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Mimic your production Web environment, locally for free

In January, Microsoft announced the WebMatrix tool at CodeMash in beautiful Sandusky, OH. Our own Cara Pluff left south Florida and headed up to Sandusky. Now, as you can imagine not many people leave south Florida in the middle of January for Sandusky but she did and was kind enough to send back photos of [...]

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Using WebMatrix to upgrade your DotNetNuke or existing Website

Believe it or not I still find myself building websites after all these years.  It’s something I enjoy to do and when most people are out playing golf, I find myself playing with some new piece of software. Generally, I use a content management system (CMS) like DotNetNuke or WordPress to build a website today.  [...]

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AppliedI’s outlook on 2011 and where we’re heading

With 2010 behind us and 2011 well on the way, I thought it would be good to share Applied Innovations plans for 2011. I know that the economy is recovering at a very very very slow rate and that the mantra businesses adopted 2 years ago of “do more, with less” continues to be the [...]

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The Live Microsoft WebMatrix Launch Event

For the past 6 months Applied Innovations has been working closely with our friends at Microsoft to help make the development, deployment and hosting of today’s advanced web applications like DotNetNuke, WordPress, Joomla and Drupal easy. Today (January 13th) we’re proud to announce that this has been accomplished thanks to WebMatrix and at 12:30PM EST [...]

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Getting the most out of your online marketing efforts with Inbound Marketing

At Applied Innovations we pride ourselves on being your ‘e-business partners’ and as any good business partner it’s our job to help you succeed with your business by providing guidance, support and recommendations. Because much of our business is based on hosting business and ecommerce based websites we get asked frequently “How do I get [...]

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5 things your new web development company will say to get you switch from AppliedI hosting.

5 things your new web development company will say to get you switch from AppliedI hosting.

With close to 12 years under our belt of offering strictly windows web hosting services we’ve seen our fair share of web developers move customers to ‘their preferred hosting partner’ and although most often we’re the preferred hosting partner, sometimes we’re on the other side of that situation.  In fact, the #1 reason we’ll lose [...]

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The core principles AppliedI was founded on, and why.

The core principles AppliedI was founded on, and why.

Hi, I’m Jess Coburn, CEO of Applied Innovations. As CEO of the company you’ve partnered with and rely on for your online business success, I think it’s important to share what makes Applied Innovations different. So each month as part of the newsletter we’ll include a letter from me personally, ranging from our business philosophy [...]

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This week’s announcement of Giving Innovations

This week’s announcement of Giving Innovations

  We believe the need for help is greater than ever and believe charities are being hit the hardest by a difficult economy.  We also believe that as a company that continues to see great growth, we’re obligated to help and thus we do.  Over the past few years we’ve been informally making charitable contributions [...]

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7 Great WebMatrix Tricks & Tips Sites

7 Great WebMatrix Tricks & Tips Sites

We think WebMatrix is a pretty amazing tool and apparently we’re not alone as there’s about 700,000 mentions of it throughout the web today. We wanted to put together a list of great tutorials, tips and tricks that have been posted on the web and here’s our favorite 7 sites. 7 favorite WebMatrix Tricks & [...]

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How to host yourdomain.com on you WebMatrix Hosting Beta account!

How to host yourdomain.com on you WebMatrix Hosting Beta account!

Last month we announced the AppliedI Labs environment along with a partnership we’re running with Microsoft to provide free hosting for the WebMatrix Beta tool.  When signing up for an account you’d have to work with a URL like: http://mydomain.web##.appliedi-labs.net and although this allowed you to experience WebMatrix, ASP.NET Web Pages (Razor) and a slew [...]

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