Michael Arnold : Web Authoring

Michael Arnold

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Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Members Resource

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Sam Leftwich Events my housemate, special events manager - san francisco ballet, wedding planning, events coordinating, corporate events Guy Downing Art Restoration art restoration, art conservator, private gallery James Snidle Fine Arts art appraisals, art brokering, consignment, painter, private gallery

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Disclaimer There is no sponsored content of any kind on this site. The website development I do is entirely for friends, and unpaid. Listing your site If you have a website that is relevant to one of the lists on this site, please email me to tell me about it, preferably with a reciprocal link to this site. Sites I am most interested in are - Californian artists, with galleries of their own work. - Game programmers and artists personal web sites. - Game, Film and Special Effects companies in the bay area. - Concert series, classical music resources (and shops), dance resources - Horticulture, (particularly Bonsai and Roses) and landscape design sites I am more cautiously interested in - Venues for events and weddings - Florists, Designers, Caterers, Photographers - Society weddings and events ... but I am mainly interested in those I can verify the reputation of through Sams and my friends in the industry. Please be very clear of why we might know of you.

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Will present lists of sites I ended up accumulating while researching the sites I have been doing for friends. Web hosting We chose lunar pages (note: affiliated link) and have been very happy with them. All service requests have been responded to within 12 hours, their interface is easy to use, and the price/quantity ratio was one of the best around. They also have an affiliation scheme - which is well worth signing up for if you are doing multiple sites. Set up your first, and then refer yourself on for each additional site. For choosing the web host, the most useful site I found was WebhostingReviews.com. The first choice would have been infinology, (the promised storage and bandwidth is pretty amazing) except that they did not respond to enquiries ever - plus the phrase "Infinology is a clean web hosting service with good morals and values" gave a negative vibe about that particular company. Search engine submissions and info Courtesy of some research at shambles, I have been using submit express, which has lead to some very decent rankings at exactseek, aol, msn and yahoo. The single biggest lead was having my friend Taylor list me on his website Captain Cursor Creations, a page with a high Google page rank, which had me indexed on Google within two days! A site I do not recommend is MagicYellow.com. We have received close to 7 or 8 calls trying to convince us to register with them, to the point of the sales person becoming almost abusive to Guy and myself.

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