SeaWaves Blog

SeaWaves, in conjunction with Thord Hedengren, have completed a bright, vivid and colorful design for Valarie’s Place, a unique restaurant in the heart of Sea Isle City, NJ.

Valarie’s is one of the mainstay restaurants that fuels us here at SeaWaves so we were especially glad to design the website. Our greatest hope in starting this project was to capture the friendly and energetic personality of the restaurant’s owner, Valarie. We think we got it just right. Take a look and we think you’ll like what you see.

After three hard months of development, we are pleased to be able to announce the BETA launch of the new Eatonweb Blog Directory. The project was a lot of fun, especially working with maestro designer Mr. Thord Hedengren.

Eatonweb is the oldest blog directory on the planet. Yep. It was the first one. So the honor of working on a sight with such prestige was a bit daunting.

And after much sweat and blood, we’re proud of what we’ve achieved. It was our biggest development project yet, and while there’s still some tweaking to do, we’re happy with the result.

The idea behind the directory’s “resurrection” was to make a blog directory that matters. There are thousands of directories out there. We wanted to do something different.

We came up with the idea of creating a proprietary blog metric that measures 2 primary aspects of each blog in the directory. First, we measure the perceived influence and strength of each blog . Then, we track the strength over time and we call it a momentum metric.

Why does this matter? Well, for one, it allows blog owners to track the growth or decline of their own blogs. But it also offers blog buyers/sellers a concrete way to evaluate the health of a blog. Further, it allows us to list the most “healthy” blogs first – in other words, it rewards strong, growing sites.

So we’ve set out to create a blog directory that matters, and again, we’re still tweaking the system, but overall, we’re very happy with what we’ve produced!

Creating things is one of the greatest joys in life!

The massive success of our online property PopCrunch has resulted in an expansion of the brand into three new sites. We’ve included description of the three new sites that fall under the PopCrunch brand below:

TV Crunch
This site focuses on TV culture with recaps, commentary and news.

HipHop Crunch
This site focuses on HipHop and black culture with news and commentary on the latest in rap, r&b, soul etc.

Style Crunch
This site focuses on the fashion world, highlighting both the beautiful and the ugly in the world of style.

We can’t overstate the fact that we love enabling experts to share their knowledge online. We are happy to announce the launch of the pain management site called “How To Cope With Pain.”

How To Cope With Pain is written bya Board Certified Psychiatrist whose been in practice for over 15 years. She works primarily with patients in chronic pain and also does academic research on the topic. The site aims to share some of her knowledge with those who are living through pain.

One great thing about the site is that the author is not only an expert but also has faced thechallenge of chronic pain first-hand. She uses her experience of what it’s like to live with chronic pain in her work as a pain management physician.

The site includes a blog, breathing exercises, relaxation exercises and servers as a general self-help resource. Be sure to check it out.

SeaWaves is pleased to announce the final design and launch of the Gleeson Contractors website. Gleeson is a top notch building contractor working in South Jersey and specializing in beach and shore homes.

Gleeson came to us looking to both redesign and expand their previous website. We worked closely with Gleeson to ensure an expedited work process, and managed to complete their site in only 2 weeks. Gleeson was especially excited to showcase their excellent building projects and to attract new customers.

To that end, we created several picture galleries highlighting the custom work they do with single family homes, custom duplexes and commercial properties. They also allow prospective customers to request a full color brochure.

If you’re thinking of building a custom home at the Jersey Shore, be sure to check out Gleeson Contractors who have over 30 years of home building experience in a wide variety of places such as Sea Isle City, Ocean City, Avalon, Wildwood, Dennis Township, Marmora, and other locations in Southern N.J.

SeaWaves Technology is pleased to announce that it has finished the design for the internet presence of writer Margaret Gelbwasser. Margie has been a pleasure to work with and she has worked closely with us as we’ve fined tuned the layout, design and functionality of her site to fit her needs as a freelance writer looking to network with other writers.

Margie has written for a variety of magazines including Ladies’ Home Journal, Self, Girls’ Life, New Jersey Monthly, and others. She has also successfully completed her first novel (congratulations!)

We truly enjoyed teaming up on Margie’s website and really like the fresh, eclectic and original design that we ended up with. Be sure to check out her blog for fresh insight and commentary on the writing life, read a sampling of her work, and make sure to edify yourself with her latest tips for writers.

Margie also offers a variety of writing services including consultation, workshops and freelance projects.

If you’ve got a really great website with really great content and you haven’t launched the site yet, then this article is for you.

There are a lot of stories floating around the internet (many of them true) about how you can launch a website and start making money from it the next day. Sometimes this is possible, but more often than not, if you are running a small to medium sized site and otherwise have very little footprint around the web, chances are that you won’t be able succeed without risky link building techniques that could damage the perceived reputation of your site and hurt your rankings.

What we recommend is a slow and steady approach to launching a website. It won’t make you quick cash, but it will establish you as an authority on the web, and over time, that can pay huge dividends. Our approach is like the approach of the long term investor. You may not reap immediate rewards, but over the long term you are much more likely to succeed using these methods.

The first key to launching a website is to have at least 50 pages worth of website content (products, articles, etc.) pre-developed and tightly integrated. You’ll want to ensure that all your links work and that there is a way to get to every page from every other page.

At this point, your goal should be to add at least two pages of content/products to your website every week.

Once you’ve uploaded your 50 pages of content, the next key is start promoting your site in ethical ways. We’ve found that the most powerful and ethical way to promote your website for free is by submitting articles to other websites with a link or two back to your own website.

Submitting one article per week to various websites for the first 10 weeks of your website’s existence will pay huge dividends in establishing your site as an authority in its field.

Let’s say you have a site on personal finance. What you’ll want to do is take some time each week to write an article having to do with money, investing, credit cards, debt, college tuition, etc. Then submit those articles to websites like Ezinearticles, GoArticles and ArticleBlast (our preferred three).

By submitting ten articles to each of these sites, you very well may acquire over 50 links back to your website. This makes the search engines take notice of your site.

When launching a website, we feel that this 1 article per week for 10 weeks strategy is the best way to slowly and steadily launch a website. After a while, you should also consider submitting your website to some respectable directories like Yahoo, DMOZ, Best Of the Web and Linkopedia.

In the midst of promoting your site, don’t forget to keep it regularly updated. Adding two pages of unique, relevant content per week go a long way. You could also consider establishing a blog. Blogs let you make short, insightful comments without the requirement that they be too in depth or well structured. The idea is that a blog is a conversation with the world. Keep it conversational, but also keep it moving along. Don’t let it stall for more than a couple days at a time.