Custom Facebook Landing Pages
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: (https://www NULL.facebook NULL.com/ctowcanada) This unique business provides 24 hr...
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 moreClient Story: Proach Models
Proach Models and Bad Dog Design go way back – in fact we go back to the very beginning, to the fall of 1997 and the start of commercial web design on the Sunshine Coast. From its earliest days online with a straight html site right through to a fully developed WordPress web site with integrated ecommerce, galleries, video and blog Bad Dog Design has helped Spacemodel.com keep up with the rapid pace of change online to dominate in their field of specialization. Nick Proach Models (as it was known then) was one of the earliest local...
read moreClient Story: Karen Judd Realtor
KarenJudd.ca: From a dated, marginally functional web site to a dynamic, modern site with a 100% custom design that is loaded with features, comes with great support (just in case Bad Dog Design is unavailable to assist) and is positioned to grow with her needs and to keep pace with the ever-changing landscape of Real Estate online.
read moreClient Story: Stonehaven B&B
Valarie and Art Green have one of the best jobs in the world… inviting guests into their architecturally designed home perched on the southeastern entrance to Halfmoon Bay’s expansive and aptly named Welcome Beach. The couple knew that they needed their web site to do a few key things for them and their business: allow for easy posting of daily updates of photos, video and text reflect the environment and beautiful structure and presentation of their home and suites integrate with other marketing tools like Facebook and Smugmug A...
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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May 24, 2013 at 3:07 am Ever wonder what, exactly, a web designer does all day? This is why you pay me to do it for you.
Just another day at the Sunshine Coast web design office - Bad Dog Web Design - Sechelt Web...
This has been a typical day doing Sunshine Coast web design. High-velocity juggling while standing on a chair balancing on one leg on a saggy pilates ball...
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Try Limit Logins plugin to prevent future brute force attacks on wordpress admin login: http://bit.ly/10ONFNw
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As soon as login access restored to your wp site, change password to min. 8 digits, u/l case and sp. characters
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April 11, 2013 at 7:05 pm Brute Force Attack blocks admin access to most wordpress self-hosted web sites http://bit.ly/120qtyN Mult hosts affected
Explaining Recent WordPress Service Activity at FatCow
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What happened? Our team became aware of a potential brute-force attack on the default WordPress admin login page. A brute-force attack occurs when a third party attempts to access a system by repea...
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April 8, 2013 at 10:31 pm Do you know how facebook users can designate your facebook page updates as negative? And what happens when they do?
The Simple Reason Facebook Pages Are Losing Reach: Negative Feedback
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Over the past month or so, everyone has been complaining about getting less reach on Facebook. That the algorithm has changed. And that Facebook is now a pay to play system.
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"NERD LIFE, and I have the shirt..." on their own photo.
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April 8, 2013 at 6:34 pm My new hot desk digs at FUSE Community Work Hub. Nice to be back in the old Stern & Associates space with a whole new kind of energy
Erin Whalen But what do the knuckle tattoos say?
April 8, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Bad Dog Design Inc. NERD LIFE, and I have the shirt on to match :)
April 8, 2013 at 8:45 pm
Erin Whalen Nice!!!
April 8, 2013 at 9:28 pm
Bad Dog Design Inc. It's pretty sweet watching the world go by outside, from a bird's eye view
April 8, 2013 at 10:30 pm
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March 13, 2013 at 5:17 pm Yelp.ca is the 'crowbar of marketing'. It gives you LEVERAGE. - Yelp In Your Words Webinar
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March 11, 2013 at 11:07 pm The Sunshine Coast may be 'cottage country' but what if people are looking for cabins instead? (This handy little graph comes from Google Trends)
Mary Craziness So how do you define the difference between the two?
March 12, 2013 at 4:00 am
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March 11, 2013 at 11:04 pm Bad Dog Design Inc. updated their cover photo.
Erin Whalen Love it!
March 11, 2013 at 11:16 pm
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March 6, 2013 at 11:32 pm "Pauline Johnson, a Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River, is listed as being the first indigenous woman to be on a Canadian stamp in 1961. She was the first author and first woman other than the Queen to be featured on a stamp."
Laurier student uncovers Canadian female aboriginal leaders
When Wilfrid Laurier University student Sally Simpson began creating a collage of indigenous female leaders, she was surprised that her biggest challenge wasn...
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March 6, 2013 at 3:48 pm Another one from Terry O'Reilly spinetingling in approach, and who would think to do this via radio? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fWcfTXGQXbk
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March 6, 2013 at 3:41 pm Check out this brilliant radio campaign Snickers did to take their 'you're not you when you're hungry' TV campaign to the airwaves... from Terry O'Reilly's brilliant podcast series, The Age of Influence on CBC.ca
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February 27, 2013 at 5:30 pm @sproutsocial social media mgt tool adds posting of images to directly to timeline on FB: http://bit.ly/YB2g07
Posting Images to the Facebook Timeline
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We have added a new option for Facebook photo uploads through Sprout Social. You can now post photos directly to your Facebook Timeline album. This is a subtle change that gets us one step closer to...
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February 27, 2013 at 4:53 pm #Yahoo #work-from-home policy chg firing up ppl everywhere http://bit.ly/YEMtO2 Mbe at-work perf bonuses a betr option?
Yahoo work-from-home policy riles workers everywhere
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When Stephanie Van Pelt needed to care for her son after surgery, her company gave her the option to work from home.
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February 27, 2013 at 4:29 pm #Wordpress #Plugins: Wield them wisely! Podcast for beg-intermed users http://bit.ly/YZijTx
WordPress Plugins – a Blessing or a Curse? | | DevWebProDevWebPro
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I get a ton of questions about WordPress Plugins, and with good reason. Plugins allow WordPress users to add exciting new functionality to their blogs and websites.
Plugins are also recognized as the primary “weakness” of the WordPress ecosystem, to the point that some experts a
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February 27, 2013 at 4:23 pm Have 6 hours to learn a trick in Photoshop? http://bit.ly/YZht9q
Create a Surreal "Parting of the Sea" Photo Manipulation | Psdtuts+
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In this tutorial, you will combine masking techniques, blending modes, adjustment layers and filters to part the sea and create a surreal photo manipulation.
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February 27, 2013 at 3:48 am This week it's all about HTML. Old HTML. A great way to revitalize the old synapses is to get inside complex tables, scripting and multi-threaded breadcrumb trails and keep it all balanced in your head. (Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/tom-margie/ - great work!)
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February 23, 2013 at 11:29 pm Stoked on the energy from Aboriginal Business Match 2013. What a great event... and if you're looking for an event manager, I highly recommend http://www.RavenEvents.ca - everything went off without a hitch and I can't remember having as much fun at a conference.
Raven Events, Aboriginal Event Management, Powell River BC, Canada
Raven Events is an aboriginal full-service event management business servicing all facets of event organization from planning to promotion and production.
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February 19, 2013 at 5:11 pm Learning how to eliminate 'mental noise' in conversations and creat effective communication
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"Thanks - it's exciting to be..." on their own photo.
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February 19, 2013 at 12:44 am All ready to go at Aboriginal Business Match in Penticton. First Nations economic development at work.
Karen Amore-Mueller Booth looks great and so do you, Laurie! Good luck. :)
February 19, 2013 at 4:16 am
Bad Dog Design Inc. Thanks - it's exciting to be involved in First Nations economic development
February 19, 2013 at 5:06 pm
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February 19, 2013 at 12:41 am http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/business/191422841.html
Penticton Western News - Penticton ready to host Aboriginal Business Match
http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com
Representatives from aboriginal communities across B.C. are coming to Penticton next week to make connections with the private sector.
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"We're excited about our first ABM conference - safe travels to all of our fellow attendees, and we look forward to meeting you next week! Bring your social media questions :)" on Aboriginal Business Match 2013's timeline.
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February 2, 2013 at 3:02 am Would you make or accept payments via a smartphone reader like Square? https://squareup.com/ Tell me what you think!
Accept credit cards with your iPhone, Android or iPad – Square
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About
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. RESOURCES
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