Daniel Shakhmundes

Month: August 2008

  • Newsletter – August 2008 – 2nd Edition

    This month, Daniel Shakhmundes would like to highlight the following services: Website Development, including the new “Live Real-Time Website Editing Service”.

    Daniel Shakhmundes has been creating new websites and improving existing ones for twelve years now. In that time, he has successfully participated in all the roles entailed, from production of virtually all types of media/content to managerial responsibilities. His broad specialization and diverse business experience enables him to deliver a vast variety of website-related services, while sustainably opening new opportunities that are business-worthy.

    Our website design goals:

    • Standards-compliant programming & media formatting that consistently delivers user-friendly experiences across all the most popular computer environments;
    • Efficiently-implemented and fast-loading programming and media encoding that keeps visitors’ attention;
    • Expert selection of the best 3rd party partners & software to leverage the best of what’s out there when streamlining development.

    While many clients are already familiar with Daniel Shakhmundes’ dynamic methods of website development – custom-tailored to each client’s circumstances – some have also experienced and specifically requested what will now be officially dubbed “Live Real-Time Website Editing Service”. In most circumstances, we are able to carry out website edits/revisions immediately after they are requested, whether communicated in-person or over a telephone.

    Please contact Daniel Shakhmundes by phone or email to request further information and/or a quote.

    Phone: 1-905-321-9898

    Email: d@shak.ws

    Other D.Shak News

    Niagara College will have Daniel Shakhmundes as “professor” again; this time for three courses in the Information and Media Studies (IMS) division‘s New Media Web Design program.

    While Daniel Shakhmundes himself is accessible every business day, he will continue to provide prompt and excellent service in leveraging the best available contractors and partnerships.

    This August D.Shak had the pleasure of travelling to Quebec City and Kiev/Ukraine. Those who called or wrote know that he kept tabs on business and was in-touch as expected. Stay tuned to HTTP://Shak.WS for photos in the month to come, along with the usual blend of interesting news, experiences, and advice.

    Looking Forward

    In the months to come, Daniel Shakhmundes will highlight the various offered services that are most popular with his clients, all of which are maturing and evolving with the pace of technology and business:

    • Easy Off-Site Backup to preserve your business data on any computer and server;
    • Teaching, Training, Tutoring;
    • Computer, Server, and Network Management.
    • Internet-Hosting, the tried, tested, and true service, serving websites and email for over five years now;
    • and more!

  • Update to SEO Checklist

    The Search Engine Optimization Checklist was due for an update, since there is much more to write, and the initial content from its launch in mid-May is just the tip of the iceberg. Have a read of the new third point: Know Your Stats (Correctly)

    D.Shak

  • Tweaking the Shak.WS Design

    Tonight, Shak removed Akismet’s WordPress sidebar widget that displayed a count how many spam comments it has automatically filtered from this website. Unfortunately, its output was not compliant with the loosest of XHTML standards, transitional. He gave up on his search for a solution when Google’s first, most relevant, and only search result was a thread on the WordPress.com forums from 2006/2007 titled “Akismet widget not xhtml valid”. Even on the WordPress.org Plugins/Plugin Compatibility/2.6 page, Akismet is listed as a “Working plugin, no issues”, but “with XHTML validation errors”. Shak will contact Akismet and see what they have to say…

    WordPress is built on a fantastic programming language named PHP. It’s free, it works on virtually all computing platforms, and it’s definitely one of the reasons WordPress rules. A small token of our appreciation is now near the bottom right corner of every page – proud to be powered by PHP!

  • Microage defauded by executive/partner

    Would you spend about one month in jail for a million dollars? Well, a man named Joe Vos is doing so about thirty times over!

    This news item is note-worthy for the Niagara Region, since we have a Microage office in St. Catharines that many Niagara businesses deal with. Check out a report of Joe Vos defrauding Microage [and others] on itbusiness.ca for more details. In case the original article becomes unavailable, we printed/cached this article for our own records…

    Joe Vos’ incredulously lenient punishment is yet another example of why it is very important to deal with people and businesses of the highest integrity possible – despite the fact that many lives are affected by such a multi-million dollar white-collar crime, we feel that the Canadian government has treated it incredibly trivially. Daniel Shakhmundes has terminated client relationships when encountering unethical behaviour on their parts, and strives to protect his own business and the clients involved with great discipline. Current and prospective clients can rest assured that when it comes to technology and business, Daniel Shakhmundes and his associates do their best to mitigate involvement with people like Joe Vos, while still planning for the potential disasters that may occur.