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So, I’m in a play that opens tomorrow night. I’m playing Angelo in the Ghost Light Theatricals production of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” at Stone Soup Theatre in Seattle. Here’s the postcard front and the text from the back.

Ghost Light Theatricals presents

Measure For Measure
by William Shakespeare

directed by Beth Raas

October 3, 4, 9-11, 16-18 at 7:30pm, & October 19 at 2:00pm

Stone Soup Theatre – in Wallingford
4035 Stone Way N, Seattle, WA 98103 (Map)

Tickets $15 ($12 st/sr) at the door or visit Brown Paper Tickets.

Shakespeare’s dark comedy about sex, power, and hypocrisy. Angelo takes advantage of his temporary authority to crack down on fornicators… and to join their ranks.

Measure For Measure features the work of Rob Bergquist, Val Brunetto, Becky Chong, Steve Cooper, Justin Emerick, Melissa Fenwick, Jalyn Green, Matt Lyman, Molly Mahar, Daniela Melgar, Jeff Pierson, Jenifer Ross, Jessica Stepka, Derek Van Heel, David van Wert, John-Paul Wilson, and Evan Woltz.

I recently rebuilt these two sites. They weren’t in any way redesigned — they look exactly as they did before.

So why rebuild them?

Well, the original versions were all made from images. Every single bit of every page was composed of images jammed in tables. There was no text (just pictures of some text) and therefore no content as far as Google and other search engines are concerned. This is a bad thing. And every page of each site had the exact same title as its fellows — also a bad thing. For Sightline Tours, Google searches for their keywords yielded not a single placement within the first ten pages.

Within a month of this rebuild, both sites have climbed from a page rank of 0 to 3 without any other marketing efforts whatsoever. And Sightline now has Google page one placement for some of its keywords, and no worse than page three for any of them.

And the new code is leaner (by 70%) & cleaner, which also helps with search engine optimization. </brag>

I’m very excited about the Dr. Horrible trailer.