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If you are a local, drop in and meet Richmond net entrepreneurs, web designers, and network with folks interested in the internet and technology. Here’s a link to the meet up, sign up for free and stop by. I personally would like to meet some WordPress enthusiasts.

One of the best CSS designer offering free templates has a new home, visit Layoutica and you will see what I mean. David plans on offering among other things free CSS template layouts, premium and free WordPress themes. His sites also has wealth of information pertaining to web design.

As per David, Layoutica.com will deliver useful information for designers and web-developers alike. It will inform readers with fresh news about website templates and web design but also techniques in web-development. What are you waiting for, bookmark it!

CNN projects that Nevada will go to Hillary. I thought it would never come to this, but I must say this to get it off my chest. I rather have Bush run this country down the toilet than Hillary, I am not sure what I dislike about her, I guess everything. Anyone but Hillary please! Tell us who you would vote in the polls.

Why this sudden proclamation? Well, we have been in business for over a year now and we have had the pleasure of serving folks from across the globe, but ironically, none from Richmond VA, a.k.a ‘our backyard’ per say. The reason is simple, it’s a SEO thing.

If you opened Google and typed in “Web Design”, you will notice us on the very first page, yes, we do web design and we make it very obvious in almost every post of ours and each page. But we being in Richmond, VA is insignificant in the big picture, after all, we never really meet our clients in person, so why should our geographical …

Researchers say they have identified the chemical switch that controls the genetic mechanism regulating people’s internal body clocks. Coincidentally, President Hugo Chavez came up with an alternative way of regulating the internal body clocks of his citizens, i.e. by creating Venezuela’s own unique time zone by putting the clock back half-an-hour on a permanent basis and forcing the whole nation to rise early. Brilliant!

If you are a frequent visitor, you will notice that the site was rebooted over the weekend using a fabulous design by WP Designer.

For the sake of comparison, I have included an image (linked to demo) of the original theme Gluttony along with a screenshot of the current version.

Of course the design is more than just CSS hacks, we added numerous conditional statements to make the experience more user friendly. The design itself …

Just when the Web 2.0 market was getting crowded with poorly conceptualized ideas (saturation? remember the tech balloon burst of 2001); MC Hammer (yep, the baggy pant one) is launching his own portal that would host only dance videos. His competition, YouTube!

Al might think he “invented the internet“, but he sure failed to upgrade his WordPress CMS, which resulted in negative publicity for the best open CMS out there. His site was powered by version 2.0.4, which as Matt points out, was released a good 16 months ago, and even beats the version I was running a few weeks ago, with my own patch nonetheless. My excuse, I did not invent the Internet!

I recently made a guest post on wpSnap regarding best practices to improve SERPs. It’s a good reminder of how we can improve and grow organic traffic by following some rather simple steps.

Here’s an excerpt:

Many sites built on WordPress use free themes that are more or less visually appealing but seldom optimized to help your site grow. With thousands of free themes out there, you would think it will be easy to find a theme that will do it all without some manual intervention, but that is not the case..

More on wpSnap - Best WordPress …

Artur at WP Themes Gallery has compiled a list of 40 blogs relating to WordPress. The site also uses an algorithm to ranks each of these blogs partly based on Google PR, Alexa Traffic Rank and Technorati Authority Rank.

We are both pleased and flattered to find at least 2 blogs we are directly involved in (placed 13th and 24th) and one we helped design (placed 34th) listed in top 40. The list also includes many WP greats and friends of ours. This collection of blogs makes a great bookmark for current/relevant sites for WordPress news, views, and more. I encourage our readers to visit and bookmark the …