JM Media and Design Blog

JMMD Designs for Star Pony Express

Josh — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:59:24 +0000

JM Media and Design was chosen as the designer of starponyexpress.com! This company provides pony rides for the little tikes at birthday parties, church events, and much more. So if you are in the DFW area and in need of entertainment at your child’s next event call Christian at Star Pony Express today at (214) 208-3652!

We have finished the design and released it online!

JMMD and ARJACC Website

Josh — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:52:17 +0000

JM Media and Design is proud to announce that we have contracted with ARJACC Kitchen and Bath out of Midlothian, TX for a brand new website design.

In need of remodeling your kitchen and/or bathroom? ARJACC can get it done beautifully and under the cost of the average contractor. ARJACC can do all general contracting work as well so call ARJACC today at (972) 217-6007 or in the coming future at www.arjacc.com!

There Are No SEO Secrets

Josh — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:50:03 +0000

I always tell my clients that there are no secret methods of SEO, and that they could really save money by doing some homework on the issue of Search Engine Optimization. That being said, it does take major time and effort to effectively get your site to be optimized for search engines such as google, yahoo, and msn.

Getting Started: Relevant Content, Page Titles, Meta Data

Search engines send out "spiders" to crawl your site to see if it contains relevant information, and you cannot pay search engines to ranked high in the natural results. In order to be sure you are at the top is by employing paid ads and paying the highest price per click. I do my best to suggest a blog for every client so that an avenue of relevant content is at their fingertips. Within your content you will want to produce keywords and key phrases that repeat throughout the page, but not sacrifice the readability of the conent.

Keywords are less effective than keyword phrases because the average google user understands that they need to be specific in their search terms if they want to get the information they need quick. For instance if you were to sell clothing online, I would suggest that you not even waste time trying to make "clothing" your top keyword. Considering the international big-wigs like gap and old navy top the charts for "clothing", it may be wise to seek out a phrase like "kids leather jackets"

You want to be sure the title of your page (the title you see on the top of your browser) is named exactly like your top keyword phrase. This can be especially difficult with online stores as some of the open source and lower cost shopping carts offer very little SEO integration in terms of page naming and keywords.

It is a good practice to have a description that entails your top keyword phrase and summarizes the content it is describing clearly. Often I have seen where your average website has a title that may be cut, but lacks relevancy to the search engines, has a description that is populated with keyword phrases that are not in the content, and keywords that are not impactful. Without doing your homework some may think that stuffing your web page with every keyword you an think of in the title, content, description, and keywords amy be effective, but this is simply false.

JMMD and AVCS

Josh — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:46:42 +0000

We have released a website that we developed for Antelope Valley Christian School this week! We were contracted for re-design to make the school more appealing to the internet masses, while equipping the school with greater online tools to reach as far as Southeast Asia.

Check it out : http://www.avcs.edu

JMMD and ESI Nutrition

Josh — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:38:13 +0000

JM Media and Design has just been contracted by ESI Nutrition for a brand new web design and online store solution for their womens product line. As much of the product is still under wraps we will only say this… The products are made for women, and the only nutritional product line of its kind.

Stay tuned as we get set to release ESI’s Website in the next few months!

JM Media and Design Blogging Begins

Josh — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:05:13 +0000

I added a blog to our site today to write some articles pertaining to doing business on the internet, web design, ecommerce, and many other subjects involving creativity and business sense. I have been blogging for years and as you can see from my personal blog, and I often write articles for article sites.

A small introduction of who I am besides owner of JM Media and Design would be in order… I am have been married for 10 years to my beautiful wife, and we have four children (3 girls and one boy)! My life is centered on my realtionship with Jesus Christ, I am a credentialed minister with the Assemblies of God, I am a volunteer pastor at my church, and love music, photography, and most of all web creativity. Regarding photography, I just started out this past year with a Canon Rebel XSi. I simply love to capture the beauty of what I see inside a picture and share it with others. I also strarted using this new skill in our business for taking photos for real estate companies, property managers, and staff photos.

I have been doing web design for over 10 years now, and the industry is always moving forward losing those who do not keep up with the times or newest web invention. I am a member of IWA and I am always taking short courses or refreshers to keep up with the latest software and techniques, making sure my clients get my best work. Enough about me though, on to work!