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Code Web Design Portfolio

Mountain America Jerky Redesign Launched

Mountain America Jerky Redesign I’m happy to announce that today the new Mountain America Jerky website launched. Check out the site and try some of their crazy-good Garlic Black Pepper Beef Jerky. One perk of working with a nice client who sells beef jerky is getting samples of the product! Seriously, though, it’s the best […]

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WordPress

iContact Widget for WordPress

iContact for WordPress Download the widget from WordPress.org This widget helps you install an iContact signup form on WordPress without any hassle. Don’t use iContact? You need it for this widget to work, so test drive it with a 15 day free trial.

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Uncategorized

Denver Real Estate Gets a New Player – Who is Working for Buyers Only

Denver’s Top-Ranked SEO is now your Denver real estate advocate If I were a Denver real estate webmaster, I’d be concerned. Knox Richards of EBASpace.com is a leading SEO in Denver, and has been #1 in Denver SEO for years. Knox knows how to create powerful partnerships and work with others to achieve anything. So when […]

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Web Development WordPress

How to Tell if Your WordPress Widget is Active

Ever wonder if your widget is activated on an external site? Here’s how to find out. When you register a sidebar widget, you use code like this: register_sidebar_widget(array(‘Name of Widget’, ‘class-of-widget’), ‘widget_function’); If you want to check whether the widget is activated (you may want to for a variety of reasons), you can do it […]

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Constant Contact

Constant Contact Forms Generator – Create a Form for any Website or Blogger.com Blog

I am proud to announce the Constant Contact Form Generator Check it out now » Katz Web Design has been developing this project during the past few months, on weekends and late at night. The time has come to launch a new forms generator for Constant Contact users. Why use the Constant Contact form generator? […]

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Blogging Tutorial

Integrate Blogger Into your PHP Website using Includes

PHP includes for Blogger Before writing this post, I looked online to see if others have written about this same topic. This might as well be Michael Gray’s “Integrating Blogger Into Your Website: Part II”, which he never wrote — though he did write Part I. Step 1: Switch Blogger files to PHP First, you […]

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Google SEO Tutorial

How to Create a Google Profile and Manage your Online Reputation

As seen on 7News – View the video on TheDenverChannel.com Why Google Profiles matter to you Receive monthly tips like this one on how to get online exposure Receive monthly emailed tips As featured on the May 20th 7News program featuring Zack Katz of Katz Web Design, Google Profiles are a great way to be […]

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Tutorial WordPress

How to Create a Custom RSS Feed in WordPress in 12 Lines of Code

Custom RSS feed me, Seymour Recently I wanted to create a feed for Google base that used a bunch of custom fields that I had created. It wasn’t easy to find what I was looking for online, so I thought I’d show how simple it is to make a custom feed & feed template in WordPress.

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Interspire WordPress

Incorporate WordPress with Interspire Shopping Cart

I’m going to elaborate on this further (and about Interspire in general), but for those of you who want to make WordPress functions available throughout your shopping cart, here’s how: Before the closing ?> in the init.php file, add the following code: require(realpath(ISC_BASE_PATH).’/blog-directory/wp-blog-header.php’);, where /blog-directory/ is your WP installation. If you installed it in the root directory, […]

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Domains

Buying Domains at Auction

Domain auctions are a rush — and a great opportunity Earlier this month, I was shopping around for some domain names, and I found out that BoulderSEO.net and BoulderSEO.org were available, and that BoulderSEO.com was expiring shortly and going up for auction. I had never backordered a domain before, but for $18.95, it was worth […]

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SEO

An Inside Look: 4 Step SEO for a Denver Solar Company

4 Steps to optimize a website — a Denver solar case study This is an inside look into my process for optimizing a pre-existing website. This will cover lots of the aspects of the SEO I’ve done, but not all of it…These steps are often my first round of optimization on a site. Once I do these four vital […]

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Web Design Portfolio Web Development

Career-Magic.com Launched

An updated website for a Denver career coach CAREERMagic came to Katz Web Design to give their website some fresh blood. When Career-Magic.com was last updated, I was in high school.  Yes, it’s true — and I said it. The website not only needed updating visually, but there were a lot of parts of the […]

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Interspire Web Development

Recover your password from Interspire Shopping Cart

I develop my websites locally, so sending Lost Password emails never works. When I forget what my password is, it’s quite the hassle. I’m developing an Interspire Shopping Cart website, and lo and behold, I lost the password. Here’s how to recover your password from Interspire Shopping Cart:

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KWS SEO

You need Denver SEO if you want to rank well in Google.

Can a Denver business afford to rank poorly in search engines? Katz Web Design is an SEO company in Denver. This is our blog.  Need help with your website’s search presence? Call 970-882-1477 for a free consultation. Denver SEO Case study: Ignite Matchmaking

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Blogging

How to embed a private video on your blog

Embed videos that won’t be indexed by Google or viewable by the public. You might want to create a video and put it on your website, but you don’t want the rest of the world to find it via search engines or YouTube. You may have a blog, and you want to give a few […]

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SEO

SEO It! Bookmarklet – Improves Search Results in iPhone & Safari

Format your search results for SEO Works great for SEO searches on the iPhone! It’s frustrating doing searches with SEO in mind, then having Google add SearchWiki, personalized results, and other localizations that mess up what you wanted: accurate results. Here’s the solution: The SEO It! Bookmarklet. I do lots of searching as an SEO. […]

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Personal Plugins

VerticalResponse Widget for WordPress

Don’t have VerticalResponse? Try it out for free. This is a portal page for bug reports, recommendations, or feedback on the VerticalResponse Newsletter widget for WordPress.  Get the VR widget from WordPress.org Go to the widget’s page on WordPress.org to download the most recent version of the plugin. Bugs, feedback, suggestions: Leave feedback in the […]

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Design

New White House Website Launched!

The new White House website is beautiful. Until a more in-depth analysis of the website is available, here are some screenshots and images.  Read my White House website’s design predictions, and subscribe to my RSS feed to keep updated!

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For Clients SEO

SEO implications for updating your website

Will a website redesign hurt my rank? When I am working with a client that already has a website, one of the first questions I am asked is “How will redesigning my website affect my rank?” Here’s what to expect when launching your new website: Your website will take a hit in the SERPs for 20-30 […]