Dordogne Design or de Paulus
I often get emails from people asking me why some of my sites are designed by “de Paulus” and other sites listed on my Portfolio are designed by “Dordogne Design” ?
Well, the answer is actually very simple, and is not meant to confuse people, so I do apologize if it is confusing. de Paulus and Dordogne Design are both mine, as are Dordogne Web Services, Complete SEO and Designer PL.us. And although there is no rule to the site name I used when I put “Designed and Maintained by …. ” I do this mostly for Search Engine reasons.
So if you see a site that was Designed by de Paulus, Dordogne Design, Dordogne Web Services, Complete SEO or Designer PL.us then you can be sure that I designed them.

Artists Display free advertising
Artists Display gives artists from around the world the chance to show, promote, manage and sell their art online.
This site is not really a market place for artists to make money, it’s more for artists to show and promote their art online, and get free online exposure, and if you mange to sell anything, then that is just one of the many benefits of the site.
Artists Display is 100% Free, NO charges, NO commisions, NO small print and NO credit card is ever needed.
For more info visit : www.artistsdisplay.com
Only Pay Per Result
We are pleased to announce that our “sister” Complete SEO has just lauched 3 new Pay Per Result packages.
This means you only pay if your site reaches the agreed result… here’s an example of how it works…
You tell us what keyword(s) you would like your site to be high on the search rankings, and we will use 100% ethical seo methods to get your site on the top pages, and the good news is, if we don’t get you the agreed results, you don’t pay anything… that’s correct, you only pay if we reach the agreed result.
We offer 3 PPR packages, that work as followed:
Package #1 €400,- we will get your site listed on page 1 – 4 … this means that as soon as your site reaches at least page 4, we have reached our agreed result and you then pay us our fee.
Package #2 €700,- choose this package and only pay us once we get your site listed on page 1 or 2 of Google ( or any other Search Engine of choice)
Package #3 €1200,- No guarantees we can do it, but you only pay us if we get your site listed on the first page of your choice of search engine using your choice of keywords.
We do not make any promises we cannot keep, but at least you get to keep your money until we deliver the results.
Huge Dordogne Project
Have just come to an agreement with a client to design and maintain 7 new Dordogne related sites, and optimize and maintain their existing 3 sites, and in October I will re-design their official site from scratch.
I have agreed that I will have the sites designed by September, this will also give me time to work on my existing projects.
Absolutely Pathetic
Just finished and launched www.absolutely-pathetic.com. a WordPress project about politically correctness. No time for a rest, next project is already on the drawing board.
Joomla gone for good
Two years ago I designed www.leseyzies-tourist.info , at the time I decided to use Joomla, only because I had a really nice Theme that was ideal for what I needed. Being used to WordPress, I found that Joomla was not as easy to work with, and the biggest issue I had was the “Link Structure” that Joomla used. In the past 2 years my site was hacked and defaced twice, both times was due to a Joomla security issue, and updating Joomla was a nightmare.
However, the problem I had was that www.leseyzies-tourist.info was on the top of the first page on all mayor search engines, so I was a bit reluctant to change it too much. The big issue was when IE 8 was launched, it did not like Joomla code at all, and my pages were all screwed up if browsing with IE 8, FireFox was fine, and using IE 8 in “Compatibility View” worked fine, but who was gonna know that?
So, I decided to pull the plug on Joomla, and start from scratch using the beloved ( or at least in my case) WordPress.
Having no more Joomla sites is such a weight off of my shoulders.. Good riddance Joomla!!
Dordogne Vacation
Today I started on Dordogne Vacation another Informative website about the Dordogne
Dordognes Nicest Accommodation
Spent most of today upgrading Dordognes Nicest, giving it a facelift and a more powerful and user friendly portal. Dordognes Nicest is one of my oldest sites, and I have grown very fond of it. This site does really well all round on all the major search engines, and now that it’s been upgraded, and optimized, I hope it will do even better.
Latest Project Rag Mama Rag
Been very busy putting together Rag Mama Rag, a web site for the Blues Band Rag Mama Rag. Tried to combine modern with 1930′s faded look, that I believe fits into the Blues scene. This site is built using WordPress, two themes and 4 database’s. I came across some very interesting challenges with this one, and one extremely frustrating issue. But, at the end of the journey, I am happy with how things went.

Advertising your “product” whatever it might be, is extremely important, because of this it can also be extremely expensive. If advertising actually works, it is well worth the money, ‘cos let’s be fair, it only works if your “income” you earn directly from your advertising leads are higher than the costs to advertise, however we all know that, that is rarely the case. As the saying goes, “the best things in life are free” and anyone willing to spend a bit of time searching, they will definitely find a lot of free options, believe me I know, I only use free means of advertising. I also offer quite a few sites that are free to use for any Dordogne related stuff. The good thing about my sites are, they are all high ranking in the search engines and Dordogne related, which means they are for a targeted audience..
