Rodes Web Design & Development

Tricks that will get you banned

Google logo with a circle and line through it.

Do you think the rules don’t apply to you? Are you willing to do whatever you want in order to get high rankings in the search engines…temporarily? Willing to lose all your future Search engine indexing or traffic for the smallest chance that the search engines don’t figure out your tricks? If so, I have a list of 5 techniques that are a sure way to get your site banned from the search engines!!!

Ok, now in all seriousness, sites get banned by search engines on a daily basis. A lot of users do not know that these techniques are ”search engine illegal“ and will get your site tossed out of a search engine faster than homeless guy at a Ferrari dealership. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Making your website work for you.

Work, Home and Life can be made much easier; let the internet help.Is your website working for you? Do you even have a website yet? Since many clients and customers won’t do business with a company unless they can first check them out on the Web, even a very simple website adds credibility to your business, leading to increased sales.

Many people are taking part in the Work-From-Home craze where the internet is an integral part of sucess. Whether you are making a solo-effort, or part of a larger organization that hasn’t yet made the leap to the internet, we have a few simple tips that will help you with the task.

In a nutshell, here’s what you want a business website to do:

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Charging into the Battlefield™

Battlefield 2 soldierOn April 1, 2009 the team at Rodes entered the on-line gaming arena and introduced 2 new Linux servers for use with the online first-person shooter BATTLEFIELD 2 by EA Games.

This game currently has over 600,000 registered gamers and has been being played non-stop since 2005.

The Rodes servers are RANKED and offer a variety of gameplay options. These new servers are operated by the =YuC= Clan and are online 24/7.

Contact a member of our sales staff if you are interested in an online gaming server for your favorite RPG or MMOG.

Arriving in style with Safe & Reliable

Whether on-the-town or on-the-web, Safe & Reliable Limousine Service has elegance and style nailed!

The team at Rodes has created an appealing website that has drastically changed the way this Lorain County business operates; increasing sales by over 110% in the first 6 months the site has been online.

Check out the vehicles, read a few testimonials and request a personalized quote for your special event.

Visit them at www.sandrlimo.com

Thunder, S&R Limo

Fixed footer without javascript

Web Design Abstract LogoA recent project required that I create a page footer which would stick to the bottom of the browser window if the content didn’t fill the window, but behave normally (i.e. be pushed down by the content) when the content was tall enough.

This footer behaviour is not a new idea; I’ve seen it on a few sites over the years, the most well known probably being version 7 of Shaun Inman’s site. Take a look at the ‘Work’ page with JavaScript enabled, then disabled to see the effect in action. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Communications Etiquette 101

We all have our pet-peaves. Some of us have laundry lists of them. My list of personal pet-peaves is rather short, and asCommunications Etiquette 101 far as my business pet-peaves, there is only one: Communications Etiquette.

What I am going to propose below might startle some of you largely due to the fact that most of us don’t follow the simple rule I am about to share with you…and it is so very simple!

Respond in kind. Thats it! (but allow me to ellaborate):

I have broken this down into 2 sections, Type, and Content. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Google PageRank Explained

What is PageRank?

PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links PageRank Imageto another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page’s importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page’s PageRank is calculated.
PageRank is Google’s way of deciding a page’s importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page’s ranking in the search results. It isn’t the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one. [Read the rest of this entry...]