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Featured Member
 "The information available through the WebGuild meetings has been invaluable in helping me to put my company on the Internet map."
—Don McCunn
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I started attending WebGuild meetings four years ago this December. I have always been impressed by the high quality of the speakers and the fact that they come from all over the country to share their expertise.
I found the information on user interface engineering so important that I completely rethought and redesigned the way I create my websites--thank you Jared Spool in particular.
Had I not attended WebGuild meetings religiously I would have been totally ignorant about how to make my websites accessible to people with disabilities. The positive responses I have had from complying with these guidelines has been very rewarding.
And the many tips I have received about search engine optimization have allowed me to make contact with customers from around the world who would otherwise been unaware of the existence of my company and my book "How to Make Sewing Patterns."
When I just now searched Google for the title of my book, the first 65 out of 70 links are to my book. On Yahoo it is the first 58 out of 60 and on MSM it is the first 47 out of 50. This exposure has kept my 30 year old book on Amazon.com's list of best selling sewing books for at least most of this year. It has even reached the number 1 spot on a couple occasions that I have noticed.
The information available through the WebGuild meetings has been invaluable in helping me to put my company on the Internet map.
Bio
I started my publishing business, Design Enterprises of San Francisco, in 1977 to bring out the second edition of my book “How to Make Sewing Patterns.” Since then I have maintained my business as one of the 3 million “no employee” companies that are spread across this country.
Of the three elements of business--product development, marketing, and management--I am most interested in product development. When I got interested in personal computers in 1979 I wrote the book “Computer Programming for the Complete Idiot.” At national book conventions, larger publishers would come by our table in the small press section and laugh at the title. They said “Personal computers are like the hoola hoop, popular today gone tomorrow.” But I sold 95,000 copies of that title and went on to develop and
sell software for personal computers.
Recently, I have started publishing clothing patterns using current electronic technologies. I have also recommitted myself to marketing my original book, “How to Make Sewing Patterns,” utilizing the Internet to reach a global market.
Currently I am the webmaster for four websites devoted to my business:
I am also the webmaster for my wife’s work as a novelist and non-fiction author: www.mccunn.com.
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