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Your Very Own Dragon (YVOD LLC) is a Limited Liability Corporation formed in 1998. We own the domains yvod.com and yvod.org. YVOD is expanding and we are all very excited about it! YVOD is in the process of receiving Apple Enterprise certification. We are also collaborating on a reservation/tour project in Belize. Below are a few things we are planning over the next two year.

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1) Receive Apple Enterprise Certification to become an authorized education solutions provider
2) YVOD Education will provide and support computing solutions for schools
3) Create and run Barefeet Belize
4) Expand Barefeet Belize into an international presence called YVOD Reservations
5) YVOD Education expands to provide computing solutions in countries with a YVOD Reservations pesence (Belize, Costa Rica, Ethiopia,
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What are personae?

User personae are archetypes of typical customers. They are based upon our research of your services and the information you have given us about your customers and their habits.

Personae consist of personal information about the user as well as their mindset and technological comfort level.

How does YVOD use personae?

YVOD practices User-Centered Design. We base many of our design decisions on the expectations of these personae. Personae act to give us a solid base upon which to architect and design the best possible site to address your needs and those of your visitors.

As we develop the Information Architecture and flesh out the design, we constantly
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Give One. Get One.

Will you be counted?

YVOD makes building websites quick and painless. We have developed a tried-and-true 6 Step process that our clients have called “quite enjoyable”. Hard to believe? Think about this for a second…

You know who your intended audience is. You may not know how to find them online (that’s our job) or to create a great looking website (that’s also our job) or even what needs to go on your website (again, our job). But you do know your business and you know how to come up with a few hundred words to describe what you do. You also know how to answer a few basic questions about design: What
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Introduction: What is Important

YVOD’s approach to building websites is 100% client focused. Many businesses want to tell their own story. They spend a lot of time talking about their approach to solving problems and why they are so fantastic. While this is very good to know, it is of little importance on the web. A successful website must deliver what the visitor wants to see.

Step 1: Who Are Your Clients

YVOD likes to start the conversation by asking owners of websites to think about who is going to visit their site. We try to develop at least 3 “personae” of potential visitors. These personae may describe existing online visitors, desired visitors or existing offline clients that you wish to convert to online customers. What is important is to think deeply about who these visitors are.

Oh I can not wait for my iPhone!!

Ride Finder by Google Labs

Want a cab? Click this Ride Finder link in Safari on the iPhone and walk to the nearest cluster of cabs and hop right in. Updating in real-time! You can even see if a cab is driving towards you.

Mind blowing!!!

All done with nothing more than data, access to the internet and a web browser…

Think of all the applications that will be written to utilize this type of technology solution =)

Michael was in a bit of a pickle. While he owned michaelromanowski.com he did not actually have a website. For the past two years he had a simple “Site Under Construction” page that had not changed.

I met Michael and Jacqui Naylor for drinks one night and the conversation turned to how many website leads Jacqui’s gets from her newsletter sign-up form.

Michael: Yes, I know you guys at YVOD had been there asking create a new website for me, but I just could not find the time. I am speaking next week at a
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YVOD builds websites for individuals, nonprofits and small businesses. Sure, we can toss anything up on the web and make it stick. But our real value is that we T-H-I-N-K about what we are doing. We actually care about your site and want you to have the best one possible.

One of our excellent clients is People’s Grocery. We love these guys. They are actively out there changing the world.

Their home page has recently fallen by the wayside and become stale. It is not very exciting. Brahm and I have been having a discussion about this and I figured I would copy it to my blog to help
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A client was asking for an example of YVOD’s search engine optimization (SEO) skills. As we so often do, we point to our own website as the example. Less than a month ago YVOD released our 13 SEO Best Practices document.

1) We chose the subject carefully

We wanted to give clients some help on understanding a complex field which many are asking about.

2) We chose the title carefully

We wanted to make sure Google (ie: search engines) understood what we were talking about.

3) We blogged about it

We could have disseminated the info in a lot of different ways. Heck, we could have created a Flash movie like so many big corporations do. Instead we chose to blog because
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