Barry Pavel’s Blog
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The value of Blog
As part of my job description with Omni Advertising, I am in charge of writing a blog for their main website, OmniAutomotiveAdvertising.com. It was my suggestion that we start the blog as a strategy to increase our presence on the internet, ramp up our google rankings...
Is Your Site Accessible?
Last night I attended the Adobe Charlotte Users Group meeting. Guest speaker, Christian N. Abad of Accessible Computing, Inc., gave an animated presentation on the topic of web site accessibility. Accessibility, in this case, refers to how accessible your website is...
Advertise Your Business!
Remember the old addage "You got to spend money to make money"? Well this is just as true today as it ever was. We all know that times are tough and people are holding on to their money a little more than before. What this means to you, as a business owner, is that...
Dang Good Graphics
I am very happy to announce the official formation of Dang! Good Graphics LLC. After a long period of procrastinating, researching how to incorporate, more procrastinating... I finally decided the time had come. When I began researching how to incorporate I was a...
The Smart Alecks Returning?
For those of you who have seen my portfolio you already know about my association with The Smart Alecks. This 22 minute animated cartoon was a collaborative effort led by my friend Tom Alexander. His idea for the story revolved around a rag tag group of misfits led by...
Increase Your Sites Ranking
One of the ways to increase your sites rankings is to, a) have a blog on your site and, b) get the blog listed in a blog directory like Technorati. If you are curious about how your site ranks with the billions of other websites on the WWW, check out WebsiteGrader....
To Flash Or Not To Flash
Should you design your site in Flash? This has been an area of controversy ever since the first flash based websites hit the internet back in the mid '90s. When I first started using Flash 2 back in 1997 it was basically used as an animation tool. Sites like GaboCorp,...
Shopping Cart Options
During the past week I have had about four inquiries about adding shopping carts to websites. Now I know that in the past I have talked to some web designers who all said that shopping carts were a pain to deal with, so I was somewhat hesitant to dive into shopping...
New site design
As you probably noticed, the new BarryPavel.com website design has now gone live!! I feel that this redesign is more streamlined than the previous version. I decided to go with the black background to bring more attention to any of the graphics on the page....