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8 steps to create world-class UI and UX for your startup

8 steps to create world-class UI and UX for your startup

Business, UI and UX 17 min read
November 2026 update. I still use the design steps below, but I now ask a second question: can the next site reuse the decision without looking identical? In Antsand, a page is assembled from sections with explicit header, body, and footer responsibilities. Type, spacing, color, and responsive rules belong in shared styles; the words, assets, and order belong to the site. That makes a design syste...
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Anthony Shivakumar
23rd Dec 2025
Ultimate guide to a perfect SEO Campaign in Vancouver - 6 month plan to rank high and dominate

Ultimate guide to a perfect SEO Campaign in Vancouver - 6 month plan to rank high and dominate

SEO 39 min read
If you are in a hurry and you want to rank your business high on search organically, dominate your competition, get more leads, looking for a proven plan to help you out, this blog post is for you. If you are time-bounded, have a limited budget, wiling to put in the effort for the next 6 months or more, this blog will help you strategize accordingly. If you do not want to pay for paid advertisemen...
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Anthony Shivakumar
27th Aug 2019
Ultimate guide to website maintenance - How to attract more leads and generate sales

Ultimate guide to website maintenance - How to attract more leads and generate sales

ultimate guide 16 min read
November 2026 update. I used to describe website maintenance mainly in terms of keeping pages fresh and attracting leads. That is still part of it, but running generated sites changed my checklist. Before a release, I want to know who owns the content and the code, which customer data must survive regeneration, what tests actually ran, and how we would restore service if the update failed.For a si...
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Anthony Shivakumar
26th Aug 2019
How to plan your content roadmap and boost your SEO in Vancouver

How to plan your content roadmap and boost your SEO in Vancouver

SEO 27 min read
November 2026 update. I would no longer start a content roadmap with a stack of location keywords. I start with a reader's problem, what we can show from work we actually did, and the next useful question that article should answer. A topic earns its place when we can provide an example, a source, or a reproducible result.For Antsand, that means grouping writing around building sites, design syste...
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Anthony Shivakumar
25th Jul 2019
20 things to lookout when selecting the best SEO service in Vancouver

20 things to lookout when selecting the best SEO service in Vancouver

SEO 28 min read
If you run a business in Vancouver or you are looking for someone to help you with digital marketing this blog post is for you. If you need to work with a marketing team have greater visibility either through search or social media this post is a must read. Where ever you are in your business journey if you want to rank high on search and dominate your competition you will need expert help. If you...
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Anthony Shivakumar
16th Jul 2019
How to conduct an effective SEO audit for local companies in Vancouver? A step by step guide

How to conduct an effective SEO audit for local companies in Vancouver? A step by step guide

SEO 17 min read
If you run a local business and you are looking for ways to promote your business online this blog is for you. If you are a SEO consultant and you are looking for new ways to impress your clients this blog will give you new insights. If you are new to business or an old veteran and you need new ways to grow your customer base, grow your revenue and your profits, this blog will show you exactly tha...
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Anthony Shivakumar
8th Jul 2019
How to become an SEO expert in Vancouver? A step by step guide

How to become an SEO expert in Vancouver? A step by step guide

SEO 21 min read
Are you looking to change careers and get into digital marketing? Are you looking to expand your skill set and become a marketing consultant? Or are you trying to expand your knowledge and apply digital marketing to your own business? Where ever you are in your career path, if you are looking to gain a very high income skill and have the ability to apply it to those who are in need of this skill s...
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Anthony Shivakumar
23rd Jun 2019
Ultimate guide to mastering local SEO and growing a profitable business in Vancouver

Ultimate guide to mastering local SEO and growing a profitable business in Vancouver

ultimate guide SEO 39 min read
If you own a business in Vancouver and you are struggling to position your brand high on search this blog post is for you. If you want to become an SEO expert in Vancouver and not sure how to get started, this blog will address those concerns. If you are someone who owns a website, you are struggling to write content and reach your target audience, this blog is a must read.   Irrespective of the
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Anthony Shivakumar
19th Jun 2019
Blogging made easy - Ultimate guide to writing blogs people want to read and search engines want to rank

Blogging made easy - Ultimate guide to writing blogs people want to read and search engines want to rank

ultimate guide 53 min read
November 2026 update. This long guide began with the problem of writing blogs people can find. The publishing problem I work on now has another layer: one authored article may be selected for a particular site, rendered with that site's design, and updated without treating reader accounts or comments as disposable build output. The source article, its byline, images, and destination links need cle...
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Anthony Shivakumar
14th Apr 2019
Marketing made easy - Ultimate guide to making your business more marketable and profitable

Marketing made easy - Ultimate guide to making your business more marketable and profitable

ultimate guide 46 min read
Hey readers! Quick notes before we jump in.This is a post I have been wanting to write for some time. The way I understand the word marketing, I think business, sales, entrepreneurs, products, and brands. E.g. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Apple, Tesla. After running an actual business (ANTSAND), studying, and applying marketing, I realized marketing is more than what meets the eye.Who is this post forIf you ...
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Anthony Shivakumar
16th Dec 2018
Using RESTful API's between php (Phalcon) and Vue components?

Using RESTful API's between php (Phalcon) and Vue components?

Programming 10 min read
November 2026 update. The PHP and Vue examples below are a snapshot of how I connected an interface to an API. The current generated blog page does not use Vue: it starts with server-rendered HTML and CSS, then adds vanilla JavaScript where a reader needs interaction. Legacy Antsand Forms and Notes screens still contain Vue, so this is an evolution of the publishing path, not a platform-wide remov...
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Anthony Shivakumar
24th Mar 2018
Integrating Phalcon, vue components and webpack with code examples

Integrating Phalcon, vue components and webpack with code examples

Programming 11 min read
November 2026 update. The Phalcon, Vue, and webpack examples below document an integration approach from an earlier Antsand build. I am keeping them because working through real code is more useful than pretending the old stack never existed. For the blog pages I build now, the server renders the HTML and CSS and a small vanilla JavaScript module handles interaction. Antsand still has legacy Vue s...
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Anthony Shivakumar
20th Mar 2018
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8 steps to create world-class UI and UX for your startup

8 steps to create world-class UI and UX for your startup

Business, UI and UX 17 min read
November 2026 update. I still use the design steps below, but I now ask a second question: can the next site reuse the decision without looking identical? In Antsand, a page is assembled from sections with explicit header, body, and footer responsibilities. Type, spacing, color, and responsive rules belong in shared styles; the words, assets, and order belong to the site. That makes a design syste...
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Anthony Shivakumar
23rd Dec 2025
Antsand Moving to a Containerized Solution

Antsand Moving to a Containerized Solution

deployment saas factory software factory 3 min read
November 2026 update. I wrote the first version of this post while containerizing Antsand was still a plan. The useful question now is not whether containers are fashionable. It is what became easier to build, what still needs care, and how an independent website comes out of the system. What changed Antsand's core application now runs in containers on EC2. That gives us a more repeatable way to ...
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Anthony Shivakumar
29th Mar 2025
Best Digital Marketing Strategies for Chiropractors

Best Digital Marketing Strategies for Chiropractors

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In the United States alone, there are more than 70,000 chiropractors. As if not enough, at least 2,500 new chiropractors join the workforce each year. As a chiropractor, your competition is not limited to nearby practitioners. You will also be competing with other doctors (and alternative-medicine practitioners) specializing in pain relief. The good news? Apart from getting expert help from digita...
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Anthony Vought
20th Dec 2021
Why making a mistake is the best thing to do

Why making a mistake is the best thing to do

5 min read
How often do you remember being praised for making a mistake? When you screw up, does the person you admire and respect congratulate you and lavish you with attaboys? I can't recall EVER being rewarded for a miscue; it wasn't - and still isn't - the acceptable thing to do.Our entire life we have been taught to not make mistakes, from school to work. Get 100% on the exam and develop a perfect strat...
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Roy Osing
22nd Dec 2020
Successful people are never in step with the crowd

Successful people are never in step with the crowd

3 min read
What do I have to do to succeed? is a common question facing young professionals who aspire to have a rewarding and successful career, and one that represents the life balance they seek.And will this general question, there are many more ancillary ones that are posed:How many degrees do I need? What academic credentials should we gather, and from which institution?What courses should I take to att...
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Roy Osing
20th Nov 2020
Why do successful people have no common sense?

Why do successful people have no common sense?

3 min read
What happens when you have no common sense? Common sense is a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things, which is shared by ("common to") nearly all people and can reasonably be expected of nearly all people without any need for debate.If any organization is to successfully meet the economic and competitive challenges of contemporary markets, they require people who DON'T rely on the...
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Roy Osing
20th Oct 2020

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