By Garrett Blanton posted on Friday, April 2, 2010 - (General)
Arthur & Associates is a client and community-focused real estate firm that is committed to the fulfillment of their clients' real estate goals. In need of some basic signage JVF Consulting designed a professional sign layout for directional A-Boards using their current branding. Approved by Arthur & Associates, JVF Consulting collaborated with SIGNCO, San Joaquin valley's premier source for signage located in Stockton, CA to create a set of three A-Boards to help market their residential listings.
The photo below shows off the completed A-Board project. JVF Consulting and Arthur & Associates are both very pleased with the finished product and look forward to using the signs at all of their open houses.
This A-Board display is just another approach Arthur & Associates uses in their persistent pursuit of excellence. Arthur & Associates services include commercial and residential brokerage, buyer and tenant representation, property management, consulting, and development. Dedicated to the highest level of integrity and expertise, Arthur & Associates experience spans over 30 years. To view a list of their current residential listings visit their website www.arthurassociates.com.
By Garrett Blanton posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 - (General)
Over the weekend I received an envelope in the mail that seemed to be an invoice for one of my domains. When I opened it up I found a bill for $65.00 from a company called Web Listings Inc., offering domain name submission to 20 established search engines, up to eight keyword/phrase listings, and a quarterly search engine position and ranking reports for 1 year.
As you can see in the images below, the intent here is to fool the reader into thinking that it is, in fact, an invoice that needs to be paid. Web Listings Inc. is sadly preying on unsuspecting domain owners in hopes they can get you to part with $65.00 of your hard earned money.
Web Listings Inc. states that they will submit your domain to 20 top search engines. Sorry to break it to you guys, there are only 3 top search engines! If you received one of these fake invoices, our advice is to just throw it in the trash, or if you have a fireplace, burn it! Web Listings Inc. uses dishonest tactics to try and catch unsuspecting people off guard. Their phony invoices are actually sign-up forms for a service that has absolutely no valid purpose for existing.
By Garrett Blanton posted on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - (General)
JVF Consulting believes in social networking and uses it as a tool to receive feedback from our customers. In order for us to share links with our Twitter followers and Facebook fans we use a web service tool called Bit.ly. Bit.ly is URL shortener which reduces the URL length and allows us to track the amount of clicks each link has received in order us to calculate our analytics and conversation rates. As of recently bit.ly has not been displaying the number of clicks in Firefox browsers on Windows computers. Apple computers running Firefox render the page just fine and the amount of clicks are visible.
With Firefox being the choice and default browser for JVF it makes us rather frustrated that bit.ly has not corrected this issue. In the screenshots below you can see the number of clicks is missing for each link. We have tested this several Windows machines running the latest Firefox 3.6 and we get the same results, Bi.ly does not work with Firefox!
By Garrett Blanton posted on Friday, February 26, 2010 - (General)
We’re going to admit something kind of geeky. JVF really likes favicons. They’re not only fun, but it’s a great way to make a website stand out and give it a creative edge. Favicons allow your visitors to create a visual connection with your site and act as great branding tool. When JVF deploys a custom website, we make sure every aspect is dialed in before we deploy it, that means the addition of a custom favicon.
Favicons are also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon. They’re a 16x16 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage. The favicon is displayed in your browser's address bar, bookmarks & favorites list, tabs and even desktop shortcuts to web pages. Below are some of the custom favicons we have created for our customers that we would like to share with you.
By Garrett Blanton posted on Monday, January 25, 2010 - (General)
CCSW-Certified is short for Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing, a certification program that provides third-party verification of a winery or vineyard’s adherence to a "process of continuous improvement" in the adoption and implementation of sustainable winegrowing practices.
CCSW-Certified wineries and vineyards must:
* Evaluate the sustainability of their operations on a scale of 1 to 4 in 227 criteria included in the Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Practices Self-Assessment Workbook annually * Meet a set of 58 prerequisites among the 227 Code criteria to be eligible for the program * Verify the accuracy of their scores and practices through a third-party auditor * Identify key areas in which they can improve the sustainability of their practices * Create and implement annual action plans to accomplish these improvements
Seventeen companies have received certification for some or all of their vineyard and winery operations after participating in a pilot program to test the certification requirements and offer feedback. The below links show the companies that are Certified Participants and each link provides details on which part of the operation was certified. For more information on how to become a Certified Participant please see the Certification Guidebook or contact info@sustainablewinegrowing.org.
Please download the Certification Guidebook for full details about the certification program including the certification requirements, pre-requisites, process to obtain certification, guidelines for communicating certification, and other information by visiting this link Certification Guidebook.
