Selecting a Web Designer to create website

Creating a website for your business can be almost as complex as creating the business itself. There are many different aspects to owning and operating a website. There’s website design, search engine optimization (where your website will rank on the major search engines), and Internet marketing, among other topics for which you probably don’t have much knowledge about, unless you’re involved significantly with a web-based company.
So what should you to do? Bring in a professional create website company, that’s what you should do.

But there are literally thousands of them out there. How are you supposed to know which web designer to choose? Below are five steps to assist you in picking your perfect web designer.

Establish Goals- Before you can pick your ideal website designer, you need to set goals for your site. Start by asking yourself a few questions: Why do you want a website? Will you be selling something online? Who are your html competitors and what do their websites look like? The best companies will have the utmost respect for your expectations and goals and work with you to achieve them.

Decide on What Type of html Website You Need/Want- If you want your new create website to use the fancy effects of Flash, but one of your potential website designer companies specializes in pure HTML sites, you’re looking at the wrong company and opening yourself up for a classic sales pitch. If you want a simple site with a shopping cart, let them know.

Designing a Site VS. html Building a Site-. Think of this like a car: One group of people designs the car, while a completely different crowd actually builds it. Designers know all of the inner workings, aerodynamics, etc. of the vehicle, while the builder puts each piece together as specified. Finding a company that can work through both aspects and more is an ideal scenario.

Compare Prices- While price is always a factor in html website design, you can’t forget to look at what you’re getting for the money. If you’re just in the market for a simple, one page site to cater to your current customers, it will obviously come with a smaller price tag than an all-out site designed for optimizing your future business. Of course, a guarantee will make you feel warm and fuzzy inside, as it’s a sign of a company’s confidence.

Review their Experience and Portfolio- Your final decision to hire a web design company should be what they have done for other clients. Their client’s names should be proudly displayed on their website for the whole world to see. You can simply visit a website of one of their proud list of clients and see for yourself if you like their work.

Teacher accused of giving 'liberal' quiz

BENNINGTON, Vermont -- A high school teacher is facing questions from administrators after giving a vocabulary quiz that included digs at President Bush and the extreme right.

Bret Chenkin, a social studies and English teacher at Mount Anthony Union High School, said he gave the quiz to his students several months ago. The quiz asked students to pick the proper words to complete sentences.

One example: "I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes." "Coherent" is the right answer.

Principal Sue Maguire said she hoped to speak to whomever complained about the quiz and any students who might be concerned. She said she also would talk with Chenkin. School Superintendent Wesley Knapp said he was taking the situation seriously.

"It's absolutely unacceptable," Knapp said. "They (teachers) don't have a license to hold forth on a particular standpoint."

Chenkin, 36, a teacher for seven years, said he isn't shy about sharing his liberal views with students as a way of prompting debate, but said the quizzes are being taken out of context.

"The kids know it's hyperbolic, so-to-speak," he said. "They know it's tongue in cheek." But he said he would change his teaching methods if some are concerned.

"I'll put in both sides," he said. "Especially if it's going to cause a lot of grief."

The school is in Bennington, a community of about 16,500 in the southwest corner of the state..

Mario Dorizas

Castro criticizes Cuban players who leave for majors

HAVANA -- President Fidel Castro criticized Cuban baseball players who have left the country for multimillion-dollar contracts in the major leagues, saying the island always finds better players to replace them.

During a five-hour appearance on state television Wednesday, Castro remarked on those players "who cannot resist the millions of the major leagues" and acknowledged that baseball "is the sport in which we have been beaten the most" when it comes to defections.

Still, the 79-year-old leader insisted Cuban baseball has always survived the losses.

"When one leaves, another 10 better players emerge," he said.

Mario Dorizas

What a load of crap!

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The atheist who's spent years trying to ban recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools said he'll file a new lawsuit this week.Michael Newdow plans to ask a federal court to order removal of the national motto "In God We Trust" from U.S. coins and currency. He said it violates the religious rights of atheists who belong to his "First Amendment Church of True Science."The church's "three suggestions" are "question, be honest and do what's right." Newdow said it wouldn't be right to take up a collection when the money says "In God We Trust."Last year, the Supreme Court dismissed Newdow's lawsuit over the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance because he doesn't have custody of his daughter, in whose name the lawsuit was filed.Newdow has resurrected that case by filing an identical lawsuit on behalf of two families.

Mario Dorizas

Funny Lego Story

PORTLAND, Oregon -- Agents had to use a 20-foot truck to cart away the evidence from a suspect's house -- mountains of Lego bricks.

William Swanberg, 40, of Reno, Nevada, is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the colorful plastic building blocks.

Swanberg was indicted by a grand jury in Hillsboro, a Portland suburb, which charged him with stealing Lego sets from Target stores.

Target estimates Swanberg stole up to $200,000 worth of the brick sets pilfered from their stores in Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California. The Legos were resold on the Internet, officials said.

Attempts to reach Swanberg at a county jail, where he was being held on $250,000 bail, were unsuccessful. It was not known if he had retained an attorney.

Swanberg is accused of switching the bar codes on Lego boxes, replacing an expensive one with a cheaper label, said Detective Troy Dolyniuk, a member of the Washington County fraud and identity theft enforcement team.

Target officials contacted police after noticing the same pattern at their stores in the five western states. A Target security guard stopped Swanberg at a Portland-area store November 17, after he bought 10 boxes of the Star Wars Millennium Falcon set.

In his parked car, detectives found 56 of the Star Wars sets, valued at $99 each, as well as 27 other Lego sets. In a laptop found inside Swanberg's car, investigators also found the addresses of numerous Target stores in the Portland area, their locations carefully plotted on a mapping software.

Records of the Lego collector's Web site, Bricklink.Com, show that Swanberg has sold nearly $600,000 worth of Legos since 2002, said Dolyniuk.

Lego's Danish founder Ole Kirk Christiansen named the famous bricks in 1934 by fusing two Danish words, "leg" and "godt" meaning "play well."

Children across the world spend 5 billion hours every year playing with Lego bricks, available in 90 different colors, according to the company's Web site.

Mario Dorizas