Photo Courtesy of St. Baldrick’s Foundation

Many of you know my son Matthew is involved with the St Baldrick’s Foundation. This was Matthew’s third year getting his head shaved and collecting money to help find a cure for kids with cancer. This year however we got invited to go to the St Louis St. Patrick’s Day Parade and help fly Lucky the St Baldrick’s mascot balloon.

We had a blast. It was cold but once we started moving and got in line for the procession the excitement really warmed us up. Especially all the ones that kept spinning the balloon. Neither Matthew or I had ever been in a parade before especially one that had thousands of people standing on the sides on looking the event. It was a privilege to be able to hand out so many informational packets about St Baldrick’s and I hope to see more and more people get involved and start coming out to help fly Lucky. It was even more a privilege to stand by my son and so many others that really have a heart for this foundation and what they stand for. Meeting them and sharing in their company was enough to keep me smiling till next years parade. Where I look forward to seeing them again.

Here are some pics from the event.

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The Birth and Wellness Center of Missouri is a client of ours. We designed their logo and will be providing them with some display art for their birth center in St Charles when it opens this summer. The birth center is the first of its kind in the St Louis area and there has been great community response to their arrival. The St Louis Post Dispatch did an article on them recently so we wanted to give them a shout out here too.

If you have ever wondered about childbirth outside of the hospital environment or are looking for it as a service please read the article on STL Today and check out their website Birth and Wellness Center of Missouri.

The three favorite words of any SEO expert. Content is the key to getting any search engines to pay attention to your site and rank you as rellevant for anyone searching for your type of business. Now there are books written on the subject and many really geeky debates as to the best methods, but to boil it down to layman’s terms (me), it means text and lots of it.

Writing the content however is more difficult than it sounds. Sure throwing up a bunch of text sounds easy, but Google and the likes aren’t stupid. They expect your text to be relevant to the page it is on.  For instance an about us page should have lots of text that is about us. At the same time as a business we want to communicate a very clear message with everything we put on here. A company’s website is it’s first salesman. So we want very much so for it to be a good salesman.

The difficulty arises in getting lots of content on your site that also sends a very clear message. Making sure from page to page the visitor feels a sense of consistency to your content, while at the same time things are strategically placed so that search engines know you have content they are interested in as well.

As we add more and more content to Open Sky Studios we hope your experience here continues to be a good one. Let us know what you think. Either comment or send us an email on the contact us page.

So here we are. A new beginning for Open Sky Studios, LLC. At least on line that is. Thanks to my good friend Geoff Gallaway your online experience here is much more rewarding. You can check out Geoff’s blog at Geoffeg.org

So just a few things I want to point out. One is of course the new blog. We will be updating content here regularly with pictures, articles, opinions and the like so keep checking back or add us to your rss feed. Also go check out the new galleries there are a ton more pictures in there and we added our graphic design work as well.

We hope you enjoy the new site! Leave a comment letting us know or send us an email on the contact us page.