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Website Video Blogging Equipment and Tips

Ryan Gagajena — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:38:04 +0000

Video blogging is a great way to promote your online business services or products. Here are some tips on how to set your mobile phone using a connecting video and audio connector, lapel mic and tripod mount. For more tips on video blogging, visit us more often at mywebdesignsource.com

Triton Mixed Martial Arts Training Center

Ryan Gagajena — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:58:20 +0000

John Marsh, owner and founder of Triton Mixed Martial Arts Training Center located in Redondo Beach, California, came to My Web Design Source seeking to revamp his website. John wanted a site that is both family oriented and still keep that “MMA” theme with fitness and martial arts in mind. His gym is located at the Golds Gym in Redondo Beach which boasts some of the best fitness equipment and great location.

www.tritonmma.com

Features:

Joomla platform
Custom contact form
Content Management System ( CMS ) using Joomla
Custom graphic banners in flash
Graphics slide show – light box
Youtube.com video integration
Rotating instructor biography
CMS Calendar module
ecommerce function for Triton Products
Advertising modules that features his business advertising

You don’t have to be a professional fighter to train like one!

Here at Triton Mixed Martial Arts Training Center we believe it is in everyone’s best interest to have experience in the fighting arts – be it for self defense, competition or personal fitness. MMA training is an effective methodology in achieving these objectives and the resultant benefits are enormous. Challenge yourself like never before while building self-confidence.

Impose your will!

Ryan with John Marsh & Tim Knight

My Web Design Source services includes web design, graphic design, web development and search engine marketing consultation and optimization in the Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, El Segundo, Torrance, Carson, Gardena, Hawthorne, Lawndale, Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, San Pedro area of South Bay Los Angeles. If you looking for a local web designer / website designer in the Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, El Segundo, Torrance, Carson, Gardena, Hawthorne, Lawndale, Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, San Pedro area of South Bay Los Angeles, give us a call at 213-269-0918 or visit us at www.mywebdesignsource.com. Our office is located in Torrance, California.

Corporate Site With The Owner As The Brand, Austin Enterprises

Ryan Gagajena — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:21:27 +0000

Bill Austin came to us to build a corporate site for his established business in outsourcing manufacturing operations. His website focuses on branding his company with a professional website and introducing his other ventures. It was important for his clients to “trust” his services so with some testimonials and a new “photo shoot,” we created a site that makes his “persona” the main focus.

Features:

Joomla platform
Custom forms
Content Management System ( CMS ) using Joomla
Custom graphic banners in flash
Graphics slide show – light box
Product page details – Lighting Division ( set up for future expansion in products )

www.austincorp.net

Helping clients with their mock site & web concepts

Ryan Gagajena — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:10:38 +0000

Starting a new website from scratch can be a daunting tasks for our new clients. I recently came across this “FREE” online software ( no downloads required or flash ) that makes it easy for “non technical” computer user to easily create a “mock site” or web concepts so that we can make the web designer process easier and faster. New clients usually have an idea of what they want to include in their website but does not have a web tools to express those concepts other than in pencil and paper. Well here is the great resource, www.gomockingbird.com – “wireframes on the fly”

My Web Design Source TV

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:11:46 +0000

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Glad to be of service to our Clients for April 2009!

Ryan Gagajena — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:09:46 +0000

Here some of our client pictures for April 2009! We look forward in launching their websites soon!

10 Minute Presentation About My Web Design Source

Ryan Gagajena — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:33:29 +0000

Featured Websites, Functionalities, Marketing.

New clients often come with ideas and ask for new ideas. These are some of our past work that shows our capabilities in making websites!
Our philosophy is not just delivering websites but giving our clients the ability to easily manage their contents such as text, images and videos.

1. Flash – ecatalog

http://www.architectsorange.com/ecatalog/

2. Joomla, WordPress, Custom CMS – Content Management Systems

3. Ecommerce sites with CMS

Internet Age New Media – Vatican Agrees

Ryan Gagajena — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:43:58 +0000

How do we gain more exposure on the internet and help our online business?

The new digital age of the internet is changing how the world one step at a time at a fast pace. Pope Benedict and the Vatican has jumped into this new media. Now the Catholic Church has their own “YouTube” channel to reach their faithfuls all over the world and in different languages.

The businesses we meet have the same common question.

How do we gain more exposure on the internet and help our online business?

Well, one way is joining the new forms of internet media such as Youtube.com and Facebook.com

Here is our official My Web Design Source Channel. As you will see, we have also helped many of our clients advertise their services in Youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/user/mywebdesignsource

My Web Design Source YouTube Channel

Project Development Excitement & Business Networking.

Ryan Gagajena — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:23:16 +0000

NEW CLIENTS OF THE WEEK!

A new year arrived and so did new clients as they commit to their website goals in 2009. Congratulations to our new clients this week! I can feel the excitement in the air!

Foam Style Inc. - Specializing in foam molding for window trims, conices, window sills and columns.

Garo, owner of FoamStyle

Blue Skies Designs LLC – Specializing in large size shirts and sweaters. They also have a “State-of-the-Art” printing press and embroidery machines.

Joe, owner of Blue Skies Designs

Let’s Make Memories - 12 years of DJ/MC , photography and videography experience all bundled in one company that services from small parties to corporate events.

Sonoma Crisp - A highly reviewed and praised health food snack manufacturer, distributor and retailer to major food chains in the United States.

BUSINESS CONTACTS

We also did not stop there this week. My Web Design Source is a member of Business Networking International and so I reach out to other business owners and professionals to get to know them and their business. Our goal… to refer each other customers!

Meeting other business owners is a great way to form friendships and business relationships. Here are a few that I met this week and got to know their businesses background and services.

Julie Evidon ( www.jevidondesigns.com ) – Art Direction and Communications since 1999. Julie has extensive work in the health and beauty industry and specializes in art production of catalogs, billboard advertising, product packaging and a graphic designs of all sorts. Her portfolio was simply amazing! I’ll be using her soon to update our MWDS brochures and print advertising.

Jossette Murphy ( www.aboutspacestudios.com ) – About Space is about interior and architectural design. They are a personalized, highly professional and experienced design studio in El Segundo, CA dedicated to creating elegant and functional interiors. Jossette has 15 years of experience in her field and looking at her portfolio and what others have said about her, About Space is definitely in demand.

Jossette, owner of About Space Studios

Beth Damianakes ( www.aaa-calif.com ) – Membership and Insurance Specialist at AAA. Beth actually helped me in my membership at AAA and will be assisting me getting me better rates in my car insurance at AAA. Her extensive customer service earned her prestigious awards last year and with 9 years of experience at AAA, I will be going back and recommending my circle of friends and family.

Beth, So. Cal AAA

Sherry Marshall – Live, in person and my personal business coach! Sherry will be consulting with MWDS and will be helping us out in organizing our growing operations. Her years of experience in helping business owners such as myself will definitely give me insights in reaching MWDS’ and my business goals this year. My initial consultation with Sherry on this past Tuesday was awe inspiring and made me realize how much more I need to do to reach my 1, 5 and 10 year goals.

Sherry - Business Coach

Content Management System

Ryan Gagajena — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:00:10 +0000

Often, I find really cool articles regarding a subject that I need to explain to new clients. Here is a great article I find very informative and well written.

Do you need a Content Management System?

Within the last 3 months, many of our clients have been coming to us wanting to be able to update their own website. Some clients are sick of waiting for days or even weeks on their “web guy” to make updates to their website. Others make changes so frequently they’d just rather do it themselves than pay someone the hourly fees. Here are some things to things to think about when considering if your website needs a content management system or not.

What is a Website Content Management System?

A Content Management System (CMS) is a web-based program or application that allows you to create, edit and manage your website content. A web designer can create a custom design for you and then integrate it as a “theme” or “template” for the CMS being used. Most of the data or content for your website is stored in a database instead of flat files (multiple HTML files linked together). A CMS website is sometimes called a “dynamic website” because the data is being stored in a database and not using flat files.

With a CMS comes more advanced functionality than a flat file website. Some typical features include a news/blogging tool, contact forms, simple file/image uploading, user roles or permissions, photo galleries, etc.

How a Website Content Management System can help

With a Content Management System, you as a client can make updates to your own website without the need to call a “web guy”. Usually we get clients who ask for a CMS because they have finally become tired of their web guy taking way too long to make simple text changes to their website. Another positive is that the cost to maintain your website goes down since you are doing the regular content maintenance. Instead of paying a web guy an hourly fee for updates, you make the updates yourself and they get published immediately. With the right CMS and the proper instruction from your web developer, your CMS should be very simple to use and make updates.

Which Website Content Management System is best?

Each website has unique requirements so not every CMS is right for every project. You first need to analyze your needs and what is most important for your website. With those requirements, a web developer should be able to select the proper solution for you. In our experience, we have found the open source community to be a great fit for most of our clients. When certain website requirements are very specific to a client’s needs, we will implement a custom solution. However, we have found that WordPress seems to be the one solution we come back to time and time again. I’ll be adding another blog post in the near future about our experiences with WordPress and why we always seem to choose it as the best solution for our clients.

So do you need a Website Content Management System?

Here is what we always ask our prospective clients when they ask us about a CMS:

Are you planning on making updates more than once a month?
Do you ever have time sensitive updates that require immediate publishing?
Are you comfortable paying more upfront but saving money on hourly updates over time?

If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, than a CMS might be a great fit for you. If you only have a small, brochure type website with content that changes on a very infrequent basis then the additional cost to setup a CMS may not really be warranted.

Source: Derek Ashauer, AshWebStudio

Here is a great explanation as well from www.creativemediaweb.com