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Latest Book Publication – December, 2011

Clyde Gurley book cover

We have recently had the opportunity to assist Clyde Gurley, Jr. in the layout and publishing of a book about his life and experiences.

ZinZang Studio was responsible for:

  • Type of binding and size
  • Editing service (typos, spacing, alignment, typesetting)
  • Layout presentation (creative design, styling, typography, photo editing) using Adobe InDesign
  • Scanning and retouching of photographs
  • Press ready file preparation
  • Client/Printer liaison

The book was conceived as a unique keepsake Christmas gift for his family and friends. Entitled, Observations and Experiences of My Life, the book is a 120 page autobiography including 11 photographs, and recounts Mr. Gurley’s youth growing up in the South, his service in one of the final U.S. Mounted Cavalry units, his role in the U.S. Border Patrol, and poignant memories of his family and friends.

Clyde Gurley book cover

Feedback

On seeing the final product, “It is wonderful! I appreciate all you have done. Your patience and expertise were exactly what we needed, and the book shows it. I know how proud Clyde will be to give them to his family. I look forward to working with you again.” — Margaret Lovatt, friend of Mr. Gurley and Editor

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How to Change GoDaddy Nameservers

Change GoDaddy Nameservers

If you are a new website design and hosting client of ours and are keeping your domain registered with GoDaddy, please follow the instructions below. Editing the Nameservers at GoDaddy only takes a few minutes and a few steps:

  1. Log in to your account at GoDaddy. If you see your domain name listed in the center of the page, click it and skip to step 5. Otherwise,
  2. Click “Domains / Domain Manager” on the left.
  3. Select your domain name from the list on the resulting page to go to the “Domain Details” page.
  4. On the left side under “Nameservers”, click “Set Nameservers”.
  5. Select “I have specific nameservers for my domains” and enter NS1.ZINZANG.COM and NS2.ZINZANG.COM as shown below.Change GoDaddy Nameservers
  6. Click “Ok” twice and you’re done.

After you edit the Nameservers, it can take between a few minutes to a couple of days for the changes to take effect.  Your site probably will not experience any downtime at all during this period, and you’ll get an email from GoDaddy letting you know of the changes.

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What Page of Search Are You On?

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Normally when you do a Google search, the results can be influenced by the geographic location of your IP address, previous searches, and other web browsing history. Ever want to know what page of search your website appears on to most everyone else? Now you can find out by using zinzang.com.

Enter your desired search keywords and the URL of your domain, and What Page of Search Am I On? will search the first 10 pages of results. If the domain you entered appears within the first 10 pages, the search will stop and highlight the top-ranking result for your domain. Very helpful!

A caveat: This tool does not currently include results culled from Google Maps. Therefore, if your keywords include city or state names, your domain may actually have a higher rank than is shown in these results.

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New Website for Burks Farm, Virginia

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We are excited to announce the launch of the brand new website for Burks Farm. Burks Farm is a family owned business that has been operating in New Kent County for 10 years processing deer and livestock, and providing whole hogs for pig roasts.

Features:

  • Customized WordPress installation and theme
  • Coordinated business listing in Google Places
  • Integrated Contact form with Captcha code
  • Automatic, nightly backups of the entire website’s files and databases
  • Automatic sitemap updates whenever changes are made to the site
  • Google +1 buttons on every page
  • Notification sent to Google, Bing, and Ask.com about any site changes

Burks Farm screencap

Results

15 days after beginning the project, the site had already paid for itself, according to the owner, David Burks. Search rankings are very good, with burksfarmvirginia.com as the number 1 result in Google searches for “deer processing near richmond virginia”, for example.

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Business Card Special

Business Card Special

1000 Full Color, Ultra-thick cardstock, UV coating – $69.00*

Professional and attractively designed business cards personally delivered to you within 10-14 business days. You can’t beat this value!

*Price for New Kent County and Charles City County, Virginia delivery addresses only.


What you can expect from us


We hope to be be involved in helping your company grow well into the future, and look forward to designing for you!

  • 1000 card count
  • Full color
  • 14 pt Ultra-thick cardstock
  • UV Coating
  • Designed, Printed, Delivered


Get started


Call us at 804-557-0017, or email us and let us know what you need.

Business card content you will provide

Textual content

You will need to provide us with the textual content for your business card design. All contact information, taglines or specific text to be included.

Logo

Provide us with your logo design in high quality digital format, preferably vector. If you don’t have a professionally crafted logo design, but have chosen a typeface, color scheme, and/or “just a quick sketch” image you’ve been using, please scan it at a minimum of 450dpi to a jpg, tiff, or png file.

Photographs

You may send us a photograph to incorporate into your business card design. Please send us the largest versions of the photos you can, in digital format like jpg, raw, or tiff. We will perform any basic color correction, CMYK conversions, exposure compensation, or cropping during design time if necessary.