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ALASKA WEBSITE DESIGN
Alaska Facts:
Capital: Juneau
State symbols: flower/
forget-me-not (1949)
Nickname: The Last Frontier or Land of the Midnight Sun
Motto: North to the Future
Vitus Bering, a Dane working for the Russians, and Alexei Chirikov discovered the Alaskan mainland and the Aleutian Islands in 1741. The tremendous land mass of Alaska—equal to one-fifth of the continental U.S.—was unexplored in 1867 whenSecretary of State William Seward arranged for its purchase from the Russians for $7,200,000. The transfer of the territory took place on Oct. 18, 1867. Despite a price of about two cents an acre, the purchase was widely ridiculed as “Seward's Folly.” The first official census (1880) reported a total of 33,426 Alaskans, all but 430 being of aboriginal stock. The Gold Rush of 1898 resulted in a mass influx of more than 30,000 people. Since then, Alaska has contributed billions of dollars' worth of products to the U.S. economy.
In 1968, a large oil and gas reservoir near Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Coast was found. The Prudhoe Bay reservoir, with an estimated recoverable 10 billion barrels of oil and 27 trillion cubic feet of gas, is twice as large as any other oil field in North America. The Trans-Alaska pipeline was completed in 1977 at a cost of $7.7 billion. Oil flows through the 800-mile-long pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to the port ofValdez.
Other important industries are fisheries, wood and wood products, furs, and tourism.
Web Design:
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Are you developing a new web site, or redesigning your existing effort? We offer a full range of design & development services. Content Preparation: Developing web content is a science. The standard rules of composition are out. We are able to assist in writing new content, or help overhaul existing materials.
Graphic Design: We can work with existing materials, or develop new ones on request. Colors, fonts, graphics, and imagery should all tie in to your site's central message. Imagery: We can compress, resize, and/or edit images for best load time & presentation. Often borders or overlays can enhance otherwise drab images. Advanced Features: We can add roll-overs, pop-ups, flash, animation, video, and music clips as appropriate. We generally recommend against any features that detract from a website's message or search engine potential, however. User Interaction: User contact forms, search routines, customer data collection, surveys, and other value-added interactive features will be built in as requested. E-Commerce: Be it third party applications, or development of custom functionality, we can integrate e-commerce into the site design.
Content Editing: All or a portion of your site content can be made accessible for secure real-time editing by you or your staff. Browser Testing: We'll check to make sure your site works with the most popular browsers.
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Powerful Web Design Marketing:
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The promotion of your web site is an intensive multi-step process comprised of the following general & technical tasks.Strategic Analysis: How are your customers searching for your product? What is your competition doing to reach them? Which search engines or other promotional options will best meet your needs? Situational Analysis: How is the site currently ranking? What are the areas for improvement? Avoid reworking areas of strength. Site Analysis: Are there broken links, poor coding practices, or other design elements which must be fixed? Site Optimization: Search engines have gained significant sophistication in recent years. Simplistic positioning tricks no longer work, and can result in the exclusion of your site from important engines. A thoughtful, organized approach to content presentation is the best bet for solid search engine rankings. Search Engine Submission: Periodic manual submission to major search engines, as well as automated submission to regional or minor engines. Pay Per Click Administration: Monitoring and maintenance of PPC campaign. Ranking Follow-Up: Promotional strategies should be measured against search engine rankings on a periodic basis.
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