Craig’s Year in Review

Is there anything development and SEO wise that Trademark can’t do? I’ve been here at TM for over one year now, and some of the things that I’ve seen us produce for the web are simply amazing.  From interactive maps, to our very own CMS (Content Management System). Here’s a great example, http://www.poam.net .  We’ve built sites big and small, and come across many “unique” customer requests to fill a lifetime.  But, every single request is met with a solution that the customer is happy and satisfied with.  Need a site for a community with hundreds of different shops and districts in it that can be managed from the backend? We’ve done it! Need a site that sells over 900 products, each one being customizable? Again, we’ve done it! Need to drive traffic to your site to up your sales? We’ve done it! Or do you simply need a redesign of an old outdated site? Once again, something we’ve done many times before.

Before joining the TM team, I was a graphic designer merely playing around with the internet, unaware of the full capabilities of coding, SEO, online email campaigns, and e-commerce. I would play around on the net, designing pieces here and there, nothing serious.   Since joining TM though, I’ve learned an enormous amount about hand coding sites, SEO, and how to properly market websites.  I’ve been given the opportunity to work on sites that sell thousands of dollars worth of products a day (www.heartlandsteaks.com , www.dealersupply.com ), something I could not have imagined doing.  I’ve also been assigned the task of designing sites from start to finish, doing the original design all the way through to the full launch (ex: www.kagealan.com, .www.macombbankruptcyattorney.com ). No templates, straight hand coded, the right way! The TM way!

If you don’t know much about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), let me tell you it’s an enormous market and part of the web, and not something that can be done easily, or in a few weeks.  I personally wasn’t too interested in SEO or how it worked before joining TM. I was more concerned with how sites looked and felt.  But SEO, done the right way, can work wonders and be pleasing to look at.  It’s something we pride ourselves on!  Take this very site for instance, in only a few short months we climbed the google ladder to be one of the top rankings for “Michigan web companies” (now if that’s not a good enough example of what we can do, I don’t know what is), plus, it looks nice, wouldn’t you agree!?  Want to get your site closer to that illustrious number one ranking on google? Contact us today and let us see what we can do for you.

Just some of things I’ve learned over the last year:
•    Some PHP
•    Some CSS
•    Basic SEO
•    Database import/export
•    Blog install and skinning
•    Forum install and skinning

Things I hope to learn in the upcoming year:
•    More in depth SEO
•    Javascript (tough one)
•    How do deal with database issues
•    How to deal with server issues
•    How to install and skin a “store”

I might not be on the same level as some of our other developers here, but I hope to be one day.

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