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Ninthlink Successfully Launches RagsDesign.com using ProGo.com WordPress Business Ecommerce Themes.

Ninthlink successfully launched RagsDesign.com in May of 2012. We designed and programmed the website using an up and coming Wordpress Business Ecommerce theme from ProGo.com. The entire Yachts Dealership was customized to fit multi-currency and brand requirements of Rags Design, a company based in both Europe and the US. According to Bridget Knol, owner of Rags Design, "RagsDesign.com has been a major factor in the success and recognition of Rags Design. The website has made is possible to share and…
June 15, 2012
DevelopmentMarketingTips

Twitter gives you the bird

Looks like Twitter is steering away from it's old icons and forcing us good web dev teams to make changes to all sites that use the old Twitter icon. They give us the bird with new guidelines that they outline here. They DON'T Allow the birds referenced above : Talking birds, dying birds, a family of birds, really blue birds, birds on the ground, cartoon birds or birds with hair, SO BE CAREFUL HOW YOU GIVE THE BIRD! (more…)
June 14, 2012
Marketing

Google + Local New Scoring System

Google + Local has replaced its star ratings with a new scoring system. Individual reviews are also counted different. Where a "3" is "excellent, a "2" is "very good", a "1" is "good" and a "0" is "poor". Google then takes these ratings and averages them out to give the business a "score" between 0 and 30 - with a 30 being the best you can do. What this means to most businesses is that you must continue to provide…
June 13, 2012
Marketing

Google Places Merges With Google Plus

Dear Local Business Owner, If you hadn't heard the news by now, yesterday Google announced the end of Google Places as we used-to-know it. In it's place is an updated version of Google Plus, which has now officially merged with Google Places. There has been a lot written already about the change and a lot of panic has ensued. The way we see it, not much has changed yet..but be prepared Google Plus is here to stay. What has changed:…
May 31, 2012
DevelopmentMarketing

Schema In Action

Not too long ago, the search engines announced a uniformed way to make better sense of the content on the web. They called it Schema. The goal was to use a new markup language that would enable website authors to tag their content, a feat that would ultimately help the engines organize and serve up more meaningful results. The engines said Schema was coming and some in the optimization community took notice. About a year had passed since that fateful…
May 25, 2012