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Yes that's right FREE Websites for BMX Tracks and Teams! Even if your BMX track has a website already, my friend and colleague Teresa Linn and I are giving away free custom websites for any BMX Track and BMX Team. If you're in Florida, California, New Mexico, New York, or East Bumpkin we don't care; we want your track to start making some green to support your riders.   Here's what you're gonna get: Free hosting (no traffic limits or space restrictions) Custom wordpress theme and a logo if your track needs one Event calendar on the site (No more using a third party solution or redirecting to a different site, visitors stay on the site to see the events, and its MOBILE FRIENDLY!!!!) Photo & Video Galleries (Unlimited picture posting on the site.  Not via flickr, smugmug or other third party site.  Unless you really want it to.) Videos are uploaded and posted directly in the site and posts. Youtube video pulls and a whole page of Youtube videos pulled by our tubepress plugin.  If you have a channel we can pull that directly in the site or pull videos with specific key words in the titles. Emails for board members.  No more personal emails if you don't want to mix and mingle BMX and Grandma Joyce's Christmas Cruise photos.  Oh, and we can give you webmail for those as well. ADVERTISING SALES for your track!  Can you hear that everyone?   You can make banner

Here's the scenario... You hire a web designer/company that builds websites (whatever you want to call them) to create you a masterpiece on the World Wide Web (Booming echoing voice in the background.) Everything is going fine and all of a sudden something affects the dynamics of the relationship between you and your web people.   So the back and forth ensues, tempers escalate, and you find yourself asking these questions:  Do I really own my website?  What legal rights to I have to get copies of my website?  What if my web team is no longer a good fit what legal rights do I have? Let's address these aspects point by point.   And truth be told, I have gained clients and lost clients because of similar circumstances, either because views change, expectations change or scope encroachment happens. Point 1: Do I really own my website?   The answer is yes.   You do own your website and you are free to take it to any service provider that can service the needs and requirements for your website.  The part of the site that you may or may not be entitled to is the programmatic or code aspects.  If your site was custom built, you have customized functionality built on to your site, or anything that you paid for the development to you are entitled to that intellectual property.  You are not entitled to intellectual property if you just signed up for a service that aids in the construction of your website or helps deliver content. Point

So I got this email from Site Pro News this morning about drinking the Kool-aid. Seems that the writer of this article and the reposter are of the same view I am.  I think there are too many so called experts and that a large majority of them prey on those who don't know any better.  As they say in this article about not painting with a broad brush, neither do I.  Many experts or gurus are legitimate and honest.  So with out further a due, I will repost the article in its entirety. What is a guru? Literally, a guru is a teacher. The word guru means "heavy" or "deep," thus a guru is a person "heavy" or "deep" in knowledge. In this sense, a schoolteacher is a guru, a coach or athletic instructor is a guru, a fine-arts, or even a dance teacher is a guru. One's parents are also gurus. In the religious field, where the word is most commonly used, a guru is a Hindu religious teacher. So a priest or any person learned in Hindu lore may be a guru. The main purpose of the guru is to teach. (Source: What is a Guru?) Personally, I don't believe in so-called "gurus" - whether they're self-proclaimed or anointed. Nevér have. But I do believe in teachers and mentors. And I'm all for free enterprise - for everybody making as much money as they possibly can, with this caveat: Not off the backs of the desperate,

February is the month of love people! So to celebrate all our Vlogos are only $59.00 What you get for 59 bucks is the best logo you will ever have made for you! You are entitled to 1 revision with 2 different versions of your logo.  You pick the best on and we revise it one time to make it perfect. I used to be 1/2 of 99dollarlogos.com and our success rate with logos is second to none.  Give it a try! You have nothing to lose and a great Vlogo to Love!  

Oh happy day... Oh happy day... as the famed Christian song goes; but wait, it's not a happy day! Oh my gosh!!!!  Someone posted bad things about you on your facebook page.  For a private person or J. Doe this is not the end of the world, but for a professional person or a business this can have dramatic consequences.  This damages reputation, credibility and causes loss of business which means less money in your pocket. But Chris... How do I fix this? Well like any thing if it's caught early we can mitigate the damage and do what we call reputation protection.   We have an expert that is awesome at protecting your reputation in social media. Coach Denise as we call her round here, is our social media engineer.  She has worked for companies like Procter & Gamble, IBM and smaller groups, companies, and individuals like yourself.   Her ability to do "Damage Control" is unparalleled.  Combine that with the tactical advantage of being a social media expert and really getting how the negative posts are displayed just like positive posts helps you mitigate the negative.  We can also do fact finding and counter the negative comments by addressing the individual directly on the wall.  If the truth is that a person or competitor is posting negative stuff because they just don't like you, that will all come out and be dealt with. There is a caveat to this.  If what they say about you is true, for instance you did bad

Recently I updated my browser from Internet Explorer 9.0 to 9.0.4 because it was part of the latest round of security updates that Big Momma Microsoft said I needed to install.  So every thing is all good, I'm humming along singing my favorite song when I get an email from one of the other designers in the group.  "Hey Chris, you're website is broke in Internet Explorer. You might want to check it out." Mark.   Since I do the majority of my surfing and development in Firefox because of Firebug... I never even noticed or thought for that matter to check the site after I updated IE to the next release.  Normally, we build a site and construct the css with the aid of Firefox and Firebug.  Then go and make small tweaks to correct defects in display for the 4 other major browsers, Safari, Chrome, IE Current, and IE 6.0.   So now an additiona check on the list has been added- "Check all cufon enabled sites for proper display after browser upgrade.