Use Dreamweaver? Then Make Sure You Have MM-Exporter

If you use Macromedia Dreamweaver, you may have had the experience of having your installation suddenly have an error which required you to uninstall and reinstall the program...the dreaded "Dreamweaver has encountered a fatal exception and will now close" error.

Okay, not so hard, these things happen from time to time. Such is life with computers. Reinstall the program.

But what about all your Site Definitions? That's right, they're gone, too. And sometimes you won't even notice any discernable problem with Dreamweaver, it will start up just fine and everything will seem normal, until you go to open a defined site and there is nothing there. All of your site definitions have inexplicably disappeared. Every web site, every FTP definition, every username, every password (of course, you have all of those backed up in a handy, safe place, right?), every Extension you've installed with the Extension Manager, every unique configuration move you've made to your installation has to be redone...yikes!

It's almost as bad as a hard drive crash with your data being unrecoverable (well, not quite, but if you're a webmaster with a lot of sites defined in there, it can be a real hassle).

I know, it's happened to me four times in the last six years. Well, actually six times, but the last two I didn't even care about. Wasn't the least bit concerned.

Why not?

Because of a super-handy, little freeware(?) program called MM-Exporter (MM for "Macromedia"), a backup utility to save and restore all your important settings and data from not only Macromedia® Dreamweaver®, but also Contribute®, Fireworks®, and Flash®. The program was authored by Jörg Schmalenberger, an Adobe Community Expert, and Team Macromedia member since 2001.

Here's how MM-Exporter works:

You download and install the program. You launch the program and "export" the settings and back up the configuration of the Macromedia product of your choice. If -- scratch that -- when -- you have one of the aforementioned problems, you launch the program and "import" all of those settings right back in, along with restoring your configuration settings. Viola! [see Screenshots]

The only drawbacks?
1) It's doesn't have an automatic backup feature; you still have to backup manually, and it's best that you do so every time you make a significant change to the configuration settings or define a new site.
2) There is no Macintosh version.

But for the peace of mind and incredible time savings it offers, MM-Exporter should be part of every Macromedia nut's toolbox.

Get MM-Exporter at http://mm-exporter.joexx.de/
The current version is 2.3.3
You can be kept up-to-date by e-mail when a new version is released by registering with the MM-Exporter Forum.

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"Come on Morty! Make up your Mind!"

...or "How to Make a Decision in the Internet Age"

The quote in the above headline comes from the 1979 Bill Murray movie Meatballs. Tripper (Murray) says this to Morty when they are trying to decide whether or not to have Rudy run in the marathon against the rival camp.

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Web Dynamics "Achieves" #1 Listing for Client in Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL

Web Dynamics, Inc. is proud to announce that we have achieved a number one position for our client, motivational speaker Kenneth E. Roberts, for the web site we also created for him, www.AchieveHighPerformance.com, in the four top search engines: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL. What's more, these positions were collectively obtained initially as of July 17, 2006, proving that this is no flash-in-the-pan, overnight success, but a sustained top position in these search engines. We believe this is a result of our SEO practices combined with the excellent, original content provided by Mr. Roberts.

Also, we believe that this successful effort was in no small way made possible because we used SiteBuildIt! as the platform on which to construct the site. The features and benefits of SiteBuildIt! speak for themselves (but achieveing these top major search engine positions is nice too!) To find out what these features are, go to our Site Build It! Features page.

To check out these results for yourself, follow the links below.

Google
Go here:
http://www.google.com/
and enter the search term "achieve high performance"
or
go directly to the results page:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=achieve+high+performance

Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com/
Enter the search term "achieve high performance"
or
go directly to the results page:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=achieve+high+performance&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

MSN
http://www.msn.com/
Enter the search term "achieve high performance"
or
go directly to the results page:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=achieve+high+performance&FORM=MSNH

AOL
http://www.aol.com/
Enter the search term "achieve high performance"
or
go directly to the results page:
http://search.aol.com/aolcom/search?encquery=cf2efa82850e52fb87dd4feeb7a307087dce9b0d3a4d65bd&invocationType=aolcomsearch&ie=UTF-8

Find out what Web Dynamics' Search Engine Optimization programs can do for you.

Good Place to Start Answering the Question: "How Do You Optimize Your Web Site for Search Engine Visibility?"

At the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Boston in 2003, one of the sessions I attended was called Search Engine Friendly Design: Essential Basics and posed the question: "How can you build a web site from the ground up that pleases both crawler-based search engines and your visitors?" The speaker was Shari Thurow, Webmaster/ Marketing Director of Grantastic Designs. Although I had been building web sites for 5 years at that point, I was new to search engine marketing and listened intently as Ms. Thurow discussed "search engine friendly" design that could tap into "organic" or editorial listings naturally.

The session was designed for beginners who needed an overview of important design issues to keep in mind while building web sites. At the end of the session, my head was spinning with all the new ideas she imparted, my hand was cramped and my notebook was filled with hastily scribbled concepts I was still struggling to grasp. Ms. Thurow held up a copy of her book and said after the session she would give it to the person who asked the best question about the session they had just heard. Now, I certainly intended to buy the book after listening to her speak, but I didn't think I had a chance to get that book at the end of the session, because I didn't think I had enough solid knowledge to even formulate a decent question. I did, however, have a question I really wanted the answer to, so I worked my way up to the dais. When I finally had my chance I asked her, "So how does someone get started in becoming a professional SEO [Search Engine Optimzer]; where do you begin?" That must have been the question she was waiting for, because her answer was simply a big smile as she whipped out her pen, opened her book and wrote, "Best of Luck to You! -- Shari Thurow" on the inside cover and handed it to me.

That book did indeed prove to be invaluable as I got started in the search engine optimization field, and I have referred back to it often since then. While you may not be able to get it for free like I did, it's well worth the roughly 20 dollars you'll spend to buy it from Amazon.com, and will pay for itself over and over again in the increased search engine traffic the techniques will bring to your web site.



Get more tips and articles on Web Site Design, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Marketing at WebDynamics.com.

Keywords, Keywords, Keywords: Some for Free, Some for a Fee

Good Keywords is a free Windows software program for finding good keywords for your web pages.
Targeting the right keywords equates to targeting the right audience; you need to have the keywords on your page that your market is searching for in order to be found and indexed by the search engine spiders.
Good Keywords is completely free. No registration, no payments, not even an e-mail address to enter. It is a small 500Kb download, digitally signed and safe to install. Good Keywords was originally published in August 2000 as freeware and has remained free ever since. Get it by clicking the link below:

http://www.goodkeywords.com/

Wordtracker
If you need more extensive keyword research, you should consider using what professional SEOs use: Wordtracker.
Wordtracker helps website owners and search engine marketers identify keywords and phrases that are relevant to their or their client's business and most likely to be used as queries by search engine visitors.
Marketers can also determine how many competing sites are using those keywords and can identify the phrases that have the greatest traffic potential.
You can get a free trial, or sign up for a year, a month, a week, or a day at a time.
Check out Wordtracker at: Wordtracker.com.

Wordtracker Magic
For an excellent resource on getting the most out of Wordtracker, check out Wordtracker Magic - Discover the Best Keywords in a Matter of Seconds by John Alexander of Search Engine Workshops.

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