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Photoshelter CSS Drop Down Menu

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

This post highlights a CSS Only Drop Down Menu that was modified for Photoshelter from Superfish CSS Drop Down Menu for Joomla!. The reason to use a CSS only menu is that for security reasons Photoshelter (Photography Websites), does not allow scripting to be imported into their templates. This is why a CSS only menu solution is the best solution for Photoshelter customization. Not only does a CSS only drop down menu work with Photoshelter, but it is faster than other web menu methods, and all the while contributing excellent SEO to your website.

Here are some links to working examples:
CSS Only Drop Down Menu Code
Colorado Stock Photography
Stock Photography of Western Canada

Here is a working example of SuperFish for Joomla! menu:
The Best Colon Cleanse Ever Made! - Original Joomla! Superfish component customized with rounded corners

mfDockMenu fisheye effect Joomla!

Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Live example of mfDockMenu working with Joomla!
Judy Marie's Miracles of Health, Inc

While working on this website project I found a cool menu effect to highlight their products. The module is mfDockMenu, the difficult thing about using this module is that there are not any live examples of it working with Joomla! After tweaking and going through the comments a number of times to try different things I was finally able to get it to work and now have a working version of the script on a Joomla! installation co-existing with Front Page Slideshow.

If you have any questions on how to make it work please feel free to contact me via email.

Fort Collins Web Design - Tranquil Health Massage

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Fort Collins website redesign and search engine optimization for Tranquil Health Massage & Wellness Center
Loveland & Fort Collins Web Design

Our latest web project is a web re-design for local Fort Collins company Tranquil Health Massage & Wellness Center.

Their original website was done by Dex Media which was part of Tranquil Health’s yellow pages advertising package. Gayle Martinchick, owner of Tranquil Health Massage, contacted me because she wanted to cut some of her costs associated with her Dex Media website. By canceling her Dex Media website and having her newly redesigned website hosted with us she will save approximately $2000/year in hosting and search engine optimization costs. Not to mention that her re-design represents her business much more professionally than the dated design that Dex provided.

The results of our search engine optimization has been very much worth the investment. If you enter ‘Fort Collins Massage’ in google you will see that Tranquil Health Massage & Wellness Center is on the first page. This term is searched an average of 3600 times / month! Another key element to the SEO strategy is placing a listing on Google Local Business Center, Tranquil Health Massage receives over 700 impressions a month through this free service which has led to a multitude of actions by potential customers.