the Pacific Coast Business Times,9/19/08 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:40:53 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/make-your-small-business-big-with-web-marketing http://www.ameravant.com/posts/make-your-small-business-big-with-web-marketing Developer Discussion So you've had some success using sendmail to send one-off emails like order receipts, password reset confirmations and welcome letters. But what happens when you need to be able to send 5,000 newsletter emails to your entire contact database? Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:30:58 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/sending-tons-of-emails-in-ruby-on-rails-with-ar_mailer http://www.ameravant.com/posts/sending-tons-of-emails-in-ruby-on-rails-with-ar_mailer Developer Discussion If you have a website that has a need for nightly database maintenance, Rails provides a very simple solution for interacting with your application on a recurring schedule. It's a script called "runner" and is amazingly simple to use. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:08:44 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/recurring-tasks-in-ruby-on-rails-using-runner-and-cron-jobs http://www.ameravant.com/posts/recurring-tasks-in-ruby-on-rails-using-runner-and-cron-jobs Designer Perspective Web 2.0 was a term coined a few years back to define how the web was changing, but somewhere it went wrong. Thu, 29 May 2008 18:05:42 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/what-s-wrong-with-web-2-0 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/what-s-wrong-with-web-2-0 Developer Discussion I don't see too many people taking advantage of the Google Chart API. In just a single image tag, you can add a slick looking chart or graph to your page, right next to an otherwise boring looking table of statistics. Thu, 29 May 2008 16:56:40 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/easily-show-charts-and-graphs-alongside-statistics http://www.ameravant.com/posts/easily-show-charts-and-graphs-alongside-statistics Developer Discussion Don't just link each of those thumbnails to the full version of the photo in a new browser window. That's not very suave, and you know it! You've probably seen some awesome CSS-based large image popups when clicking thumbnails. It's probably Lightbox. Wed, 28 May 2008 19:38:24 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/making-your-web-photo-galleries-rock-with-lightbox http://www.ameravant.com/posts/making-your-web-photo-galleries-rock-with-lightbox Designer Perspective The web can be a wonderful resource to learn and get inspired, but it's also an endless wasteland of garbage and bad information. Here's a short list of design-focused sites that I put in the former category. Tue, 20 May 2008 23:17:15 -0700 http://www.ameravant.com/posts/useful-design-resources http://www.ameravant.com/posts/useful-design-resources