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We are retiring the old Surfacing.WS Free Web Hosting program

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Due to the proliferation of scammers, software pirates and Russian pornography sites, the free hosting solution provided by the current version of Surfacing.WebSite is being forced to shut down. Surfacing.ws will be retired on or around 10/30/2010,  all sites hosted with Surfacing.WebSite will be permanently deleted. ONLY the surfacing.ws sites are affected by this change. [...]

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What not to do with your website – a cautionary tale

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We’ve been making a big marketing push to gain additional author clients – each of the designers who work with Surfacing have gone through their personal book collections and Googled for the official sites of their favorite authors. If the site is in need of work, we write a personal email, contact the site owner [...]

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CSI: Online Marketing – Don’t Leave Evidence Behind!

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Every time you promote anything online, even your resume, you’re marketing. But beware – you could be leaving behind things that could affect you negatively in the future! Check out Linkedin.com, the Facebook for business and employment. Barack Obama used LinkedIn as a valuable marketing and communication tool in the run-up to the 2008 Presidential [...]

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WordPress Static Front Page Fix

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If you have a static front page using WordPress (like we do), and you’re using WordPress 3 (like we are), and you have a HUGE problem pop up out of nowhere where the home page for your site starts linking to the WRONG page (like we did), check to see if you have the Redirections [...]

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Book Marketing For Self Publishers and New Writers

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We’ve now worked with a couple of first-time authors, designing author/book mini-sites using WordPress and been generally involved in the marketing. All were self-published. These experiences have taught me a lot. First and foremost, you must get your marketing plan put into action as soon as possible. There are a lot of decisions to make, [...]

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Le site et mort, Vive le site!

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Welcome to Surfacing Version 3.0! We’re still adding content, but the fix is in: we had a little design competition over who would get the position of webmaster, and I got the short stick won the prize. That means I’m also the face of the site, so most support and sales inquiries will be responded [...]

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