Custom Facebook Landing Pages
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve been having so much fun helping businesses establish their unique brands on Facebook. This month it looks like 10 businesses will launch their brands on Facebook: SUNSHINE TV NETWORK: (https://www NULL.facebook NULL.com/SunshineTVNetwork) Video advertising in businesses, floatplane terminals, and high-visibility screens in downtown Vancouver. Matches web site brand that showcases the video advertising itself as the main brand image. C-TOW CANADA:...
read moreSeaveyors.ca – Press Release Case Study
Co-Founder Darren Horler of Seaveyors Environmental & Marine Services, one of our maintenance clients, asked Bad Dog what we could do to help their site, seaveyors.ca, break into the top 10 on Google for ‘BC Diving Services’. Now, this is a very broad category search. It brings back results that run the gamut of recreational dive companies, diving schools for individuals and train-the-trainers certification, and commercial dive services. The approximate results of such a search are in the neighbourhood of 1.1 million possible...
read moreSecurity and WordPress – 5 Ways to Protect Your Site
Ignore this post at your peril. Unless you are comfortable with visitors to your site seeing the big red malware warning Google slaps on hacked web sites and unlinking to you pronto, utilize these 5 tips to protect your valuable web asset. Over the past three months, self-hosted WordPress sites (as opposed to those at WordPress.com) have been experiencing an increasing number of hacking and malware attacks. It was inevitable as this platform continues to draw converts from HTML, Drupal, Joomla and other content management systems (CMS), and...
read morehyvää suunnittelua (Good Design in Finnish)
Photo courtesy of the FC Wild Dogs in Vekkola, Finland, who asked Bad Dog Design to sponsor their boys’ soccer players with the Bad Dog logo for their team uniforms. They refer to themselves as ‘the Finnish Division of Bad Dog Design”. It’s a whole new world! The Internet is moving at greater-than-warp speed in 2011. New tools and apps come online daily, even by the hour. Some are here for a day or a month and then gone into the abyss of post-15 minutes of fame. Other plugins and platforms prove their staying power and...
read moreClient Story: Sunshine Coast Hospice Society
The Sunshine Coast Hospice Society is an inspirational group of volunteers who dedicate much of their life helping others to live while dealing with terminal illness. It’s sacred ground in the human soul, this giving of comfort and assistance… not only in dying, but in the living that is left to those dealing with life threatening illnesses. The local Society needed a web site that would provide a respected presentation online of their mission and goals, and share with site visitors important work the Society does in the community...
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I've been designing web sites for primarily Sunshine Coast based businesses since 1997. My strengths are brainstorming, wordpress template implementation with customization that makes sense, and content generation. I am the President and founder of Bigpacific.com, the guide to everything Sunshine Coast for over 14 years.
I also volunteer my time in the community, especially in the area of economic development, high-tech, and community initiatives. 


