For years, we’ve listed and sold stuff on eBay (not an affiliate links for sure …). Ever since the mid to late 90s in fact. We stopped selling for a while, and almost forgot about the service until we realized we had quite a bit of good quality equipment we wanted to offload. We went back to eBay … We were shocked. Things have drastically changed and not for the better, why this is we decided to investigate.

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There are thousands of Web Design companies and we regularly get the chance to review some of the top tier agencies. NGKSoft, a New York web design company, is definitely part of the upper tier of professional companies that has mastered Flash, flat-file and dynamic sites and related services with great design [click here for more information].

It is clear from their portfolio and testimonials that they do not just produce one graphic style that is then forced on their clients but strive to respect the style of each organization. Search Engine Optimization, E-Commerce, Flash integration and php programming are all available from this team of professionals as well as honed graphic skills.

NGKSoft has produced websites for clients across many fields including services and industries, non-profit and education, e-commerce sites, travel and recreation sites and environmental projects. Among the many resources available from the site, one of the entries is a “Top Reasons Why You Should Engage Our Services” which includes details about their experience, abilities, marketing expertise, client relationships and custom solutions.

NGKSoft also offers a great section of design resources [read here], the history of the internet, web design guides and tutorials and software recommendations. More about NGKSoft including company philosophy and background.

Mailing address: 231 West 29th St., Suite 205. New York, NY 10001 -

Phone: (800) 880-1716

Email: info@ngksoft.com

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In this day and age, when you meet someone you don’t exchange twitter accounts or Facebook profiles. Instead, we always end up getting an EMAIL. The Internet’s oldest form of communication is still the most universal piece of information that is exchanged between prospective partners or new acquaintances.

Flowtown.com is a service that will match an email address with Web 2.0 accounts through a simple search feature. Flowtown also offers an import utility for Gmail accounts, csv files (Outlook Exported contacts) or manual input. When opening your account, you will be provided with your own dashboard for easy management.

Flowtown is also a great tool for social media marketing or Twitter marketing campaigns within your trade or social network. In short, this is a wonderful tool for moving from the lowly email to Web 2.0.

On the web: Flowtown.com

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We use hosting and domains in multiple countries. Some of our clients have very strict requirements for country-specific hosting and some domain names cannot always be hosted anywhere. Requirements for country-specific hosting can be anything from a legal issue to a simple preference. This means that sooner or later, you’ll need a Web Host located in Canada, the Great White North.

We have a number of clients out of Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax. They require Canadian based web hosting plans or domain hosting. Our favorite reminder is none other than CanadianWebHosting.com: hosting, dedicated, VPS and of course reseller accounts. Some plans offer full root access, choice of operating system, configuration files such as the crucial httpd.conf or php.ini, remote rebooting, unlimited domain hosting.

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The web has given us a world free of boundaries and if you need an original style of graphic development, you can find just about anything out there.

We recently learned of a design company based in Honolulu, Hawaii that has a great portfolio with a distinctive style.

Hawaii Web Design is a premier Web Design company with a style well suited for travel, restaurants and real-estate sites.

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We can’t say enough about these two tools when trying to diagnose an unusually slow site. Once the obvious issues have been examined (large images, bad scripts, slow database responses, damaged tables…) you should always run Firebug and YSlow sessions within your browser for further diagnoses.

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