Ameravant Staff Blogs

Thoughts and discussion on web business, design and development

Santa Barbara Small Business Websites

Posted Mon Mar 09 at 06:41 PM by Michael

Attract more visitors to your business. Small Business Websites only $1,000.


Santa Barbara Tech Brew Business Networking Event

Posted Sun Feb 15 at 06:57 PM by Michael1 comment

Santa Barbara's Premier Networking Mixer Event for High-Technology Professionals, Cutting-Edge Entrepeneurs, Innovators, and Business Leaders


Protecting your website forms and visitors from spam

Posted Sat Jan 31 at 05:37 PM by Kip4 comments

If a blog post receives a good amount of attention from humans, it will also start getting attention from spam bots and scrapers. This puts both your website content and your contributing visitors at risk of being spammed.


Ameravant Web Studio announces partnership with SEO firm FirstClickSEO

Posted Sat Jan 31 at 04:25 PM by Michael

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Partnership builds on successful joint venture.


Free Internet Newsletter Web Site Campaigns

Posted Wed Oct 22 at 12:49 AM by Michael2 comments

Want FREE effective eNewsletter marketing? Want to avoid mothly fees from 3rd party companies like Constant Contant and Listrak?


Make Your Small Business BIG with Web Marketing

Posted Tue Sep 23 at 07:40 PM by Michael1 comment

There’s no better time than now to put the web to work to help you grow and support your business! Web marketing is a powerful marketing tool, but steps need to be taken in a logical order. Republished from the Pacific Coast Business Times,9/19/08


Sending tons of emails in Ruby on Rails with ar_mailer

Posted Thu Aug 07 at 03:30 PM by Kip59 comments

So you've had some success using sendmail to send one-off emails like order receipts, password reset confirmations and welcome letters. But what happens when you need to be able to send 5,000 newsletter emails to your entire contact database?


Recurring tasks in Ruby on Rails using runner and cron jobs

Posted Thu Jul 03 at 03:08 PM by Kip21 comments

If you have a website that has a need for nightly database maintenance, Rails provides a very simple solution for interacting with your application on a recurring schedule. It's a script called "runner" and is amazingly simple to use.