Develop Idaho was a great event! There's a lot of excitement around entrepreneurship, technology, relationships, and doing business in Idaho. The Idaho Technology Council put on a great event today, connecting talent with opportunity, and trying-to's to the have-done's.

Engineering with business minds, marketing with development, type a's and type b's, x's and o's.
Ecosystems are about connecting people, and events like Develop Idaho help to do exactly that.

It was an excellent venue to identify, engage, and promote Idaho business and entrepreneurship.

SEOMoz.org is great. They are scientists that research, analyze, and share their findings. They also develop great software for SEO. Most Boise SEO's keep tabs on SEO Moz, and some even tweet every article that get's posted there.

Most SEO's keep tabs on what is gong on at SEO Moz. Recently, a post was made on social signals used in search placement.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-twitters-influence-google-search-ran...

The most subtle web design change can mean the difference between a bounce and a conversion.

When designing websites, we look at the forest and the trees. What is the simple, clear message that will influence the visitor? What supplementary techniques can we use to further engage and entice?

One thing we like to do, is display a single element randomly from a set. For example, the tagline on our website, which appears below our logo, is a random selection from a set of taglines.

www.highcalgunauctions.com is a proud web design, development & SEO achievement of a collaborative endeavor. The client supplied the vision, the business expertise, and an active role in directing the project; Yellowbox Studio provided the initial design concept, and Nerdy Dragon delivered on the implementation.

The site represents a variety of complexities and capabilities. If you know about auctions and software development, you might appreciate the work that's gone into this project.

Web Design is a diverse and intricate topic, it's not as easy as whipping out some visuals and turning them into a website. It can be, however successful web design will focus on the user experience and the representation of a brand.

When dealing with e-commerce web design, the nature of the products/services being offered is a consideration when approaching a site.

A site with lots of products, has more web design challenges than a site with just a couple of products. In either case, we'll want to build urgency within our visitor.

In some instances, the best motivator for creating a website is a good cause. This is the case with www.irunformaison.com.

Maison Ortiz tragically passed during a snowboarding accident at age 15. He was a great young man, and came from such a great family. We're proud to help build a website and registration system for a fundraiser in Maison's honor.

Anyone who'll be in reno on March 27th should attend: www.irunformaison.com/

First Question: "Are you marketing, or are you just promoting?"

Marketing requires research, analysis, innovation, and understanding behind the decisions and actions you make when promoting.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization is often simply used as a promotion exercise; this is the case when proper attention isn't paid to keyword selection.

Marketing question: "How do I get more customers on the web?"

Promotion question: "How do I get more traffic to my website?"

Web designers, developers, copywriters, editors, small business owners, entrepreneurs, students, and professionals who are responsible for developing, organizing, and publishing content on the web love drupal.

A lot of people do, because it's powerful, available for free, has over 7000 modules available to enhance and customize it to most of the work required for an enormous number of web ventures.

It's not a system that handles everything for you.

It's a system that provides you and your web engineers a powerful and flexible toolkit to build applications from.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization is a grind. For any given business, there are several keywords that provide value when the website ranks well in search engine results. For us here at Nerdy Dragon, we took aim at a variety of keywords, with "Web Design Boise" being one of the more competitive.

Today, we've reached a significant SEO Boise Milestone, being placed in the top have of the search results for the "Web Design Boise" keyword. This is one of the keywords in the web design and development business that generates the most traffic and opportunities for leads.

You are! Sort of.

There's a lot to like about Drupal. It's simple, for simple sites and flexible enough to build the most powerful sites. It's easy for designers to work with, it's friendly to developers who want to customize it. It's good for building sites, good for getting sites found, and great for managing and using websites.

Drupal is a social platform. A publishing system. A content management system. A framework.