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Website Launch – Impact Learning

Alphabetix is proud to announce the launch of the Impact Learning Center website! Impact Learning Center is the creation of Evelyn MacLean, who is a long-time advocate of children and a licensed teacher in the State of Oregon. As she puts it, Impact Learning Center is based on the belief that every child has individual [...]

1000 Dollar Shopping Spree

Alphabetix is a proud sponsor of 2009 Try Local First $1000 Shopping Spree giveaway. Try Local First cares a great deal about our local economy and want it to prosper in good times and bad. That is why they are giving away a $1000 shopping spree to one lucky winner. It’s their very own stimulus [...]

BTS Essay Contest

Alphabetix is a proud sponsor of the 2009 Try Local First Back to School Essay Contest. As a sponsor of the essay contest, we donated a Columbia sports backpack full of school supplies such as pens, markers, pencils, paper and other must haves for the first day back to school. The backpack and the supplies [...]

Website Launch – Dover Church

Dover Community Church is a church located in the Dover area just south of Sandy Oregon. The church is open to anyone who wishes to join their congregation. The church offers bible study groups as well as normal Sunday worship services. There is construction on a new bell tower for the main entrance of the [...]

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Is Fast Flip the Future of Journalism?

Google just launched the news reader Fast Flip. Articles will load faster because they are stripped of ads and other things that slow down how quickly they load. Will this have an impact on the way the news is written?

Similar Words are Easily Confused

There are a lot of words that sound the same, but are spelled differently. Even the New York Times gets it wrong.

Website Launch – Try Local First V3

Try Local First Upgrades Try Local First continues to be a coalition of local business organizations in East Multnomah County, Oregon, formed to encourage local area residents and businesses to purchase locally whenever possible. We are pleased to continue our relationship with Try Local First, and are proud to announce the following new features to [...]

Joomla Plugin – Facebook Fan Box

A recently released Joomla plug-in called Facebook Fan Box is the next great way to link one of your favorite social networking sites, Facebook, with your already existing site.

Treat Your Visitors Well

It is important to remember that visitors to your page are like browsers in a store.  They will respond to the way that they are treated.  That’s why many high-end retailers have sales associates greet you within five seconds.  They know that a smile and a “how may I help you?” can go a long [...]

Consider Web Content Before Design

Companies considering setting up a new website need to start the process by thinking about what they want their web site to say in order to achieve maximum online exposure. Some web design firms tend to design awful websites because they are obsessed with getting attention through images and not through words. When people come [...]

5 Essential Web Design Features

A website is the cornerstone to the marketing, branding and communications of your business. It is a vital link between you and your prospects and customers. That is why it behooves your business to create a website that fuels and not impedes the growth of your business. Too many entrepreneurs and small business owners sabotage [...]

Website Launch – Try Local First

Try Local First TryLocalFirst.org is a coalition of local business organizations in East Multnomah County, Oregon, formed to encourage local area residents and businesses to purchase locally whenever possible. The organization got off the ground in 2008 thanks to Mark Garber from the Outlook and Bess Wills from Gresham Ford in an effort to lead [...]

Website Launch – Oral Hull

Oral Hull Foundation for the Blind Since 1962, the Oral Hull Foundation for the Blind has been dedicated to providing a special place for persons with blindness or low vision and their friends to get away for a day, week-end or week for an exceptional experience. They provide year-round recreational, social, and informal educational opportunities [...]

Google Web Design Guidelines

Google Webmaster Guidelines: It is important for you to adhere to Google’s guidelines which will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you elect not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay close attention to the “Quality Guidelines,” which will outline some of the “illegal” practices that [...]