iMedia Ventures has relocated to beautiful Sackville, New Brunswick. We create inexpensive, ‘easy to edit yourself’ websites so you don’t have to hire a webmaster to make costly ongoing changes.

We can also get you more traffic by helping you get on the first pages of Google searches using little known techniques. Works great especially for local businesses. We can show you how to get more traffic, and collect leads by writing articles, newsletters and using social media like Facebook and Twitter.

Please contact us to discuss your needs.

Before you pay thousands of dollars to hire someone to design a new website for you please consider this: nowadays you can inexpensively set up your own website with one of the beautiful themes available these days thanks to Wordpress software which is free. Plus you can make your own changes anytime you want because with Wordpress it’s easy to edit your pages online with no technical skills whatsoever. Plus you get a free blog to with it if you want that on your website. Because most of us aren’t technically savvy I’m making a limited time offer to get your website site installed for free. All you need to do is:

• Get a domain name (or use an existing one)
• Sign up or a web hosting plan via HostGator or GoDaddy

I just need the login info to either HostGator or GoDaddy. Go to the contact page and send me:
-the transaction id for your purchase of hostgator web hosting plan
-the username and password to login into your hostgator account (to install wordpress and upload plugin)
-the username password to login into your domain account (to point domain at your webhost servers)

Want to use a different web host or domain registrar? Send me a note and we’ll talk!
Already have a web hosting plan and/or domain name? I can install Wordpress, and any theme you choose for $100. After that you’ll just need to add your content and configure your site which is easy! If you need help adding content or other setup I also also offer website consulting services.

When the Internet was fairly new, entrepreneurs would throw up a website that provided some contact info. Then they might add some information about their services, rates, clients, etc. That helped to reduce the number of questions that customers would ask. Instead you could send them to your website. So it was basically an online brochure

Today a website is much more important even for ‘offline’ businesses (typical brick and mortar businesses). Customers search for local businesses using Google and other search engines, much more than yellow pages these days. Will they find you?

Google and other search engines use the content on your website to determine when to send people to you. When people tell me ‘I want to be on the first page of Google’, I often ask them ‘Ok, but for what keyword phrases?’ You need to spend some time discovering the keywords that people are typing in to search for your business. And then put these keywords in your content which doesn’t always happen naturally.

For example if you are in the document serving business, do people type in ‘process servers’, ‘document server’, ”affidavit or ‘I need a restraining order’?

Getting found on Google is much more than just putting up a website and submitting your site to them. Google uses a series of criteria to determine how to rank your site. It also uses ‘backlinks’ which are links that other sites have that point to your site. These can be considered ‘votes’ for your site, and the more popular the other site is that links to you, the better you will be ranked as well. You can get links yourself by posting articles that contain your link to EzineArticles.com for example.

To set up an inexpensive website that you can easily maintain yourself, as well as building email lists, shopping carts or membership sites, please see our internet consulting services.

Sometimes you want to get access to your Wordpress content (blog posts, pages, categories, etc) from external sources. for example if you want to use a different front end such as Flash, or edit your posts from different software (such as the Flock Browser).

Wordpress allows you to do this using Wordpress XML-RPC which are remote function calls using XML. If you are using Action Script (say via Flex) there is a as3 xml-rpc library you can use to make this simpler. As noted in my previous post, the library requires a small tweak or you can download my recompiled as3 xml-rpc library file. You need to put this in the libs directory in your project.

A typical call to Wordpress might be: makeCall(“metaWeblog.getRecentPosts”,[_blogid,_user,_password,count]). After doing some research the blog id isn’t used by a non-MU Wordpress website so I just put ‘1′ in there.

Here’s another good tutorial on using XML-RPC with Flex. You can get more information on what is XML-RPC.

To set up an inexpensive website that you can easily maintain yourself, as well as building email lists, shopping carts or membership sites, please see our internet consulting services.