If you don’t already have an account with Google, first go to the Google home page here: http://www.google.com/

Next click the “Sign In” button at the top, right of the page.

On the next page, click “Create an account now” on the left side of the page.

On the “Create an Account” page, enter the required fields and click the “I accept. Create my account.” button.

You will be sent an email to verify and activate your Google account.

Forms on websites have always been a problem whether it is coding, execution, or the fact that it was a wall to spiders. I would say that in my 10 years of coding, html forms have been the biggest problem in web site design. From the start forms were created using odd execution triggers; you could use CGI, Java, and the always dangerous Microsoft Front Page extensions. Today we use a number of other functions, php, asp, and flash to improve the delivery of the information. Internet data is now mission critical, so the old form techniques are out - mostly due to security and mail delivery problems.

For Google search, or any spiders for that matter, forms were the end of the road, spiders could not follow. Spiders could not follow the destinations of the forms. Many times forms just go to a “Thank You page”, but sometime they unlock whole sections of content that would not be indexed in the search engines. Other navigation solutions used “jump menus” which are usually coded as forms, so none of your jump menu content was found by the engines.

Google has announced that is now experimenting with the ability to search, from “Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Crawling through HTML forms”

“In the past few months we have been exploring some HTML forms to try to discover new web pages and URLs that we otherwise couldn’t find and index for users who search on Google. Specifically, when we encounter a <FORM> element on a high-quality site, we might choose to do a small number of queries using the form” - Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy, Crawling and Indexing Team.

RedFusion Media has always placed high value on “Google-able” search pages, and if you would like to learn more about how Google works, and how search engine optimization works.

Reported today in the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo and Time Warner’s AOL are talking about a deal that would combine internet operations. This action is in response to Microsoft’s un-solicited bid to buy Yahoo, which declined the offer. In response Microsoft has gone to News Corp, which owns MySpace.com in an attempt to put a joint deal together where they could buy out Yahoo.

The “Bigger News” may be the disclosure of an apparent defeat, Yahoo is talking to Google about outsourcing search ad sales for Yahoo’s advertising engine. Google has a large lead in market share on all add placement and sale revenue.

The complete Managing Generation Y article can be found here.

ABSTRACT

Hiring new, young talent just out of college is challenging some established practices of management and changing today’s corporate culture. With the shift of the younger employment force from Generation X to Generation Y, also known as “Millennial”, companies are finding that there are different attitudes and work habits that need to be incorporated into the existing culture. With companies now having different generational mentalities and priorities, the corporate melting pot has new challenges ahead.

For the first time, new college graduates are entering the workforce, having never known a world without computers, cell phones, email, or instant messaging. They have been brought up in a fast-paced, instant world that is always moving and changing.  Their parents valued their opinions from the time they were toddlers and gave them choices, rather than making decisions for them.

Topics about Millennial Management Challenges

• Loyalty
• Advancement Expectations
• Work Attitudes
• Management Tactics

Read the complete Managing Generation Y article

At RedFusion Media, we believe there are some very specific steps, tactics, and skills that go into the development of websites that are highly ranked in search engines. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the term the web industry has given the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website page.

Common Questions

• How does a search engine like Google, Yahoo, and MSN rank my pages?
• What goes into building pages that are successful in search engines?
• The final question, can RedFusion Media show us their success on SEO?

Our SEO answers can all be found on our new page, “Build a better performing website using proven Search Engine Optimization processes.”

Website Spending on Maintenance

In a survey of RedFusion Media clients, we found on average companies spend about $1450 a year, or $120 a month maintaining their website presence(hosting, content, and design). The data was based on 2007 data of 219 clients, including a mixture of organization sizes and industries.

Google Map Links

Go to Google Maps: http://www.google.com/maps

Plot your location in the “Search Field”. Once you confirm that the location you want is in the map, look at the top right on the map and click on the Link to this page, button.

It then will show a new pop-up window with the link. Clicking in the box should select the full line, copy the selection and then paste it into your page.

We take web server health and security seriously. As a matter of policy, we do not allow outside vendors, webmasters, or users any access to our FTP services on our core servers. This is because the most vulnerable part of any web server is the programmed code that is implemented for web applications.

Occasionally, on a case by case basis, we will grant access to our servers. However, this action may result in our moving your site or resources to another less secure server, or to an outside hosting location.

June 18, 2007, REDLANDS, CA - The California Welcome Center in San Bernardino is impacting the very competitive tourism market. RedFusion Media’s partnership with the Center makes getting information easy. Now, visitors to the area can easily access information online through the custom-built, Internet-powered kiosk.

RedFusion Media, a local web design and Internet marketing company located in Redlands, built the kiosk for the center, which includes multiple computers and a print station, giving CWC visitors access to Inland Empire attractions, hotels, restaurants, and recreational opportunities. Content is also shared with the center from the InlandEmpire.US local directory, which is owned and maintained by RedFusion Media. This use of technology represents a growing trend using the Internet to deliver digital “rich” media to screens anywhere.

“Internet Marketing includes placing media in kiosks, on billboards, and smaller street and in store displays. These displays can be easily changed from a remote location. RedFusion Media is able to control and update the Welcome Center kiosk in San Bernardino from our offices in Redlands. This is a very effective way to manage advertising messages,” says Jon Burgess, Internet Manager at RedFusion Media.

According to statewide surveys, provided by Certified Folder Display Service, Inc., a welcome center near a major California highway has potential to regionally draw 100,000 domestic and international visitors annually. Studies also indicate that 66 percent of travelers visit a welcome center after identifying the state’s traveling bear logo on Interstate signage. The California Welcome Center is centrally located on 1955 Hunts Lane, just north of the I-10/215 freeway interchange near Hospitality Lane. Welcome Center visitors will find that it is easy to navigate the information kiosk, so they can better explore the Inland Empire area and all its amenities, and print any information they need for their travels.

RedFusion Media is delighted to partner with the Welcome Center to provide the Internet technology and content for this terrific project, states Ron Burgess, president. We strongly support all efforts to communicate the region’s assets to California and the region.

RedFusion Media is the Inland Empire’s leading web design and content management firm, ranked in May 2007 by the Business Press as the number one web firm in the region. Located in Redlands, the company has hundreds of web clients in the Inland Empire and other states. RedFusion Media also maintains a regional network of directory sites at InlandEmpire.US, for local information and links. The firm’s clients include companies, municipalities, non-profits, schools, and museums. For more information visit http://www.RedFusionMedia.com.

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Recent ranking rates Inland Empire’s best web development companies 

On May 14th, 2007, The Business Press released The List, an annual ranking of companies providing web design and development in the San Bernardino, Riverside, and eastern Los Angeles counties – the 13th largest economy in the U.S.  The ranking is based on the number of websites designed or redesigned the previous year, in 2006.

RedFusion Media was ranked the top web design and development company. RedFusion Media designed and/or redesigned 48 sites in 2006, which is nine more than the number two ranked company, and boasts a total of 187 accounts. The full list can be seen at http://www.thebizpress.com/list/pastlists/BP_News_Local_D_bp0514_web_designers_list.d0c766.html