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CT businesses choose Bakermedia

Latest Connecticut Web Presence Design

Spinnaker Apartments | Milford, CT

Tasks: Creative Direction, Web site design, Custom wordpress, Social media introduction/integration, SEO, video production, consulting Visit: spinnakerapartments.com

Il Palazzone | Montalcino, IT | New York, NY

The re-design of Il Palazzone’s web presence is an impressive mix of style and function. Developed in two languages, English and Italian, the site is directly hooked in to social media and offers a personal feel. Ilpalazzone.com represents a thriving business infused with cultured personality. visit site: ilpalazzone.com ilpalazzone on facebook | twitter | youtube

9 Organic Google boosting tips from Bakermedia

This is the magic solution and this is what we help our clients achieve: Start with a WordPress base for your site architecture. Period. Your company will never ever ever be able to create a site in-house or externally that can compete with the collective genius put into the development of WordPress and it’s infinite [...]

Simon & Schuster | New York, NY

Tasks: Custom web design, creative direction, social media design, project management, site maintenance, social network maintenance, new platform launches Visit: chetthedog.com

Top 10 WordPress plugins that have saved my butt!

In the world of WordPress web site design the options are literally limitless as to what you can do! Through lots of trial and error these listed have come in handy more than once! cformsII http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin Powerful and feature rich form plugin for WordPress. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role [...]

answer: Flip video to DVD with menus, easy! (Windows)

Not 100% sure why this isn’t included in the default software for Flip cameras… but here is an application for Windows that worked with ease on the very 1st try: http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/ Did a test with 5 .mp4 clips. Burned @ 16x – Perfect, easy, made nice classy default menu! 50 bucks well spent and now [...]

Quick and easy way to podcast via any phone

CINCH From the creators of Blogtalkradio. we just signed on and are going to begin a new (slightly more professional) audio podcast. Follow me on Cinch

Facebookin’ is a YEAR old!

Note from Erica: This was originally posted Jan 13 of 2009… but I think it’s still relevant and generally awesome!

400 million members, how do you stand out on Facebook?

PERSONALITY! One thing I say over and over is in order to stand out in the social media game is you MUST have some personality behind your business. Bland, repetitive or spammy posts go overlooked for posts that have some wit or substance other than just a direct promotion. Lets take our client Il Palazzone [...]

Feedburner for “interactive” email signatures

Want an interactive email signature? “Interactive” is really limited in email. You cannot use any scripts, just basic HTML, and much of the time, even that is stripped however… If you have a WORDPRESS site designed by Bakermedia or any other back-end that spits out an RSS feed of your latest posts you can use [...]

Google Now Indexing Facebook Status Updates

Announced today: Public status updates from Facebook Pages now in real-time search: http://bit.ly/6YpCdy More about Facebook Pages: http://bit.ly/aYnAxf We encourage all businesses to be active on Facebook and mirror activity across their web presence. This solidifies the need to take Facebook into consideration! Please fan our page if you found this useful:

Are you an expert at something? Tell the world!

Putting yourself out there as an expert leaves you open to inquiries and associates you with that expertise everywhere you go. We spend a lot of time building web sites for big and small businesses and NOTHING makes us happier than when our clients put their sites to good use. I would like to use our [...]

Some easy Internet tips for business owners:

Get yourself a Facebook page and NAME IT (you may not be able to choose a name immediately, built in spam/fraud protection) http://www.facebook.com/username Grab a Flip camera: http://theflip.com and take short, relevant videos. Are you a carpenter? Show what you do during someones bathroom remodel. Are you a yoga studio? Take short clips of members [...]

You do not want to have to EXPLAIN your web address!

A big mistake people make when choosing their domain name is something way too long, complicated or irrelevant. The rule is simple, you do not want to have to EXPLAIN your web address! My friend Sam Recupero over at Absolute Floor Designs chose a great one in: AFD123.com. We are really good at helping business [...]

Paid Advertising on Facebook: Design SMALL!

make sure: Clear message, brand association, colorful and legible at a tiny size. Here are a few more that I may or may not rotate Michael Baker Bakermedia.com

Bakermedia for… BRANDING & PRINT TOO!

We recently wrapped up the design of a new small local site: http://southportstation.net and they wanted to carry their new branding across to a tri-fold brochure for direct mailing. Southport Station, an investment advisory firm, hired Bakermedia to create branding, an interactive web site, brochure and next up is interfacing with social media.

HELP WANTED: Production / WordPress / Vbulletin / CSS / PHP immediate work:

We are looking for PRODUCTION help within a custom wordpress/vbulletin environment. If you are a WORDPRESS / VBULLETIN / PHP / CSS wiz and looking for work contact us mbaker@bakermedia.com with samples and rates. Typical tasks will be taking a PSD like this: http://bakermedia.com/stand and turning it into a working site in WordPress/Vbulletin OR just populating [...]