Exciting news. Tobstar now offers products!

Over the last 6 years, Tobstar has been providing website design and development. Although this will continue to be the main core of our business, we are now an authorised reseller of various information technology products.

Shop online with Tobstar - convenient and cost competitive!

www.tobstarshop.com.au

Products and Brands Available

Apple, Adobe, Acer, Belkin, Canon, Elgato, FileMaker, Keningston, Kingston, LaCie, MIcrosoft, MYOB, Sandisk, VMware, Verbatim and Western Digital.

Need help? Got feedback?

If you’re after something in particular and can’t find it on tobstarshop, simply send us an email and we’ll do our best to source it for you - and offer a competitive price too!

As with our design and development practice, we expect tobstarshop will constantly evolve. So if you have any feedback, please feel free to email your comments to toby@tobstar.com.au

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Visit CSSTYPE for Web Safe Typography on Screen for Pixel Perfectionists!

Please note: PC and Mac shows some typography differents on screen!

This new site developed with advanced Flash’s action-scripts link to MYSQL database and XML/PHP to display all my works. Here’s few new features listed that I have been worked on and achieved it;

• Allow both PC and Mac’s mouse to scrolling the site with mouse wheel on two different sides on the site to scrolling.
• Load information, image, links etc from MYSQL database into Flash and create animation movie for each data from database.
• Allow to fit any size of screen resolutions also when resize the browser’s window to bigger and small and bigger it will display more of my works across the page. For example change 3 columns to 4 or more or less of all my works. Also with the scrolling bars will resize on different window size.
• Allow to change theme. You can click on our logo it will change from black to white theme. See screenshots below.

My goal for this site is create it simple, cleaver and fast effective! Also easily to add more works quickly and display all new work on top of the page!

All feedbacks are welcome and thank you. Hope you enjoy my new website of course its Beta so I will improve it over the time when I have the time!

Thank you for read!

Toby @ Tobstar!

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I have been study all Google’s secrets for better ranking. Here’s few points to help you to understand.

1. Link popularity
Have your website link on other websites. Search engine will think your website is popular and give you better ranking. You can find how many links you have on other website use ’site: www.yoursite.com.au’ on search box on any search engines they will also include your other pages.
Beware don’t put many links on other websites too fast, just take a time like one each day. if you get 100 links in one day or a week Google may think its spamming.

Also use Google.com to search relevant keywords that your business is aiming to rank highly in, click on all of the first 10 sites. For each of the links pointing to your competitors site/s search for other sites that will allow you to list your site for free. List your website on as many sites as possible, some sites will request a backward link to their site, and so long as this doesn’t drive traffic to competitors sites, link away!

2. Google Sandbox
If you have brand new website and new domain name, Google may not put on top ranking straight away probably takes 1 to 3 months to wait, but if you get more links popularity it may take less time and climb up better ranking quick than doing nothing.

3. Domain name register
Domain name register for more than 2 years will help better ranking. With only one year Google will think its spamming and it won’t be running for long time so they will assume its not important to give them better ranking. With com.au its minimum 2 years to registered so not to worry.

4. Traffic
More visitor traffic to your website and more people to bookmark or add to favorite your website will help with ranking in search engine.

5. Website contents
Site contents update sometimes, add more contents and pages. Website is working properly no link-broken or codes error and easy for search engines to crawls all links to other pages. Don’t put many same keywords on one page. Search Engines focus on texts texts and texts that they can read to add index.
NOTE: Google couldn’t read texts in flash or images.

6. Search Engine Friendly
Its web developer’s job to make sure your website is standard and accessibility, and search engine friendly. With valided XHTML and CSS codes.

All Search Engines is trying to look after search user and to stop all websites to spamming them. We can’t trick them to rank it top cos they will ban your website or drop it to lower. So we keep it normally not fight them and use all normally things to help better ranking and quality of your website that are friendly to search engine. Once your website is around for long and they will put your in top ranking cos they know you are the one to trust cos your are not out of business for long time.

Just focus on link popularity with your website will get you more profit from more traffic at the same time it will help rank your website better in all major search engines.