Pheasant is a great choice if you want to cook something extra special; hunters across the country bring home pheasant for supper during the hunting season in the fall. You can adapt most chicken recipes to pheasant, although cooking a young pheasant is different to cooking an older one. Young pheasants have gray legs, a long pointy feature in the wing and a flexible breastbone. Young males have rounded spurs too.

You can roast, broil, or braise a pheasant or you might want to make a soup. If you are using an old bird, making soup is a good way to disguise its toughness and bring out its wonderful flavor. Saute a clove of garlic and some onions, celery and carrots until tender, then add the chopped meat and brown it.

Add eight cups of chicken stock and a pound of sliced mushrooms, as well as a sprig of thyme and a cup of corn kernels. Let the soup simmer for twelve minutes, then remove the pheasant pieces and take the meat off the bones. Chop the meat and return it to the pot. Warm the soup through and serve it with crusty bread.

How to Roast or Broil a Young Bird

A young one can be roasted for twenty five minutes per pound in a 350 degrees F oven. You might like to stuff it with a sausage or chestnut dressing. This would be similar to stuffed, roasted chicken but with a gamey flavor.

If you want to broil the bird, split it down the back and rub unsalted butter and minced garlic over it, then put the oven rack four inches under the broiler. Cook the bird, basting it often with oil, wine or melted fat, until it is tender and cooked through.

How to Braise or Roast an Older One

Older male birds have long, sharp spurs. If your bird is not a younger one, you will need to bard it to add moisture. What does it mean to bard a bird? Well, you need to make little cuts in the thigh and breast and put small pieces of bacon in there.

The bacon must be at right angles to the breastbone. Melt quarter of a cup of lard in a pot and brown the bird, and then transfer it to a casserole with a sliced onion, twelve sliced mushroom caps and half a cup of Madeira or Marsala wine. Cover the casserole dish and bake the pheasant for thirty minutes or until it is done.

If you would prefer to roast the bird, bard it with bacon, and then insert onion or apple slices into the cavity. Roast the stuffed meat for twenty minutes at 400 degrees F. Take the meat off the bones and cook it for a couple of hours in a homemade stock.

You can make this with two quarts of chicken stock or water, three fresh tomatoes, a quart of dry red wine, a couple of bay leaves, a cup of chopped parsley, two large onions and two cloves of garlic.

Simmer the mixture until the stock has reduced by half, then add some chopped mushrooms, as well as three quarters of a cup each of cream sauce and dry red wine. Simmer the dish for twenty five minutes, then transfer the meat to a plate and ladle the sauce over the top.

Since people got to know about the money they can make from the internet there has been a continuous rise in the number websites for online businesses. This has also brought about a range of new and myriad services which will help these businesses to achieve their goals. SEO is a fairly young industry and most if the SEO companies are under a decade old.

If you own a business which is mainly based on websites and depends a lot on the web, then definitely you will find search engine optimization or SEO useful. Now if you want to do well in business then you have certain the ranking of your website in search engines.

Here are a few SEO services which you can get from the SEO companies.

Keyword Research

Keywords are the starting point of the search engine optimization. You should be aware of your target keywords and how they would help your ranking. Once you know what keywords you should be dwelling on you definitely have to aim for those keywords to get popular with your clients. You have to cooperate with the SEO companies so that they can get a better understanding of your business and from there work on the initial sets of keywords.

Link Building

If SEO campaign is started by keywords then link building fuels your search engine optimization. Since a good link building strategy is the best way for your website to rank, the keywords are also important to have a good link building strategy. Link building is all about having the anchor text which carries the keyword. It is again everything about linking to the relevant websites. Getting links from reputable sites are important players of the game. The will provide effective link building campaign in order to boost your site the blood it needs.

Social Media Marketing

Internet is also popular as Social Media since this is all about connecting with other people. More and more SEO firms are coming up today and are offering social media besides the additional other usual SEO services. To find a SEO company with good grasp of Web 2.0 and the social media and a good track record of working within the sphere.

However, achieving all these is not an easy task especially when you are in a very competitive industry. Initially you will need quite some help. There are several paid as well as free means where you can educate yourself about SEO and all its workings. However, the best thing is leave the task to a good SEO company. Since these companies have experience as well as expertise they do their job best. Although you have to pay a little extra for this but it is one great investment that will reap you regular harvest.

This article describes how Dreamweaver implements templates. Technically, to use Dreamweaver templates, you don't need to know any of the information given in this article; but it is handy to know something about what's going on under the hood in case you need to troubleshoot a Dreamweaver template based document.

Templates are a tool that is used in many computer applications including Microsoft Word, AutoCAD, and other office automation and design products. Templates are useful when you have a group of documents that share many similar design features. You implement the common features one time in the template, and then just customize the template with the individual features of each document.

Templates are Used Only at Design Time

It is important to understand that are totally a design time construct. Only two things separate a Dreamweaver template from any other HTML document:

1. Dreamweaver template documents have a ".dwt" extension.

2. Dreamweaver templates contain specially defined HTML comments that define the editable and non editable area of the template.

When you create an "instance" document that is based on a Dreamweaver template and store it on a web server, the web server is completely unaware that the document was based on a template. It treats the document the same as any other HTML document, and ignores the template comments in the document the same as it would ignore any other comments in an HTML document.

Similarly, a web browser would be completely unaware that a document was based on a Dreamweaver template, and would also ignore the template comments the same as it would ignore any other comments in an HTML document.

Tag Syntax

Dreamweaver has two sets of tags:

* Template Tags are used in template files (files that have suffix .dwt).

* Instance Tags are used in the "instance" documents you create that are based on a template file (files that typically have a suffix .htm or .html).

Dreamweaver defines about thirty different template tags, but all of them have the following syntax:

where TEMPLATE_TAG_NAME and the parameters are replaced with an actual template tag name and actual parameter names. For example:

In the above example, the template tag is a TemplateBeginEditable tag named "Region 1".

The syntax of instance tags is quite similar:

Tag Pairs

Many template tags are paired, having an opening and a closing tag. For example, the "TemplateBeginEditable" tag described above always starts an editable region that is ended with a "TemplateEndEditable". The two tags come as a pair, defined as follows:

-- HTML Code goes here --- How Dreamweaver uses Template Tags

One of the simplest and most important things that Dreamweaver does with Template/Instance tags is to define what regions of an instance document (document created based on a template document) can be edited. BUT BEWARE . . . If you use Dreamweaver to open a template based document in CODE VIEW, you can edit any part of the document in any way you please -- but this is generally not a good thing to do. In Dreamweaver document design view, Dreamweaver respects the instance tags that are included in a document; for example, it will only allow you to edit areas of the document that begin with an "InstanceBeginEditable" (or similar type) tag.

When you have finished editing your web page, the Dreamweaver Instance Tags will remain in it, but as previously stated, these tags are ignored by your Web Server and your Browser.

Finally, if you update a template in Dreamweaver, all of the documents based on the template will be updated too.

Conclusion

Dreamweaver templates work by using specially defined HTML comment tags to mark regions of Dreamweaver template documents and instance documents. You should recognize Dreamweaver template and instance tags, and understand what they do, but you should only edit them in Dreamweaver Design View, not in Code View. For more information on actually using Dreamweaver templates, see my upcoming article "Dreamweaver Tip: Build Better Websites Faster with Templates".