National Motorcycle rider accessories dealer www.helmetharbor.com has signed with leading Arizona web design firm obu web technologies for a comprehensive rebuild of their online ecommerce website.

HelmetHarbor.com, is a long established online retailer of name brand motorcycle helmets and ride accessories. Helmetharbor is located in Chandler, Arizona, and also maintains a winning sport bike racing team.

HelmetHarbor.com as signed w/ Arizona web development firm, obu web technologies of Scottsdale, Arizona, to launch a new design and robust ecommerce system to facilitate the growing customer demand for secure, progressive online ecommerce solutions.

The new HelemtHarbor.com website will launch first quarter 05.

The new book titled ” 3ds Max 6.0 Basics” from Pim Feijen, one of Denmarks leading designers is now avavilbe from Amazon.com. This is a great book that covers the essentials of the award winning 3d program 3ds Max. Learn how to model, render, and animate with over 150 full color images and many great easy to follow lessons.
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Arizona Web Design company obu Web Technologies has just released an informative report on how to gain Positive ROI from your website. Below is a short excerpt. Download the Entire Report in .pdf here.

The days of build it and they will come are over and have been for some time. The Internet hype of the late 90’s lead many business to invest in a website for the sake of “getting on the WWW bandwagon”. The net result is millions of non-performing, outdated websites that sit idle on the Internet, incurring monthly costs with negative ROI (Return on Investment).

There is a new dawn of the Internet happening right now. The hype is over and measurable results is all that matters when considering a website. Does it make you money? Does it enhance your brand? Does it drive sales leads, and bring in prospects? In short, Does your website provide measurable ROI.

Your website is a means to sell, promote, and market your goods and services. Here are 5 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips that will help your website move up in the search engine rankings, to bring in more prospects. Search Engines look at your website and grade it on a points scale. Everything you can do to increase your points value, will increase your rankings in search engine results.

1. Choose 2 or 3 “keyword phrases” describing your product or services. Think of a phrase someone would use to search for a website like yours. “Arizona Web Design”, “Goodyear Real Estate”, “Term Life Insurance”, try to strike a balance between being to broad or to specific. Too broad and you will be buried among the competition, Too focused you limit your audience.

2. Use relevant keyword phrases and use them throughout your website Title, Description, Keywords, Links, and Copy. This is called “Keyword Density”. Be Careful not to overdo it, but use your keyword phrases as often as you can while maintaining good information flow for the Human viewer.

3. Bold and Italics. Use the Bold and Italics tags to emphasize your Keyword phrases. This helps readability as well as adds a few points to your score.

4. Get as many inbound links (IBL) with keyword heavy anchor text to your site as possible. – Search Engines love links, your website is given “points” by the more links pointing to your site. Anchor Text is the linked text that is actually highlighted. So Arizona Web Design is the Anchor text of a link pointing to http://obuweb.com. You can approach other sites to offer a “link exchange”. Relevancy counts, so try to avoid Viagra links unless you deal in pharmacy/medical products. High profile IBL’s also greatly enhance your search engine positioning. A link from amazon.com to your site is tops, while a link from joestrouthaus.com is not given as many points.

5. Participate in online forums, or discussion boards. This is a great place to add your Keyword Anchor Text link to your profile signature. That is one free link for every time you post.

Copyright 2004- Joshua Strebel Arizona Web Design – obu Web Technologies

obu Web Technologies, an Arizona Web Design Firm has signed an exclusive USA book distribution deal with Futurecom Aarhus of Aarhus Denmark. Futurecom is a leading Danish Multimedia company and offers Professional level classes in Web Design, Photoshop, and 3d Studio MAX Modelling and Animation.

Their new book “3ds Max 6.0 Basics” is availabe now from Futurecom’s online store in Danish and English versions. In the next week, The English version will be available for purchase from Amazon.com

For more details on the book, see below.

http://www.futurecomaarhus.dk/maxcourse/index.htm

We have just finished a small site for a Wisconsin Home Builder JM Construction. JM looked to Arizona Web Design Company obu Web Technologies in partnership with AVI Communications, to deliver a compelling website within the clients budget and limited timeframe.

Arizona Web Developer, obu Web Technologies inc. has launched the new corporate site for AVI Communications, Intl. The site makes use ofthe latest Flash and XHTML, CSS techniques to showcase the Audio, Video, and Interactive product line of AVI Communications.

Arizona Web Developer, obu Web Technologies launches a new community site for the Estrella Mountain Ranch Development in Goodyear, Arizona. www.MyStarPointe.com is a complete community portal with online classfieds, user management, discussion forums, event calendar, and online games. The site will attract local residents into a online setting of community interaction.

Arizona based Web Design Firm, obu Web Technologies has been added to the Yahoo Directory of Websites. Our listing can be found here

We have traveled to Denmark from the states this week. The country is beautiful and the weather is great. I encourage everyone to visit here. The people are very friendly and the city is very clean.

We will be back in the states on the 19th.

Farvell