Even though we are a relatively new organization, formed in late 2006, our organization has already had a tremendous amount of success in exonerating the wrongfully convicted.  In early 2008 we worked in cooperation with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office to secure the release of James Woodard, a man who had been convicted of a murder he did not commit.  James was cleared by the use of DNA evidence, and he became the longest serving inmate in Texas history to be exonerated and proven innocent.  In 2009, more success came our way with the exoneration of Timothy Cole, a young man who died in prison serving time for a rape committed by someone else.  Cole became the first person to receive a posthumous exoneration, and his story led to the passage of two state laws, one of which dramatically increased the compensation received by exonerees once they are released from incarceration.

Our organization is excited to be working with Chakery Design on the creation of a new website, which we hope will raise awareness for our cause and generate support for those who have lost their freedom at the hands of injustice.

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Innocence Project Of Texas Selects Chakery Design to Work On New Website

If you are a business and would like to know what you would have to do in order to be able to sell online it’s pretty simple. First you would need to have a domain name for your business which is will cost from $10 – $25. Than you will need a hosting account which will run about $10 – $30 per month. Next your going to need someone to design your website. This is a very important segment of the process, and I would suggest doing a local search for your area such as “dallas web design” or if you feel comfortable working with a web designer anywhere in the country simply do a search for “website design” You want to make sure that you get someone familiar with shopping carts and e-commerce as well as search engine optimization or seo. This is very key as you want to make sure that once your site is built that people will be able to find it.

It is very important for you to understand that you should be working on marketing yourself from using Twitter, Facebook, and any other sites that you can use to help market your site. I would suggest setting up a blog depending on your business. Discuss this with your web designer when you speak with him or her. Once you have worked with your developer and your site is ready to go public be patient as it is not always an instant thing. You can send out an email blast and pass out business cards but things do take time but it will take off.

You have made a big first step and you are on your way to becoming your own boss and congratulations to you for taking the risk that not everyone is prepared to take.

Malcom Chakery
Chakery Design, President

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Selling Online

All About Connection

One of the number one rules in business is that you need to connect with the people you’re doing business with in order to be successful. Many years ago this was easy, as the only way people could do business was in person. Now, however, it’s not as easy, as the internet has made it possible to purchase almost anything online, getting rid of the connection factor entirely, and making it difficult to not only get new clients, but to get repeat ones. Facebook can help you to connect with people in a way that was not possible online before.

Getting Started

In order to get started, you need to have a few Facebook accounts. You should have one for you and a fan page for your business. The page about you allows your readers to know exactly who you are and what you’re all about, and the fan page allows them to come together to discuss your company.

The fan page should be clean and uncluttered, but filled with useful information, including the company’s website address, your Facebook address, and other contact information. For the profile pictures you should include a logo that represents your business. It is also a good idea to put your company’s real location on the page as well. For the personal page, however, you can get a bit more relaxed. Include a photo of yourself on your page as well as some fun and interesting facts about you under the bio section.

Building

Now it’s time to build your site. Connecting with friends and clients is fairly easy, and experts say that one of the most important things that you can do on Facebook to keep your account relevant and interesting is to have an opinion. Don’t just sign up for an account and let it go stale. Instead, sign up for the account and be social! Get into discussions that are going on and make statements about not only your company but about yourself. This will allow you to connect with others, which is exactly the point of Facebook.

Have a creative day,

Malcom Chakery
President, Chakery Design LLC
Twitter: @chakery
Website Design | Search Engine Optimization | Logo Design

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Using Facebook for Social Marketing

The components of this acronym are the following:

(L) Linux – is the operating system. It has become very popular as an open license operating system. It is UNIX-like in structure, but does not contain any UNIX code since the UNIX operating system is not free software.

(A) Apache - is the Web server. It is an open license server and is credited with being the Web server that spawned the growth of the World Wide Web (WWW). It is the most popular Web host server used on the Internet.

(M) MySQL – is the database server. It is an open source database management system that uses SQL (structured query language) to create, modify, retrieve, and manipulate data in a database.

(P) PHP – is the programming language (sometimes PERL or Python is substituted for PHP). It is open source software. PHP stands for hypertext preprocessor. It was originally developed to create dynamic web pages.

All these software programs are open source which means they can be used free of charge.

When used in combination to create applications, these packages create a Web server infrastructure that has become very common on the Internet.

These programs were developed independently. Because they are free and they work so well together, they have become a popular combination for application development.

Now, when you see a web site host advertise “LAMP hosting” you will know what is being offered.

John V. W. Howe

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“LAMP” – What is It?

Well, twitter is a tool that lets you post brief updates about your everyday thoughts and activities to the Web via web browser, iPhones, Blackberry’s, Palm Pre, sure any wireless device will do..

Twitter, a tool that lets you post brief updates about your everyday thoughts and activities to the Web via web browser, cell phone, or IM. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.

Twitter was introduced two years back and today it is ranked one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide. This popularity of twitter says all about the exciting outlook of twitter. Twitter has rapidly become the hot tool for marketing and communications. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers for the same question…  What are you doing?

Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey in 2006, and after that Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. Twitter is sometimes described as the “SMS of the Internet’. But it is much more than a SMS. You can meet interesting people on twitter, can see their blogs etc. This can create an endless stream of conversation.

Twitter is a fun playing tool. You will experience many exciting things when you get to tweet with people on twitter. Twitter universe is full of excitement. Twitter is the third most used social network and you can also be a part of this social experiment online.

So if you are not a member of Twitter yet than what are you waiting for? Starts twitting along with the world. Be sure to follow me on twitter twitter.com/chakery and mention this article..

Have a creative day,

Malcom Chakery
President, Chakery Design LLC
Twitter: @chakery
Website Design | Search Engine Optimization | Logo Design

creativity. determination. success.

We are only successful when you succeed
Visit us online at http://www.chakery.com
Founder and President of Chakery Design, Malcom Chakery has extensive knowledge and experience in the workings of a web based business operation. Possessing great amounts of expertise in regard to marketing, web design and development, Malcom is extremely comfortable handling all details regarding the day-to-day operations as well as the sales and support of his many high profile clients. With a clear plan in place regarding operational procedures, all aspects of web design, marketing and promotional activities are managed and overseen by Malcom before they are completed. As a stickler for detail, Malcom believes in providing greater than expected support, superior customer service, and innovative programs, making sure to go above and beyond customer expectations.

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Stop Messaging Start Tweeting!

The Internet has quickly become the most effective form of marketing for your business. Nearly all businesses across the UK now have a piece of cyberspace to display their products and services. This is all well and good but just think about the competition that the Internet is going to bring to your business, so how will your website stand out from the rest?

The best way for your website/business to beat your competitors is through the correct use of search engine optimisation (SEO); this is what helps to determine where your website appears in the search engine results pages. The higher your site in the results pages the more likely people are to use your website; your site needs to be placed within the top 20 results as these are the sites that people will use as they are considered to be the most trusted. So how does search engine optimisation work?

The term search engine optimisation is a broad term and there are many ways that SEO can be applied to your website but the one that we are focusing on for the sake of this article is the re-design of your website.

Yes believe it or not the design of your website does impact where your website appears in the search engine results pages and it is not based on how ‘good’ the website looks. Search engines look at the design of your website to pick up aspects of text,; the more text based your website is with the relevant keywords that describe your business the more likely your site is to get picked up by the search engine spiders. So you could have the most amazing site with the greatest images but this doesn’t mean your site is going to perform better, in fact it probably means your site is going to perform worse.

In the design of your website you need a lot of text content and a lot of in links to your website as well as the pages of your website being indexed. As of these aspects will give your site the best possible chance of performing well within the search engine results pages.

If you already have a website but it isn’t doing too well and is failing to appear in the top places of the search engine results pages then a web site re-design is exactly what you need. In this re-design everything that is needed to be done to get your website performing better will be done; such as the following:

• A re-design will convey the appropriate image for your business to your customers

• It will make sure that the web page layout that is pleasing to the eye and is easy to navigate

• Will make sure that your website is viewable and compatible with all the different web browsers that your visitors may use

• It will mean that your website has been submitted to the various search engines for indexing

• A re-design will mean that your web pages are coded so that the search engines can easily understand your market and crawl through your websites code

A website re-design is a great way to allow your website to perform better in the search engine results pages. So to get your website out there to the global market that is available start your website re-design today.

Search Solutions are specialists in all forms of Search Engine Optimization and have extensive knowledge and experience in performing Website Re-Design, so get in touch today to find out more.

Helen Cox

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Re-Design Your Website With Search Engine Optimization in Mind

In today’s web world, online marketing and e-commerce is an integral part of any business strategy. Small businesses are less on capital and marketing funds. A website helps the small business to reach a greater customer circle and be known to clients worldwide. Also the customers can get an easy access to the services of the business. The investment on designing a website for small businesses is less. Hence, the web site will not be known to all the targeted viewers.

More and more small businesses are investing more on web marketing in order to increase the viewers to convert them into potential customers. Small business web designing is an easier process since the web pages required is lesser. The links to the pages are however very less. This results in the web site not appearing in the top results in a search page.

A small business web designing is done by various firms that are expert in the field. Since the amount invested into designing is less, the website contains lesser contents. The designers create simple looking pages with fewer contents. Precise articles regarding the business and its service is displayed in the web pages. The designers see to it that the most likely targeted keyword appears in the HTML title text. The keyword should also appear frequently in the HTML body text. This ensures the web page to be displayed to the viewers who are searching with the targeted keyword in mind. The next objective of small business web designing is to optimize the site. This can be done by search engine optimization technique which helps the website to appear higher in ranking in search results.

The above methods help the business to market itself to the targeted customers and also establish them in the desired market. But in order to design the right web site as mentioned previously, the owner of a small business has to invest considerably more on designing. Although an online marketing and e-commerce can provide an increment in customers, it does not necessarily contribute in complete success of the business.

James Copper is a writer for http://www.bigstrategies.co.uk

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Small Business Web Design

Let’s discuss ways to optimize your web site-

Content should be strong
Every search engine wants to give the best and most relevant results. That’s why they regularly review the sites and the content on them, in order to make sure that every search result is ranked according to its worth.  Therefore, the first thing you should focus on your website is its content. The content should be strong and relevant to the subject and keyword phrase used by the website.

Use HTML
This is a very important step in the search engine optimization but it is often by the web site developers. A valid HTML format of the web site is a very simple thing to do but it is an important in order to optimize your websites. It has been found that a site in a valid HTML format gets spidered much easily and widely.

Decide on good keyword phrases
Choosing a perfect keyword phrase can be a difficult task but it is very important for optimization of a website. You must try to come up with one keyword phrase for every page of your website. The phrase should be focusing on the content of that page and should be relevant to the content on it. Also, use that phrase in the title of that page as that will enable it to appear as a link in the search engine.

Use the key phrase wisely
A website developer should make sure that the keyword phrase is used enough times in the content of the page. The keyword phase should come at least twice in every five hundred words in order to make it visible to the search engines. But on the other hand, one should not even load a web page with the keyword phrase as it will look like that the website developers are trying to cheat the search engines in increasing its rank. So, use it carefully and wisely.

Don’t optimize the whole site with one keyword phrase
Sometimes, the website developers take the easy way out and optimize the entire site with just one keyword phrase. This is the wrong way to do it. In order to optimize your site successfully, you should try to come up with different keyword phrase for each separate page of the site. This will increase the rank of the website and will also bring more traffic to it.

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Ways to Optimize Your Web Site

The site that comes up first will get the most traffic. This makes it important for a website owner to get his site in the first few options of a search result. This is where the SEO can help us. SEO can help a site get better traffic by increasing its ranking on the search engines. SEO ranks a site on the basis of its relevance in connection to the popular keywords. It makes a website easy to read by the search engines as relevant to the search.

SEO also helps a website by targeting other types of searches engines also like industry specific, local and image search engines. In order to increase the market relevance of a site, SEO first analyzes the algorithms of searches and the common topics that people search for. A SEO operation involves everything that will make your site rank high in the search engines. This involves the presentation, coding, structure and troubleshooting of problems of the site. If not given attention, these things can stop the search engines index to spider a site completely.

But some sites also apply some not so good tactics like link farms and over-loading a site with irrelevant keywords in order to increase the rank of their website. This is called the Black hat SEO. This is a major problem for the search engines as it decreases their image by putting up spam or unnecessary sites on the primary pages of a search results. That is why search engines are always on the look out for such sites and ban them from their indices.

SEO as a term is also applied to the Search Engine Optimizers who are the professionals which carry out the search optimization projects for the companies. These are the professionals which work as an SEO consultant only or can also take part in the broader marketing program for the company. In order to perform a good search engine optimization operation for a site, a consultant may have to make some changes in the HTML code of the site. That is why, the SEO tactics are incorporated in the site at the time of its development and designing.

In today’s cut-throat competition, every site owner wants his site on the number one rank of every search engine. And this is where the SEO comes in to help them. But while doing the Search Engine Optimization on your site, you must remember to be careful about the content on your website also as it is very important to have good information on your site.

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SEO – What is SEO?

Use Good Keywords
This is probably the most effective way to make your web site SEO friendly as this is the first criteria to get a good SEO ranking. Therefore, you must find a good key phrase for every page on your website. Don’t optimize the entire site with one common key word or phrase as it may prevent the different type of data from different pages from coming up at the right time. For example, suppose that your website is on different types of textiles and in it you have given information about all types of textile and have also included the information about different countries which export them. Now, if suppose you just keep one key- phrase i.e. “Textiles of the world” for the entire site. Now, your website will only be visible for the people who want to find out about the different types of textiles. People, who want to know about the textile exporting countries, won’t be able to see the pages on your site giving that information. Therefore, you should keep a different keyword or phrase for every separate page.

Refresh the content frequently
If the content on your site is old and stale then you will lose the traffic on it. Therefore, you must keep refreshing the content on the web pages on regular basis. It has been observed that the web sites which have updated and add new content on regular basis are counted among the better and trustworthy sites by search engines and surfers both. Updating your content will also help your website get better reviews and the increase its reputation. A popular site among surfers automatically improves its ranking in the search engine indexes.

Your Content should be unique
If you want to rank high in the search engines then your website content should also be good. The content should always be unique and new. This is also important for getting repeated visits on your site as nobody will visit your page if the content on it is stolen from another and apparently much better site.

The phrase should not be too popular
The phrase that you want to choose for your web pages should be a popular one but not too popular as that can be counter productive for your website. It may seem like a good idea to choose an extremely popular keyword phrase for your website but you should remember that such keywords are extremely competitive. Therefore, you should choose a phrase that gives you a chance to compete and higher your rank.

Use the phrase in the title
The title of your website and every webpage is the most important. You must use your keyword phrase in the title to make it visible for the search engines. Also, this way the key phrase will appear in the address bar and the search engine will be able to show it as link.

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5 Tips to Design a SEO-Friendly Website