FDG Web | Web Design & Development | Everett & Seattle WA

Mesothelioma Keyword & Adsense

What is mesothelioma & why should you care? Well, mesothelioma is a type cancer that is often fatal and is usually caused in most cases by exposure to asbestos.

Why do you care about this on a Web Marketing or Adsense blog? Well, for one .. it is one of the highest paying keywords currently on the Google Adsense system.

Who pays for it? Law firms big or small for one. They are the same groups you see on late night television hawking their ads and promises of large settlements if you think you have been exposed. Most of these are not even licensed to practice in the state they are advertising with and if you read the fine print you see that they tell you that you will deal with one of their “associates” – typically a firm that is a part of their network in your area.

They, the people putting on these ads are essentially marketing firms.

The Mesothelioma keywords are more likely to be purchased by law firms doing direct work for their clients. This is not always the case – however if you click on a few of these ads – you can quickly tell if it is going to a law firm or some sort of intermediary surrogate website or business.

You see try an example of that here:

Custom Search

Apparently, botnets are now getting in on the action as well and whenever a user-computer get infected with a virus or bot – the user’s computer attempts to browse and emulate clicks or entice others to click through sites setup with just such content to generate clicks on the links. Some of these links generate a lot of money .. so now you know the financial incentive.

In the end – any search traffic you purchase in the form of keywords is only going to be as good as you have the ability to track conversions. If you have a shopping cart system, you can integrate conversion goals fairly easily and fairly cost effectively by adding Google Analyitcs and conversion tracking to your checkout success or receipt pages.

If you want to talk to one of our developers about that – just contact us here!

Custom Molds & Tooling for Aerospace, Marine and Transportation Industries

Today we are working with Janicki Industries – a leading supplier for custom molds, composite tooling, 5-axis milled patterns and other composites for marine, transportation, aerospace and alternative energy. Janicki industries produces aerospace molds, marine molds and transportation molds for a wide variety of industrial clients.

Janicki Industries specializes in producing large precision-milled patterns, molds, plugs and tooling for aerospace, marine and transportation applications. The company is known for supplying one-of-a-kind manufacturing tools for superyachts and fuselages, machines tools from a wide range of materials including foam, fiberglass, carbon fiber, steel, Invar, and Inconel for companies throughout the world.

In addition to being a superior selection for composite manufacturing and machining needs, Janicki Industries’ services include: a highly equipped metrology department with state-of-the-art equipment, rapid prototyping capabilities and advanced industrial design and aerospace design engineering groups.

Products & Services include:

• 5-Axis Milling & 5-Axis CNC Machining
• Composite Tooling
• Rapid Prototyping 
• Metrology Services
• Engineering Services

The company is building a new, 150,000 square-foot manufacturing facility to keep up with increased demand for its aerospace composite tooling.

Janicki engineers & tool designers are skilled at meeting your most complex tooling challenges. Whether you need a quick turnaround prototype or a complete production tooling system they will meet your needs on time and on budget. With over 25 years of aerospace tooling experience their engineering team uses CATIA V5 and Unigraphics NX3 software to solve the toughest product development and engineering challenges. They use Primavera scheduling software to manage a project’s schedule for manufacture. In addition to CATIA V5 and UG our Aerospace Design group can provide support work for stress analysis and finite element modeling.

I am the Number One in Google.

Basically that is what this post is all about. I am the number one in Google for this very term. It is not all that difficult to understand. You take some text that is unique, like this entry and you write about it. The exact phrase.

Number One In Google

I am you know. It does take work to get there, but I am proud to say I made it. all the way to #1. Now, I’m not sure exactly of what benefit this is to me, or anyone else of consequence – however it is #1. Not #3. Not #15. Not a “participant” ribbon.

Seattle Zen Cart Developers

FDG Web, Inc does a lot of custom zen cart development both in the Seattle area or nation-wide. We’ve deployed basic, stock Zen Cart shopping carts – all the way up to 100% custom Zen Cart deployments using custom applications hooked into the Zen Cart open source framework.

Here are a few recent examples:

• Invite Designer – Online Wedding Invitation Designer:  We created an AJAX-based “do-it-yourself” invitation designer application that allows their customers to choose invitation bases and customize the entire product in real-time. Customers can change fonts, colors backing, envelopments, sizes – essentially moving throughout the entire wedding invitation experience from save-the-date cards to the final envelope. The system allows customers to create and save custom invitations and it saves them to Zen Cart for checkout. The admin, can then reload the entire invitation into the editor to spot check all ofthe details, a very important feature when dealing with so personal a product.

  You can see a live example of the Online Wedding Invitation Builder here.

• Boojeebeads – Boojeebeads.com sells beaded lanyards in all shapes and sizes.We gutted Zen Cart’s checkout process to conform to a more modern, streamlined process with less steps. Basically it combines buy without an account with a navigationless checkout experience that reduces the cart adandonment rate.
• Discount MexicoTours.com – This Zen Cart deployment created a custom tour management and reservation system on top of the Zen cart shopping cart. Discounted Tours get entered into the admin, which essentially are coupled with time-share presentations that a user purchases (the tour) and gets it at a discount (with a voucher that gets automatically printed during checkout) and it gets scheduled.

  Additionally we develop custom modules for Zen Cart as well. we’ve done custom Zen Cart Payment Gateways. Zen Cart USAePay Integration, Zen Cart Destination-based Sales Tax , Zen Cart Google XML Sitemaps and other Zen Cart SEO techniques.

  About FDG Web: FDG Web, Inc are 100% local Seattle Zen Cart Developers. We do not outsource in any way and pretty much the same people answer the phone and get to kow your projects year after year. Give us a contact here to see how we can help.

Seattle Facebook Developers

FDG Web are Seattle Facebook Developers. We do develop simple and complex applications for Facebook and other Social Networking Platforms. We’re not an application publisher ourselves; it’s just not what we do. We build applications for our clients who then in turn publish and market the applications that go on to greater glory and profit.

Yes, I know … we should probably develop one for ourselves .. but then you have to market, support, sell and monitize these things and we’d have to stop being the complexly awesome service-based company that we are.

And, it is really hard to give up such a title.

All awesomeness and non-disclosure agreements aside – we’re working on three applications right now and have consulted, built in part or in whole entire applications that have in fact been mentioned in Forbes & Newsweek.

Awesome? I dare say so.

We work primarily with PHP / MYSQL, which is our prefered trechnology when we get to choose. API’s, platform calls .. we do it all. Contact us here for more information.

Business Proposal Templates

The new release contains contract and proposal solutions all types of businesses. This kit of business proposal templates contains over 2400 pages of proposal and contract content.

You can find proposal samples and an occasional freelance contract on the Internet. Good luck on finding anything of quality or actual legal structure. Most of it is just guesswork documents that people post and offer little or no legal protection. (many of which are very basic and/or questionable quality). There is no other proposal and contract management system that compares in compatibility, International support, volume of materials and documents, quality of material and price than these business proposal templates.

What you get:

• Over 1500 pages of business proposal and contract template material:
• Over 400 proposal templates pre-designed for you needs
• Each template is a potential section or chapter in your proposal – mix and match as needed.
• 75 different complete bid-wining sample proposals with “real-life” content
• Over 1000 pages of completed sample content – easy for you to modify
• It also includes cover letters, inquiries and other type of follow-up letters
• It also includes general & specific work orders and general contracts
• It also includes multiple non-disclosure & other protection forms
• It also includes project & proposal development worksheets and other project documents
• It also includes our extensive proposal writing manual
• It also includes our government grant proposal manual

Proposal Kit saves you time and money and helps speed along the business side of your enterprise which is often so sorely neglected. We use Proposal Kit – so should you!

Destination-based Sales Tax – An update to Zen-Cart and Virtuemart builds.

Everyone should be well into their Q1 tax changes for destination-based sales tax.

Here in the great State of WA – the total number of records for Zip +4 to help you calculate your destination based sales tax has grown from around 50,000 such records to a whopping 104,000+ individual fields for the various tax zones. If you are not familiar with this requirement, as of July 2008 – WA State is now requiring any business who ships products within the State of Washington to collect sales tax based on the destination that the goods are being shipped to.

Usually, we are talking about a different of a fraction of a percent. E.g. the difference between one +4 zip and the other next door paying .02% more for a sub-tax like the RTA (Regional Transit Authority). However, without a way to automate the collection and reporting on such a burden – businesses face a near-impossible and expensive set of bookkeeping tasks to stay on the good side of the Department of Revenue.

Further, it is a far easier task to deal with if you can calculate the real-time sales-tax on the fly based on the shipping address and get the customer to “confirm” the shipping address right there in checkout.
Right now we’ve got a system that helps businesses with:

• OSCommerce Destination-based Sales Tax
• Zen-Cart Destination-based Sales Tax
• Virtuemart Destination-based Sales Tax

  The methodology for dealing with destination-based tax can be found here. It involves using both a real-time mapping API to determine their Zip +4 based on the address entered, then is uses the current 100,000+ tax record database available from Wa State Dept. of Revenue. The method is the same for any state using Destination-based Sales Tax – however BE AWARE that the tax data seems to be changing every quarter. Even worse, is that the formats have changed at least twice in the past year as well. Additional collumns, etc make it hard to use import scripts to standardize loading your data. All of our deployments now have a CSV upload utility to map the fields for you – but then again, we’re awesome. True story.

Seattle Skincare Services – Botox in Seattle

Madison Skincare and Laser Center provides skin health services, laser rejuvenation and dermatology services. They offer diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases and skin cancers as well as Seattle skin cancer surgery. They offer state of the art cosmetic services, including a full range of laser services, the Thermage non-surgical skin tightening, peels, Botox, Restylane, the new Aramis laser for acne treatment and prevention and Seattle aesthetician services.

Their cosmetic dermatology sessions provide cosmetic procedures to patients in a caring and professional environment. Services include several types of cosmetic procedures including Laser Services, Thermage for Skin Tightening, SilkPeel Microdermabrasion, Sculptra, removal of moles, Seattle Botox Injections, and Seattle Aesthetician Services.
You may also be interested in this skin care information and skin care resource website they provide to help you discover skincare treatment options and information available for different skin types. Of particular interest is their Guide to common Cosmetic Treatments.

Seattle Joomla Development

We’ve been doing a large number of custom Joomla development projects this year. Most of which seem to have a custom component that “normal” developers just do not know how to develop for them. In our Company, since we use all local, on-staff developers and designers – we have multiple people to work on our clients needs. There is rarely something our staff cannot solve when working together as a team. Here are a few recent project and how we worked with Joomla to bring about their solutions.

Skin Tour – Skin Health Tips & Care - We built a series of Flash Quizzes, each with a rather large system of branching paths that sorted users into one of ten different profiles and suggested treatments to the user. We also built an Interactive AntiAging Guide in Adobe Flex and tied its results into the User Profile system. Finally, a Joomla Video Blogging system was created with a tag cloud module and feeders.

The Quick Path – The Quick Path is a membership-based business website that offers wealth-creating and asset protection products. We built it around a core Joomla build with a custom, 4-tier affiliate program, virtuemart shopping cart and linked the affiliate program (JAM / JROX) to Joomla in a way that it creates a replicated website for each affiliate upon sign-up. Other features included: ACH integration, bulk pay for Affiliates via a Web Service and custom virtuemart reporting.

Fantagraphics, Inc -Fantagraphics is a custom Joomla build with a virtuemart shopping cart system. We created a special series of shipping tables, a destination-based sales tax system for virtuemart and a special “club discount” system for customers who want to purchase a discount club as a prduct.

If you want some local help from our Seattle Joomla Developers or even if you are located out of our area and want to talk via phone or email – contact us today!

Zen Cart & Oscommerce calculate sales tax by destination module.

After a very long development cycle, we now have custom modules for Zen-cart and Oscommerce that can calculate destination-based sales tax. Using a combination of address verification and data made available by your State you can become compliant in no time flat.

The modules calculate based on Zip +4 to break down the sales tax by zip code and the 4 digit code as well. If you tax rates change quarterly like our state, you can upload and parse the CSV file they make available to you in order to update the rates in bulk. For more information, contact us here.