Blog Entries http://www.bohemiawebsites.com Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:23:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Should-I-Hire-a-Web-Designer-or-Web-Developer.html <br/>When someone goes looking for a website to be made, often one of 3 words comes to mind; web designer, web developer and webmaster. The term that probably has the most usage is 'web designer'. So, what is the difference between the 3? Typically, the web designer is the person who makes the design uses as HTML editor like Dreamweaver or carves out a Photoshop PSD file for conversion. The web designer is the style behind the project. The web developer on the other hand, is the person who takes th [...] kelchuk2@gmail.com Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/new-myblog-entry.html <br/><br/>Although there is a lot of hype and a lot of media about mobile devices used for web surfing, the stats don't seem to promising for mobile devices for general web surfing. In a nutshell, the phone, IPhone or Blackberry are good tools for some web apps; like Google maps, but when it comes to getting the general web experience, it just does not cut it. According to Google analytics, many websites receive significantly less than 1% traffic from a mobile device. <br /><br/><br /><br/>Is that enough tr [...] kelchuk2@gmail.com Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:59:04 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Sound-Capturing-With-Audacity.html <br/><p>Sound capturing is taking the sounds that are being played on your computer, and turing them into wav or mp3 files.&#160;</p><br/><br/><p>A simple and free method to capture sound and audio is to use the software Audacity. The downloads are free from Audacity's website. The downloads are straightforward. But, setting it up could be short and sweet or it could take a few hours. It will need to be custom configured so that sound will sound perfect when it is captured. To make an example of these pa [...] kelchuk2@gmail.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Viewing-Websites-in-Different-Monitors.html <br/><p>In recent years, the monitor size has grown and grown. Now, when you go to your local electronics shop you find monitors that look larger than big screen tvs.&#160;</p><br/><br/><p>Years ago, this would have been a nightmare to web designer / web developer. However, nowadays,&#160; browsers like Firefox 3.x and Internet Explorer 8 do a fantastic job at holding decent resolution when someone zooms in on the webpage. In Explorer, the commands are Page &gt;Zoom &gt;Pick a Setting and in Firefox View [...] kelchuk2@gmail.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/SEO-More-is-Better-More-is-Not-Always-Better.html <br/><p>Generally speaking, writing more words allows for more phrases to be picked up by the search engines. Often enough, these phrases can exist in the content without being listed in the title. However, keywords and phrases in the title will get better rankings than those that are nested in the content.&#160;</p><br/><br/><p>In a nutshell, more is not always better in the article itself, but more articles is always better. The simplest way to achieve this is to have a blog or a content management sys [...] kelchuk2@gmail.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Why-Should-I-Have-A-Blog.html <br/><br/><p>A blog is an invaluable resource for any website that is concerned with SEO. A blog is like writing freelance articles that will become titled, keyworded and indexed with search engines; especially the most popular one 'Google'. Unlike other menus and content management, a blog allows unrelated and related articles to be displayed in an order; such as the time they are made. For example, a blog for an autobody shop may have articles about car care, car maintenance, car painting, how to no [...] kelchuk2@gmail.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Custom-Content-Coding-in-Joomla-192.html <br/>Joomla has a number of various editors which can be used to create content for pages and modules. However, in most cases, they can arrange text, images and Flash to look precise. However, the editors are not the best choice for precise custom coding. For custom coding, an the extension Jumi can be used to create custom content in modules and articles. <br /><br/><br /><br/>With Jumi, custom content can be done with the various common coding scripts and languages; XHTML, CSS, PHP, CGIs and Javascrip [...] kelchuk2@gmail.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Generating-Revenue-On-Your-Website.html <br/><p>There are various methods to generate revenue on your website.</p><br/><p>1) Sell a product or service</p><br/><br/><p>2) Affiliate Advertising</p><br/><br/><p>Google Adsense</p><br/><p>A simple form of affiliate advertising is to use Google Adsense. With Google Adsense, you sign up with Google and allow spots on your web pages for Google ASdsense. Then, when someone clicks an adword, Google records the click and pays you a percentage. Affiliate ads are more profitable when the keywords are pricey. Pricey ke [...] kelchuk2@gmail.com Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Business-Card-Website.html <br/><br/><p>A Business card website is the fastest way to make your presence on the web. A typical business card website could consist of one splash page with a logo, text, images and contact information. In other words, it would look a basic homepage like many websites.</p><br/><p>Normally,business card websites are very fast to build because they have such limited content and do not link to other pages. These sites can be made very easily in any html editor or built in Photoshop and converted from a P [...] kelchuk2@gmail.com Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Creating-Custom-Drupal-Themes.html <br/><br/><p>The video below shows how to make a custom Drupal Template with Adobe Photoshop.</p><br/><br/><p>[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXlZHsdMlNs 770 300]</p> chukweb@shaw.ca Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Installing-a-Component-module-plugin-or-widget.html <br/><p>Every CMS has procedures for installing an add-on componenet. If installation problems arise it could be that an XML file is not provided or named properly, the zip file is too large or the zip file needs to be unzipped first before installing more zip files.</p><br/><br/><p>&#160;If the file is too large, it can be installed manually in some cases. For Joomla, you unzip the plugin, module, component or package of any combination and move it into a temporary directory. Then you install it from th [...] chukweb@shaw.ca Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Add-ons-for-Content-Management-Systems-167.html <br/><p>Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress have add-ons that can be used to create websites that will do specific functions; like add a directory, classified ads, and streaming audio. In Joomla, they are called components, modules and plugins. In Drupal, they are called modules. In Wordpress, they are widgets.</p><br/><br/><p>Here are some features that can be installed in Joomla,Wordpress and Drupal to create a custom need:</p><br/><p>* eCommerce Shops<br /><br/>* Directory systems<br /><br/>* Event calendars<br /><br/>* [...] chukweb@shaw.ca Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/PHP-ASP-ASP.NET-and-Joomla.html <br/><br/><p>You can read blogs, documentation and stats about the competing frameworks to determine which technologies to use, or, you can see what others are actually using.</p><br/><br/><p>The following images compare ASP, ASP.net, PHP and Joomla. These three comparisons show that although there is a decrease in PHP (which is what Joomla and Drupal are written with) there is an overall upward trend with Joomla compared to others which look as though they are slowly decreasing. Although not shown, Drupal [...] chukweb@shaw.ca Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Joomla-vs-Wordpress.html <br/><br/><p>Joomla and Wordpress are two php scripts that compete almost neck and neck. Below, are some stats to compare the usage of Joomla and Wordpress in the world, Canada and US.</p><br/><br/><p>World</p><br/><p><img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/images/blog/joomlavswordpress_world.jpg" />&#160;</p><br/><p>&#160;</p><br/><p>Canada</p><br/><p>&#160;<img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/images/blog/joomlavswordpress_can.jpg" /></p><br/><br/><p>United States</p><br/><p><img border [...] chukweb@shaw.ca Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Joomla-vs-Drupal.html <br/><p>The debate whether or not to use Joomla or Drupal goes on and on. However, popularity stats do speak for themselves. Here are a few examples of statistics from the world, Canada and the US.</p><br/><br/><p>World</p><br/><p><img border="0" src="http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/images/blog/joomlavsdrupalworld.jpg" alt="" />&#160;</p><br/><p>Canada</p><br/><p><img border="0" src="http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/images/blog/joomlavsdrupalcanada.jpg" alt="" /></p><br/><p>United States&#160;</p><br/><p><img border="0" s [...] chukweb@shaw.ca Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Do-It-Yourself-Websites-and-Website-Tips.html <br/><br/><p>Our concern for people's needs and a desire to help others has caused us to invest so much time providing&#160;information to anyone in the website design process. Our ebook, forum and do-it-yourself website services are direct results of these informative features.</p><br/><br/><p>This website will help anyone be able to start from the ground floor and work up from there. It covers the usage of word processing, digital photography, image editing, designing webpages, and much more.</p><br/><br/><p>Fo [...] chukweb@shaw.ca Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Vancouver-Web-Design-and-Web-Development.html <br/><br/><p>Bohemia Website Services Ltd takes it name from the following definitions:&#160;</p><br/><br/><p>Bohemia:</p><br/><br/><p>1) A community of persons with artistic or literary tastes who adopt manners and mores conspicuously different from those expected or approved of by the majority of society.</p><br/><br/><p>2) A group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style.</p><br/><br/><p>We have emerged as a company that partakes in Vancouv [...] chukweb@shaw.ca Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Choosing-the-Joomla-1.5-CMS.html <br/><br/><p>Joomla 1.5 was released on January 2008 and it has been used to build millions of sites. Now, it is at version 1.512 and still going strong. Joomla can be downloaded at joomla.org and installed on the hosted domain or a local Wamp or Xamp server. Wamp is a good tool to use for testing Joomla sites offline before they go live.</p><br/><br/><p>Joomla can be seen as the Windows of Content Management Systems. Other CMS may have positives like better administration control over content, but, Joomla [...] chukweb@shaw.ca Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Adding-Video-Into-Blogs-and-Forums.html <br/><br/><p>Adding video into blogs and forums can be done through various means; such as embedding local videos or adding Youtube videos.</p><br/><p>This sort of feature on a website can be used for so many uses; such as travel writers wanting to post tales and videos on the fly, a bounty hunter with new leads, a private eye tracking a cheater for divorce purposes, a writer with new blog entries with video readings,&#160; and any other use where video and text make a great union.</p><br/><br/><p>Adding Youtu [...] chukweb@shaw.ca Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Flash-Websites.html <br/><br/><p>Your Flash site can stand alone or it can be used in conjunction with a Content Management System so that you may include an assortment of bells and whistles at any time.</p> chukweb@shaw.ca Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:00:00 +0100