Goldsboro Web Development

The Swamp Report

Michael L Wells — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:55:59 +0000

Over the past month we, and staff have been extremely busy on projects for our clients. During this time we have not updated any of our company websites and we do apologize for this. We try to be as punctual as possible with updates about the company and the latest happenings. However in the past month we have been working more than 18 (20+ hour) projects. This has occupied every sip of spare resources we have had available for updating websites and company profiles. Though we love to see the business, we do hate keeping our viewers in the dark as well.

We hope to at least be making a regular news post once per two weeks in the future.

MyOVA

Michael L Wells — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:54:26 +0000

Slim, functional, community, and multi-media rich was the description we were given to start this monster project. After more than 5 months of 20+ hours per week development, we finally bring this website to a close and to a live beta. MyOVA (see below) is a site that allows young talented artists to get their talent “heard” and allows producers and any potential buyers of the talent to recruit them. The site features an ad-based business model with some fees for premium features such as to post content to the online store.

In order to allow MyOVA to accomplish their mission, we have provided them a social networking site, with video, audio, and photo uploads per member of the site, to a very easy-to-use, smooth front-end system that allows for seamless navigation in getting their talent heard! MyOVA’s site programming supports more than 10TB of multi-media storage, more than 100GB bandwidh, and the ability to steam all media directly to the viewers using the open source Flowplayer.

MyOVA is a new start-up talent organization from Goldsboro, North Carolina, run by the one, Lawrence Roberts, also of Goldsboro, North Carolina.

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Happy Father’s Day!

Michael L Wells — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:27:44 +0000

MLW & Associates, would like to wish all fathers around the world a Happy Father’s Day. In today’s day and age, it is all but too common for fathers to abandon a family; however it is those that stay, become life-long fathers and participate in showing our newer generations what it is to have the father figure in the family. Again to all our Dad’s, HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

Google: A Peeping Tom?

Michael L Wells — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:45:48 +0000

On June 12th, 2010, Christopher Dawson reported on ZD-Net that Google had many law-suits piling up over a very serious privacy violation. What Google had done was about criminally equivalent as a “Peeping Tom”. Google uses their mobile street-cars to snap pictures around your area so you can use their “street view” on Google Maps. However what Google didn’t tell you is that they were taking a little bit longer if you had an unsecured wireless network because they hooked up to your network and started recording everything you did on it from your personal websites, bank sites, etc. There is no limit to what information Google potentially has on any individual at any point in time now.

So now there are many people whom have never consented to Google’s privacy policy that Google has exploited without their knowledge, and the pile of lawsuits, as Christopher reports, is getting thicker! No matter what is going on, one thing is for sure, Google has done some peeping into unsuspecting house-holds, the question is, what happens now?

Empire Hosting

Michael L Wells — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:07:01 +0000

When I began my forum it was only supposed to be small. Meant for a clan I was leading in a web game to communicate better. A public side to it grew quickly tho and I started to see potential in it. I started looking for different ways to increase traffic to it.

One day I ran across a site called VRAUL. It was brand new at the time and I signed up for it. I began talking to the administrator of it Michael Wells(of MLW & Associates) and he suggested I start a blog. He helped me get it set up and helped me tweak the theme to match closer to my forum. Once I made my first post he showed me just how fast the information hit the search engines.

I do not know exactly how much of my traffic I owe to him and the blog he helped me with.However I do know it is significantly more than I would have had I not ran across VRAUL and met Michael.

Thanks to him, VRAUL and MLW & Associates(which owns VRAUL) I learned a great deal about some of the newer techniques to get my site “out there”. So I write this testimonial for my thanks to him and his company MLW & Associates.

Chris C. – Admin/Owner of

http://empireofshadows.com

http://empirehostings.com

Activities Ireland

Michael L Wells — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:53:06 +0000

www.ActivitiesIreland.ie
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Michael, I would like to thank you for all the time, support and much needed information you gave me during the course of my site development. Given this was my first website, I am delighted I put my business your way as I don’t believe I would’ve met anyone else that showed such patience towards me, given my limited knowledge in IT and websites.

Initially I was apprehensive about placing my business with an American Company given the time difference, but I can honestly say Michael works 24/7 and is always on hand, even though I’m based in Ireland. His quick responses to my never ending queries puts my mind totally at ease. He guided me through every step of the site development with ease and professionalism, with the end product totally to my satisfaction.

When I thought the site was completed, I was amazed and still am at how Michael remains in contact with updates on my site, in relation to upgrading, search engine results (he got me to No1 on Yahoo within a fortnight!) and his continuous work to keep my site at the top of the search engines.

I would have no hesitation recommending Michael and his company to anyone that may be wishing to develop a new website or upgrade/change an existing one. He really is one in a million..

Thanks again Michael..

Nessa McCall
Managing Director
Activities Ireland

Blaze in Goldsboro

Michael L Wells — Fri, 07 May 2010 09:06:50 +0000

At about 9:45PM est a 911 call was made from “Short Stop” on highway 11 (behind Seymour Johnson Air Force Base) that the Hard Ware store adjacent to them was demonstrating “flamage”. At about 9:58PM fire-fighters arrived to a scene of 40-50 foot flames towering above the building as well as exploding propane tanks and other explosive materials commonly found inside hardware stores. The fire was extinguished at about 11:45PM.

Super CAPTCHA

Michael L Wells — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:48:59 +0000

Super CAPTCHA was one of the first pieces of software we developed under the General Public License. Since we developed it, it ran across the internet like wild-fire as everyone running WordPress blogs knew they were vulnerable to one thing — Spam. It really isn’t very fun to login to your blog every day and spend two hours sifting through spam, so we developed this piece of software and figured that it would be a show of low morale character to sell the product being there were so many people whom really needed the product. So we published it for the public and today, over 110,000 WEBSITES WORLD-WIDE USE IT.

This simple “plugin” forces those registering or logging into a WordPress website to first have to answer a question based on an image with words written on it. This piece of software is revolutionary because it was the first piece of CAPTCHA on the internet to start the trend of using random armaments to the image to keep the spam bots from “pre-programing” image readers to scan the image for the answer, automatically. This software actually changes, at random, several aspects of the image, from the font type, font color, and right down to the tilt and angles the fonts are rendered at. In fact the software INTENTIONALLY places some fonts half-way off the image so the “human reasoning engine” must prevail in order to correctly answer the question. Sometimes people just don’t get it, and we got it, so, we made it even easier for humans by adding an audio download that verbally reads the question to you!

Here are a few of the sites using our software:

“Gee, thats a lot! Now how do I know your code is actually in and being used in those sites?”

In order for someone to use the code, we stipulated that they must provide in the footer of the site credits to the software, you should see “Powered by Super-CAPTCHA” at the bottom of each website with a link back to our web-page.

Quick Sites™

Michael L Wells — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:00:44 +0000

Goldsboro Web Development is now offering a new service, QuickSites™! This new innovated method of delivering web development to the end-user is one of a kind in the world, giving you the option to “try” before you “buy” model featuring an instant delivery from checkout.

HOW IT WORKS
QuickSites™ is already up and running the live sites. All you have to do is browse through them, find the one you like, and add it to your cart through CataBlog (our parent company’s shopping cart system). Once you purchase the site, it is taken down and cannot be re-ordered, you are instantly sent the admin username and password for the website (to change to your liking) and allowed to customize all of the back-end features such as Site Title and Name, Site Description, and start adding your own content and uploading your own images.

EASY AS 1, 2, 3
No, really, it is that easy. We’ll show you:

Browse through the sites (click “Live View” on an image you like to really test it out)
Tab back to CataBlog, and click “Add to cart” and fill out the site Title and Description
Pay for the site, and LOGIN!

I have never seen another system on the net that is this easy to get a website up and going that is professional, standards compliant, and already search engine optimized. If you find one, let me know!

FREE 6 MONTHS HOSTING
All sites will always come with FREE unlimited hosting; that means you get a 100Mbit connection to the server, and we do not monitor your bandwidth or disk space, use as much as you like! After six months you pay only $35.00/yr for your site, which includes support and hosting services. How cost effective is that?

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We are on Twitter!

Michael L Wells — Sat, 01 May 2010 09:10:03 +0000

We have created a new Twitter account so you can follow us for latest news updates. Twitter is excellent for getting live news updates on the go and being able to respond and comment to those postings while abroad.