Manager hangs after executing request

[classyd]

Manager.jquery.js hangs when calling the getJSON method (Line 17).
This behavior can be reproduced reliably when the request returns
specific data (I have reproduced it when entering certain serch terms
or navigate to specific pages within search results).
I have not been able to clearly identify what data in the results
causes that behavior, and I also wasn't able to trace exactly where
JQuery fails.

I was trying to paste a result that causes that behavior, but the
posting did not go thru, any ideas would be most appreciated.

[James McKinney]

This usually means there is a problem with a widget's afterRequest
handling of the data. What browser are you testing in? If you are
using Safari, or Firefox with Firebug, do you see any JavaScript
error? Can you reproduce the bug with the online Reuters demo?
http://evolvingweb.github.com/ajax-solr/examples/reuters/index.html

[classyd]

No, I can't reproduce it with the demo, and it only happens with
certain result sets.
I have done a fair amount of debugging with Firebug, and it never
really hits the afterRequest function in the widget, and there are no
Javascript errors.
I am pretty sure it's an error in the getJSON()method called from
Manager.jquery.js. That method is known to silently fail when it
encounters encoding problems.
I can make the JSON data that is returned available if you would be
wiling to take a loook.

Thanks so much
Dietrich

On Jan 4, 5:52 pm, James McKinney <oxford.tux...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This usually means there is a problem with a widget's afterRequest
> handling of the data. What browser are you testing in? If you are
> using Safari, or Firefox with Firebug, do you see any JavaScript

> error? Can you reproduce the bug with the online Reuters demo?http://evolvingweb.github.com/ajax-solr/examples/reuters/index.html

[James McKinney]

Sure, if you could put the JSON data in a pastie or gist I'll have a
look: http://pastie.org/

[classyd]

Great. The pastie is not working right now, but I put it in a public
file on Dropbox:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63788/error.json

Thanks a bunch!
Dietrich

[James McKinney]

Hmm, if I put that inside <script> tags and define jsonp1294242250685,
I can log the JSON to the console without error (Safari 5.0.3, OS X
10.6.5).

If, using the reuters demo, I change Manager.jquery.js to call
this.handleResponse(data) where data is set to the JSON, it seems to
work - the widgets expect the Solr documents to have a different
structure, but I see those errors logged to the console.

Are you using the latest ajax-solr?

[James McKinney]

Also, which version of jquery are you using?

[classyd]

1.3.1. I also tried it with 1.4.1, with the same result.

On Jan 5, 12:03 pm, James McKinney <oxford.tux...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, which version of jquery are you using?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:02 PM, James McKinney <oxford.tux...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmm, if I put that inside <script> tags and define jsonp1294242250685,
> > I can log the JSON to the console without error (Safari 5.0.3, OS X
> > 10.6.5).
>
> > If, using the reuters demo, I change Manager.jquery.js to call
> > this.handleResponse(data) where data is set to the JSON, it seems to
> > work - the widgets expect the Solr documents to have a different
> > structure, but I see those errors logged to the console.
>
> > Are you using the latest ajax-solr?
>

[James McKinney]

I can't reproduce it with 1.3.2 and the latest ajax-solr.

[classyd]

I am using the latest AjaxSolr. Do you have a suggestion how to
possibly debug this?

[James McKinney]

I would try the following. Does the bug occur even if you remove all
custom widgets, JavaScript, and HTML, and just use Ajax-Solr to do one
of the problematic requests to Solr? Does the same request always
reproduce the bug? Which browser and version causes the bug?

[classyd]

Manager.jquery.js hangs when calling the getJSON method (Line 17).
This behavior can be reproduced reliably when the request returns
specific data (I have reproduced it when entering certain serch terms
or navigate to specific pages within search results).
I have not been able to clearly identify what data in the results
causes that behavior, and I also wasn't able to trace exactly where
JQuery fails.

I am pasting a result that causes that behavior, any ideas would be
most appreciated.


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becoming the new buzzword in dentistry these days. With gold more than
$1100 an ounce and platinum topping out at nearly $2,000, the cost of
the traditional high noble PFM crown, the bread and butter of
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dentists searching for lower cost alternatives especially in an
economy where everyone is doing some belt-tightening. \n Some have
switched from metal to all-ceramic, others from high noble to noble or
even non-precious, and now a growing number of laboratories and
dentists have turned to titanium as the understructure material of
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lucent, and price stable, titanium offers all the plusses of gold
without the fluctuation in price, allowing laboratories to offer fixed
price restorative services. But it’s the ability of titanium to now
be CAD/CAM milled that has made it a viable choice. \n “The option
to CAD/CAM mill titanium versus casting is one of the biggest reasons
titanium is catching fire in the industry,†said Jamie Stover,
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with NobelProcera, the new scanner from Nobel Biocare, to scan models,
design copings and frameworks, and then send the design data to Nobelâ
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milled substructures, which are milled from a Grade 5 titanium alloy,
within a couple of days, for light metal finishing and porcelain
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laboratory to offer a fixed price for crowns, whether it’s a molar,
bicuspid, or bridge unit, it’s all billed at the same price point
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alternatives especially in an economy where everyone is doing some
belt-tightening. \n Some have switched from metal to all-ceramic,
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growing number of laboratories and dentists have turned to titanium as
the understructure material of choice. Strong, lightweight,
exceptionally biocompatible, radio lucent, and price stable, titanium
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allowing laboratories to offer fixed price restorative services. But
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milled from a Grade 5 titanium alloy, within a couple of days, for
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milled substructures, which are milled from a Grade 5 titanium alloy,
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the traditional high noble PFM crown, the bread and butter of
dentistry, continues to skyrocket. This has kept laboratories and
dentists searching for lower cost alternatives especially in an
economy where everyone is doing some belt-tightening. \n Some have
switched from metal to all-ceramic, others from high noble to noble or
even non-precious, and now a growing number of laboratories and
dentists have turned to titanium as the understructure material of
choice. Strong, lightweight, exceptionally biocompatible, radio
lucent, and price stable, titanium offers all the plusses of gold
without the fluctuation in price, allowing laboratories to offer fixed
price restorative services. But it’s the ability of titanium to now
be CAD/CAM milled that has made it a viable choice. \n “The option
to CAD/CAM mill titanium versus casting is one of the biggest reasons
titanium is catching fire in the industry,†said Jamie Stover,
Manger of Ziemek Dental Laboratories in Washington. Ziemek is working
with NobelProcera, the new scanner from Nobel Biocare, to scan models,
design copings and frameworks, and then send the design data to Nobelâ
€™s centralized production center for milling. Ziemek gets back the
milled substructures, which are milled from a Grade 5 titanium alloy,
within a couple of days, for light metal finishing and porcelain
layering with GC’s Initial Ti porcelain. It’s allowed his
laboratory to offer a fixed price for crowns, whether it’s a molar,
bicuspid, or bridge unit, it’s all billed at the same price point
and their clients like that option. The real savings Stover says is
when fabricating bridges and larger copings. Because so much metal is
used in the connectors and pontics, the cost of a substructure can
skyrocket if constructed in high noble or noble alloy. With titanium,
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Marketing \n \n \n \n \n
\n \n \n \n Before your
website can encourage patients to visit your office, they first must
find your website. For this to happen, you need to position yourself
so that, when people and businesses in your community are searching
for dental care, it's your website, or a page within your site, that
they find. \n Access Paths 
 \n A simple way to attract people
to your website is to include your website address (URL) everywhere
prospective patients will see or hear it: on stationery, business
cards, external signage, your on-hold message and, of course, on all
conventional marketing channels such as: direct mail, TV, radio,
billboards, etc. \n Another way to get your website noticed is via
online search . Online search is sub-classified into free (also called
organic) and paid (sometimes termed pay-per-click) search. The advent
of social media (Facebook, My Space, You Tube, etc.) is a relatively
new and increasingly robust source of website visitors. \n The goal
all methods of online search is to get your website ranked high on
search engine listings when the web surfer looking for dental care
enters words or phrases (called keywords and key phrases) that are a
match for what your website offers. \n Online search, while not new,
is assuming an ever greater “local†character. It is also rapidly
gaining in importance. Even analysts who work for the Yellow Pages
reported way back in 2006 that individuals used the Internet 70% of
the time vs. only 30% for the Yellow Pages when searching for a local
service.* That percentage will only increase in favor of Internet
Search. \n *Targetemtm \n Pay To Play? \n 
A reasonable
question to ask (and have answered) is: Should I employ a pay per
click strategy and, if so, what should my investment be? \n Anyone
is permitted to manage a pay per click program. However, it can be a
complicated and tedious process to build, maintain and update the list
of terms that reference your site. More important, if managed by
anyone other than an expert, it can be unnecessarily costly,
especially when the wrong terms are selected and the price paid for
the correct terms is too high. \n When done by a professional, high
quality patient leads are captured by purchasing ads with Google®,
Yahoo®, Bing® (formerly MSN), and perhaps other search engines. This
lets you target people within the desired radius or other boundaries
of your office who are searching for the dental services you offer.
These are qualified prospective patients by virtue of the fact they
have taken the time and effort to find you. \n Your goal with a pay
per click campaign is to maximize qualified site visits by directing
local individuals and families searching for dental care right to your
practice website. \n When a potential patient searches for, say â
€˜(your city) dentist' on a search engine, your site must show up at
or very near the top of the SERP (search engine result page). \n
This was always important, but never more so than now. Just ask
yourself how often you click past page one of search engine results
and you’ll get the idea. And you’re not only competing with your
esteemed local colleagues. There are: dental product, search
directories, specialists, insurance companies and more with which to
contend. As many of these represent large commercial interests, they
have, often on staff, professionals specifically trained in search
engine marketing. \n The bottom line on paid web advertising is
that it can be a great way to quickly get your website noticed. Even
if your site already ranks high for certain search words and terms, it
can also help get you ranked more highly for additional terms and
phrases of relevance. The only way to know is to try it. Fortunately,
there should be no lengthy commitments and you should be able to
increase or reduce your monthly outlay with a single phone call or
visitor. \n \n \n \n \n
\n Marketing \n \n \n \n
\n \n \n \n \n
Before your website can encourage patients to visit your office, they
first must find your website. For this to happen, you need to position
yourself so that, when people and businesses in your community are
searching for dental care, it's your website, or a page within your
site, that they find. \n Access Paths 
 \n A simple way to
attract people to your website is to include your website address
(URL) everywhere prospective patients will see or hear it: on
stationery, business cards, external signage, your on-hold message
and, of course, on all conventional marketing channels such as: direct
mail, TV, radio, billboards, etc. \n Another way to get your website
noticed is via online search . Online search is sub-classified into
free (also called organic) and paid (sometimes termed pay-per-click)
search. The advent of social media (Facebook, My Space, You Tube,
etc.) is a relatively new and increasingly robust source of website
visitors. \n The goal all methods of online search is to get your
website ranked high on search engine listings when the web surfer
looking for dental care enters words or phrases (called keywords and
key phrases) that are a match for what your website offers. \n
Online search, while not new, is assuming an ever greater “localâ€
character. It is also rapidly gaining in importance. Even analysts who
work for the Yellow Pages reported way back in 2006 that individuals
used the Internet 70% of the time vs. only 30% for the Yellow Pages
when searching for a local service.* That percentage will only
increase in favor of Internet Search. \n *Targetemtm \n Pay To
Play? \n 
A reasonable question to ask (and have answered) is:
Should I employ a pay per click strategy and, if so, what should my
investment be? \n Anyone is permitted to manage a pay per click
program. However, it can be a complicated and tedious process to
build, maintain and update the list of terms that reference your site.
More important, if managed by anyone other than an expert, it can be
unnecessarily costly, especially when the wrong terms are selected and
the price paid for the correct terms is too high. \n When done by a
professional, high quality patient leads are captured by purchasing
ads with Google®, Yahoo®, Bing® (formerly MSN), and perhaps other
search engines. This lets you target people within the desired radius
or other boundaries of your office who are searching for the dental
services you offer. These are qualified prospective patients by virtue
of the fact they have taken the time and effort to find you. \n Your
goal with a pay per click campaign is to maximize qualified site
visits by directing local individuals and families searching for
dental care right to your practice website. \n When a potential
patient searches for, say ‘(your city) dentist' on a search engine,
your site must show up at or very near the top of the SERP (search
engine result page). \n This was always important, but never more
so than now. Just ask yourself how often you click past page one of
search engine results and you’ll get the idea. And you’re not
only competing with your esteemed local colleagues. There are: dental
product, search directories, specialists, insurance companies and more
with which to contend. As many of these represent large commercial
interests, they have, often on staff, professionals specifically
trained in search engine marketing. \n The bottom line on paid web
advertising is that it can be a great way to quickly get your website
noticed. Even if your site already ranks high for certain search words
and terms, it can also help get you ranked more highly for additional
terms and phrases of relevance. The only way to know is to try it.
Fortunately, there should be no lengthy commitments and you should be
able to increase or reduce your monthly outlay with a single phone
call or email. NOT JUST WHERE BUT WHAT !! \n Web Marketing, Take 2â
۬ \n At the core of...sites qualifying for this moniker are simple,
yet compelling designs with well-chosen visuals, and...tools that let
users interact with, and construct content in, unique ways. In
addition to creating useful sites, the principles behind 2.0 can be
used to increase organic traffic to your site, retain visitors and
convert those visitors to customers, hence, Web 2.SEO. \n
Incorporating a well-structured Web 2.0 design into your site will
improve search rankings through both improving the informational
architecture of your site (cleaner, simpler code makes your site more
easily indexed)…(it)…also improves the probability that high-
quality sites will link to you. A simpler, more streamlined design
will make your site easier to read for engin email. NOT JUST WHERE BUT
WHAT !! \n Web Marketing, Take 2
 \n At the core of...sites
qualifying for this moniker are simple, yet compelling designs with
well-chosen visuals, and...tools that let users interact with, and
construct content in, unique ways. In addition to creating useful
sites, the principles behind 2.0 can be used to increase organic
traffic to your site, retain visitors and convert those visitors to
customers, hence, Web 2.SEO. \n Incorporating a well-structured Web
2.0 design into your site will improve search rankings through both
improving the informational architecture of your site (cleaner,
simpler code makes your site more easily indexed)…(it)…also
improves the probability that high-quality sites will link to you. A
simpler, more streamlined design will make your site easier to read
for engines and users as well…Now, more than ever, you can please
both “search bots†and visitors by keeping Web 2.SEO principles in
mind when designing your site. \n Getting visitors 
With limited
space on a site, especially ‘above the fold' (what a visitor sees
without having to scroll down), you should aim to maximize the
effectiveness of the visual communication: each graphical element
should convey a message, and the textual content should be concise.
The more logically organized your site is, the easier for both search
bots and web visitors to find relevant information. \n
Specifically: \n• A simpler 2 or 3-column, central layout structure
will convey a simpler, bolder message that communicates more clearly
with your visitors. The central column is the ideal place for your key
message, with highly targeted and compelling text. \n• Use your top
header section to clearly present your site and navigation options to
draw in your visitors with a bold, opening statement on what they can
find on your site. \n• Keep your navigation simple: this will
create a logical structure for your visitors, and translate well into
a clean sitemap, which search engines can use to index your site.
\nLocal, Local, Local 
Search engines have recently begun to focus
more of their attention on their local search directories. As noted
earlier, Local Search is growing exponentially, and so is your need to
be sure the search engines know the les and users as well…Now, more
than ever, you can please both “search bots†and visitors by
keeping Web 2.SEO principles in mind when designing your site. \n
Getting visitors 
With limited space on a site, especially ‘above
the fold' (what a visitor sees without having to scroll down), you
should aim to maximize the effectiveness of the visual communication:
each graphical element should convey a message, and the textual
content should be concise. The more logically organized your site is,
the easier for both search bots and web visitors to find relevant
information. \n Specifically: \n• A simpler 2 or 3-column,
central layout structure will convey a simpler, bolder message that
communicates more clearly with your visitors. The central column is
the ideal place for your key message, with highly targeted and
compelling text. \n• Use your top header section to clearly present
your site and navigation options to draw in your visitors with a bold,
opening statement on what they can find on your site. \n• Keep your
navigation simple: this will create a logical structure for your
visitors, and translate well into a clean sitemap, which search
engines can use to index your site. \nLocal, Local, Local 
Search
engines have recently begun to focus more of their attention on their
local search directories. As noted earlier, Local Search is growing
exponentially, and so is your need to be sure the search engines know
the location of your practice, and the community to which it caters.
\n Whoever markets your website should be adding it to the local
search engine maps and directories. Our company had, until recently,
used a list of local web directories we compiled over the past years
to be sure our Clients' sites were listed locally. We have now
discarded that list as we found a resource that is constantly updating
its listing of local directories. \n Here it is: \n
http://www.locallytype.com/pages/submit.htm#localsearchenginesus
\nGoogle also recently announced its commitment to helping consumers
locate and compare local services of all kinds. \n Here is an
excerpt: \n Find and compare local businesses \nMany people come to
Google.com to navigate the web, but are you aware that you can use it
to navigate the real world as well? Over the past few months, we've
been hard at work making it easier to find and compare local
businesses and services right from the standard web results page.
Here's what we've come up with: \n

 \n
From now on, you'll
see this every time you search for a place, business, or other local
information. In addition to providing the basic contact information
and map locations for several choices at the top of the page, we also
show ratings and provide one-click access to reviews on the search
results page so that you can make more informed decisions about where
you want to go. \n What it means for you is, if yoocation of your
practice, and the community to which it caters. \n Whoever markets
your website should be adding it to the local search engine maps and
directories. Our company had, until recently, used a list of local web
directories we compiled over the past years to be sure our Clients'
sites were listed locally. We have now discarded that list as we found
a resource that is constantly updating its listing of local
directories. \n Here it is: \n http://www.locallytype.com/pages/submit.htm#localsearchenginesus
\nGoogle also recently announced its commitment to helping consumers
locate and compare local services of all kinds. \n Here is an
excerpt: \n Find and compare local businesses \nMany people come to
Google.com to navigate the web, but are you aware that you can use it
to navigate the real world as well? Over the past few months, we've
been hard at work making it easier to find and compare local
businesses and services right from the standard web results page.
Here's what we've come up with: \n

 \n
From now on, you'll
see this every time you search for a place, business, or other local
information. In addition to providing the basic contact information
and map locations for several choices at the top of the page, we also
show ratings and provide one-click access to reviews on the search
results page so that you can make more informed decisions about where
you want to go. \n What it means for you is, if you are not listed
in their local business directory, you may not receive a prominent
placement at the top of Google's search results. \n To test it out,
type your city, state, and service in Google and you'll see the map.
The businesses that are in this local list are the sudden recipients
of a huge gift from Google - qualified and desirable traffic to their
site. \n A recent article in Clickz.com cited a keynote address by
the Internet media and marketing, managing director for Piper Jaffrey
who had some interesting points, among these that local search was
second only to e-mail in importance on the web. He continued that
satellite mapping will become an integral part of local search
marketing. \n Two Down, One To Go 
While a good looking website
and even high traffic are necessary, alone they still cannot guarantee
success. The next key link in the success chain is what happens once
the patient finds your website, and that is the topic of our next
Article. \n Whatever your preferences, know what constitutes
reasonable expectations, not only from your finished* product, but
also from the process. \n *In reality, your website should be viewed
as a living and evolving instrument in a number of respects. \n
Accountability 
 \n To help ensure error-free implementation,
someone must take responsibility for coordinating all tasks and
resources. Be careful about \"promoting\" say, your schedule
coordinator to the role of webu are not listed in their local business
directory, you may not receive a prominent placement at the top of
Google's search results. \n To test it out, type your city, state,
and service in Google and you'll see the map. The businesses that are
in this local list are the sudden recipients of a huge gift from
Google - qualified and desirable traffic to their site. \n A recent
article in Clickz.com cited a keynote address by the Internet media
and marketing, managing director for Piper Jaffrey who had some
interesting points, among these that local search was second only to e-
mail in importance on the web. He continued that satellite mapping
will become an integral part of local search marketing. \n Two Down,
One To Go 
While a good looking website and even high traffic are
necessary, alone they still cannot guarantee success. The next key
link in the success chain is what happens once the patient finds your
website, and that is the topic of our next Article. \n Whatever your
preferences, know what constitutes reasonable expectations, not only
from your finished* product, but also from the process. \n *In
reality, your website should be viewed as a living and evolving
instrument in a number of respects. \n Accountability 
 \n To
help ensure error-free implementation, someone must take
responsibility for coordinating all tasks and resources. Be careful
about \"promoting\" say, your schedule coordinator to the role of
website coordinator. If you do choose to manage the process
internally, be certain the person to whom you assign this important
responsibility is competent, and has the time and resources to take on
the challenge. \n Confidence and Competence \n 
It is reasonable
to expect that whomever you retain to design your website demonstrates
competency so your site is delivered on time, on budget, and as
specified. This means your designer will ideally have experience in
the dental field, or at least be able to show you sites he has created
for other clients, which possess the aesthetics and function you
require. \n In general, the firm you retain will listen as much as
they talk about your website design because, only by listening will
they truly ‘get,' so they can deliver, the appearance and function
you desire. \n Look ‘n Feel
 \n In choosing your website’s
content and layout, imagine your website from the perspective of all
who might view it: your current and prospective patients, your team,
the media, and yourself. \n Most practices are primarily concerned
with how their site is perceived by current and prospective patients.
If you want your website to be used by patients of record to: ask
questions, request appointments, learn more about proposed treatment,
receive appointment confirmations, take surveys, offer suggestions,
complete paperwork, etc. be sure the firm is experienced with handling
such ‘back-end' functionssite coordinator. If you do choose to
manage the process internally, be certain the person to whom you
assign this important responsibility is competent, and has the time
and resources to take on the challenge. \n Confidence and
Competence \n 
It is reasonable to expect that whomever you retain
to design your website demonstrates competency so your site is
delivered on time, on budget, and as specified. This means your
designer will ideally have experience in the dental field, or at least
be able to show you sites he has created for other clients, which
possess the aesthetics and function you require. \n In general, the
firm you retain will listen as much as they talk about your website
design because, only by listening will they truly ‘get,' so they can
deliver, the appearance and function you desire. \n Look ‘n Feelâ
€¨ \n In choosing your website’s content and layout, imagine your
website from the perspective of all who might view it: your current
and prospective patients, your team, the media, and yourself. \n
Most practices are primarily concerned with how their site is
perceived by current and prospective patients. If you want your
website to be used by patients of record to: ask questions, request
appointments, learn more about proposed treatment, receive appointment
confirmations, take surveys, offer suggestions, complete paperwork,
etc. be sure the firm is experienced with handling such ‘back-end'
functions. Most websites lack a means for capturing contact
information on prospective patients, and an automated means for
communicating with them during the ‘gestation period' when they
metamorphose from ‘tire kicker' to ‘trigger puller.' As most first-
time website visitors fall into the former category, this is an
important success component that should not be overlooked. \n
General Design Considerations
 \n Secure your domain name Careful
consideration should be given to naming your site. If you have already
established a strong practice brand, the name of your website will
closely match your practice name. If you select a URL matching your
personal name, remember that, when it comes time to sell the practice,
your successor may not value it as highly as you do. Be sure to
consult an attorney, or perform a comprehensive name search, to
confirm you have the legal right to use your chosen name. \n 
â
۬In structuring the layout of your site consider not only the format
of your home page, but also any 
‘landing pages.' You’ll want a
landing page for each of your services as well as a(n): \n •Meet
the Dentist(s) Page 
 \n •Meet The Team Page 
 \n •Photo
Gallery 
 \n •Schedule an Appointment Page 
 \n •Unique
telephone number so you can track and calculate the return on your
website
 marketing investment 
 \n •Form visitors may complete
to receive a report on a topic of interest and relev. Most websites
lack a means for capturing contact information on prospective
patients, and an automated means for communicating with them during
the ‘gestation period' when they metamorphose from ‘tire kicker'
to ‘trigger puller.' As most first-time website visitors fall into
the former category, this is an important success component that
should not be overlooked. \n General Design Considerations
 \n
Secure your domain name Careful consideration should be given to
naming your site. If you have already established a strong practice
brand, the name of your website will closely match your practice name.
If you select a URL matching your personal name, remember that, when
it comes time to sell the practice, your successor may not value it as
highly as you do. Be sure to consult an attorney, or perform a
comprehensive name search, to confirm you have the legal right to use
your chosen name. \n 

In structuring the layout of your site
consider not only the format of your home page, but also any 
â
€˜landing pages.' You’ll want a landing page for each of your
services as well as a(n): \n •Meet the Dentist(s) Page 
 \n â€
¢Meet The Team Page 
 \n •Photo Gallery 
 \n •Schedule an
Appointment Page 
 \n •Unique telephone number so you can track
and calculate the return on your website
 marketing investment 

\n •Form visitors may complete to receive a report on a topic of
interest and relevance to
 them 
 \n •Automated direct
response communications campaign (more on this in an upcoming

article)
 \n •Easy to use CMS (content management system)

\n •Cost-effective hosting solution, report system, and reliable
technical support \n Who should build your website
 \n Look for
a firm that:
 \n •Specializes in the Dental fieldâ
€¨ \n •Guarantees delivery within a reasonable
timeframe, although you must be an equal partner in
 this process.
\n •Is able and willing to test your existing design for efficacy.

 \n •Offers robust, but user-friendly, reportingâ
€¨ \n •Offers references
 \n •Will
assist with selecting and securing an appropriate name for your
website \n If you get the sense the firm’s representative is
reading from a canned script, you may expect to be treated as a
commodity, which probably is not what you want. In general, trust your
gut. \n Pay Now or Pay Later?
 \n We usually get what we pay
for. In choosing who should build your web presence, be wary of the â
€˜free lunch.’ This can happen when the practice chooses to have a
friend, relative, student, or someone else perform the project ‘for
free,’ at a greatly reduced rate, or 'on trade.' Human nature being
what it is, the person who agrees to these ‘terms' will prioritize
accordingly. More than one practice has been dismayed ance to
 them

 \n •Automated direct response communications campaign (more on
this in an upcoming
 article)
 \n •Easy to use CMS (content
management system)
 \n •Cost-effective hosting solution, report
system, and reliable technical support \n Who should build your
website
 \n Look for a firm that:
 \n â€
¢Specializes in the Dental field
 \n •Guarantees
delivery within a reasonable timeframe, although you must be an equal
partner in
 this process. \n •Is able and willing to test your
existing design for efficacy. 
 \n •Offers robust,
but user-friendly, reporting
 \n •Offers referencesâ
€¨ \n •Will assist with selecting and securing an
appropriate name for your website \n If you get the sense the firmâ
€™s representative is reading from a canned script, you may expect to
be treated as a commodity, which probably is not what you want. In
general, trust your gut. \n Pay Now or Pay Later?
 \n We usually
get what we pay for. In choosing who should build your web presence,
be wary of the ‘free lunch.’ This can happen when the practice
chooses to have a friend, relative, student, or someone else perform
the project ‘for free,’ at a greatly reduced rate, or 'on trade.'
Human nature being what it is, the person who agrees to these â
€˜terms' will prioritize accordingly. More than one practice has been
dismayed to learn the ‘deal’ they made resulted in inordinate
delay, an inferior delivered product, or both. \n The Post-Purchase
Experience 
 \n Rest assured that, once your website goes live,
you will want to make changes to it. You might even experience â
€˜technical difficulties' from time to time. It can be a frustrating
experience not to have these concerns and requests addressed to your
satisfaction, or within the promised time frame, so ask for references
and specifically ask what their experience has been with post-purchase
service. 

Caveat Emptor
Tim Healy of TNT Dental warns “If you
haven't received correspondence from companies with names like Liberty
Names of America or Domain Registry of America, you probably will.
Don't let the “domain name expiration notice†fool you. Although
the expiration date of your domain name may be real, it is NOT a real
invoice. The document looks official, and leads many intelligent
individuals to send a check for domain name renewal.†This is a form
of \"slamming,\" which changes your service to another company without
you realizing what you have done. Sending a check to such companies
constitutes legal \"permission\" for them to change your service. \n
To protect yourself from having your domain slammed, “Know who your
registrar is, and if you're not sure, visit www.whois.sc , type in
your domain name, and the name of your registrar will appear. \n
Check it out (and oto learn the ‘deal’ they made resulted in
inordinate delay, an inferior delivered product, or both. \n The
Post-Purchase Experience 
 \n Rest assured that, once your website
goes live, you will want to make changes to it. You might even
experience ‘technical difficulties' from time to time. It can be a
frustrating experience not to have these concerns and requests
addressed to your satisfaction, or within the promised time frame, so
ask for references and specifically ask what their experience has been
with post-purchase service. 

Caveat Emptor
Tim Healy of TNT
Dental warns “If you haven't received correspondence from companies
with names like Liberty Names of America or Domain Registry of
America, you probably will. Don't let the “domain name expiration
notice†fool you. Although the expiration date of your domain name
may be real, it is NOT a real invoice. The document looks official,
and leads many intelligent individuals to send a check for domain name
renewal.†This is a form of \"slamming,\" which changes your service
to another company without you realizing what you have done. Sending
a check to such companies constitutes legal \"permission\" for them to
change your service. \n To protect yourself from having your domain
slammed, “Know who your registrar is, and if you're not sure,
visit www.whois.sc , type in your domain name, and the name of your
registrar will appear. \n Check it out (and off)
 \n Here's a
checklist to evaluate your site's performance, and to help judge when
your new website is ‘ready for prime time': \n •Navigation bar
at top makes pages accessible and easy to find \n 
•Site Layout
is organized in a familiar pattern with important section at top and
left and main content in
 center \n 
•Professional and clean
Look ‘n Feel 
 \n •Page Width not more than 800px (max
printable width) \n 
•Contact Information is ‘above the fold'
for quick viewing and access 
•Quick load time e.g. not too much
use of Flash and other animation, which is also a distraction to
visitors \n •Interactive features e.g newsletter sign up, free
consultation, etc. allows practice to efficiently build

prospective patient contact list \n 
•Free offer for visitor to
further encourage completion of a Form 
 \n •Means to capture
site visitor contact information \n 
•Follow-up aka drip
marketing system to communicate with registered site visitors \n 
â
€¢Site ranks in top results in Google for city and ‘dentist'
demonstrating ‘relevance.' Goal is to rank in top 3
 results as
these listings receive over 80% of clicks.
 \n •City name is
included in the title bar
 \n •Site meta information included
(such as keywords and description) to assist with search engine

marketing \n 
•Important words should be in text, not graphical
images, which searchff)
 \n Here's a checklist to evaluate your
site's performance, and to help judge when your new website is â
€˜ready for prime time': \n •Navigation bar at top makes pages
accessible and easy to find \n 
•Site Layout is organized in a
familiar pattern with important section at top and left and main
content in
 center \n 
•Professional and clean Look ‘n Feel

 \n •Page Width not more than 800px (max printable width) \n â
€¨â€¢Contact Information is ‘above the fold' for quick viewing and
access 
•Quick load time e.g. not too much use of Flash and other
animation, which is also a distraction to visitors \n •Interactive
features e.g newsletter sign up, free consultation, etc. allows
practice to efficiently build
 prospective patient contact list
\n 
•Free offer for visitor to further encourage completion of a
Form 
 \n •Means to capture site visitor contact information
\n 
•Follow-up aka drip marketing system to communicate with
registered site visitors \n 
•Site ranks in top results in
Google for city and ‘dentist' demonstrating ‘relevance.' Goal is
to rank in top 3
 results as these listings receive over 80% of
clicks.
 \n •City name is included in the title bar
 \n â€
¢Site meta information included (such as keywords and description) to
assist with search engine
 marketing \n 
•Important words
should be in text, not graphical images, which search engines cannot
understand. \n 
•Pay-Per-Click (PPC) program in place, at least
until the site is optimized for ‘organic results’, and uses

'best practices' i.e. are managed by a firm certified to manage the
program offered by that 
 search engine.
 \n •Links for
specific services send visitor to specific landing pages where the
visitor quickly finds what they
 are looking for 
 \n â€
¢Analytics are easy to access and interpret

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and unlike, say, printing, where one has either to pay to redo or â
€˜live with’ errors, websites, are quite forgiving. This means
that, should you change your mind, most changes to your site are
easily made. It also means your site does not need to be ‘perfect’
to launch. Applying the same care and attention to detail that you use
in planning and delivering treatment will serve you in this process as
well. \n The next Article will focus on website marketing, that
is, attracting qualified visitors to your website. \n Daniel Bobrow,
MBA, is president of the American Dental Marketing Company, a
dentistry marketing and patient communications consultancy. He is also
Executive Director of Dentists’ Climb for a Cause™. Readers
interested in learning more about integrated marketing and patient
communication products, systems and services are invited to contact
Mr. Bobrow at 312-455-9488 or DBo...@AmericanDentalMarketing.com
or visit AmericanDentalMarketing.com. \n\n\n (Marketing)
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website can encourage patients to visit your office, they first must
find your website. For this to happen, you need to position yourself
so that, when people and businesses in your community are searching
for dental care, it's your website, or a page within your site, that
they find. \n Access Paths 
 \n A simple way to attract people
to your website is to include your website address (URL) everywhere
prospective patients will see or hear it: on stationery, business
cards, external signage, your on-hold message and, of course, on all
conventional marketing channels such as: direct mail, TV, radio,
billboards, etc. \n Another way to get your website noticed is via
online search . Online search is sub-classified into free (also called
organic) and paid (sometimes termed pay-per-click) search. The advent
of social media (Facebook, My Space, You Tube, etc.) is a relatively
new and increasingly robust source of website visitors. \n The goal
all methods of online search is to get your website ranked high on
search engine listings when the web surfer looking for dental care
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 \n •Analytics are easy to access and interpretâ
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either to pay to redo or ‘live with’ errors, websites, are quite
forgiving. This means that, should you change your mind, most changes
to your site are easily made. It also means your site does not need to
be ‘perfect’ to launch. Applying the same care and attention to
detail that you use in planning and delivering treatment will serve
you in this process as well. \n The next Article will focus on
website marketing, that is, attracting qualified visitors to your
website. \n Daniel Bobrow, MBA, is president of the American Dental
Marketing Company, a dentistry marketing and patient communications
consultancy. He is also Executive Director of Dentists’ Climb for a
Causeâ„¢. Readers interested in learning more about integrated
marketing and patient communication products, systems and services are
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\n In this Article we tackle the second key to a
successful website, namely, attracting the visitor.
\n \n \n \n \n \n
Marketing \n \n \n \n \n
\n \n \n \n Before your
website can encourage patients to visit your office, they first must
find your website. For this to happen, you need to position yourself
so that, when people and businesses in your community are searching
for dental care, it's your website, or a page within your site, that
they find. \n Access Paths 
 \n A simple way to attract people
to your website is to include your website address (URL) everywhere
prospective patients will see or hear it: on stationery, business
cards, external signage, your on-hold message and, of course, on all
conventional marketing channels such as: direct mail, TV, radio,
billboards, etc. \n Another way to get your website noticed is via
online search . Online search is sub-classified into free (also called
organic) and paid (sometimes termed pay-per-click) search. The advent
of social media (Facebook, My Space, You Tube, etc.) is a relatively
new and increasingly robust source of website visitors. \n The goal
all methods of online search is to get your website ranked high on
search engine listings when the web surfer looking for dental care
enters words or phrases (called keywords and key phrases) that are a
match for what your website offers. \n Online search, while not new,
is assuming an ever greater “local†character. It is also rapidly
gaining in importance. Even analysts who work for the Yellow Pages
reported way back in 2006 that individuals used the Internet 70% of
the time vs. only 30% for the Yellow Pages when searching for a local
service.* That percentage will only increase in favor of Internet
Search. \n *Targetemtm \n Pay To Play? \n 
A reasonable
question to ask (and have answered) is: Should I employ a pay per
click strategy and, if so, what should my investment be? \n Anyone
is permitted to manage a pay per click program. However, it can be a
complicated and tedious process to build, maintain and update the list
of terms that reference your site. More important, if managed by
anyone other than an expert, it can be unnecessarily costly,
especially when the wrong terms are selected and the price paid for
the correct terms is too high. \n When done by a professional, high
quality patient leads are captured by purchasing ads with Google®,
Yahoo®, Bing® (formerly MSN), and perhaps other search engines. This
lets you target people within the desired radius or other boundaries
of your office who are searching for the dental services you offer.
These are qualified prospective patients by virtue of the fact they
have taken the time and effort to find you. \n Your goal with a pay
per click campaign is to maximize qualified site visits by directing
local individuals and families searching for dental care right to your
practice website. \n When a potential patient searches for, say â
€˜(your city) dentist' on a search engine, your site must show up at
or very near the top of the SERP (search engine result page). \n
This was always important, but never more so than now. Just ask
yourself how often you click past page one of search engine results
and yo analysts who work for the Yellow Pages reported way back in
2006 that individuals used the Internet 70% of the time vs. only 30%
for the Yellow Pages when searching for a local service.* That
percentage will only increase in favor of Internet Search. \n
*Targetemtm \n Pay To Play? \n 
A reasonable question to ask
(and have answered) is: Should I employ a pay per click strategy and,
if so, what should my investment be? \n Anyone is permitted to
manage a pay per click program. However, it can be a complicated and
tedious process to build, maintain and update the list of terms that
reference your site. More important, if managed by anyone other than
an expert, it can be unnecessarily costly, especially when the wrong
terms are selected and the price paid for the correct terms is too
high. \n When done by a professional, high quality patient leads are
captured by purchasing ads with Google®, Yahoo®, Bing® (formerly
MSN), and perhaps other search engines. This lets you target people
within the desired radius or other boundaries of your office who are
searching for the dental services you offer. These are qualified
prospective patients by virtue of the fact they have taken the time
and effort to find you. \n Your goal with a pay per click campaign
is to maximize qualified site visits by directing local individuals
and families searching for dental care right to your practice
website. \n When a potential patient searches for, say ‘(your
city) dentist' on a search engine, your site must show up at or very
near the top of the SERP (search engine result page). \n This was
always important, but never more so than now. Just ask yourself how
often you click past page one of search engine results and you’ll
get the idea. And you’re not only competing with your esteemed
local colleagues. There are: dental product, search directories,
specialists, insurance companies and more with which to contend. As
many of these represent large commercial interests, they have, often
on staff, professionals specifically trained in search engine
marketing. \n The bottom line on paid web advertising is that it
can be a great way to quickly get your website noticed. Even if your
site already ranks high for certain search words and terms, it can
also help get you ranked more highly for additional terms and phrases
of relevance. The only way to know is to try it. Fortunately, there
should be no lengthy commitments and you should be able to increase or
reduce your monthly outlay with a single phone call or email. NOT JUST
WHERE BUT WHAT !! \n Web Marketing, Take 2
 \n At the core
of...sites qualifying for this moniker are simple, yet compelling
designs with well-chosen visuals, and...tools that let users interact
with, and construct content in, unique ways. In addition to creating
useful sites, the principles behind 2.0 can be used to increase
organic traffic to your site, retain visitors and convert those
visitors to customers, hence, Web 2.SEO. \n Incorporating a well-
structured Web 2.0 design into your site will improve search rankings
through both improving the informational architecture of your site
(cleaner, simpler code makes your site more easily indexed)…(it)â
€¦also improves the probability that high-quality sites will link to
you. A simpler, more streamlined design will make your site easier to
read for engines and users as well…Now, more than ever, you can
please both “search bots†and visitors by keeping Web 2.SEO
principles in mind when designing your site. \n Getting visitors â
€¨With limited space on a site, especially ‘above the fold' (what a
visitor sees without having to scroll down), you should aim to
maximize the effectiveness of the visual communication: each graphical
element should convey a message, and the textual content should be
concise. The more logically organized your site is, the easier for
both search bots and web visitors to find relevant information. \n
Specifically: \n• A simpler 2 or 3-column, central layout structure
will convey a simpler, bolder message that communicates more clearly
with your visitors. The central column is the ideal place for your key
message, with highly targeted and compelling text. \n• Use your top
header section to clearly present your site and navigation options to
draw in your visitors with a bold, opening statement on what they can
find on your site. \n• Keep your navigation simple: this will
create a logical structure for your visitors, and translate well into
a clean sitemap, which search engines can use to index your site.
\nLocal, Local, Local 
Search engines have recently begun to focus
more of their attention on their local search directories. As noted
earlier, Local Search is growing exponentially, and so is your need to
be sure the search engines know the location of your practice, and the
community to which it caters. \n Whoever markets your website should
be adding it to the local search engine maps and directories. Our
company had, until recently, used a list of local web directories we
compiled over the past years to be sure our Clients' sites were listed
locally. We have now discarded that list as we found a resource that
is constantly updating its listing of local directories. \n Here it
is: \n http://www.locallytype.com/pages/submit.htm#localsearchenginesus
\nGoogle also recently announced its commitment to helping consumers
locate and compare local services of all kinds. \n Here is an
excerpt: \n Find and compare local businesses \nMany people come to
Google.com to navigate the web, but are you aware that you can use it
to navigate the real world as well? Over the past few months, we've
been hard at work making it easier to find and compare local
businesses and services right from the standard web results pu’ll
get the idea. And you’re not only competing with your esteemed
local colleagues. There are: dental product, search directories,
specialists, insurance companies and more with which to contend. As
many of these represent large commercial interests, they have, often
on staff, professionals specifically trained in search engine
marketing. \n The bottom line on paid web advertising is that it
can be a great way to quickly get your website noticed. Even if your
site already ranks high for certain search words and terms, it can
also help get you ranked more highly for additional terms and phrases
of relevance. The only way to know is to try it. Fortunately, there
should be no lengthy commitments and you should be able to increase or
reduce your monthly outlay with a single phone call or email. NOT JUST
WHERE BUT WHAT !! \n Web Marketing, Take 2
 \n At the core
of...sites qualifying for this moniker are simple, yet compelling
designs with well-chosen visuals, and...tools that let users interact
with, and construct content in, unique ways. In addition to creating
useful sites, the principles behind 2.0 can be used to increase
organic traffic to your site, retain visitors and convert those
visitors to customers, hence, Web 2.SEO. \n Incorporating a well-
structured Web 2.0 design into your site will improve search rankings
through both improving the informational architecture of your site
(cleaner, simpler code makes your site more easily indexed)…(it)â
€¦also improves the probability that high-quality sites will link to
you. A simpler, more streamlined design will make your site easier to
read for engines and users as well…Now, more than ever, you can
please both “search bots†and visitors by keeping Web 2.SEO
principles in mind when designing your site. \n Getting visitors â
€¨With limited space on a site, especially ‘above the fold' (what a
visitor sees without having to scroll down), you should aim to
maximize the effectiveness of the visual communication: each graphical
element should convey a message, and the textual content should be
concise. The more logically organized your site is, the easier for
both search bots and web visitors to find relevant information. \n
Specifically: \n• A simpler 2 or 3-column, central layout structure
will convey a simpler, bolder message that communicates more clearly
with your visitors. The central column is the ideal place for your key
message, with highly targeted and compelling text. \n• Use your top
header section to clearly present your site and navigation options to
draw in your visitors with a bold, opening statement on what they can
find on your site. \n• Keep your navigation simple: this will
create a logical structure for your visitors, and translate well into
a clean sitemap, which search engines can use to index your site.
\nLocal, Local, Local 
Search engines have recently begun to focus
more of their attention on their local search directories. As noted
earlier, Local Search is growing exponentially, and so is your need to
be sure the search engines know the location of your practice, and the
community to which it caters. \n Whoever markets your website should
be adding it to the local search engine maps and directories. Our
company had, until recently, used a list of local web directories we
compiled over the past years to be sure our Clients' sites were listed
locally. We have now discarded that list as we found a resource that
is constantly updating its listing of local directories. \n Here it
is: \n http://www.locallytype.com/pages/submit.htm#localsearchenginesus
\nGoogle also recently announced its commitment to helping consumers
locate and compare local services of all kinds. \n Here is an
excerpt: \n Find and compare local businesses \nMany people come to
Google.com to navigate the web, but are you aware that you can use it
to navigate the real world as well? Over the past few months, we've
been hard at work making it easier to find and compare local
businesses and services right from the standard web results page.
Here's what we've come up with: \n

 \n
From now on, you'll
see this every time you search for a place, business, or other local
information. In addition to providing the basic contact information
and map locations for several choices at the top of the page, we also
show ratings and provide one-click access to reviews on the search
results page so that you can make more informed decisions about where
you want to go. \n What it means for you is, if you are not listed
in their local business directory, you may not receive a prominent
placement at the top of Google's search results. \n To test it out,
type your city, state, and service in Google and you'll see the map.
The businesses that are in this local list are the sudden recipients
of a huge gift from Google - qualified and desirable traffic to their
site. \n A recent article in Clickz.com cited a keynote address by
the Internet media and marketing, managing director for Piper Jaffrey
who had some interesting points, among these that local search was
second only to e-mail in importance on the web. He continued that
satellite mapping will become an integral part of local search
marketing. \n Two Down, One To Go 
While a good looking website
and even high traffic are necessary, alone they still cannot guarantee
success. The next key link in the success chain is what happens once
the patient finds your website, and that is the topic of our next
Article. \n Whatever your preferences, know what constitutes
reasonable expectations, not only from your finished* product, but
also from the process. \n *In reality, your website should be viewed
as a living and evolving instrument in a number of respects. \n
Accountability 
 \n To help ensure error-free implementation,
someone must take responsibility for coordinating all tasks and
resources. Be careful about \"promoting\" say, your schedule
coordinator to the role of website coordinator. If you do choose to
manage the process internally, be certain the person to whom you
assign this important responsibility is competent, and has the time
and resources to take on the challenge. \n Confidence and
Competence \n 
It is reasonable to expect that whomever you retain
to design your website demonstrates competency so your site is
delivered on time, on budget, and as specified. This means your
designer will ideally have experience in the dental field, or at least
be able to show you sites he has created for other clients, which
possess the aesthetics and function you require. \n In general, the
firm you retain will listen as much as they talk about your website
design because, only by listening will they truly ‘get,' so they can
deliver, the appearance and function you desire. \n Look ‘n Feelâ
€¨ \n In choosing your website’s content and layout, imagine your
website from the perspective of all who might view it: your current
and prospective patients, your team, the media, and yourself. \n
Most practices are primarily concerned with how their site is
perceived by current and prospective patients. If you want your
website to be used by patients of record to: ask questions, request
appointments, learn more about page. Here's what we've come up with:
\n

 \n
From now on, you'll see this every time you search for
a place, business, or other local information. In addition to
providing the basic contact information and map locations for several
choices at the top of the page, we also show ratings and provide one-
click access to reviews on the search results page so that you can
make more informed decisions about where you want to go. \n What it
means for you is, if you are not listed in their local business
directory, you may not receive a prominent placement at the top of
Google's search results. \n To test it out, type your city, state,
and service in Google and you'll see the map. The businesses that are
in this local list are the sudden recipients of a huge gift from
Google - qualified and desirable traffic to their site. \n A recent
article in Clickz.com cited a keynote address by the Internet media
and marketing, managing director for Piper Jaffrey who had some
interesting points, among these that local search was second only to e-
mail in importance on the web. He continued that satellite mapping
will become an integral part of local search marketing. \n Two Down,
One To Go 
While a good looking website and even high traffic are
necessary, alone they still cannot guarantee success. The next key
link in the success chain is what happens once the patient finds your
website, and that is the topic of our next Article. \n Whatever your
preferences, know what constitutes reasonable expectations, not only
from your finished* product, but also from the process. \n *In
reality, your website should be viewed as a living and evolving
instrument in a number of respects. \n Accountability 
 \n To
help ensure error-free implementation, someone must take
responsibility for coordinating all tasks and resources. Be careful
about \"promoting\" say, your schedule coordinator to the role of
website coordinator. If you do choose to manage the process
internally, be certain the person to whom you assign this important
responsibility is competent, and has the time and resources to take on
the challenge. \n Confidence and Competence \n 
It is reasonable
to expect that whomever you retain to design your website demonstrates
competency so your site is delivered on time, on budget, and as
specified. This means your designer will ideally have experience in
the dental field, or at least be able to show you sites he has created
for other clients, which possess the aesthetics and function you
require. \n In general, the firm you retain will listen as much as
they talk about your website design because, only by listening will
they truly ‘get,' so they can deliver, the appearance and function
you desire. \n Look ‘n Feel
 \n In choosing your website’s
content and layout, imagine your website from the perspective of all
who might view it: your current and prospective patients, your team,
the media, and yourself. \n Most practices are primarily concerned
with how their site is perceived by current and prospective patients.
If you want your website to be used by patients of record to: ask
questions, request appointments, learn more about proposed treatment,
receive appointment confirmations, take surveys, offer suggestions,
complete paperwork, etc. be sure the firm is experienced with handling
such ‘back-end' functions. Most websites lack a means for capturing
contact information on prospective patients, and an automated means
for communicating with them during the ‘gestation period' when they
metamorphose from ‘tire kicker' to ‘trigger puller.' As most first-
time website visitors fall into the former category, this is an
important success component that should not be overlooked. \n
General Design Considerations
 \n Secure your domain name Careful
consideration should be given to naming your site. If you have already
established a strong practice brand, the name of your website will
closely match your practice name. If you select a URL matching your
personal name, remember that, when it comes time to sell the practice,
your successor may not value it as highly as you do. Be sure to
consult an attorney, or perform a comprehensive name search, to
confirm you have the legal right to use your chosen name. \n 
â
۬In structuring the layout of your site consider not only the format
of your home page, but also any 
‘landing pages.' You’ll want a
landing page for each of your services as well as a(n): \n •Meet
the Dentist(s) Page 
 \n •Meet The Team Page 
 \n •Photo
Gallery 
 \n •Schedule an Appointment Page 
 \n •Unique
teleproposed treatment, receive appointment confirmations, take
surveys, offer suggestions, complete paperwork, etc. be sure the firm
is experienced with handling such ‘back-end' functions. Most
websites lack a means for capturing contact information on prospective
patients, and an automated means for communicating with them during
the ‘gestation period' when they metamorphose from ‘tire kicker'
to ‘trigger puller.' As most first-time website visitors fall into
the former category, this is an important success component that
should not be overlooked. \n General Design Considerations
 \n
Secure your domain name Careful consideration should be given to
naming your site. If you have already established a strong practice
brand, the name of your website will closely match your practice name.
If you select a URL matching your personal name, remember that, when
it comes time to sell the practice, your successor may not value it as
highly as you do. Be sure to consult an attorney, or perform a
comprehensive name search, to confirm you have the legal right to use
your chosen name. \n 

In structuring the layout of your site
consider not only the format of your home page, but also any 
â
€˜landing pages.' You’ll want a landing page for each of your
services as well as a(n): \n •Meet the Dentist(s) Page 
 \n â€
¢Meet The Team Page 
 \n •Photo Gallery 
 \n •Schedule an
Appointment Page 
 \n •Unique telephone number so you can track
and calculate the return on your website
 marketing investment 

\n •Form visitors may complete to receive a report on a topic of
interest and relevance to
 them 
 \n •Automated direct
response communications campaign (more on this in an upcoming

article)
 \n •Easy to use CMS (content management system)

\n •Cost-effective hosting solution, report system, and reliable
technical support \n Who should build your website
 \n Look for
a firm that:
 \n •Specializes in the Dental fieldâ
€¨ \n •Guarantees delivery within a reasonable
timeframe, although you must be an equal partner in
 this process.
\n •Is able and willing to test your existing design for efficacy.

 \n •Offers robust, but user-friendly, reportingâ
€¨ \n •Offers references
 \n •Will
assist with selecting and securing an appropriate name for your
website \n If you get the sense the firm’s representative is
reading from a canned script, you may expect to be treated as a
commodity, which probably is not what you want. In general, trust your
gut. \n Pay Now or Pay Later?
 \n We usually get what we pay
for. In choosing who should build your web presence, be wary of the â
€˜free lunch.’ This can happen when the practice chooses to have a
friend, relative, student, or someone else perform the project ‘for
free,’hone number so you can track and calculate the return on your
website
 marketing investment 
 \n •Form visitors may complete
to receive a report on a topic of interest and relevance to
 them â
€¨ \n •Automated direct response communications campaign (more on
this in an upcoming
 article)
 \n •Easy to use CMS (content
management system)
 \n •Cost-effective hosting solution, report
system, and reliable technical support \n Who should build your
website
 \n Look for a firm that:
 \n â€
¢Specializes in the Dental field
 \n •Guarantees
delivery within a reasonable timeframe, although you must be an equal
partner in
 this process. \n •Is able and willing to test your
existing design for efficacy. 
 \n •Offers robust,
but user-friendly, reporting
 \n •Offers referencesâ
€¨ \n •Will assist with selecting and securing an
appropriate name for your website \n If you get the sense the firmâ
€™s representative is reading from a canned script, you may expect to
be treated as a commodity, which probably is not what you want. In
general, trust your gut. \n Pay Now or Pay Later?
 \n We usually
get what we pay for. In choosing who should build your web presence,
be wary of the ‘free lunch.’ This can happen when the practice
chooses to have a friend, relative, student, or someone else perform
the project ‘for free,’ at a greatly reduced rate, or 'on trade.'
Human nature being what it is, the person who agrees to these â
€˜terms' will prioritize accordingly. More than one practice has been
dismayed to learn the ‘deal’ they made resulted in inordinate
delay, an inferior delivered product, or both. \n The Post-Purchase
Experience 
 \n Rest assured that, once your website goes live,
you will want to make changes to it. You might even experience â
€˜technical difficulties' from time to time. It can be a frustrating
experience not to have these concerns and requests addressed to your
satisfaction, or within the promised time frame, so ask for references
and specifically ask what their experience has been with post-purchase
service. 

Caveat Emptor
Tim Healy of TNT Dental warns “If you
haven't received correspondence from companies with names like Liberty
Names of America or Domain Registry of America, you probably will.
Don't let the “domain name expiration notice†fool you. Although
the expiration date of your domain name may be real, it is NOT a real
invoice. The document looks official, and leads many intelligent
individuals to send a check for domain name renewal.†This is a form
of \"slamming,\" which changes your service to another company without
you realizing what you have done. Sending a check to such companies
constitutes legal \"permission\" for them to change your service. \n
To protect yourself from having your domain slammed, “Know who your
registrar is, and if you're not sure, visit www.whois.sc , type in
your domain name, and the name of your registrar will appear. \n
Check it out (and off)
 \n Here's a checklist to evaluate your
site's performance, and to help judge when your new website is â
€˜ready for prime time': \n •Navigation bar at top makes pages
accessible and easy to find \n 
•Site Layout is organized in a
familiar pattern with important section at top and left and main
content in
 center \n 
•Professional and clean Look ‘n Feel

 \n •Page Width not more than 800px (max printable width) \n â
€¨â€¢Contact Information is ‘above the fold' for quick viewing and
access 
•Quick load time e.g. not too much use of Flash and other
animation, which is also a distraction to visitors \n •Interactive
features e.g newsletter sign up, free consultation, etc. allows
practice to efficiently build
 prospective patient contact list
\n 
•Free offer for visitor to further encourage completion of a
Form 
 \n •Means to capture site visitor contact information
\n 
•Follow-up aka drip marketing system to communicate with
registered site visitors \n 
•Site ranks in top results in
Google for city and ‘dentist' demonstrating ‘relevance.' Goal is
to rank in top 3
 results as these listings receive over 80% of
clicks.
 \n •City name is included in the title bar
 \n â€
¢Site at a greatly reduced rate, or 'on trade.' Human nature being
what it is, the person who agrees to these ‘terms' will prioritize
accordingly. More than one practice has been dismayed to learn the â
€˜deal’ they made resulted in inordinate delay, an inferior
delivered product, or both. \n The Post-Purchase Experience 
 \n
Rest assured that, once your website goes live, you will want to make
changes to it. You might even experience ‘technical difficulties'
from time to time. It can be a frustrating experience not to have
these concerns and requests addressed to your satisfaction, or within
the promised time frame, so ask for references and specifically ask
what their experience has been with post-purchase service. 
â
€¨Caveat Emptor
Tim Healy of TNT Dental warns “If you haven't
received correspondence from companies with names like Liberty Names
of America or Domain Registry of America, you probably will. Don't let
the “domain name expiration notice†fool you. Although the
expiration date of your domain name may be real, it is NOT a real
invoice. The document looks official, and leads many intelligent
individuals to send a check for domain name renewal.†This is a form
of \"slamming,\" which changes your service to another company without
you realizing what you have done. Sending a check to such companies
constitutes legal \"permission\" for them to change your service. \n
To protect yourself from having your domain slammed, “Know who your
registrar is, and if you're not sure, visit www.whois.sc , type in
your domain name, and the name of your registrar will appear. \n
Check it out (and off)
 \n Here's a checklist to evaluate your
site's performance, and to help judge when your new website is â
€˜ready for prime time': \n •Navigation bar at top makes pages
accessible and easy to find \n 
•Site Layout is organized in a
familiar pattern with important section at top and left and main
content in
 center \n 
•Professional and clean Look ‘n Feel

 \n •Page Width not more than 800px (max printable width) \n â
€¨â€¢Contact Information is ‘above the fold' for quick viewing and
access 
•Quick load time e.g. not too much use of Flash and other
animation, which is also a distraction to visitors \n •Interactive
features e.g newsletter sign up, free consultation, etc. allows
practice to efficiently build
 prospective patient contact list
\n 
•Free offer for visitor to further encourage completion of a
Form 
 \n •Means to capture site visitor contact information
\n 
•Follow-up aka drip marketing system to communicate with
registered site visitors \n 
•Site ranks in top results in
Google for city and ‘dentist' demonstrating ‘relevance.' Goal is
to rank in top 3
 results as these listings receive over 80% of
clicks.
 \n •City name is included in the title bar
 \n â€
¢Site meta information included (such as keywords and description) to
assist with search engine
 marketing \n 
•Important words
should be in text, not graphical images, which search engines cannot
understand. \n 
•Pay-Per-Click (PPC) program in place, at least
until the site is optimized for ‘organic results’, and uses

'best practices' i.e. are managed by a firm certified to manage the
program offered by that 
 search engine.
 \n •Links for
specific services send visitor to specific landing pages where the
visitor quickly finds what they
 are looking for 
 \n â€
¢Analytics are easy to access and interpret

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and unlike, say, printing, where one has either to pay to redo or â
€˜live with’ errors, websites, are quite forgiving. This means
that, should you change your mind, most changes to your site are
easily made. It also means your site does not need to be ‘perfect’
to launch. Applying the same care and attention to detail that you use
in planning and delivering treatment will serve you in this process as
well. \n The next Article will focus on website marketing, that
is, attracting qualified visitors to your website. \n Daniel Bobrow,
MBA, is president of the American Dental Marketing Company, a
dentistry marketing and patient communications consultancy. He is also
Executive Director of Dentists’ Climb for a Cause™. Readers
interested in learning more about integrated marketing and patient
communication products, systems and services are invited to contact
Mr. Bobrow at 312-455-9488 or DBo...@AmericanDentalMarketing.com
or visit AmericanDentalMarketing.com. \n\n\n (Marketing) "]},
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hours. I noticed an obscurity, a black aura around me… a dark void,
if you will. I was unable to see. I cannot view the world around
me. I am blind! But, wait… a voice… I hear a male voice amidst
the blackness. \n “Why are you writing in the dark, honey? Turn
on the light, woman.†\n Light! Brightness! My dim world is now
an inspiration of energy-saving illumination! Hold up… what is this
on the magic screen in front of my eyes? The advertisement read like
a warm hug; every word pulled me deeper into its embrace. Somehow, it
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thru Thursday in our fee-for-service practice. \n You adore the
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decide how much time is required for your prophylaxes and SRP therapy
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many oral care products. We have them all. We use lasers. Would you
like to receive certification? We’ll get you certified on how to
use them and we will pay for your class. \n Half of your
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sweaty and my heart was pounding with excited fury. Pounding… still
pounding… oh, my god, it’s tachycardia! Wait… false alarm. Iâ
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is now past… for you are the one.†I am the one. \n Oh,
victorious day! I will rejoice in the beams of light and happiness!
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paid for by our practice. We’re fond of fart jokes and enjoy
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pays? \nDr. Adkins: It’s a one-time fee for a one-year agreement
and ranges from $700 to $1,250 depending on the patient’s age.
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used every single preventive maintenance service that I recommended,
which was incredible. It’s more difficult to get people to do
preventive care when they know if they come in there’s a bill
attached. But with this program, people followed my professional
guidance almost every time. I’m a new dentist and have about 2,700
patients, but my 113 members were responsible for half of my practiceâ
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felt free to use the services they perceived as unaffordable. They
were calling us and asking if we could do those other services they
had been waiting to do. \n DPR: How many patients do you have signed
up this year? \n Dr. Adkins: I started the program again in May and
have 65 patients signed up so far. It’s still growing. We’re going
to continue for a year and see what happens in terms of patient
behavior and perception. Some of last year’s members have re-signed
and others have not. That’s one of the challenges of the program. Iâ
€™ve been thinking about ways to keep them engaged for preventive
reasons even after they’ve done everything they needed or wanted.
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they don’t have to think twice about what I recommend because I donâ
€™t have a direct financial gain any more. Even though the great
majority of us dentists have our patients’ best interest at heart,
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place they don’t want to be at any way. They often think about the
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still growing. We’re going to continue for a year and see what
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patients’ best interest at heart, there are public confidence issues
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any way. They often think about the fact that I am in practice and I
do gain financially from their illness. I wanted to see if it is
possible to remove that stigma, that barrier. Is it possible to do
this in a way where I get to be successful by keeping my patients
healthier, by providing preventive care versus treating illnesses for
them? I think that’s why patients were calling to ask if I could see
them one more time before the year was over. It’s an incredible
dynamic shift for the patient/doctor relationship. It’s small, itâ
€™s a nuance, but it changed their behavior so drastically in such a
positive way. \nDPR: What gave you the idea to try this type of
program? \nDr. Adkins: I’m a solo practitioner with no insurance
affiliation and don’t believe in our insurance system so I’ve been
looking for creative ways to give people more effective care. I was
often frustrated by my inability to be as clinically effective as I
could be because costs and complexities in our system sometimes make
treatment impossible for patients. I could say to 2,700 patients I
want some of you here twice a year, some every three months, but I
never seemed to be able to get them anywhere near 100 percent
compliance. I felt like I was chasing disease rather than treating it
successfully. I was frustrated and kept asking myself, ‘What if I
work for free?’ I have bills to pay so of course I can’t do that,
but I wondered what else can I do so I can be more clinically
effective? When you get 110 patients out of 113 that follow everything
that needs done, that’s incredible. \n I’ve seen some
physicians do what they call concierge medicine where they limit the
practice to fewer patients, which improves access but doesn’t
provide much of a cost savings. Physicians don’t have some of the
challenges we do. If a person has a cold it’s an office visit. If a
person breaks a tooth it’s a crown. It seemed to me like maybe we
can learn from that concept, but customize it to fit dentistry a
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individually become a community asset. Just like you go into Costco
and pay a membership fee and get access to certain things at a reduced
cost, can we do that with dentistry? Should we? That’s why the
concept came to fruition. \n DPR: How did your patients react when
you told them about the program? \nDr. Adkins: It was a mixed
reaction. Some people were automatic sign ups and thought it was the
greatest thing. Others were skeptical. Some patients said there’s
got to be a catch. It just can’t be. There’s a lesson in that.
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me but people question us more now. The fact that at the end of the
year patients had access to whatever they wanted, as long as it wasnâ
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end of it, the people who were questioning it were pleasantly
surprised. There was no catcfinancially from their illness. I wanted
to see if it is possible to remove that stigma, that barrier. Is it
possible to do this in a way where I get to be successful by keeping
my patients healthier, by providing preventive care versus treating
illnesses for them? I think that’s why patients were calling to ask
if I could see them one more time before the year was over. It’s an
incredible dynamic shift for the patient/doctor relationship. It’s
small, it’s a nuance, but it changed their behavior so drastically
in such a positive way. \nDPR: What gave you the idea to try this
type of program? \nDr. Adkins: I’m a solo practitioner with no
insurance affiliation and don’t believe in our insurance system so Iâ
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care. I was often frustrated by my inability to be as clinically
effective as I could be because costs and complexities in our system
sometimes make treatment impossible for patients. I could say to 2,700
patients I want some of you here twice a year, some every three
months, but I never seemed to be able to get them anywhere near 100
percent compliance. I felt like I was chasing disease rather than
treating it successfully. I was frustrated and kept asking myself, â
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clinically effective? When you get 110 patients out of 113 that follow
everything that needs done, that’s incredible. \n I’ve seen
some physicians do what they call concierge medicine where they limit
the practice to fewer patients, which improves access but doesn’t
provide much of a cost savings. Physicians don’t have some of the
challenges we do. If a person has a cold it’s an office visit. If a
person breaks a tooth it’s a crown. It seemed to me like maybe we
can learn from that concept, but customize it to fit dentistry a
little better. I also thought what if practitioners were able to
individually become a community asset. Just like you go into Costco
and pay a membership fee and get access to certain things at a reduced
cost, can we do that with dentistry? Should we? That’s why the
concept came to fruition. \n DPR: How did your patients react when
you told them about the program? \nDr. Adkins: It was a mixed
reaction. Some people were automatic sign ups and thought it was the
greatest thing. Others were skeptical. Some patients said there’s
got to be a catch. It just can’t be. There’s a lesson in that.
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me but people question us more now. The fact that at the end of the
year patients had access to whatever they wanted, as long as it wasnâ
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end of it, the people who were questioning it were pleasantly
surprised. There was no catch. This was a good experience. It was a
positive experience for me knowing people agreed it was possible, if
we work together, to improve the system. We can come up with creative
ways to do this. This is just one example. The point is we can work
with our communities and have them be part of the discussion of what
they need. \nDPR: What can other clinicians learn from this? \nDr.
Adkins: I would say look at your communities specifically and see what
they need. What I can do may not be the same as what they can do in
their communities. If we don’t start to work with our communities, I
believe the solo practitioners will be in trouble over time. It’s
not a coincidence that most new dental offices going up are corporate-
owned office. This idea is just one example of one idea that I tried
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\n \n \n It’s a scenario most dentists have lived out in
their practice. You recommend preventive care or talk to a patient
about other services you can offer, and he or she declines because it
simply isn’t in the budget. These patients are skipping routine
check ups and putting off care they need, which in the end only will
cost them more. \n This frustrated Dr. Artemiz Seif Adkins, who has
a private practice in Scottsdale, Ariz. She wanted to find a way to
ensure her patients received the preventive care they needed as well
as give them access to other services they may want but didn’t feel
like they could afford. That’s why she developed the Dentist-Patient
Alliance program, a program that enables patients to pay a one-time
fee for an entire year’s worth of preventive dental care. Not only
does Dr. Adkins receive payment up front, but it helps her patients
cut dental costs by as much as 50% and gives them access to care they
thought they couldn’t afford. \n We recently talked with Dr.
Adkins about this program and why it seems to work for her patients
and her practice. Here’s what she had to say: \n DPR: Tell me a
little about Dentist-Patient Alliance program. What’s the idea
behind it? \nDr. Adkins: It gives my patients the ability to pay into
a membership that gives them certain benefits, including preventive
care for no cost and reduced costs on other services they need or
want. I wanted to test the idea of whether it was possible to increase
patients’ use of preventive care if you reduced the cost barrier. So
far, it seems to be working. \n DPR: How do patients become
members? \nDr. Adkins: They can just sign up for it. Membership is
elective and we don’t limit membership. Any one who wants to be a
member can be a member. Some people use it for the preventive care and
others use it because they need a lot of dental work that would cost
them more any other way. It’s attracting different people for
different reasons. \n DPR: How did you determine what each patient
pays? \nDr. Adkins: It’s a one-time fee for a one-year agreement
and ranges from $700 to $1,250 depending on the patient’s age.
\nDPR: How many of your patients are taking advantage of this
program? \nDr. Adkins: Last year I wanted to limit it to 100 patients
to test the idea but ended up with 113 by the time it was done. Out of
113 patients, 110 of them used every single preventive maintenance
service that I recommended, which was incredible. It’s more
difficult to get people to do preventive care when they know if they
come in there’s a bill attached. But with this program, people
followed my professional guidance almost every time. I’m a new
dentist and have about 2,700 patients, but my 113 members were
responsible for half of my practice’s productivity last year. Once
the cost barrier was removed, people felt free to use the services
they perceived as unaffordable. They were calling us and asking if we
could do those other services they had been waiting to do. \n DPR:
How many patients do you have signed up this year? \n Dr. Adkins: I
started the program again in May and have 65 patients signed up so
far. It’s still growing. We’re going to continue for a year and
see what happens in terms of patient behavior and perception. Some of
last year’s members have re-signed and others have not. That’s one
of the challenges of the program. I’ve been thinking about ways to
keep them engaged for preventive reasons even after they’ve done
everything they needed or wanted. \n DPR: What do your patients
seem to like about the program? \nDr. Adkins: I think it’s the same
thing I like. It’s the idea that they don’t have to think twice
about what I recommend because I don’t have a direct financial gain
any more. Even though the great majority of us dentists have our
patients’ best interest at heart, there are public confidence issues
when people are given bad news in a place they don’t want to be at
any way. They often think about the fact that I am in practice and I
do gain financially from their illness. I wanted to see if it is
possible to remove that stigma, that barrier. Is it possible to do
this in a way where I get to be successful by keeping my patients
healthier, by providing preventive care versus treating illnesses for
them? I think that’s why patients were calling to ask if I could see
them one more time before the year was over. It’s an incredible
dynamic shift for the patient/doctor relationship. It’s small, itâ
€™s a nuance, but it changed their behavior so drastically in such a
positive way. \nDPR: What gave you the idea to try this type of
program? \nDr. Adkins: I’m a solo practitioner with no insurance
affiliation and don’t believe in our insurance system so I’ve been
looking for creative ways to give people more effective care. I was
often frustrated by my inability to be as clinically effective as I
could be because costs and complexities in our system sometimes make
trranges from $700 to $1,250 depending on the patient’s age.
\nDPR: How many of your patients are taking advantage of this
program? \nDr. Adkins: Last year I wanted to limit it to 100 patients
to test the idea but ended up with 113 by the time it was done. Out of
113 patients, 110 of them used every single preventive maintenance
service that I recommended, which was incredible. It’s more
difficult to get people to do preventive care when they know if they
come in there’s a bill attached. But with this program, people
followed my professional guidance almost every time. I’m a new
dentist and have about 2,700 patients, but my 113 members were
responsible for half of my practice’s productivity last year. Once
the cost barrier was removed, people felt free to use the services
they perceived as unaffordable. They were calling us and asking if we
could do those other services they had been waiting to do. \n DPR:
How many patients do you have signed up this year? \n Dr. Adkins: I
started the program again in May and have 65 patients signed up so
far. It’s still growing. We’re going to continue for a year and
see what happens in terms of patient behavior and perception. Some of
last year’s members have re-signed and others have not. That’s one
of the challenges of the program. I’ve been thinking about ways to
keep them engaged for preventive reasons even after they’ve done
everything they needed or wanted. \n DPR: What do your patients
seem to like about the program? \nDr. Adkins: I think it’s the same
thing I like. It’s the idea that they don’t have to think twice
about what I recommend because I don’t have a direct financial gain
any more. Even though the great majority of us dentists have our
patients’ best interest at heart, there are public confidence issues
when people are given bad news in a place they don’t want to be at
any way. They often think about the fact that I am in practice and I
do gain financially from their illness. I wanted to see if it is
possible to remove that stigma, that barrier. Is it possible to do
this in a way where I get to be successful by keeping my patients
healthier, by providing preventive care versus treating illnesses for
them? I think that’s why patients were calling to ask if I could see
them one more time before the year was over. It’s an incredible
dynamic shift for the patient/doctor relationship. It’s small, itâ
€™s a nuance, but it changed their behavior so drastically in such a
positive way. \nDPR: What gave you the idea to try this type of
program? \nDr. Adkins: I’m a solo practitioner with no insurance
affiliation and don’t believe in our insurance system so I’ve been
looking for creative ways to give people more effective care. I was
often frustrated by my inability to be as clinically effective as I
could be because costs and complexities in our system sometimes make
treatment impossible for patients. I could say to 2,700 patients I
want some of you here twice a year, some every three months, but I
never seemed to be able to get them anywhere near 100 percent
compliance. I felt like I was chasing disease rather than treating it
successfully. I was frustrated and kept asking myself, ‘What if I
work for free?’ I have bills to pay so of course I can’t do that,
but I wondered what else can I do so I can be more clinically
effective? When you get 110 patients out of 113 that follow everything
that needs done, that’s incredible. \n I’ve seen some
physicians do what they call concierge medicine where they limit the
practice to fewer patients, which improves access but doesn’t
provide much of a cost savings. Physicians don’t have some of the
challenges we do. If a person has a cold it’s an office visit. If a
person breaks a tooth it’s a crown. It seemed to me like maybe we
can learn from that concept, but customize it to fit dentistry a
little better. I also thought what if practitioners were able to
individually become a community asset. Just like you go into Costco
and pay a membership fee and get access to certain things at a reduced
cost, can we do that with dentistry? Should we? That’s why the
concept came to fruition. \n DPR: How did your patients react when
you told them about the program? \nDr. Adkins: It was a mixed
reaction. Some people were automatic sign ups and thought it was the
greatest thing. Others were skeptical. Some patients said there’s
got to be a catch. It just can’t be. There’s a lesson in that.
Growing up I never thought my doctors were trying to take advantage of
me but people question us more now. The fact that at the end of the
year patients had access to whatever they wanted, as long as it wasnâ
€™t going to hurt them and they followed my clinical judgment, by the
end of it, the people who were questioning it were pleasantly
surprised. There was no catch. This was a good experience. It was a
positive experience for me knowing people agreed it was possible, if
we work together, to improve the system. We can come up with creative
ways to do this. This is just one example. The point is we can work
with our communities and have them be part of the discussion of what
they need. \nDPR: What can other clinicians learn from this? \nDr.
Adkins: I would say look at your communities specifically and see what
they need. What I can do may not be the same as what they can do in
their communities. If we don’t start to work with our communities, I
believe the solo practitioners will be in trouble over time. It’s
not a coincidence that most new dental offices going up are corporate-
owned office. This idea is just one example of one idea that I tried
and am glad it seems to be working for my community. I believe the
more we can engage our communities, the more effective we can be, and
I dare eatment impossible for patients. I could say to 2,700 patients
I want some of you here twice a year, some every three months, but I
never seemed to be able to get them anywhere near 100 percent
compliance. I felt like I was chasing disease rather than treating it
successfully. I was frustrated and kept asking myself, ‘What if I
work for free?’ I have bills to pay so of course I can’t do that,
but I wondered what else can I do so I can be more clinically
effective? When you get 110 patients out of 113 that follow everything
that needs done, that’s incredible. \n I’ve seen some
physicians do what they call concierge medicine where they limit the
practice to fewer patients, which improves access but doesn’t
provide much of a cost savings. Physicians don’t have some of the
challenges we do. If a person has a cold it’s an office visit. If a
person breaks a tooth it’s a crown. It seemed to me like maybe we
can learn from that concept, but customize it to fit dentistry a
little better. I also thought what if practitioners were able to
individually become a community asset. Just like you go into Costco
and pay a membership fee and get access to certain things at a reduced
cost, can we do that with dentistry? Should we? That’s why the
concept came to fruition. \n DPR: How did your patients react when
you told them about the program? \nDr. Adkins: It was a mixed
reaction. Some people were automatic sign ups and thought it was the
greatest thing. Others were skeptical. Some patients said there’s
got to be a catch. It just can’t be. There’s a lesson in that.
Growing up I never thought my doctors were trying to take advantage of
me but people question us more now. The fact that at the end of the
year patients had access to whatever they wanted, as long as it wasnâ
€™t going to hurt them and they followed my clinical judgment, by the
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surprised. There was no catch. This was a good experience. It was a
positive experience for me knowing people agreed it was possible, if
we work together, to improve the system. We can come up with creative
ways to do this. This is just one example. The point is we can work
with our communities and have them be part of the discussion of what
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believe the solo practitioners will be in trouble over time. It’s
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strength and esthetics. \n It bothered him to know he either had to
use a composite that looked good but didn’t hold up, or a
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the esthetics. He always thought his patients deserved both. \n
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know he either had to use a composite that looked good but didn’t
hold up, or a <strong>product</strong> that offered the strength he
wanted but not the esthetics. He always thought his patients deserved
both. \n About 10 years ago, he was given the opportunity to help
make that possible. That’s when he first learned about what
nanofiller technology could do for composites. In 2000, 3M ESPE
introduced these possibilities to a select group of cosmetic experts
that included Dr. Chyz. These opinion leaders offered their expertise
to help take the chemistry researchers created in the 3M labs and use
it to develop a composite strong enough for the posterior yet
beautiful and polishable enough for the anterior. Dr. Grant Chyz
always found it troubling when he had to choose between strength and
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enchanted realm of <strong>dental</strong> practices.
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Hygiene \n \n \n \n \n
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your"," prophylaxes and SRP therapy and your own hygiene assistant is
here for you. You like recommending many oral care <strong>products</
strong>. We have them all. We use lasers. Would you like to receive
certification? We’ll get you certified on how to use them and we
will pay for your class. \n Half of your monthly Metra train
transportation is paid for by our practice. We’re fond of fart
jokes and enjoy discussing the proper way of preparing rhubarb in a
custard flan medium. Submitting a cover letter is not necessary. We
know who you are. \n Holy crap, they DO know me! \n I was struck
by a feeling of light-headedness. I became sweaty and my heart was
pounding with excited fury. Pounding… still pounding… oh, my god,
it’s tachycardia! Wait… false alarm. I’m good. \n I must
make contact with this beacon of hygiene possibility. I shall meet
the representatives of this <strong>dental</strong> citadel. We will
discuss. Our minds will become a cohesive unit of squishy neurons and
they will say, “You were our search."]},"jfstjl/node/83":{"body":["
\n \n \n Newest version of server-
based patient education software for both operatories and the
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\n In Print \n \n \n \n
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CAESY Enterprise 7.0 is the newest version of server-based patient
education software for both operatories and the reception area. More
than 80 new and updated presentations in CAESY Enterprise 7.0 help
save time for office professionals, reduce the number of repeated
procedural explanations, and create an increase in case acceptance
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Debridement and Prophylaxis \n * Sedation Options in Pediatric
Dentistry \n * Invisible Braces in the Orthodontics section \n
* Thin Veneers in the Esthetic Dentistry section \n * Nine new
topics in Dentures \n * Oral Conditions, including a Frenectomy
segment \n * Hard and Soft Tissue Lasers \n * Digital X-ray,
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developed a program designed to make <strong>dental</strong> care more
affordable and accessible to her patients—and so far, it’sthe
opportunity to help make that possible. That’s when he first learned
about what nanofiller technology could do for composites. In 2000, 3M
ESPE introduced these possibilities to a select group of cosmetic
experts that included Dr. Chyz. These opinion leaders offered their
expertise to help take the chemistry researchers created in the 3M
labs and use it to develop a composite strong enough for the posterior
yet beautiful and polishable enough for the anterior. Dr. Grant Chyz
always found it troubling when he had to choose between strength and
esthetics. \n It bothered him to know he either had to use a
composite that looked good but didn’t hold up, or a <strong>product</
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enchanted realm of <strong>dental</strong> practices.
\n \n \n \n \n \n
Hygiene \n \n \n \n \n
\n \n \n \n It’s pretty
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It’s content like a satisfied meal that’s digesting comfortably in
your"," prophylaxes and SRP therapy and your own hygiene assistant is
here for you. You like recommending many oral care <strong>products</
strong>. We have them all. We use lasers. Would you like to receive
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will pay for your class. \n Half of your monthly Metra train
transportation is paid for by our practice. We’re fond of fart
jokes and enjoy discussing the proper way of preparing rhubarb in a
custard flan medium. Submitting a cover letter is not necessary. We
know who you are. \n Holy crap, they DO know me! \n I was struck
by a feeling of light-headedness. I became sweaty and my heart was
pounding with excited fury. Pounding… still pounding… oh, my god,
it’s tachycardia! Wait… false alarm. I’m good. \n I must
make contact with this beacon of hygiene possibility. I shall meet
the representatives of this <strong>dental</strong> citadel. We will
discuss. Our minds will become a cohesive unit of squishy neurons and
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Debridement and Prophylaxis \n * Sedation Options in Pediatric
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* Thin Veneers in the Esthetic Dentistry section \n * Nine new
topics in Dentures \n * Oral Conditions, including a Frenectomy
segment \n * Hard and Soft Tissue Lasers \n * Digital X-ray,
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\n \n \n \n \n
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recommend preventive care or talk to a patient about other services
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up front, but it helps her patients cut <strong>dental</strong> costs
by as much as 50% and gives them access to care they thought they
couldn’t afford. \n We recently talked with Dr. Adkins about this
program and why it seems to work for her patients and her practice.
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Membership is elective and we don’t limit membership. Any one who
wants to be a member can be a member. Some people use it for the
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(or try to answer) in a weekend. More importantly, what does it have
to do with cone beam technology? Dr. Mark Tholen , in his
lecture, looked at the reasons why some practices with CBCT are
successful and others are not, revealing the common denominators
among dentists who see the benefits. In his post-podium interview, he
gets into the bigger picture of general happiness and success, how we
define these things (more money, or more time for family, or more
time for hobbies), and then how the built environment of the practice
and operatory help facilitate that success and bring the values of
the dentist in line with the way he or she is presented through the
practice’s design. He ended our conversation by stressing the
importance of <strong>dental</strong> professionals being good
stewards of their most valuable instrument—their bodies—and how
technology helps lighten the load and lessen the repetition for both
dentists and their teams. The complete video interview will be
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[classyd]

James,

i was finally able to dig into this again today:

- The bug occurs even if I remove all widgets and unnecessary Javascript and HTML from the page.

- The same request always produces the bug

- I have tested this in Chrome 8.0.552.224, Firefox 3.6.1.2 and Safari 3.1.2 on a PC

I was able to identify a result in a result set that will cause the bug by manually manipulating the start parameter.

It is the first result  in the following file:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63788/error.json

(nid":81,"uid":1,"title":"Success with web-based marketing, Part II",")

The handleResponse method in AbstarctManager.js is never called when this result is returned.

[James McKinney]

I don't see anything wrong with that particular result. Your params
seems a bit odd:

{
"status":0,
"QTime":15,
"params":{
"hl.fragsize":["500","500"],
"json.wrf":["jsonp1294941559913","jsonp1294941559913"],
"facet":["true","true"],
"facet.limit":["20","20"],
"perPage":["10","10"],
"json.nl":["map","map"],
"f.topics.facet.limit":["50","50"],
"wt":["json","json"],
"hl":"true",
"start":["3","3"],
"q":["search+report","search+report"],
"_":["1294941563587http://216.157.78.19:8983/solr/dprsearch/select?hl
= true","1294941563587"],
"facet.field":["type_name","site","type_name","site"]
}
}

I don't know why most of the values are arrays, e.g.
"json.nl":["map","map"] is usually just "json.nl":["map"]

I'm not familiar with a "perPage" param. Isn't it "rows"?

"f.topics.facet.limit" shouldn't be there, as you are only faceting on
type_name and site.

facet.field repeats type_name and site; they only need to appear once each.

[James McKinney]

I mean: "json.nl":"map"

[classyd]

I agree that's a little odd, but removing them does not produce any different results. This is the response I get when stripping out all those params:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63788/error2.json

[classyd]

The  Solr server I am retrieving results from is publicly available at http://216.157.78.19:8983/solr/dprsearch/

I think that error should be fairly easy to reproduce by issueing a query against the word "search"

http://216.157.78.19:8983/solr/dprsearch/select?q=search&wt=json&json.wrf=jsonp1295296905705&_=1295296905759

I would really appreciate feedback about how to get to the bottom of this - I was  planning to use AjaxSolr across eight high-volume sites, but I might have to reconsider and start coding another solution from scratch if I can't resolve this problem .

Thanks

Dietrich

[James McKinney]

If you take that output, beautify it with http://jsbeautifier.org/,
and then run it through http://www.jslint.com/, it will complain about
"Unsafe character". I think there must be an invisible whitespace
character after "Access Paths" that is causing the problem. The unsafe
character causes the JSON decoder to throw a parse error. Any JS
solution will have trouble with this output as long as it contains
unsafe characters. I would try removing that content, reindexing Solr,
and then going through the beautify->jslint steps if there are still
parse errors.

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:49 PM, classyd <die...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The  Solr server available i am retrieving results from is publicly

[James McKinney]

Note that the part of ajax-solr that throws the parse error is
jQuery.getJSON, which calls jQuery.parseJSON, which in modern browsers
uses the built-in window.JSON.parse. In my case, Safari is chocking on
the JSON that your Solr server is outputting. I wouldn't start writing
another solution until you solve the problem of Solr's JSON output
causing parse errors in JSON parsers (whether it's Safari, Firefox,
Chrome, etc.).

[classyd]

Thanks for the feedback. I will remove the data from the Solr server that causes the problem (this is test data anyway), but my concern is that I do not completely have control over the data stored in Solr in my production environment and that one instance of incorrectly encoded data in a result set will cause JQuery to choke on it without any feedback to the user or useful debugging information.

I tried using jQuery.get instead of getJSON, and I also configured Ajax to log exceptions in the console, but that never happened in that case:

$.ajaxSetup({

  "error":function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {

   alert ('an error occured - please use Firebug console to view the details ')

   if (window.console && window.console.log){

   console.log(textStatus);   

   console.log(errorThrown);   

   console.log(XMLHttpRequest.responseText);   

   console.log(XMLHttpRequest);   

   }

}});

Do you see any other possibilities to catch those parse errors and output some useful debug information?

 

[James McKinney]

Parse errors are not the sort of error that can be caught, unfortunately.

It is not jQuery that is chocking on the JSON. jQuery uses the native
browser JSON parser if one is available. In my case, it is Safari that
is chocking.

This may be a bug in Solr, because Solr should not be outputting JSON
that cannot be parsed.

[classyd]

Pending a solution that ensures that data coming back from Solr is
parsable (I depend on offshore developers to work on this) I have come
up with a solution that works, even though performance will most
likely be a lot worse since it's not using the native JSON parser
anymore.
In Manager.jquery.js, I modified the executeRequest method:
executeRequest: function (servlet) {
var self = this;
if (this.proxyUrl) {
jQuery.post(this.proxyUrl, { location: this.solrUrl + servlet +
'?' + this.store.string()+'&wt=json&json.wrf=?' }, function (text) {
json = eval("(" + text + ")");
//json = eval("(" + text + ")")
self.handleResponse(json);
}, "text");
}
else {
....

To avoid problems with the “Same Origin Policy” when using "text"
instead of "json" I am sending the request thru a proxy servlet.
Not too elegant, but it works...

[James McKinney]

Looks like a good workaround the issue!