The initial phase of usability enhancements focused on behind-the-scenes technology and laid the groundwork for future growth.

“In February, we kicked off our improvement plan by implementing new systems that allow dynamic content serving, significantly increased the site speed and provided the room we needed to grow and continue improving,” said Mark Achler, CEO of Spine-health.

As part of the new software roll-out, the entire library of more than 2,000 physician written and peer-reviewed articles, plus the blogs and contributions of 10,000+ active users were ported into a completely new content management system.

“This second phase is exciting because it’s a truly visible sign of the progress we’ve been making. We’re very excited to continue expanding and enhancing our content and functionality to better serve our members and visitors,” Achler added.

Spine-health serves nearly 1,000,000 unique visitors per month, and features in-depth content, written by physicians and peer-reviewed, on pain topics specifically related to spine and back conditions. Spine-health is considered an authority on topics like back pain, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, lumbar and cervical spinal stenosis and co-morbidities of those conditions such as depression, stress and sleep problems.

Spine-health can be found online at http://www.spine-health.com/

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Ever lose your cell phone? Are you familiar with the pit of black, festering panic that settles into your stomach when you realize you don’t have it and the odds you’ll find it again are slim to none? Imagine that feeling multiplied by a million — because that’s how losing your laptop feels.

Think about it — your laptop has your life on it. Work files, email, bookmarks, project notes, projects that are still in development and not ready or suitable for other people’s eyes, and then let’s not forget all of your software and music.

Ponder for a moment all the seriously BAD things that will happen if you lose your laptop.

1. Lots of spending will be in your immediate future. Spending money to replace the physical hardware, spending money to replace the lost software and music, and spending lots and lots and lots of time rebuilding everything. Let’s face it, back-ups of the entire harddrive are fantastic, but how many people actually do that?
2. Sensitive or important work files will be lost. You know that presentation you were working on for your boss’s Monday morning executive committee meeting where he has to justify your department’s budget for the year? You know… the budget from which your salary is paid? Yeah. That one. *poof*
3. You’ve just handed the keys to your company’s kingdom to the guy who stole your laptop. It’s such a pain in the butt to have to remember all those silly VPN passwords, so you’ve just set your browser to “remember” all of those passwords (and associated bookmarks) for you. How handy. Oh, same goes for your office email, too. Let’s just hope the guy who stole your laptop is just nosy, and not like, a wannabe h@x0r or something. You certainly wouldn’t want any of that ill gotten company data to show up on the Internet for just anyone to google up and use toward illicit or immoral ends.
4. Your online reputation will be ruined and you might end up broke or in jail. Again, because you’re lazy — and don’t deny it — you’ve got all your passwords saved so whoever gets your laptop can now BE YOU… on Facebook, on MySpace, in email to your CEO, at your bank, in email to the President…You get the picture.
5. All ur imz are belong to us. You know how much you instant message your friends. Imagine some bored kid gets his hot little hands on your laptop and decides that the transcripts of your boss-trashing-bff-backstabbing-and-significant-other-cybersexing IMing sessions are *such* a fascinating read, he’s going to post them so his friends can share the mirth — oh and then someone diggs it. Shortly thereafter random people on the bus are looking at you like they know you and then gleefully yelling out the pet name you gave your girlfriend’s hoohah.

So now that you’re a nice, tightly wound ball of anxiety, what precisely can you do to protect yourself from catastrophe in the event you do lose your laptop? (Well, aside from the obvious which is chaining it to your wrist and not so much as going to the can without it?)

1. Quit being lazy and REMEMBER your passwords instead of letting the browser “manage” them.
2. Disable IM logging. (Most people forget to take care of that when they install their chat client — well, people who aren’t serial adulterers anyway, but I digress.)
3. Back EVERYTHING up.
4. Consider making an image of your harddrive for a quick restore.
5. Install Laptop Locate.

Items one and two are fairly common sense; item five, however, is fairly new.

Tometa Software’s LaptopLocate is a laptop tracking software utility that will monitor a computer’s IP address to allow server administrators and general users to locate their computer. Each time a computer that has LaptopLocate.net is turned on, the IP address of the computer is transmitted to a pre-determined location via email and logged for reference. This information is also transmitted to LaptopLocate.net’s servers and logged in the event your computer is ever stolen.

LaptopLocate.net is helpful in finding where computers, especially mobile computers, are currently located. If the computer is stolen, Tometa Software coordinates with law enforcement agencies to help track down a registered user’s computer before valuable equipment and data is compromised. The software runs in the background on the computer, so unless the thief knows to look for it, it is invisible. If the thief does know to look for it, the software can be password protected so that it cannot be disabled.

Tometa’s Laptop Locate software sells for $19.95, which considering all you stand to lose, is a “can’t afford not to” kind of expense.

Attention Bloggers: If you’d like to receive a free copy of Tometa Laptop Locate for review, contact David Brown at dbrown@tometasoftware.com. There are 50 copies of the software available for review purposes, but once those 50 are gone, you’ll just have to buy a copy if you want to try it out.

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“Environmentally friendly and ‘green’ building practices are buzzwords being thrown around a lot now, but people still think that making the effort to not harm the environment means sacrificing either quality or raising the cost of building to prohibitive levels. That simply isn’t true anymore,” said Dan Rice, of MetalBuildingsRUs.com. “Green doesn’t have to equal sacrifice or huge expense.”

Prefabricated steel buildings are building code compliant and lower maintenance than wood and cement block construction for residential and commercial applications. These steel structures also tend to have a dramatically shorter completion time than that of a traditional building project, which reduces the time and cost commitments of expensive labor.

Additionally, prefabricated steel structures require little to no upkeep compared to their wood and cement block counterparts over the life of the building. They are considered superior to wooden structures in terms of withstanding storms, high winds, rain, snow and termites.

In terms of environmental impact, steel buildings are preferred by green builders and the environmentally conscious because they do not use slowly renewing natural resources like hardwoods.

“We’re making some progress getting the word out about prefab steel buildings, and it shows in the rapid growth of the market,” Rice said. “It’s obvious that cost and environmental impact are big concerns of the American public, just look at recent movies and the economy. We want people to know that there’s a building solution for their churches, farms and businesses that meets their needs in terms of quality and also addresses their concerns about costs and protecting the environment”

Details about prefabricated metal buildings, associated costs, environmental impact, and quality are available at http://www.metalbuildingsrus.com/ . The website offers the most current information and also features access to dozens of inspirational uses, designs and styles for today&#s metal buildings. Customers are able to check various designs, receive quotes, compare features and benefits and have nearly any question answered.

Metal Buildings R Us has more than fifty years of steel building design and manufacturing experience, and produces all of their buildings in the U.S.A. from the highest quality, heavy-gauge commcerial U.S. steel available. The precise design and manufacture of their structures meets or exceeds industry standards.

Metal Buildings R Us can be reached on the Internet at http://www.metalbuildingsrus.com/

ADDITIONAL INFO:
Metal buildings have traditionally been used for backyard tool sheds and dockside warehouses, but today&#s metal buildings offer much more diversity. Pre-fabricated metal buildings are created in a wide range of different designs and colors, and MetalBuildingsRUs.com offers a large selection of designs, paneling, coatings and colors.

Steel buildings are ideal for the small family business as well as for large multinational corporations. Steel buildings can be constructed in all types of shapes and sizes to accommodate for the specific needs of each company. Steel is extremely strong compared to many other building materials. This makes it possible to create large column free office buildings that offer the company outstanding flexibility.

Recommended applications for 100% U.S. commercial grade steel buildings include:

Garage and workshop
Agriculture
Manufacturing
Aviation Hangars
Office Buildings
Retail Buildings
House of Worship
Riding Arenas
Strip Malls
Warehouses

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Orlando, Fla.(PRWEB) Jan 5, 2007 — As more businesses become aware of the need to optimize their websites to rank well in the major search engines, it is also increasingly important for companies and decision makers to understand the differences between ethical search engine optimization and unethical SEO schemes. The SEO Fox (www.SEOFox.com) has created a list of “bad” seo practices and examples of good, ethical search engine optimization techniques to help companies better understand what kinds of questions they should ask of SEO consultants and firms before they sign a contract.

“Any company that cold calls your business and promises thousands of links, or guarantees a number one position for your keywords isn’t completely white hat in their practices… or they’re just liars,” said William Cross, lead marketer of SEOFox.com. “The questionable or flat out unethical SEO tricks reap short-term results, but cause serious long term damage to website search rankings. You end up paying more to have someone come in and fix the damage, than you would just hiring someone ethical from the get go.”

Examples of good SEO practices include:
- Good site architecture, including URL structure.
- Well written content that is on topic and written for the visitor rather than search engines.
- Link development with reputable, relevant web sites.

Examples of “bad” SEO include:
- Hiding text within a page, so that the human user cannot see it, but the search engine robots can.
- Practicing “keyword stuffing”; the gross overuse of the target keywords for a given page or web site.
- Utilizing “link farms” to inflate link popularity
- Using robots or programs that spam blogs, guestbooks, and forums with fake comments and links to artifically inflate link popularity

While the consequences of using questionable techniques may not be immediately apparent, the long term affects can include having your website’s search engine listings placed in the supplemental results, keyword, web page, and web site penalties, delisting from the search engines (being banned), or simply just not seeing any return on your investment.

If a company has fallen victim to a shady firm in the past, though, they should not be soured on the concept of search engine optimization in general. It is a valid means of increasing your web site’s visibility in the major search engines, and ranking well for your target keywords aids in bringing traffic to your web site.

“Ethical SEO isn’t magic, and while it can work quickly, you can’t expect miracles overnight. That’s why it’s so important to select an SEO firm who is honest, and won’t promise you the moon just to get you to sign the contract,” Cross said.

For additional information on what companies should look for, and what they should avoid when interviewing SEO firms and consultants, please visit their website or call during business hours (EST).

About SEO Fox
SEO Fox boasts a team of technologists, programmers, copywriters, artists and expert marketers who have been active in the Internet field since the 90s. Services include full web site design and creation, custom programming, web hosting, and full service search engine optimization and pay per click campaign management.

SEO Fox can be found online at http://www.seofox.com/

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In addition to reduced rates, the website offers the most current information and access to dozens of inspirational uses, designs and styles for today’s metal buildings. Customers are able to check various designs, receive quotes, compare features and benefits and have nearly any question answered.

“Since this is traditionally a slow time for construction, we’ve decided it would be an excellent time for sale,” said Dan Rice, Sales Director of Metal Buildings R Us. “Really, building season isn’t too far away, and by ordering a building now, your project will be complete and ready to use when other companies are just beginning to break ground.”

Metal buildings are one of the fastest growing segments in the modern building industry. They are a low-maintenance and code compliant alternative to wood and cement block construction for residential and commercial applications. Businesses are increasingly turning to prefabricated steel structures because the completion time is dramatically shorter than that of a traditional building project, this reduces the time and cost commitment of expensive labor.

Additionally, steel structures require little to no upkeep compared to their wood and cement block counterparts. They are superior to wooden structures in terms of withstanding storms, high winds, rain, snow and termites. Steel buildings are also environmentally friendly because they do not use slowly renewing natural resources like hardwoods.

Metal Buildings R Us can be reached on the Internet at http://www.metalbuildingsrus.com

Additional Info:
Metal buildings are no longer just for backyard tool sheds or dockside warehouses. Today’s metal buildings offer much more diversity. Pre-fabricated metal buildings are created in a wide range of different designs and colors due to the miracles of modern technology. The company says you will have the option of choosing from a large selection of designs, paneling, coatings and colors.

Steel buildings are ideal for the small family business as well as for large multinational corporations. Steel buildings can be constructed in all types of shapes and sizes to accommodate for the specific needs of each company. Steel is extremely strong compared to many other building materials. This makes it possible to create large column free office buildings that offer the company outstanding flexibility.

Recommended applications for 100% U.S. commercial grade steel buildings include:

Church Buildings
Agricultural Buildings
Manufacturing Buildings
Aviation Hangars
Office Buildings
Retail Buildings
Riding Arenas
Strip Malls
Garage and workshop
Warehouses

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