SEO for the win! The Zen Zone ranks 1st in Google for "Lee's Summit Yoga".

Lee's Summit SEO web development by Webhelio

Webhelio has done it again! We have taken our client The Zen Zone from the bottom to the top in Google search ranks using nothing more but best practices in web development. Our knowledge and expertise in this area truly outweighs our competition by nature, and our work speaks for itself. Give it a try, open up a Google search and type in "Lee's Summit Yoga" and you will see the number 1 listing is The Zen Zone

How do we do it? We wouldn't want to give away all of our secrets, but in reality none of this is a secret. It's just a best practice, or trick of the trade. Organically, by coding websites the correct way, taking advantage of the attributes at our fingertips, we are able to make this happen with little additional effort and no extra money from our client. Years of development practice building hundreds and hundreds of websites helps too.

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Twilio and Webhelio... A nice mix!

Voice and SMS applications brought to you by Webhelio and Twilio

We've been running some sample apps using Coldfusion with Twilio, and.. how cool! Rather than bore you with code, I am just going to tell you what all it can do. First Twilio... Twilio allows developers to build applications that use the phone network to interact with people on landlines and cell phones all over the world. With just a few lines of code, we will have phones ringing. We can actually build applications that interact via text messages with a simple phone-number based API or our very own short code. Developers can now connect users across web browsers, mobile phones, tablets, and even traditional phones.

Why is this so cool? Because it allows us to use our existing web language and developer skills to build voice and SMS applications. And Twilio is a "pay as you go" communications platform, powerful and simple it let's us focus on what we do best. Leading companies like eBay, Intuit, and Salesforce have used web languages in tandem with Twilio's API to build industrial-strength voice and SMS solutions on the Twilio platform, launching the next generation of enterprise communication apps reliably and at scale.

How does it work? A user calls or sends an SMS to your Twilio phone number. Twilio receives the call or SMS and makes a request to the application. Your app receives that information and sends XML back to Twilio. Twilio executes those instructions and interacts with the user.

That's it in an nutshell! So think outside the box, save some money and let Webhelio work with you to leverage the power of the Twilio platform for your voice and SMS application needs.

Amazon S3 for your data storage using Coldfusion and Java

I recently had the chance to work with Amazon's S3 services. If you don't know what S3 stands for, neither did I 4 weeks ago.. it stand for Simple Storage Solution, and it's Amazon's answer to Google but for a really tiny price (at least there is some kind of comparison there since both Google and Amazon offer all this "space"). I don't think that the difference in Google and Amazon have anything to do with price though, and this S3 system is really slick as are most of the Google products. The S3 is especially convenient though if you are storing large files, and large amounts of large files at that. Put your gigabyte's worth of images on the web now, because you can finally afford a host that will give you that much space at an affordable price.

Check out the pricing HERE.

As a Coldfusion and Java developer RIAForge has a great CFC to get you started. But to go a little deeper you might want to try the AWS SDK for Java, which you can fine HERE. Place the .jar file into the appropriate Coldfusion directory on the server, or ask your host to do it for you if you don't have control of the server. Now you can use the Amazon S3 services with the AWS SDK for Java API through Coldfusion by instantiating the Java object, and using the methods available to leverage S3 in a variety of ways.

In conclusion to keep it rather short (there's really a lot to talk about here if you think about it from a business standpoint), if you are in business and you pay for data storage even if it is just for a static website and email, you might be paying too much. Not only will you save money with S3 services, you will also have a reliable service and I think it's safe to say you won't "lose" your data by storing it with Amazon. An inexpensive content delivery network that is reliable and easy to use.

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