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Being a follower of the Internet and its technologies, I like to sit back and logically imagine where the technology will take us in a year, five years, and even twenty years down the road.   Here are some very likely possibilities that everyone should keep in mind when building your next website: Within Five Years Within five years, the Internet will be available in 90% of all new model cars and 100% of new phones.  In five years, land-line phones will likely cease to exist, or will be carried to your carrier over the Internet from a local station in your area.  But that is just  [...]

Once again, we have having our 2012 Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest!   Send us your pumpkin pictures for a chance to receive a FREE professional $2,000.00 valued website! The rules are simple. 1) The creation must be your own. 2) The tools to create the pumpkin must be accessible to anyone and humane. 3) The setting must be organic — you may not use a cardboard pumpkin; sorry. 4) You have until October 30, 2012 to enter! 5) Employees of MLW & Associates and Goldsboro Web Development cannot enter. Leave your pumpkin pictures in the comment area on Facebook to enter! Easy as  [...]

Greetings! We are aware that from October 27 until October 28, 2012 that our website was down due to a database error.  This error was caused by corrupted database cache which will happen from time to time.  We have completely resolved this situation and do not expect that it should occur any time soon. We would like to let everyone know that the system in which powers our main website is entirely separated from our billing system which safeguards customer information. We intentionally separate these two systems for enhanced security of our  [...]

Make no mistake, there are methods of web design that are ultimately out of date and we can’t stress enough that having a website that uses standards compliant code as well as an updated framework is a vital aspect to all businesses and online organizations. Lets look at what we are saying here. Organic Search Engine Results You may not believe it, but your placing or rank in the search engines is largely based upon the method in which your website is designed, developed, and coded. There are several elements to a website for styling it, but what many developers and designers forget is  [...]

We’ve been there: You are walking around town or at a business fair handing out business cards when someone asks, “Hey, whats your website’s URL?” or “Who’s your web designer or developer?”. You don’t have an answer because you are thinking, “Well, should we have one?” and “We haven’t gotten one because it is difficult to do” but muster the courage to say, “We don’t have one yet” watching the potential customer walk off. But in that moment there is a more dreaded feeling than looking a potential  [...]

In all my years, I have never been as perturbed by a president as I have been in the past few months.  And today, I am so perturbed that I’m actually going to let my clients know why in efforts to clear the air. “People that own businesses, they didn’t build that; someone else made that happen” You see, unlike some people, I keep my records, and can date them back to 2002, records that show that I, Michael Wells built my company from scratch, without grants, without start-up capitol, without loans, without ANYTHING but myself, my computer (that I earned), a hosting  [...]

You heard right, as of about 2am this morning, Goldsboro’s Verizon customers are in for a very pleasant surprise when they wake up to their tablets and phones saying 4G LTE instead of 3G or 1x! This has been a very long awaited process for the Goldsboro and Wayne County area, as for about the past three years, we have been hearing whispers of rumors that we were getting 4G service about the same times we started noticing some very big towers being built around the county. Today it comes to fruition as everyone on a modern tablet or phone can now enjoy download speeds in excess of 10  [...]

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