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Monday, March 24, 2008
Midway Shelter Have a Heart Gala

Hello.
I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I enjoyed the weekend by getting back on my mountain bike.
Next weekend ought to be just as exciting…
The 17th Annual Have a Heart Gala
On Saturday, March 29, 2008 The Alameda Mayor’s Fundraiser Committee is hosting the 17th Annual Have a Heart Gala at the Albert DeWitt “O” Club benefiting the Alameda Midway Shelter for abused & homeless women and children.
There will be dinner and dancing, an open and silent auction and a performance by The Sun Kings, Bringing the Sounds of The Beatles to Alameda.
I am promoting the event, (1) MJS Web Solutions is designing the new website and (2) it is a wonderful and worthwhile cause that needs your support.
For more information or to reserve your seat, please contact (510) 748-8410 or (510) 523-2377.
Posted by: Michael Swartz at 11:39 am
Comments: None | Filed under: Uncategorized, News
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
New Year Resolutions - A New Website

Happy New Year!
Have you made any New Year resolutions?
I plan on expanding the business in a few different ways. One way is to broaden our network of designers and developers so we can accommodate our growing client base. Another is a new website for MJS Web Solutions. You know the old adage, “A carpenter’s home never gets built”? Well, us web designers know the saying. We were so busy last year, we didn’t have time to concentrate on ourselves, especially our website.
Which brings up an article I saw last weekend, in the SF Chronicle, about small-business owners making New Year’s resolutions. What caught my eye was this quote from someone who had setup her new website:
“Creating a Web site is a lot of work when you’re a small business without a marketing department,” she said. “You’re constantly proofing text and bringing people together to answer e-mails from the Web designer. It was an odyssey to get it done.”
She’s right. It takes a lot of time and patience when building a new website. There is a lot involved.
- Strategic planning
- Site structure design
- Visual design and proofing
- HTML/CSS coding production and testing
- Backend programming and testing
- Search engine optimization
- Launch, measuring, and future updates
The major challenge is time. Know that you will have to spend quality time on your new website. That’s good because it’s your business you’re showing to the world.
Happy New Year!
Posted by: Michael Swartz at 11:42 pm
Comments: None | Filed under: Web Design, News, Business
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
It Happens Website Launches
Hello again.
As promised, we are announcing another website launch, designed and developed by MJS Web Solutions and Gunderson Design.
The Town of Danville’s Transportation department has a program called Street Smarts for educating kids on traffic safety. Gunderson Design and MJS Web Solutions were brought in to develop the It Happens website exclusively for high school students.
To get high school students to learn more about traffic safety, we partnered with Planet Jam/Stickyfish on designing a rewards program where students could watch traffic videos, submit their own stories and earn points by doing so. With these points, students can purchase prizes such as iPods, Nintendos and Playstations.
The local media has received the story too.
Mike Swartz says, “Check it out“.
Posted by: Michael Swartz at 10:36 am
Comments: None | Filed under: Web Design, News
Monday, November 12, 2007
Two New Websites Launched by MJS Web Solutions
 Hello.
We’ve been very busy around here the last couple of weeks and that’s lead to a limited amount of postings.
What could be taking up so much of our time around here, you ask?
Well, it’s preparing and launching 3 separate websites in a week.
- Our most impressive work to date (I’m so modest), and just launched last week, is Matsco.com, a dental, veterinary, and optometric practice financing firm. We’ve been working on this site for quite awhile and you can see why it took the time it did.
- We also launched Red Condor, an email and spam filtering firm.
- We’ll tell you about this one tomorrow. It hasn’t officially launched.
Both sites were created exclusively using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and built for maximum search engine exposure.
Mike Swartz says, “Check ‘em out”.
Posted by: Michael Swartz at 2:30 pm
Comments: None | Filed under: Web Design, News
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