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Web design history for Epowersportsllc.com

Aloha and thanks for stopping by to read my first eblog on Epowersportsllc.com! I guess I should introduce myself properly - I am Elliot Takane, the webmaster for this site and good friend of Ernie. We met over 10+ years ago and have been close friends ever since, so when he told me about his idea to open an airsoft gun shop, I was excited about the possibilities!

I immediately thought about building this website and what a task it would be. My web skills have been advancing step by step with things that you see upon updates and I have to say that looking back just a few months to when the site came online in September 2004 until now, a lot has changed.

For other aspiring web designers/masters like me, I’ll try to chronicle the changes and things that I’ve learned over the last few months. Our first site was built entirely in Photoshop 7.0 and was only one page initially with a few more added as time went on. Visually, it was ok, but it is impossible to read by any of the google robots that scour the internet to index webpages in their search engine databases. Making changes also was a bit more difficult due to the fact that each time, all the images would have to be uploaded to the server taking up time and precious file count and file size limits.

I next moved to our current layout which is photoshop based for the visual template, but all HTML and JavaScript for the filled in areas. This helps tremendously with increasing your web presence as search engines now are able to "see" your page… did a lot of reading on how to optimize this, but at the same time, realized that redisign #3 will be inevitable. I just finished a class on asp.net database programming as well and will try to integrate that to our ever growing site. My personal goal for this year is to have a site that is visually pleasing, easy to use, full of rich content, updated frequently, and full of different features that you, the user, can interact with. By doing so, I am hoping that the other webmasters for our local airsoft shops will continue on the same path to truely make the Hawaii airsoft community a great one that people worldwide will take notice of!

Other airsoft webmasters locally, please contact me at webmaster@epowersportsllc.com. To my readers, thanks for reading and hope you got something out of this blog - post a comment or just say hello.

Mahalos,
Elliot

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