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Announcing the UDM4 Blog

As part of our 2009 resolutions to better serve the UDM4 and web development community, we’re please to announce the addition of the UDM4 blog to our site.

In the coming months, we will be focusing on providing you with timely, useful, and relevant information in the fields of accessibility, web development, marketing and search engine optimization.

If you would like to contribute to the UDM4 blog, we are currently accepting applications for blogger. Please submit your application to info@udm4.com with the subject “Blog Application” and indicate which area of interest you would like to discuss.

We hope that the addition of the blog, in conjunction with our already successful forum, will help you grow in your web development and accessibility career.  Hopefully this new blog will help me pay my high monthly car insurance bill.

Admin

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