18 Feb

Do You Need a Trademark?

A trademark or trade mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or services from those of other entities. A trademark is designated by the following symbols:

™ (for an unregistered trade mark, that is, a mark used to promote or brand goods) ℠ (for an unregistered service mark, that is, a mark used to promote or brand services) ® (for a registered trademark)

A trademark is typically a name, word, phrase, logo, symbol, design, image, or a combination of these elements.   There is also a range of non-conventional trademarks comprising marks which do not fall into these standard categories, such as those based on color, smell, or sound. The owner of a registered trademark may commence legal proceedings for trademark infringement to prevent unauthorized use of that trademark. However, registration is not required. The owner of a common …

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10 Jan

Hilo Web Design at the 2012 Hawaii Social Media Summit

This year’s 3rd annual Hawaii Social Media Summit was held at the Neal Blaisdell Center on Oahu October 17, 2012.  This event was part of the Technology Expo for Business and Consumers.

The Social Media Summit shared the best practices and insights on developing and implementing large-scale social marketing and advertising strategy. This year’s event focused on the latest in social media trends, with speaking sessions by several of the nation’s most talented social media experts, including two of the social media gurus from Forbes’ list of the Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, Mike O’Neil, and Lori Ruff.

Hilo Web Design’s own writer, blogger, and eMarketer Taryn got to attend the summit and soaked in one action packed day of all things social media.  She attended seminars such as: How to Lose a Fan in 10 days by Trey Takahashi from the Hawaii Social Media Training Institute, Twitter 201 by Susan Tenby, and Social Media Campaigning by Asiana Ponciano the Social Media Marketing Manager from Hawaiian Airlines.

This was a great place to learn, network, and compare notes with some of the social media leaders in Hawaii.  Hilo …

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01 Jan

WordPress Web Hosting

We have recently setup new hosting servers in a super secret off-site location.  We put these hosting servers together with one thing in mind, “to meet the ever growing demands of the WordPress website.”

We will be migrating our existing clients to our new hosting servers over the course of the next few months.  So, if you notice that your website is performing BETTER then ever then you will know why!

Contact us for more information on this process.  There should be no downtime during this transition period.  Please don’t hesitate to call our support line at anytime with questions at:  (808) 933-4004

Even the Data Center is AWESOME!!!

Data Center Specifications (for the dorks):

Power Feeds: Twelve, featuring N+2 transformers Water Reserve: 80,000-gallon water tank Power Redundancy: 2N and N+1 with 12 UPS systems and 10 diesel generators HVAC Cooling: 4500-ton cooling tower capacity with N+1 redundancy Surveillance: Multiple 360-degree cameras with 10x zoom. 30-day tape storage Physical Security: On-site 24/7/365. Biometric hand scan required SAS 70 Cert:Type II Certification

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18 Sep

WordPress Tutorial: Basic Photo Upload and Edit

Posting a Photo to your website. Everyone likes to see pictures, its always good to add pictures to help put some imagery in your blog.  This tutorial covers adding, deleting, and replacing images.  WordPress is very smart, your WordPress website will keep all the photos you have uploaded in a media library.  You are able to access that media library every time you try to place a picture into a page or post.  WordPress also keeps a gallery a pictures in every page or post.  So, if you accidentally delete a picture, it is an easy fix!  Have fun with your website! We encourage our clients to post to their blog, that’s why we have created these helpful WordPress tutorials to better familiarize yourself with WordPress.  We hope you enjoy them and we always appreciate comments.

 

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17 Sep

WordPress Tutorial: Basic Page Edit

Aloha! Welcome to another WordPress Tutorial.  This Tutorial is short, clear and to the point!  WordPress is easy if you take it one step at a time.  So we are going back to the roots!  This Tutorial covers a basic navigation of editing a page on you website.  WordPress is a great tool for those who would like to manage you own website.

You asked for it so we go it!  We have shortened our Tutorials to focus on more specific and basic editing.  We have also had some question about Audio, and that has been address. We will continue to progress and give you better quality and a great message!  We would love to hear you have to say, go ahead and comment on this post or on the video. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

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17 Aug

SEO & Social Media

GOOD CONTENT IS THE KEY:

The interactive exchanges that people have with each other, with the brand, and online are happening now in the social media channel.  The search engines are placing more importance on how these conversations influence their views on brands and how websites should rank.

This means that a brand can no longer rely on a well-optimized website to earn Google’s attention. A brand must be a conversationalist, going where the people are and engaging them in discussion, and by doing that earn a wonderful reputation.

Smart brands are doing this by fully leveraging each social channels particular properties.

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16 Aug

WordPress Tutorial: Upload a PDF for Download on your site

We have yet another WordPress Tutorial for you guys!

We have been taking the most common questions and troubles that our clients come across with wordpress and turn it into a simple, short tutorial!  It is very important to us that our clients understand how make changes and update their own website!  Take the time to view our wordpress tutorials and you will soon be a wordpress guru and see some amazing results with your website!  Thank you for your time and we’d love to hear your feed back, comments and questions..just post a comment to this website and we will get back to you asap! Enjoy!

 

 

Step by Step images!

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30 Jul

Facebook Tip: Posting a Photo from Album and Resizing

 

Sometimes when you add photos to your album the images tend to show up with a handful of thumbnails that are already in album. I stumbled across this tip while trying to highlight a single photo on my timeline, and still keep that photo neat and organized in the album that it belongs in.

 Step 1:

Add the photo to the album..

Step 2:

Select the photo and click share..post/share it to your timeline..

Step 3:

Click the edit/remove button, and go down to Reposition photo..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 4:

You can then grab image and position up or down to view a nice image and keep the photo organized within your  albums

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You have then created a nice large photo displayed …

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