Here are two great FREE Apps that you can access from any browser (including your smart phone):

• TaDa Lists
• Remember the Milk

2.  Ever wish you could share files between 2 computers instantly?  Even when the computers have different owners?

Dropbox is a nifty little program that let’s you store files in a special folder and then access them from any other computer that also has Dropbox installed.  Need a file from your office when you’re on the road or at home?  Not a problem.  Want to share files with a client without having to email them back and forth?  Simply share a new folder with them.  Whatever you put in, they get instantly and vice-versa.

3.  Ready to Start an Email or Survey outreach to your clients or prospects?

Sign up for a trial and Get a FREE for LIFE account from Ratepoint.

4.  Create Audio Recordings

Audio Acrobat.com

5.  Need online Project Management software that’s FREE for one account?

Give Basecamp a try!

Abbey Products (Design, hosting, maintenance)
Advanced ICU Care (Design)
Allase Laser ID Services (Design)
Amant’s Floor Care (Design, hosting)
Archiving Valuable Assets (Design)
Arkansas Golf Course Superintendent’s Association (Design, maintenance, hosting)
Cardinal Brands (Maintenance)
Cindy’s Zoo (Design)
Concrete Anchor Manufacturer’s Association (Design, hosting, maintenance)
Convert-a-Tub (Design, maintenance)
Cottleville-Weldon Spring Chamber of Commerce (Design, hosting)
Dalco Home Remodeling (Design, hosting, maintenance)
Daughters of Charity (Design,  hosting)
Doc Logan, DDS (Design, hosting, maintenance)
Double Eagle Ranch (design, maintenance)
Finish Solutions Marketing (Design, hosting, maintenance)
Foundation for Children with Cancer (maintenance)
Furtwengler and Associates (maintenance)
Gateway Construction (Design, hosting, maintenance)
Golf Body Performance Center (Design, hosting, maintenance)
Hendren Andrae Law Firm (Design, maintenance)
HiCo Balloons (maintenance)
Humidifall (Design)
Innovative Connections (Joomla Content Development)
Lakeside Exteriors (Design, hosting, maintenance)
Loop Conference Center (Design)
Maria Rodgers O’Rourke (Design, hosting)
Maternal Child and Family Health Coalition (Design, maintenance)
Metal Finishing Equipment Co. (Design, hosting, maintenance)
Mississippi Valley Golf Course Superintendent’s Association (Design, hosting)
Mozingo Music (Design, video, content management system)
O’Fallon Cosmetic Dentist (Design)
Powder Actuated Tool Manufacturer’s Institute (Design, hosting, maintenance)
Quality Mailboxes (Design, eCommerce)
Peistrup Paper (Design)
Sisters of the Good Shepherd (Design, hosting, maintenance)
St. Charles City/County Library Foundation (Design)
Standing Partnership (client webs, hosting, maintenance)
Store Mor Equipment (Design, Hosting, Maintenance)
Sullivan Dental Lab (Design, Hosting, Maintenance)
Testicular Cancer.org (maintenance, hosting)
U.S. Soybean Industry (design)
Vincentian Service Corps (design, hosting)
Voice Engineering (design, maintenance)
Wentzville Fire Protection District (Design)
Work Performance Center, The (Design, hosting, maintenance)
Wright City FPD (Design, hosting)

Good Code Bad Code? Who decides?

Since code is a language that’s read by computers, shouldn’t it have rules just like spoken languages do? That’s where compliance and a group called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) come in. They created a list of dos and don’ts for writing web pages.

As a company, what are you doing to make sure the rules are followed?

In addition to the w3c guidelines, there’s some additional steps that I’ve taken to ensure websites I create are future-proof or “sustainable”. I have done three things:

1. Eliminated the “table” and “img” tags.

   Even though these tags are considered valid, tables hide their content from Google and screen readers for the blind. img tags are simply images, they have no business acting as layout elements since it would require modifying the original HTML to change a site’s look.

2. Refrain from using “image swap” javascript.

   This is code that exchanges one image for another when you mouse over it. The same effect can be achieved with one background image and three lines of CSS.

3. Organized css.

   Since many of our sites use wordpress, there is no need to hard-code (link to files directly in code) CSS files into a page. Instead, we use the “@import” technique for including additional CSS files

Planning and design

In this stage, information is gathered about the kind of site you’re looking for, what sort of functionality it is going to have, and from that we create a design. The design we create can be based on your original site, a whole new creation, or even a template. We adjust the level of customization to fit your needs rather than sell you one big package that leaves you locked down, we want you to have the freedom to enhance your site as much as you like.

Development

After you have decided on a look for your site, it’s time to get down to business. We’re experts when it comes to this stuff! Rather than throw a bunch of components into a program that spits out a site, our sites are hand-coded and built to be quickly changed via stylesheets. This gives us the ability to make standards-compliant sites that look beautiful in every browser.

Content and Layout

In this last stage, we fill your new site in with your own content. You get to choose where the content comes from and how much you have. We have three ways to populate content on your site. 1. migrating content from your old site 2. Have one of our professional content writers do the work for you. 3. You can even add it yourself!
In addition to the options we provide for getting content onto the site we also offer two levels of content creation. The first is a basic level which consists of text and images placed neatly on the site. and the second is called “tailored content” Where each page’s content is thought out with custom graphics and better focus.

Our multi-platform web hosting is affordable and dependable and has more space and bandwidth than 80% of our customers will need in a lifetime — 10 GB of storage and 60 GB of transfer.

It comes with plenty of extras and is fast to set up. Plus, you don’t have to do the work — we do! Just give us your files and we’ll take care of everything for you, including your email setups.

Your hosting can be up and running in no time!

• Convenience – Our browser-based Control Panel makes setting up and managing your site easy.
• Speed – Your pages come up quickly for your visitors.
• Reliability – 99.9% uptime.
• Security – Your files and client information are secure with us.
• Scalability – You can easily upgrade your account as you grow.
• Information – Web traffic and statistics reporting – you get critical statistics about your visitors and the success of your site through a powerful, graphical stats tool.

Here are some of the free tools available:

• Free SSL
• Free Search Engine Priming
• Detailed Hit Stats
• Web based email
• Email autoresponders
• Individual Static IP address
• Anonymous FTP
• Your own Control Panel
• MySQL and PHP
• great customer support.

When you are ready to get started, please review the Hosting Agreement and then give us a call at 636.922.7112.

Spencer Web Design, Inc.
636.922.7112
237 Bentwood Lane
St. Peters, MO 63376

Our mailing address is:  P.O. Box 664, St. Peters, MO 63376

General Information ” info@spencerwebdesign.com”
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Thank you for taking the time to look at our website. We look forward to hearing from you. You may also use the form below to contact us with any questions you might have:

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Graphic Design

Davis Creative, Cathy Davis
Breo Media, Jennifer Danker

Copywriters

Bridget Reddick, a Word Nerd for a New Media World
Maria Rodgers O’Rourke, MRO Communications

Shopping Cart Software

Zen Cart – Still our favorite open source software for shopping cart development.

ACT Consulting/Training

Lori Feldman, the Database Diva Nobody but nobody does ACT like Lori Feldman. If you need to know more, stop by the monthly ACT user group meetings.

Lisa Nichols “Motivating the Teen Spirit”

I had an opportunity to experience Lisa Nichols up close and personal in a two day seminar, or should I say encounter? in Oceanside this past September, and I can tell you I have never experienced anything like it. After seeing the profound shifts in the adults who shared this experience with me, I became personally motivated to provide this life-changing experience for a teenager in need who might otherwise never realize their own value and potential.

Lisa has served 35,000 teens and helped to prevent 800 suicides through her inspirational program “Motivating the Teen Spirit”. You cannot imagine the power that can be unleashed in the human spirit when someone is shown how to see through the lies (you don’t deserve it…you’re not smart enough…) and touch their inner strength. Lisa makes a difference to these kids in ways that is hard for us to imagine, although the numbers speak for themselves. Hundreds of kids who went through this program went back to school and thousands reconnected with their families. And we personally met and spoke with a young lady who, although thriving today, had already written her suicide note when she reached out to Lisa.

eWomenNetwork Foundation

The eWomenNetwork Foundation helps to support the financial and emotional health of women and children. As a member of eWomenNetwork, I support the foundation with donations at every meeting I attend as well as special donations on a larger scale at least once a year. I also extend special discounts to eWomenNetwork members I meet in person. For more information about the Foundation, please visit the eWomenNetworkFoundation website.

Non-profit Discounts

Spencer Web Design is pleased to offer a 15% discount to help defray expenses for qualified Non Profit organizations.

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