10T Web Design Launches 10T Themes

10T Web Design is happy to announce a new side project, 10T Themes.

10T Themes is a repository of premium themes designed for the WordPress content management system. The first published theme, Blue Moon, a light blue theme that makes use of foreground transparency, is a fixed width theme with ten widget-ready areas.

As will all of the themes published at 10T Themes, Blue Moon comes with technical support, easy advertisement integration, horizontal and vertical navigation menus, and many other features. Blue Moon is available for purchase for $9.99.

Merry Christmas from 10T Web Design!

Just wanted to take a few seconds and wish everyone a safe and very Merry Christmas!

Refer a Business and Get 10% Off!

This just in: Now you can refer someone needing a website to us, and you could get 10% off your next year’s contract!

That’s right! 10T Web Design is happy to announce the beginning of our referral program. For each business or organization you refer to us that becomes a client, you will save a little money.

Get two referrals, get 20% off. Get to ten referrals, and as long as all ten remain with 10T Web Design, we’ll just stop billing you altogether!

All the details can be found right here, so tell everyone you know about us. All you have to save is money!

Wetzel County Autumnfest

10T Web Design is happy to announce the launch of our newest website, designed for the Wetzel County Autumnfest. The site features information on the festival, as well as online registration for festival contests and vendors.

Visit the website.

Now online: belmontcountyfair.org

10T Web Design is happy to announce the relaunch of belmontcountyfair.org, the website of the Belmont County Agriculture Society. We are out at the fairgrounds today, taking some photos of the MX 213 races for their site. Stop out and say hi.

Belmont County Sheriff’s Office Relaunch

10T Web Design is happy to announce the relaunch of the Belmont County Sheriff’s Office website.
The new design features two custom built databases, one for the Sheriff’s Sales and one for the Wanted List. Winter road conditions and emergency levels can be updated in real time, you can even send anonymous or feedback instantly to the Sheriff’s Office, and more.
Head on over and take a look around, and let us know what you think.

Baker Family Museum Goes Online!

10T Web Design is happy to announce the launch of the Baker Family Museum website. The Baker Family Museum was the winner of the ‘Happy Birthday to Brock’ Free Website Giveaway.

The museum is located in Caldwell, Ohio, and is home to one of the largest private collections of antiques in the nation. They have over 300,000 pieces from local glass companies including Cambridge Glass, Heisey, Fenton, Westmorland, and Degenhart. They also have an antique gun collection, grandfather clocks, music boxes, and much more. Then even have some Woody Hayes pieces for you Ohio State fans!

So, head on over and check it out. And, next time you’re in the Caldwell area, stop by and see their impressive collection.

The “Happy Birthday Brock” Free Website Giveaway Rules

  • No purchase necessary to enter or win. One entry per business, non-profit organization, or household. All qualified entries will be entered into a drawing for the offered prize.
  • Contest is limited to residents and business located in Ohio and West Virginia. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted.
  • Winners will be selected from all qualified entries received before 6:00 AM EST, February 14, 2011. The odds of winning a prize depend on the number of entries received.
  • To enter, one representative of the business, non-profit organization, or household who is 18 years of age or older must submit his or her name electronically in accordance with the instructions provided on the 10T Web Design website.
  • 10T Web Design is not responsible for lost, misdirected, or undelivered entries.
  • Winner will be notified by e-mail or by telephone. 10T Web Design will not be responsible for failed transmissions of email or telephone communications. If prize winner notification is not deliverable, the prize will be awarded to an alternate winner.
  • Prize may not be substituted or redeemed for cash by winner.
  • One winner will receive:
    • Free website design and development consisting of up to five pages, one information request/contact form page, and one rss/news page. Up to 5 revisions will be allowed during the design phase of the project.
    • Integration of chosen design in to WordPress content management system.
    • Registration of one available domain name for the length of one year.
    • One year of hosting provided by 10T Web Design.
    • E-commerce websites and custom programming not included. This is a basic, informational website only.
  • We will not develop any website with the following:
    • Adult Sites: Website may not contain any adult (pornographic) material or link to pornographic sites.
    • Illegal use: Website may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities.
    • Copyright or trademark infringement: Website may not contain any content that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.
    • Website may not be used in the distribution of Viruses, Spyware, and Malware: Distributions of software that attempts to and/or causes damage, harassment, or annoyance to persons, data, and/or computer systems are prohibited. Distribution of software that monitors computer or computer user activity without the computer user’s knowledge and consent is prohibited.
  • 10T Web Design does not assume responsibility for late, lost, illegible, misdirected, incomplete, or illegal entries.
  • Employees of 10T Web Design, affiliated companies, and promotional partners, and immediate family members or household members of anyone so employed are not eligible to enter.
  • All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply.
  • By entering, you allow 10T Web Design permission to use your contact information to update you on future news, information, or specials. You may opt out of these communications in the future as described in our Privacy Statement.
  • By entering, each participant releases, discharges, indemnifies, and holds harmless 10T Web Design and its employees from and against all liability, loss, harm, injury, damage, cost, and expense directly or indirectly arising from participation in this giveaway or use of the prize.
  • 10T Web Design reserves the right to change this giveaway in its sole discretion at any time that 10T Web Design becomes aware of circumstances or occurrences that would materially affect the giveaway. Such changes will be announced in a suitable way to reach the intended audience.
  • Decisions by 10T Web Design on all aspects of this giveaway are final and binding.
  • 10T Web Design is located at 509 S Chestnut Street, Barnesville, Ohio 43713 and is owned by Brock Rogers. All Rights Reserved.
  • If any provision of this giveaway is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, then it shall be deemed to be severed from these Rules and will not affect the enforceability of the remaining provisions.
  • This giveaway shall be governed by the laws of the state of Ohio. Any dispute shall be governed by Ohio law and resolved withing the courts of that state.

How Fast Is Your Website?

Let’s face it: when it comes to having a website, speed is everything. Slow websites get lower rankings from search engines and frustrate your potential customers.

So, just exactly how fast is your website? With all the factors involved, this can be a tricky question to answer. Vertain Software has a free website speed test that lets you see just how fast your site is from an ideal connection. If your page takes more than 6 seconds to load on this test, you should be concerned. If it takes longer than the 13 seconds the test is limited to, you have some serious problems.

And where exactly does a website from 10T Web Design check in? In two tests, our main page checked in a 1.30 and 1.62 seconds. To put that into prospective, the super-speedy Google home page loads in about 1.1 seconds, and the only somewhat slower Facebook home page loads in about 1.7.

Not too shabby.

So, what is net neutrality, anyway?

Lifehacker has a really good article up, giving you the lowdown on net neutrality, what it is, what it means to you, and what you can do about it.  It’s a bit lengthly, but is really well written, so if you want to educate yourself, I highly suggest it.