Waters Edge on Welcome Beach
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Situated on one of the Coast’s most beautiful beaches, Welcome Beach, Waters Edge is a luxurious suite looking on to sweeping views of the Salish Sea (Georgia Strait), just steps from the water. It’s all about the waterfront, and this WordPress site allows for easy editing by the site owner, and an automated feed of random views from their image gallery. Site is currently offline as property undergoes renovations, reopening 2013.
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Sunset Cove Cottages is all Bad Dog, from start to finish. We arranged for a photographer and did a shoot one late spring day with a group of ‘guests’ and walked the property gathering images and inspiration. This is a full custom html site that has proven itself as a bookings generator, with a very reasonable development budget in year one and approximately 2-3 hours of changes per year. It will migrate at some point to a platform like wordpress, and it needs a splash page update. CSS style revisions will make it possible for the...
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This site was originally created on the Xplorex platform. Xplorex offered highly customized editing environments that allowed for multi-level access for documents and files, so site owners could give a client or customer access to all, part or one file beyond login. Xplorex also offered very customizable image galleries and site management pre-Wordpress for the masses. it will be migrating to WordPress soon. BeachsidebytheBay.com (http://www NULL.beachsidebythebay NULL.com)
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Dr. Jane Gartshore Unbounded Naturopathic Medical Clinic Unbounded.ca (http://www NULL.unbounded NULL.ca/)
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Colleen Friesen is a Sechelt-based writer specializing in travel writing. The blog needed a redesign to fit visually with her existing business web site. Traveling Light Blog (http://www NULL.colleenfriesen NULL.com/blog) ColleenFriesen.com (http://www NULL.colleenfriesen NULL.com)
read moreMount Daniel Cabin
Mount Daniel Cabin has been on Bad Dog’s Sunshine Coast Community Destination portal, Bigpacific.com, for a number of years. As the Sunshine Coast has become more well-known and more accommodation businesses have come online, it became important for the cottage’s owners to differentiate their cottage with a standalone web site. MountDanielCottageRental.com is a small but attractive web site that makes the most of keyword emphasis in titles and site content, with online tracking so the owners have more information about where...
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May 17, 2012 at 10:56 pm SEO-focused professionally distributed press releases. Do they work? These results are shown on the second day post-release date. Outstanding.
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May 17, 2012 at 10:52 pm Check out the new Pinterest-inspired site for travel writer Lesley Peterson at CultureTripper.com. Loads of fun to work on! All long distance - Lesley lives in Toronto and is also often traveling. http://www.culturetripper.com
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May 15, 2012 at 7:29 pm Studies show: Timeline covers with faces attract the most attention.
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May 15, 2012 at 7:16 pm Don't use third-party apps like HootSuite or Tweetdeck to post to Facebook - 3rd party posts don't bring share button.
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May 15, 2012 at 7:13 pm In depth Facebook marketing tips at http://www.marismith.com - 98% of posts should have an image.
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May 14, 2012 at 10:08 pm Top Twitter stories to your email inbox? Aiyaiyai. Redundancy on top of immediacy = idiocy
Twitter Blog: The best of Twitter in your inbox
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Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.
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May 11, 2012 at 5:24 pm 15 second videos, as prettified as Instagram photos. Free in Apple Store.
Viddy - Life in the moment.
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Viddy is a simple way to share well-produced, bite-size videos with the world. Our app makes it easy for anyone to capture, produce and share life's most beautiful moments instantly.
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May 11, 2012 at 5:16 pm dejavoodoo
Mozilla and Google Cry Foul Over Browsers in Windows 8
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If you had plans to use Firefox or Chrome on a Windows 8 tablet, that might not be in the cards.
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May 9, 2012 at 5:54 pm Google announces Drive - add any kind of file and work collaboratively on it with team members you invite, or just work on it remotely from any Internet connection. Image editing, spreadsheets, documents... over 30 file types supported. First 5GB free, upgrade to 25gb for under $2.50/mo.
Will you use Drive?
Google Drive. Keep everything. Share anything.Access everywhere.Google Drive is everywhere you are—o
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In Google Drive, you can create new documents, spreadsheets and presentations instantly. Work together at the same time, on the same doc, and see changes as they appear.
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T-Mobile CDO Phillip Humm said, "Facebook’s social networking app was his company’s “number one app right now” and has customers “picking up their phone 150 times a day.”
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May 3, 2012 at 8:12 pm Well, THAT's a nice surprise... check out the google results for a search on vancouver getaways in Google!
Bad Dog Design Inc. Saltspringspa.com is pwning it too... all without spammy keywords all over the front door :)
May 3, 2012 at 8:14 pm
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May 3, 2012 at 7:00 pm I am SO stoked about using Volusion Ecommerce. The support even in the research/pre-sales phase has eclipsed by an entire galaxy any other solution I have looked at.
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May 2, 2012 at 9:15 pm Morse code comes back! You can even type two different emails with one hand at once. How cool is that!
Introducing Gmail Tap
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Tap into the future of productivity with Gmail Tap for Android and iOS. Double your typing speed with this revolutionary new keyboard. http://www.gmail.com/t...
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May 2, 2012 at 9:08 pm Now coming to your inbox: kuajiri yangu kwa ajili ya kazi yako ya kijamii vyombo vya habari!
Rapid Edge - Apple Specialist This is an excellent new feature. Universal translator is almost here
May 2, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Bad Dog Design Inc. Yes, and I we could soon be understanding insults too... remember the old Star Trek Next Generation episode with the nano-organism that called Picard 'Ugly-Bag-of-Mostly-Water'
May 2, 2012 at 10:14 pm
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May 2, 2012 at 7:02 pm If anyone is using WooThemes for their Wordpress site, a Public Service Announcement of denial-of-service attacks & fix here
PSA: WooFramework Vulnerability
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Don’t get caught with your pants down, here’s how to fix the WooThemes/Framework vulnerability and two excellent alternatives.
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April 30, 2012 at 4:56 pm One seriously happy dog... from photographer Seth Casteel
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April 27, 2012 at 8:59 pm The office soundtrack today, can't get it out of my head - beautiful artwork in a dark, melancholy way
Gotye 'Hearts a Mess' By Gotye
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View more videos by Gotye on http://portable.tv Animator and film clip director extraordinaire Brendan Cook emerged from his studio with this amazing film cl...
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April 27, 2012 at 7:04 pm I would love to go the sassy route with some local companies... who is up for it?
10 Sassy Brands on Social Media
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Brands are showing more personality as the web becomes more social. Here are 10 hilarious brands killing it right now.
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April 27, 2012 at 7:01 pm It's happening... cue scary scifi music.
Asteroid Mining Mission Revealed by Planetary Resources, Inc.
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Planetary Resources' mission is mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals. Through the development of cost-effective...
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I had a great meeting today with Cheri from 'The Skylight Guy'... not only do they make skylights, they make them - and a whole bunch of other things - for Westfalias and Volkswagen Vans. How much fun is it going to be to work on this project??? I love VW vans, so I'd guess... A LOT!
Bad Dog Design Inc. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Skylight-Guy/189997493779
April 25, 2012 at 10:16 pm
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April 25, 2012 at 10:04 pm IMPORTANT: check your connection at this address before July 9 2012 to ensure your computer (mac or pc) is not infected with the trojan virus DNS Changer.
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April 25, 2012 at 10:02 pm Noooo... next gen password technology to read brainwaves or heartbeats, which are apparently as unique as fingerprints. I knew something weird would come up today.
Your brain could become your password › News in Science (ABC Science)
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Researchers are looking at way to use brain scans and heartbeats to identify people in ways that can't be faked.
Earl James and what would be fed into your brain during this 'scan'.....
May 1, 2012 at 8:38 pm
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Awesome course Laurie! I hope you will call me soon re follow up on private for my FB page - I am just at the peak of the start of my sales season now...and will be travelling in about a month.
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New profile pic dimensions for April 26... are you ready? The new profile picture will be 160 x 160 pixels and will sit at 23 pixels from the left and 210 pixels from the top of the Page. What do you think of the change?
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April 18, 2012 at 8:55 pm Here's a nifty way to see how your site looks on an iPhone...
CreativeTechs Tips » Test Your Website on Apple’s iPhone Simulator.
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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. RESOURCES
Bad Dog Design Inc. Keep in mind that the audio slider actually refers to canned audio music, NOT the sound levels for your recording.
May 14, 2012 at 10:03 pm