Wade Richards is my customer. Have a look at his site.
He’s a musician using wordpress tools to promote his business and doing a good job of it.

http://timeformusic.org/

Another lovely winter day in The Burgh…
I thought I would pass along this recommendation from my friend Lou Marmon.
If you can get out of the house or if you can go to your basement.

Hello,
Here are some ideas for libations to share (and a movie to watch) with someone special on Valentine’s Day.

Here are some red wine suggestions for winter weather including Phelps, Castello di Amorosa, Quivira, Frei Brothers and St. Clement.
While my editor entitled the piece “West Coast” it also includes a few fun Spanish wines called “Tempra Tantrum.”

Hope you enjoy them.

Best wishes,
Lou
grapelines.com

I have been using NoNags for almost 15 years now and I have never been disappointed in one of their recommendations.

and

Everything is free!

http://www.nonags.com/

My nephew Dave is in the Navy.

It’s always good to think of our military people and help them out when you can.

I recommend this organization…
Military Connections specializes in finding service men and women that don’t get any mail and sending them packages.
http://militaryconnections.org/

I saw a great post by Eric Brown on the Search Engine Guide site where he reports on an apartment rental company in Michigan who’s blog has nothing to do with apartment rentals and are still top of the search engines.

They offer virtual sightseeing tours, restaurant tips and reviews, and other good information about the community. Without ever directly plugging their main business from their blog their website business has more than doubled. A very good lesson for anyone interested in writing or improving a business blog.

If your blog screams that you can “Make You A Million Dollars”, but offers no other value for free, your visitors will not take you seriously. However, if you offer them something of value without any strings attached they will take the time to find out what else you can offer them, even if it’s not free. In fact, they will look expecting to have to pay for it. You’ve already proven that your experience can be valuable to them.

As a designer I think that the Urbane Life Blog is very hard to read, with blue text on a black background, but they have done everything else right. It’s just my opinion and who knows the blue on black may even help them.

Read Focus on Your Core Community

I have a category with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.

The newest one is called The Color Cure.

They are a small creative team based in the Philippines. They have a great site. Clear, easy to read and I just love their menu. A cool simple idea that I haven’t really seen before.

Visit The Color Cure

I have a category with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good, are clear and easy to use. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they’re about.

The newest one is called Innespace Seabreacher. Their site is plain, simple and since it only really has one product, it’s front and center. The navigation is simple, easy to find and identify. There is a nice hover effect that lets you know for sure that they are links.

It also helps that they have a super cool product to sell, an exciting personal submersible watercraft that looks and acts like a dolphin.

Ride The Innespace Seabreacher

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Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work)

Cosmic Log from msnbc.com is about explorations in space and science.

While I was on vacation, after looking (from the hot tub) at the dark night sky, dreaming of the stars, I found this post called Moonshots on your computer. It has many links to the Apollo program and pages and pages of great photos and video.

Visit Moonshots on your computer

Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work)

It’s almost Independence Day here in the USA. Celebrate the 4th of July by creating easy family crafts, projects, and activities that kids of all ages will love from Kaboose.com

Visit Kaboose.com 4th of July Page

Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work)

The Art of Hand Shadows is just what it says. I’ve had quite a bit of fun learning these and I think that I don’t need to look at the pictures any more.

I’ll be trying them out for my niece and nephew soon.

Learn The Art of Hand Shadows