It has come to my attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my Louisiana trademarked name NOLAGraphics. I have reserved all rights in the Work, which was first trademarked in 2004. I have registered the trademark and have included a copy for your review. I realize that you may have registered the domain names nolagraphics.info and nolagraphics.net without knowing the specifics of the law. That be the case I will allow you to agreeably release the domains over to me via a godaddy account transfer and take the content down from said sites. Upon release of the domain names to my Godaddy account I will agree stop pursuing this violation and drop the matter completely.

Your sites entitled nolagraphics.info and nolagraphics.net are essentially identical to the names I have registered with the state of Louisiana and clearly you have used my trademarked name as its basis.

• NOLAGraphics Trademark Application from 2004
  
• NOLAGraphics Trademark from 2004
  

You neither asked for nor received permission to use the name as the basis for your site. Therefore, I believe you have willfully infringed my rights under 15 U.S.C. Section 1125(d) and could be liable for statutory damages between $1000 and $100,000.

I would also encourage you to read the letter of the law in this matter:

I demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing uses
of the name, and all copies of it, and that you deliver to me all domain names registered under this trademark (a Godaddy account transfer can be easily setup), and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future.

If I have not received an affirmative response from you by 30 days from the delivery of this email indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, I shall (and have already been encouraged to do so by my legal counsel specializing in Internet law) take the full legal remedies available to me to rectify this situation.

If you would like to discuss this matter and resolve this as gentlemen I can be reached via telephone anytime at 504-756-5647.

Sincerely,
Marc Juneau

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Right so this as well applies to the web as well! If this big company (Compucast Interactive) thinks they are going to push around this freelancer defacing google with spammed irrelevant links and content (look for the obvious irrelevant content there) they can think again!

It looks like a very Compucast Interactive driven either, employee or client, has taken it upon themselves to register 2 domain names in a fraudulent attempt to gain search engine listings and MONEY (they are running google adsense on their blog). And even better yet they wont agree to show their name as they have registered these domains privately:

• nolagraphics.info whois info
• nolagraphics.net whois info

These also seem to be affiliated with
nolaseo.com whois info

oh wow and hey guess what, looks like I found the source of all this…
it appears that indeed as I thought a current compucast employee or contract writer of Compucast is the source of all of this. As you can see here from The author of the posts on their blog this is the same person that owns nolaseo.com which appears to be highly affiliated with the aforementioned sites.

oh wait hold on more suspecting evidence ….

let’s play devils advocate lets say that nolaseo.com and nolagraphics.info/.net all have nothing to do with each other then why oh why would they be using the SAME google advertisers code to gain profits off of? You can see if you look in the html of the page that these both link to the same google advertisers code pub-7518689483432069 which directly means that all these sites were indeed published by Shawn Plep of Gretna, La a compucast employee/writer.

so lets back up the reason that I even suspected that compucast or a compucast driven associate was behind all of this was this post on their blog

If an informed industry professional were to do an actual unbiased review of Compucast Interactive they would find that they do not do SEO as they claim, nor have their site historically been at all based on web standards, current trends or usability. What they, Compucast, calls SEO is actually them placing “footer links” on the sites they design to their portals. They feel this somehow helps their clients when in reality it just makes them look like a link farm.

so for them to say

Overall, Compucast is probably the best choice for web design and web hosting if you’re in the New Orleans area. You simply won’t find a better staff or reputation than what Compucast has.

is a bit biased don’t ya think? Oh and Mr. Shawn Plep .. I have an open question to you when you say:

After reviewing the options for New Orleans web design, we found the forerunner to be a company called Compucast Interactive.

Why don’t you list who else was reviewed and what was found.. WAS anyone else reviewed?When did this review take place, I wasn’t contacted. Surely on a site named nolagraphics.info you would think I would be contacted about such a review. Or was this just made up to place an SEO friendly article to spam the google index with? If you are truly not biased to Compucast wouldn’t you list the other results of the review? or is this all a farce?

Mr Shawn Plep, I encourage you … do your homework before you try call out a local web developer and register their domain name with a different extension… did you really expect me not to figure this out and nto to figure out that this was you an employee of compucast just because you registered my domain names privately? You left a dirty trail and i found you …. and more so i can directly link you as an employee of compucast this is great! oh and i love the redirection link to a semi porn site in the search engine listings thats cute

http://girls.nolagraphics.info/archie/

And just in case Mr Shawn Plep, decides to change nolaseo.com to be a private registration and change some of the other details i have decided to take screen shots of all the evidence listed here so that this evidence remains.

• evidence of same google adwords account being used on nolaseo.com
  
• evidence of same google adwords account being used on nolagraphics.info
  
• evidence of Shawn Plep working as a writer for Compucast
  
• evidence of Shawn Plep owning the domain nolaseo.com
  
• PDF file of NOLSEO.com Whois results from Google Cache (because Shawn made it a private registration on 6/13/08)
• Shawn Plep’s StumbleUpon account verifying his recent backlinks to nolseo.com
• Proof of Shawn Plep attempting to log into a AboutUs.com account and willfully modify the listing in compucast’s favor
  
• More AboutUs.com Evidence
  
• Shawn Plep and compucast attempts at Slander via Digg.com by registering my name as a profile
• link to Shawn Plep’s slanderous Digg.com profile for marcjuneau the links on this profile exactly mimic many of the other sites he has been bookmarking

Weather or not Judy Weitz has personally sponsored this, Judy I call you out to request that your employee or affiliated writer take down these sites which put forth a LIE and also attempt to spam the search engines with incorrect or made up information.

The registration of these domain name also is in direct violation of Louisiana Trademark agreements as NOLAGraphics is a registered trademark in my name till 2014. Any use of such a registration is illegal and will be pursued in court. I suggest you take down the sites nolagraphics.net and nolagraphics.info and turn these domains over to me. You are welcome to talk about me or my website in any fashion on nolaseo.com and I will be glad to respond as such, as is the nature of the web. But the registration of the aforementioned trademarked name as a new domain name not register to ME(Marc Juneau) is NOT ok and is Illegal. I stand firmly on these grounds and encourage a response from both Judy Weitz and Shawn Plep, quickly.

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ok now on to the books:

SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible

This book looks fantastic! I have started reading it and while much of it is a review of things I have learned over the years its great to see it outlined as a specific part of the process.

This is indeed one of the books that alot of information on this blog will be coming from. I haven’t stopped underlining things in it since i got it!

Web Copy That Sells: The Revolutionary Formula for Creating Killer Copy Every Time

Writing on the web is VERY from writing for any other medium! I have for long a time tried to convince clients that its not enough to just grab your brochures and copy the exact same text onto the website. I find MANY free-lancersers’ and even some agencies still do this. In fact my former employer was famous for this. One of the sites they launched while I was there which demonstrates this is very well is Millennium Healthcare. After reading the copy within the site you can kinda gather that it came right out of a printed brochure:

• There are no clear calls to action to direct you to perform any sort of goal
• Much of the copy is long winded

From what i can see there are 3 main points this book focuses on that it outlines in the beginning as the:

THREE FUNDAMENTAL RULES FOR WRITING WEB COPY:

1. Don’t Make Your website look like an ad
2. Stop readers dead in their tracks
3. Capture email addresses

I cant wait to read more of this book as content is king and this guide indeed will help!

No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog

This book looks hilarious! Its one of those books that you don’t necessarily read all the way through but your read a page or 2 a day to get inspiration. The premise of the book is to give you inspiration for writing your blog by showing funny examples of what other people have blogged about.

Check out the intro:

Jacob Likes: music, movies, pepperoni pizza, and hanging out with friends. Shelly spends more time with parakeets than most. Today Beth went to work came home, watched the Daily show(which is hilarious, btw), and had a Jenny Craig Island Chicken Meal (which was decent btw).

Have your eyes glazed over yet? Yeah mine too.

The popularity of blogging amazes and inspires m. Here are millions of people who’ve found a format that makes them eager to publish. For many bloggers, their sites are the first place they’ve voluntarily written or produced a project in their lives. This is huge. Its a renissance in personal expression! It’s an astonishing historical record! its the voice of an entire people! its an Awesome way to K.I.T.!

So why aren’t English teachers high fiving each other in the streets?
Well, let’s examine that first post more closely:
Hello, World!
Okay and the second?
I had a cheese sandwich today. It was delicious.
Mmm hmm… the third?
I don’t know what to write about.
I see

So my theory is this. Like any endavor, you make a choice when you start a blog. you either put in some effort to make something engaging and creative that builds community or you toss a “me-too” on to the growing pile of repetitive, navel-gazing content.

So how do you avoid “me-too” syndrome? Well the answer is conveniently located right in your hands. No One Cares What You Had for Lunch gives you the inspiration you need to create posts that will keep visitors coming back. Use the hundred suggestions to stock your blog with fresh content and help make blogging fun again. your site will rock so hard that you will gaze upon your typing fingers in wonder.

Well thats all for now I should have another shipment of books coming in so theres indeed more to come keep posted! Be looking for tutorials and more on here as I read these books!

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While I was employed at Compucast Interactive as one of the lead developers in August of 2007 they received notiriety for being the model of “business preparedness” in the wake of a disaster, Katrina. Now granted there are 2 things that Compucast did perform as a service for local business which were great (not necessary exemplary, as anyone with a similar high profile client list would of done this) , they

1. Setup several blast email lists for a few clients to communicate with employees
2. Setup a job board for the hospitality industry

What they didn’t do, which was the claim that got them the notiriety in the first place, was secure live synced dedicated internet servers in two locations across the country in preparation of a disaster. This was an extreme stretching of the truth and play on peoples misunderstanding of technology. In my opinion they only reason that they were even recognized was the high profile of the clients that she had and the ability which she “gave” them to communicate, email.

Now “gave” is a relative term here, if you consider someone that purchases insurance for their car a hero because their insurance company “gave” the person that was a passenger in their car money for a much needed surgery after getting into an accident well, then Judy Weitz is indeed a hero. This is essentially the same as what happened.

Judy weitz says

With the business now located in two cities on opposite sides of the country, we were confident all Web sites would continue to function if a hurricane were to hit New Orleans.

I, as one who understands technology, would interpret this to mean that if a web business were to be “located” on two opposite sides of the country that a live synced backup of the data would be concurrently running. This would mean that they would have to have live synced dedicated internet servers in two locations across the country. This in fact was NOT the case at all. The actual situation was that they had a dedicated server hosting account with a company out of San Francisco that had a service level agreement for redundancy. This hosting company had redundant servers running in San Fransisco and Pennsylvania. This DOES NOT mean that Compucast made any sort of special technology based disaster plans or even themselves had live redundant servers it means that the hosting company had redundancy, an industry standard for hosting companies.

In this case it seems that the only reason she got this award was because of the high profile of her client, The New Orleans Bar Association a collection of local law professionals, and their connections with the government. In my opinion Judy Weitz did nothing more than ANY OTHER responsible web development agency in the local area or elsewhere, this is not deserving of a nationally recognized award.

Simplified: Compucast Interactive purchased a dedicated server hosting account with a company not based in New Orleans and with no specific internal plans for a redundant backup of the live data being transmitted on their clients sites or the databases of their internal sites. Because their hosting company was not located in New Orleans when Katrina hit their clients did not lose email connectivity and they did not lose any data on their sole dedicated server, is this exemplary/worthy of notiriety?

So I ask you:

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to start providing mods to the CubeCart Community via the affiliate program on CC3.biz Mods and Skins

we have developed and are currently selling the following Cubecart Mods:

Add Shipping/Handling Charges To USPS and UPS Calculation CC4
This Mod will allow you to add your own customizable handling rates to the USPS and UPS live rates that you have enabled. These can be added per shipping class and are applied to a customers cart in their shipping options based on their total cart weight AND/OR a total cart dollar amount.

PhpList CubeCart Bridge CC4
This mod will allow you to automate the process of integrating your CubeCart customer details (first Name, Last Name, E-mail address) into the PHPList newsletter system.

Check out the list below which has a brief description of the development we have done for internal and external clients.

http://www.boscoli.com

• Shopping Cart Development
• Custom mods
• Blog Install and skin creation
• SEO Support

http://www.makeneworleanshome.com

• Led production Make New Orleans Home site for Compucast Interactive
• Installed and customized entire CMS architecture from the ground up
• Trained Compucast Interactive staff on use of Joomla CMS for input of content
• Identified and installed and customized necessary plugins for directory system

http://www.guillotbuilding.com

• Full Logo development and creation
• W3C CSS Tableless Design
• Photogallery installation and client training

http://www.cafeatchafalaya.com

• Installed and customized entire CMS architecture from the ground up
• Trained staff on use of Joomla CMS for input of content
• Customized manageable slideshow for front page and trained staff on how to change out pictures.

http://www.compucast.com

• Led production of Compucast Web Design site for Compucast Interactive
• Installed and customized entire CMS architecture from the ground up
• Trained Compucast Interactive staff on use of Joomla CMS for input of content
• Used delivered PSD from contract designer and turned it into an integrative Joomla template
• Implemented dynamic slideshow system on front page of site
• Implemented ad server system to allow ease of update and tracking of ads on front-page

http://www.annedale.com

• Shopping Cart Development
• Custom mods
• Blog Install and skin creation
• Photo Gallery install and skin creation
• SEO Support
• Trained staff on use of several site based software systems
  • Shopping Cart
  • Slideshow System
  • Photo Gallery
  • Blogging Press Release system

http://dev.snagngrab.com/

• work in progress, current site
• Custom Import tool created to merge database of over 3000 products, 400 Brands and 3500 customer accounts. The database import tool was created too allow an easy transition from Monster Commerce’s database structure to CubeCarts’ which related brand, category and product data in an entirely different manner.

http://www.theanchoragecondos.com

• Worked closely with Pickle Juice Productions on site design and layout
• only did dynamic menu system creation setup on residences section of the site.

http://www.kreweofzulu.com

• Led production of site for Compucast Interactive
• Trained client staff on use of Joomla CMS for input of content
• Created spec of design with designer
• Used delivered PSD from contract designer and turned it into an integrative Joomla template
• Identified and installed and customized necessary plugins for directory system
  • Integrated organizations exsisting membership database through use of Joomla’s Community Builder
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  • Installed and configured a documents area in which certain permissoin based members can upload and share documents using Joomla’s DocMan
• Installed Photo gallery system with custom watermarks
• Installed client manageable slideshow for header

http://www.nofungusamongus.com

• lots of custom mods on this one
  • Buy one get one free administrative changeable section
  • Discount groups mod to allow Wholesaler / vendor only pricing on login
  • Direct connection to an site based installed newsletter system that imports customer data such as first names, last names and email addresses daily on a cron job.
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• Advanced SEO architecture to ensure search engine “friendliness”
• Customer training on use of CubeCart back end E-Commerce administration

http://dev.tempcoat.com

• work in progress, current site
• Installation of Downloadable Attachments mod
• Installation of manageable flash slide show wherein the client can change out the slides from a management interface

http://www.blainekernshauntedhouse.com

• Led production of site for Compucast Interactive
• Created spec of design with designer
• Translated PSD design into W3C template

http://www.elmwoodselfstorage.com

• Worked closely with Pickle Juice Productions on site design and layout
• Created dynamic include system to enable ease of updates
• Installed blog and photo gallery
• Trained staff on use and created necessary training documents
  • http://www.nolagraphics.com/support See sections Knowledgebase & Downloads for tutorial documents on installed technology

http://www.dauphineorleans.com

• Led production of site for Compucast Interactive
• Created spec of design with designer
• Translated PSD design into W3C template
• Installed Photo gallery system
• Installed client manageable slideshow for header

http://www.pitstopwheels.com/

• Full Logo development and creation
• Photogallery installation and client training

http://www.kreweofboo.com

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• Created spec of design with designer
• Translated PSD design into W3C template
• Installed Photo gallery system
• Installed client manageable slideshow for header

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• Created spec of design with designer
• Translated PSD design into W3C template
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WWOZ - Tune your radio to 90.7 FM YOUR jazz and Heritage station of
New Orleans

Audubon Aquarium of the Americas
- big shark tank …. nuff said

Maple Leaf Bar Cambronne Street & Oak |map |
- On Oak street just off Carrolton Go there on a tuesday night and catch
The Rebirth Brass band….. THE hottest bad ass brass in the city

Verti Mart |map |
-On the corner of Gov. Nichols and Royal this place is the best place
to get eats at 3am and if you live in the city they will deliver via
bike

Court Of 2 sisters |map |
- Go to the jazz brunch any sunday!!!!

Dragons Den |map |
- Live jazz/Funk sit on big pillows on the floor always a nice retreat from the street

CheckPoint Charlies |map |
- Live music Laundrymat you can eat at! Across from the dragons den

Cafe Brazil |map |
- World music you can boogie to all night long!

Royal Street in the french quarter
- Antique Heaven

Harbor Seafood |map |
- Just off Willams and West Esplanade in Kenner, Damn Good Seafood!!!

Port O Call |map |
- Best burgers n monsoons(big drink like the hurricane but better
) in the city

Laffitte’s BlackSmith Shop |map |
- Oldest building in the city. Drink Chartuse and hang out in the piano
bar!

Voodoo Nation Fest - Congo Square(louis Armstrong
Park) - see the rituals and culture of voodoo on halloween *starts at
9am* - Family Fun - Dont Stay after dark …. not the best area to be
walking around at night

Cemetery across from Commander’s Palace
| map |

It’s the only one that’s safe to visit by yourself, but
only in the daytime when you can see that other tourists are around.
Fascinating above-ground cemeteries; New Orleans cannot bury its dead
underground because of the water table. New Orleans is below sea level; a complex system of pumps, levees, and
dikes keeps the water from spilling into the city.

Maple Street Bookshop

Bookshop (the children’s bookstore next door was featured on the
American Express TV commercial.) This jam-packed shop resides in a rambling
old New Orleans shotgun-style house replete with gingerbread gewgaws
outside and richly creaky old wooden floors inside. Authors love this
place; they host lots of book signings with authors from around the
world. New Orleans boasts more than its fair share of writers; just
off the top of my head there’s Anne Rice, Andrei Codresciu, the
late Tennessee Williams, James Lee Burke (actually lives in New Iberia,
but he evokes the contemporary New Orleans atmosphere as well or better
than any other writer, living or dead).

Louisiana Music Factory

N. Peters Street - Specializes in New Orleans music. Staff is incredibly
knowledgeable. Good selection of New Orleans music-related posters and
T-shirts, too.

Record Ron’s |map |
One of the best places in the city to find rare and collectable LP’s

The Columns Hotel
(504) 899-9308 - If you’re uptown on St. Charles Avenue make sure
to stop in and see the beautiful, elegant bar inside, but the best part
is siting down to have a drink and people-watching on the beautiful
porch of the old hotel. Shaded by the majestic oak tress of the Garden
District, the veranda of this old hotel looks like something from “Gone
With the Wind.” And several nights a week there are jazz groups
performing in an ornate but intimate ballroom.

Crescent CityBrewhouse
Decatur St. - Get a table out in the balcony overlooking the Mississippi,
order a foamy mug of Red Stallion and a plate of boiled crawfish and
potatoes, and ask the waiter to show you how to eat these mouth-watering
shellfish. “You gotta pinch da tails and suck da heads,”
as New Orleanians are fond of saying.

The Alpine
- If you’re looking for a non-tourist restaurant, but VERY good
food, my dad’s friend owns a great little restaurant in the French
Quarter. Its on Charters Street just one block down from the Cathedral
and Jackson Square.

Central Grocery Store| map |
Decatur Street, a muffelletta at Central Grocery store is essential
to your stay in New Orleans. (Central Grocery is an Italian grocery
store that smells incredible when you walk in there; if it’s too
crowded at Central walk two doors down to Progress Grocery store and
get a muffelletta-its just as good). A muffelleta is a New Orleans Italian
sandwich on incredibly delicious round Italian bread with salami, ham,
provolone cheese, olive salad, and olive oil on the bread, warmed! (One
is plenty enough to split between two people). I wish I was walking
in Central right now on my way to a muffelletta.

Praline Connection
Frenchman Street-Its been discovered, and you’ll probably have
to wait, but if you’re hankering for some great down-home soul-food
cooking, dis here’s da place! In Fabourg Marginy neighborhood,
just a couple of blocks from the French Quarter (which is bounded by
Esplanade on the Fabourg side and by Canal Street on the CBD side).

Bluebird Cafe |map |
Prytania St, college area, Very popular, hip eatery with terrific food.
Always a line, but it moves fast.

OUTDO Fun!!

Mandeville Lakefront - Great Place for sunset

Natchitoches (nak-a-dish) - Quaint northern louisiana
town, great around x-mas time, they do a lights fest on the river there

Homochitto National Forest
- 60mi north of baton rouge in Misssippi - Great Camping, Fishing, and
Hiking

GrandIsle State Park
- SPORTSMANS PARADISE ….. take rt 1 to the gulf, South of Houma

Alligator Bayou

- cute tourist trap *see the alligators!!* Swamp Tours by colorful locals

AveryIsland
- Tabasco Plant and swamp conservatory - ok so its a pepper plant, big
deal right…. well the nature conservatory there is beautiful if you
dont belive me check out the swamp pics on my website, they are all
taken there.

TunicaHills

- Great Dayhiking area, RICH in indegenous flora, lots of rolling green
hills, No Overnight camping

Global Wildlife Center

- in folsom, la - Feed Animals from a moving tractor, think jurassic
park on a much much smaller scale

Rivertubing on the Bogue chitto
- bring an ice chest and stack it with beer …it will fit nicely in
the extra tube

Mandeville/Covington
MY SPECIAL HOMETOWN PLACES

The Northlake Museum and Nature Center
- On the 190 between Mandeville and Slidell there is a town called Big
Branch. There on the border is a Swamp walk. Boardwalks placed carefully
over the murky water lead you to land untouched inhabited by swamp flora
and fauna.

Fountainbleau State Park
The park is located in a beautiful wooded area of about 50 acres right
on the lake. If you drive through the park all the way to the end of
the parking lot, park, walk towards the lake and turn right, you’ll

Rubys Road House
-Best place for live blues on the northshore… on hwy 190 …. go see
Invisible Cowboy there if you can!

St Johns Coffeehouse |map |
In Downtown Covington it is my second fav coffee shop on the northshore

PJ’s coffee n’ teas
…. while we’re mentioning coffee shops…. anywhere you see a PJ’s
stop n’ grab a latte’ they are probally my 1st choice for coffee (tie
for first with java grotto…. more locations tho… got lots in N.O.)
Three Rivers Art Festival
Prolly one of the best art fest’s on the north shore!! Downtown Covington
closes of the streets and the gallery doors open wide welcoming guests
with wine, cheese, art and music by local artisans… also look for
the spring art openings in may every year those are usually a fun opening
as well

Northshore FOOD

La Caretta’s - 2 locations in hammond and mandeville
- I like the hammond one better…. really good mexican food try the
white cheese dip its DIVINE!!!

Morton’s |map |

- This local favorite sits at the Tchefuncte(cha-funk-ta) river bridge
in madisonville and is HANDS DOWN the best place to have seafood boiled,
broiled, fried, or sauteed’. When the sign is flashing the boiled crawish
are HOT! dont forget to Pinch da Tail and Suck da Head!!! My parents
house is 2 minutes away from the resturant… giv’em a call im sure
theyd ove to meet ya there.

Mandee’s - home of a local band called “the radiators”
you will find breakfast this place at the foot of the Causeway

Abita Brewery
- Ok so you gotta try Turbo Dog, It’s a local favorite Dark Beer brewed
in abita springs (my dad’s office is in abita) just down the road from
mandeville (up hwy59)the brewery has a great resturant and a sampler

Nuvolari’s

- Fancy Smancy italian resturant. Kinda pricey but definetly worth it.
This place was my standard for prom date/impress chic dinner.

La Grill| map |
good casual louisiana lunch place in Mandeville

La Provence

Elegant provencal french resturant. 14.90 early dining special

Sal & Judys
Lacombe on hwy 190, best scillian food around!!!!, Make reservations
504.882.7167

Pattons

Salmen fritchie home, off rr ave - elegant creole cuisine in a beautiful
historical house in Slidell

Cappita Italian Bistro |map |
Italian food, casual bistro

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Just Italy, 708 Aris Ave., will host a series of cooking classes that teach Italian cuisine fundamentals, history and techniques with tasting of regional product. Classes are being presented by local culinary historian and food editor Sandra Scalise Juneau, whose passion for teaching and writing about our regional food culture has been influenced particularly by her two Sicilian grandmothers who taught her about Italian traditions of food as art. Each class focuses on a specific menu course such as risotto, pastries and even Italian Christmas cookies.

Classes focus on the following:

• Risotto (savory and sweet rice dishes), Wed., Nov. 14
• Biscotti di Natale (Christmas Cookies), Wed., Dec. 5
• Dolci di Ricotta (sweetened ricotta desserts, such as cannoli, cassata and cassateda), Wed., Dec. 19

Classes are $30 per person including all cooking supplies and ingredients. Classes start at 7 p.m. Class sizes are limited; reservations are available by calling Just Italy at 504-832-9292.

Scalise Juneau, of Madisonville, is an instructor of Sicilian Pastry Arts at Nichols State University Culinary Institute and has served as a Culinary Arts Instructor at LSU-Baton Rouge and Southeastern University in Hammond. She also has served as a culinary history consultant for the Smithsonian Institute and for “The Encyclopedia of Cajun & Creole Cuisine” by Chef John D. Folse, CEC, AAC. She is food editor for Bonne Bouchee, a feature of InsideNorthside magazine.

Just Italy Deli & Italian Market was opened in May 2007 by Metairie businessman John Bellini. Just Italy Deli & Italian Market has quickly become a favorite destination for locals seeking the finest in gourmet imported meats, cheeses, olives, olive oil and specialty food items as well as in-house baked Italian cookies and pastries.

Open lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday, Just Italy Deli & Italian Market serves hot freshly prepared original Bellini’s Panini sandwiches, authentic Muffaletta, fresh sausages, artichokes and pasta dishes made daily. Just Italy Deli & Italian Market also features a full catering menu. Just Italy Deli & Italian Market is located at 708 Aris Ave., just a half block off Veterans Memorial Boulevard.

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The W3C is short for the World Wide Web Consortium and since 1994 has provided the guidelines by which websites and web pages should be structured and created. The rules they outline have to do with the HTML codes that tell your browser how to display the site.

The W3C is comprised of a large number of bodies with full-time, professional interests in the web and its development. They have the capacity to think through all the angles you don’t have time for. If your site validates to their standards, it is much more likely that it will be acceptable to the largest number of internet users and devices.

While Web sites don’t have to comply to be viewed correctly, there are a number of compelling reasons you or your web design company should follow W3C guidelines on your site.

Why comply? Well here’s a short list ….

1. Compliance helps ensure accessibility for the disabled.
2. Compliance helps to make your Web site accessible from a number of devices, from different browsers to the growing number of surfers using PDA’s and cellular phones.
3. Compliance will also help ensure that regardless of the browser, resolution, device; etc., your Web site will look and function in the same, or at least a very similar, fashion.
4. A site that has been created using W3C standard-based code performs generally better in the majority of browsers, be it (IE) Internet Explorer, (NN) Netscape Navigator, (FF) Firefox or Safari.
5. Future Proofing - Using standards-compliant programming can help save both time and money. A site that has been programmed to W3C standard has two advantages: it is downgrade-able (able to be viewed correctly) in older browers; it is viewable and will look nearly the same across newer and continuously updated browsers (i.e., Internet Explorer, Firefox and Camino.)
6. A Web site is generally not built by one person alone. When upgrading or maintaining a site that is done to standards, the person knows there is a certain set of rules that is adhered to for every page of the site. This can save an enormous amount of time and research for the person performing the updates.

“My ‘plain old HTML’ works just fine”

So you’ve tested your ‘plain old HTML’ in EVERY combination of operating system and browser, have you? What about the new ones that are coming onto the market every day? What about the users who’ve taken advantage of the accessibility features of new browsers? How about the college student on his I-Phone?

“It’s too much trouble to do all that”

If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right!

If you were going to publish a printed book, wouldn’t you go to a lot of trouble to ensure that its contents were accurate and reliable, spelled correctly, readable, bound properly, and complied with the law and so on? Of course you would, otherwise that book would remain a permanent testament to your slovenliness.

When you publish a Web site, the chances are that you have a much wider audience than you would for a book. Do you really want the whole world to notice how sloppy you are?

Once you have created the basis by becoming compliant, your site is now able to bridge between different and newer versions of web browsers, devices such as PDA’s and cell phones and any new technology that will interact via the web.

Validation to published standards can be carried out automatically ensuring that most, if not all, of your HTML typos will be corrected before exposure to your worldwide audience.

Separating presentation from content for easier searchability

In the days before cascading style sheets (CSS) were available, authors carefully arranged the text of their sites to create the “right” visual image. This meant more code for browsers and search engines to sort through, and, since nothing was standard, every device displayed content and layout differently. In fact, programs were produced whose sole function is to strip out the extraneous markup leaving the user with the original, clear, text and adding even more code to the site and creating tag soup– a scrambled mess of unnecessary markup that may produce the intended layout.

Use of style sheets gives the opportunity to separate style from content so that both components can be properly exploited. Style sheets provide mechanisms for providing different presentation on screen and on paper. The less time search engines spend searching through your HTML code for your content, the more time they can spend actually indexing your content and keywords.

But What Do I Get From All This?

Once you’re done you’ll be left with a compliant site that not only will be available on a much larger number of browsers (increasingly important as browsers such as FireFox gain more and users) but you’ll have a site with far less code that will rank higher on the search engines because of it.

To be sure, W3C validation is not the “magic bullet” to top rankings. In the current SEO world there is no one thing that is. However, as more and more Web site are born and the competition for top positioning gets more fierce, it’s important to take every advantage you can to not only get to the first page but to hold your position against those who want to take it from you.

This was essay written in response to actions taken by a previous employer wherein they fought tooth and nail to not create sites to W3C standards. In the end they lost. They are still creating non-functional sites that are not set to W3C standard or any sort of standardization of code. This may not cause them & their clients (or more importantly their site visitors!)  problems in the short term as they continue to actively develop these sorts of sites in the local new orleans hospitality industry. This will however defintely end up causing compatibility issues as technology progresses while these sites have a nice look and feel but still have these problems .

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