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Apply to be a (paid) T&S intern: 241-1051

By Tim Priebe | April 12, 2010

T&S is looking for an additional programming intern to work 20 hours a week this summer. As is always the case with us, this is a paid internship. If you’re interested in joining our team here at T&S, just call our intern job hotline at 241-1051. Listen to the entire message, then leave the information…

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Twitter Resources

By Tim Priebe | March 3, 2010

Unlike some other social networking sites, Twitter does not have third party applications on their website. Instead, they allow those to be hosted on other websites, and let those tie directly into Twitter. Here are a few of those Twitter resources I’ve found useful TweetBeep.com If you are familiar with Google Alerts, then you’ll understand…

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Pros and Cons to new Facebook layout

By Tim Priebe | February 22, 2010

Over the last month or so, Facebook has been rolling out their redesigned site, with many key elements changing in an overall layout overhaul. I asked some of the T&S staff to let me know what they thought of the new Facebook layout, now that they’ve had some time to use it. Here are their…

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First page SEO guarantees are lies

By Tim Priebe | December 29, 2009

“Can you guarantee I can get on the first page of Google?” That’s a question I often get when discussing search engine optimization (aka SEO) with clients and potential clients. The short answer? Nope. Nobody can. Anyone who says they can is lying. Let me clarify a bit. Optimizing your website for search engines involved…

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Losing control is good

By Tim Priebe | December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas! During the past year, a lot of business owners come to me concerned about not having control over blog comments, social media comments, etc. What they don’t get is the fact that they don’t have control is what makes it more useful and genuine. In the video below, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian discusses…

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Google Names T&S Web Design a Favorite Place

By Tim Priebe | December 16, 2009

We’ve long thought of T&S as our favorite place. It looks like Google agrees with us. Well, Google users, anyway. Google recently sent us a small package with a decal and letter in it to let us know that we’ve been selected as a Favorite Place on Google. Apparently less than 1% of the businesses…

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Our CMS won an award!

By Tim Priebe | November 30, 2009

Okay, okay, it’s not technically our content management system, per se. But WordPress, the software that we install on 90% (or more) of our websites so clients can manage their own sites and blog if they so desire, recently won the 2009 Open Source CMS Award. WordPress started out as a blogging platform, and we…

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Tip for IE6 fixes in Dreamweaver

By Tim Priebe | November 27, 2009

If you’re a Dreamweaver user and you try to make sure your sites work in Internet Explorer 6, this tip is for you. When using Dreamweaver templates, one of the things that Dreamweaver does well is automatically correct paths for you. This is extremely helpful, because you don’t have to worry about what directory you’re…

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Diabetes Solutions’ new website

By Tim Priebe | November 23, 2009

As you probably know, this year we’ve been giving away one website a month to non-profits here in Oklahoma. Diabetes Solutions was the winner in February, and we launched their site awhile back. Well, we just received their newsletter in the mail the other day, and they were kind enough to include a thank you…

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Websitepalooza details are here

By Tim Priebe | October 17, 2009

Okay, here’s the scoop. We’ve been working on this for months. We’ve perfected a process that lets you get a website up and going for hundreds of dollars less than you normally could, and after spending just an hour with us here at T&S Web Design. $595 includes a basic ten page website, a domain…

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