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Google click-to-call AdWord

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Google has come up with a way for an advertiser to get directly on the phone with you. Next time you see a phone icon in google ads click it and enter your phone number. They say with in 5 seconds your phone will ring. When you pick it up it will automatically be calling the advertiser.

Is this good functionality? Are people really unable to dial the phone number their selves? I think click-to-call is a good way to boost your phone call conversions. Hey and it also lets us web people track how many people make that call.

You can read more here.
Yardley

Franchise.org

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Client: International Franchise Association
Work: UI Design, CMS(ektron), and Programming C#
Link: Live

Franchise.org Search Results Page

Help-U-Sell – Franchise Opportunity Center

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Client: Help-U-Sell
Work: Programming and Interactive Design
Link: Private Intranet

Help-U-Sell Franchise Opportunity Center

Internet Explorer 7 web site

Monday, September 4th, 2006

www.ie7.com

Relative links get rewriten in Deamweaver Templates

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Here was the problem. In your template you have some links like <a href="images/photo.jpg">. When you save your template Dreamweaver places the template in a directory named Templates on the root. When this happens Dreamweaver took the liberty to rewrite all of your links to something like this <a href="/Templates/images/photo.jpg">. You could see how frustraing this would be since you don't want to keep your images inside the Templates folder. The quick solution was to make urls that reference the root of the server like this <a href="/images/photo.jpg">. This still created problems when using php includes.

I just updated Dreamweaver to version 8.0.2 and there is not an option to not rewrite document relative paths. From your manage sites menu select a site to edit. In the bottom of the left column click on templates. You will want to then uncheck the checkbox that says "Don't rewrite document relative paths".