Natural disasters always cause us to reflect on mortality and the frailty of life - despite how big and powerful we might feel as a person compared to mother earth we're nothing.

The latest news of massive flash flooding in Portugal had me once again reflecting, the second report mentioned it was on a Portuguese island, though they didn't name the island but that got me concerned, and finally last night watching the CBC news I caught that it was in fact on the Island of Madeira, home of one of our longest running clients Tony De'Nobrega.

Sometimes in designing sites we find that the base font setup on a Point2 site is inadequate, whether the font size is too small, wrong family etc. for the most part we can accommodate these changes with a simple CSS style tag inserted into the template of the site.

It is important to note that while this is simple it only applies to common fonts  supported across standard browsers and platforms, to pull off using custom fonts on any website is much more complicated and with some fonts simply undesirable - if this is something you need it is best to employ a professional - specifically one versed in cross browser compatible font embedding.

While response is coming a lot slower than we thought in regards to this draw for free SEO/Design services we are very proud to announce that entry donations are up to $340 as of noon today - January 27, 2010.

 One thing we will note is that all donations we receive via PayPal are subjected to PayPals fee schedule - Kinash Digital Media will be kicking the amount of these fees as part of our part in this effort to assist those in need. This means that whether you donate $20 or $100 that amount is passed on in full.

Typically I prefer to write my own articles for your edification, but sometimes someone really hits the nail on the head and you just need to expose your audience to it. The following is an article I came across a little while ago that I think applies very well to my target audience.

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So how hard is it to ad video to your site, well by now most people are familiar with sites like YouTube, Vimeo etc that will host your videos for free. A chunk of those are familiar with the fact that those videos can be further embedded directly into their website by cutting and pasting a snippit of code but how do you get multiple video players like the one below into your site in a way thats simple and updates itself as you add new videos?

I just got off the phone with a Realtor, one who in the past year paid approx. $10,000 to a firm that promised top ranking for 3 prime regional search terms, 12 months later his site is ranked #14 for the least competitive of his targeted keywords and nowhere to be found for the other two, so go figure why he may be sceptical.

Our primary approach and belief is that SEO should always be first approached from an On Site basis, and what we mean by this is that the focus should be on the various elements that comprise the local page, ranging from domain name to site copy, images, code structure internal linking structure and more.