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"Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. With these advanced capacities, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, are evolving. These applications are heralding a new era of the World Wide Web." - Wikipedia

If you ever do any research on how to drive more traffic to your site, one of the first suggestions you'll come across is "Start a blog!" Blogging on a regular basis about a subject you, as a business owner, are knowledgeable about is an easy way to add the dynamic and changing content to your site that the search engines are looking for. A well-established and respected blog can also generate those coveted and all-important "quality, inbound links" that every site needs for better rankings in search engines.

Smyth Website Designs can design and implement a blog either as a stand-alone site, with a unique design, or incorporate it into your existing site, mirroring your existing design. (We can, of course, redesign your existing site from the ground up to go with your new blog!) And, once your blog is up and running, we'll be happy to show you the ins-and-outs of one of the most user-friendly and intuitive administration tools you're likely to ever come across.

Features:

• Fully customizable
• Unlimited "static" pages
• Unlimited Blogrolls
• "Trackback" and "Pingback" support
• Templates/Themes
• Quick, easy updating/seasonal refreshes
• Comments
• Enable or disable comments on a per-post basis
• Enable or disable administrative approval of comments
• Spam control
• Integrated blacklist
• Open proxy checker
• Full user registration capabilities
• Control who posts on your site, minimizing "trolls"
• Password protected posts
• Control who sees your posts
• Multiple authors
• Workflow management
• Easy switching from other blogging formats
• Ping-O-Matic support