When I spotted this, the geek and Mom in me just went crazy and I had to share. I even called my daughter’s principal to see if the art teacher there might want to get everyone to participate!

The Doodle 4 Google contest invites students in the United States, grades K-12, to use their artistic talents to redesign Google’s homepage logo. This year’s theme is “If I could travel in time, I’d visit…” The contest isn’t limited to schools. Parents, guardians, and after school programs can submit their students’ creations as well.

The winning student will see their artwork appear on the Google homepage and take home some cool prizes and, as a special bonus, the winning artwork will appear on a limited edition of Crayola’s 64 box!

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Redesigning a website is done for many reasons… design styles change, technologies change, companies and businesses change. Regardless of the reason for the redesign, when it happens, sometimes page URLs change too. This isn’t a problem when someone types in your website’s URL and goes clicking through the site, but what about all those links you and your website designer have worked so hard to acquire on other sites, directories, and in the search engines? You can’t just send them an email and ask them to update their links!

That’s where redirects come into play. There are several techniques that can be used to redirect an old page to a new one. Some are better than others and I won’t bore you with all the techno-mumble-jumble! All you really need to know is that if High Aspirations, Inc. redesigned your website, your redirects are already in place. There are always exceptions of course, like server and host limitations, but Marilyn and I do our best to put those redirects in place for our clients regardless of whether or not we designed the site being replaced.

If High Aspirations, Inc. isn’t redesigning your website (and why not? I ask!), make sure you talk to your designer about having redirects added to the project.

Google+ is a little more than five months old now and reports from Bloomberg and YouGov in August 2011 predict that it will pass Twitter and LinkedIn. If Google+ does as predicted, that will put it in second place behind Facebook in the social networking market.

Google+ continues to grow. More features are being added and more are coming, including business pages which are rumored for later this year.

If your site isn’t taking advantage of social media, contact us to get your site connected with a Facebook fan page, Twitter account, LinkedIn account, Google Profile, and Google +1 button.

Read the original article at Website Magazine.