Current News
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Whitaker’s Sport Shop and Motel Chooses ACS for new Shopping Cart!
Whitaker's Sport Store & Motel's new website was launched this month. This custom e-commerce solution provides informational content and the means to collect payment from online purchases. Our custom e-commerce solution allows an administrator to manage products with specific shipping options pending on the footprint and weight of the product.…
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Facebook Is Giving You the News
Facebook continues to offer new features and tweak the current ones and with the recent year in review studies showing Facebook and Twitter users growing in both the PC and Mobile market, they must be doing something right. The studies show that most users utilize Twitter for news, and Facebook has hopped on board. This week Facebook introduced a new navigation design as well as a new way to gather news. Facebook is happy to be the news aggregator for any and all of its users, and doesn't suff…
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Empire State Container Chooses ACS for New Website!
ACS Web Design & SEO launched a new website at the beginning of this week for Empire State Container, Inc. In looking for a new look and strategy to present their products and services, we built a custom content management system to allow an administrator to manage their specialty products to allow them to keep their specialty area current.…
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Central New York Students Punished for Facebook Page
Students of Central New York Middle School were punished this week for a Facebook page about one of their teachers. The Superintendent of the School system suspended one student and issued detentions to about thirty others. One parent is on the record saying that he disagrees with the way the school handled the situation and will not let his child serve her detentions. He feels the school over stepped its bounds and the matter should have been brought to parents' attention. The Superintenden…
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Duplicate Content and Search Engines
Duplicate content has been a concern for a while now. Google has gone on the record reassuring everyone that there is not a duplicate content penalty*. That being said, there is a filtering process that happens. The search engines are trying to provide the best user experience so duplicate content is omitted from the results. The key here is what do you want returned in search? What Do You Want Users To See? Google has implemented some new features in the past year to help website owners de…