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		<title>How to Find a Reputable Web Developer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quality of your web presence can make or break your business in today&#8217;s digital age. The days of the do-it-yourself website are over. These days, customers want a professional look and feel or else they&#8217;ll take their business elsewhere. Customers aren&#8217;t going to trust a website that doesn’t look professional and that&#8217;s hard to navigate. That&#8217;s why you need a web developer , but you need one that comes highly recommended. Here are six reasons you&#8217;ll only want to consider hiring a Denver web developer with a rock-solid reputation. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The quality of your web presence can make or break your business in today&#8217;s digital age. The days of the do-it-yourself website are over. These days, customers want a professional look and feel or else they&#8217;ll take their business elsewhere. Customers aren&#8217;t going to trust a website that doesn’t look professional and that&#8217;s hard to navigate. That&#8217;s why you need a web developer , but you need one that comes highly recommended. Here are six reasons you&#8217;ll only want to consider hiring a <a title="denver web developer" href="http://www.blueriotlabs.com/services/web-development/">Denver web developer</a> with a rock-solid reputation.</p>
<p><strong>A reputable Web Developer will have the expert knowledge and training to:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Guide your visitors&#8217; eyes properly up, down or across the page.</li>
<li> Utilize the proper spacing that makes a web page easy to read and navigate.</li>
<li> Make your website and various web pages easy to navigate.</li>
<li><a title="Denver web design" href="http://www.blueriotlabs.com/services/design-user-experience/">Design your website</a> so that it fits perfectly on the screen and in all the right colors.</li>
<li> And all the other details that go into an effective website</li>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Expertise</strong><br />
A reputable web developer in Denver will study the competition, your  business, industry and your prospects and customers in order to come up  with a highly <strong>effective web strategy</strong>. This comes from years of study and  experience and all with a focus on local Denver wants and needs.</p>
<p><strong>Quality</strong><br />
A reputable web developer is always striving for the best. Nobody is going to recommend one who doesn&#8217;t take the time to do everything perfectly the first time. When you are lucky enough to find a good web developer, you&#8217;ll be assured a professional look and feel that will make visitors want to return again and again.<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Promptness</strong><br />
A reputable Denver web developer is sure to be quick on the draw when it comes to returning emails and phone calls. Nothing is more frustrating than not hearing back from your consultant when you&#8217;re paying him or her good money. A reputable developer understands this and will never leave you hanging.</p>
<p><strong>Reliability</strong><br />
Along with promptness, you can always count on a good developer to come through for you. When you want to add to your order, change your website or even if you have a question, you can rest assured that your developer will always find time for you. And if the web developer promises you something, you can be sure the promise will be followed through with. After all, a wishy-washy developer isn&#8217;t going to be very highly recommended, right?</p>
<p><strong>Research</strong><br />
A reputable web developer in Denver is going to always be on the cusp of the <strong>latest technologies and processes</strong>. This requires constant research and study and the desire to remain one or more steps ahead of the competition.</p>
<p><strong>Your Reputation</strong><br />
A reputable web developer has a vested interest in seeing you succeed. If you succeed, you&#8217;ll give them great online and offline reviews and you&#8217;ll be more likely to spread the word about the professional&#8217;s expertise and professionalism. That&#8217;s free advertising for your developer and you get the professionalism you paid for, and customers get a <strong>professional looking and easy-to-navigate site</strong> to visit. Everyone wins!</p>
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		<title>5 APIs You Should Know About</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Source Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Services & APIs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you have a website, the goal is to get human visitors to interact with it, right? But sometimes you may want a machine to interact with your site. This is where Application Programming Interfaces or APIs come in. APIs allow programmers to write applications and widgets for services like Salesforce, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and more. And these aren&#8217;t just feeds. Oh no, with APIs, you get web-based access to data and actual functions from the sites in question. But with so many APIs to choose from, it can be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you have a website, the goal is to get human visitors to interact with it, right? But sometimes you may want a machine to interact with your site. This is where <a title="api developers" href="http://www.blueriotlabs.com/services/web-services-apis/">Application Programming Interfaces or APIs</a> come in. APIs allow programmers to write applications and widgets for services like Salesforce, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and more. And these aren&#8217;t just feeds. Oh no, with APIs, you get web-based access to data and actual functions from the sites in question. But with so many APIs to choose from, it can be hard to select the ones that may be right for you. To help you out, we&#8217;ve compiled the top 5 APIs you should definitely know about.</p>
<p><strong>Salesforce</strong></p>
<p>Salesforce is considered the number one platform for tracking and monitoring any sales or marketing team. The platform is used by millions of businesses worldwide. And with the Salesforce API, developers can custom-design any application that integrates Salesforce functionality. This allows salespeople the ability to create, retrieve, update and delete records, maintain passwords, perform searches and more.</p>
<p><strong>UPS</strong></p>
<p>For any company that routinely sends packages via UPS, this API is a must-have. With the ability to integrate address validation, pickup information, shipping information and even signature and delivery information, a company can now provide even more value for the customer.</p>
<p><strong>MailChimp</strong></p>
<p>With MailChimp, you&#8217;ll be able to easily communicate with your subscription list. With this API, you&#8217;ll be able to manage your lists and stats for your campaigns on your own website or application. You can also sync subscriber information between your database and the MailChimp database and this means that you&#8217;ll have a cleaner list and, most of all, it means no more importing or exporting of subscriber information.</p>
<p><strong>Freshbooks</strong></p>
<p>Freshbooks makes billing and invoicing extremely easy, and now you can send invoices and manage all of those invoices right on your own site or application. The Freshbooks API offers a single point of entry and is derived right from your own account URL.</p>
<p><strong>Amazon.com</strong></p>
<p>With Amazon&#8217;s API, you have access to a wide selection of Amazon products and product descriptions. But you also have access to Amazon&#8217;s product reviews, which are incredibly influential when it comes to increasing buying behavior.</p>
<p>These are just a few of the APIs currently available, and they allow you to transform your website or application so that you don&#8217;t have to &#8216;reinvent the wheel&#8217;, so to speak. You can access the developer software of the platform of your choice, allowing you to mold it to your specifications and needs. Use these APIs to empower your sales force, inform your prospects and consumers, send out invoices, send out communications and much more. And, with WordPress powering everything, that API just got even stronger. You&#8217;ll be able to create a <a title="denver application developers" href="http://www.blueriotlabs.com/services/web-app-development/">custom-made application</a> that does just what you want it to, and we&#8217;ve already given you five APIs to get you started. All you have to do is choose the ones that are right for you, mold the APIs to your specifications and you will have the functionality you need in less time, with less effort and for far less money.</p>
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		<title>Revolutionizing Your Business With Web Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask yourself this, what is my time worth to me?&#8230; what is my employee&#8217;s time worth to me?  How can I simplify or automate my current business practices in order to save these costs? Automating your business practices and processes can save you valuable time, big money, and an astounding ROI. We had the opportunity of working with a client that asked themselves just that and came up with a simple solution that has revolutionized their business.  Quality UPC is a company that buys UPC Barcodes in bulk and offers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-903" href="http://www.blueriotlabs.com/?attachment_id=903"><img class="alignleft" title="custom web development" src="http://www.blueriotlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/robot1.jpg" alt="denver custom web developement" width="211" height="239" /></a>Ask  yourself this, what is my time worth to me?&#8230; what is my employee&#8217;s  time worth to me?  How can I simplify or automate my current business  practices in order to save these costs? Automating your business  practices and processes can save you valuable time, big money, and an  astounding ROI.</p>
<p>We had the opportunity of working with a client that asked themselves  just that and came up with a simple solution that has revolutionized  their business.  Quality UPC is a company that buys UPC Barcodes in bulk  and offers them to their customers, smaller businesses.  Wanting to  pursue her music career and needing the extra time to do so, they came  to us at Blue Riot Labs, a reputable <a title="denver web development" href="http://www.blueriotlabs.com/about/">development shop in the Denver area</a>.</p>
<p>At that time, when their customer’s orders were complete, they had to  manually process each order by generating the unique Barcode Skus,  create a certificate of authenticity, and zip them all into a folder and  email it herself.  Fortunately, they had a busy website with plenty of  orders, but unfortunately they had to be on stand-by, all the time, in  order to insure excellent customer service and a timely delivered  product.</p>
<p>When finished, Blue Riot Labs, delivered yet again another awesome project.   Our client now enjoys a “hands-off” approach. When ordering from their  website, upon checkout, all barcodes are now dynamically generated, a  certificate of authenticity is dynamically generated based on the  customers profile information, and are zipped up and available for  download as soon as payment is accepted.  What used to be a manual  process, now is completely self sufficient.</p>
<p>Not only has our client eliminated what did take several hours a day,  and is focusing on pursuing other interests, but has also seen an  increased number of sales by advertising the convenience of their new  checkout. We can proudly say, Quality UPC will see a positive ROI in  month three of their original investment.</p>
<p>Software is used all of the time to automate some kind of work and  complete it efficiently in less amount of time. Chances are, you are  already using an <a href="http://www.blueriotlabs.com/services">automation software</a> like this to make your life easier. There was a time when different  companies belonging to different industries used one kind of software.  However, today the trend has changed and individual companies look  forward to getting <a title="user interface design" href="http://www.blueriotlabs.com/services/design-user-experience/">software designed</a> to optimize their process.</p>
<p>So, this is my challenge to you.  Carefully analyze your current  practices for your business. What is taking the most time? or money?  Now, step outside of the box, and brainstorm ideas that you can use to  simplify or automate your current process. This could be bookkeeping,  marketing, order processing etc.  If you’re having trouble with this,  contact us today.  Here at Blue Riot Labs, we’d love the opportunity of  talking with you and generating innovative ideas with you.</p>
<p>If you can dream it&#8230; We can build it!</p>
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