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Is it time for a redesign? Lets take a look…
Posted September 19, 2013 | By Kenneth King, Creative Director | Filed under: SEO, Social Media, Tips & Tricks, Web Programming
For any size business, your website can be one of your most valuable assets and great marketing tools. You need to nurture your website and analyze user data so that you can make an informed decision on how to best serve your customers.
The Benefits Of Email Marketing
Posted July 24, 2013 | By Kenneth King, Creative Director | Filed under: Tips & Tricks
Email marketing does not only have to be about pushing readers to a call to action (although it is very effective at that). Email marketing is also useful in keeping your brand in your customer's mind so that when they do need your services, they will think of you and not your competitors.
Responsive Web Design: What Is It and Why Is It Important
Posted May 15, 2013 | By Kenneth King, Creative Director | Filed under: Tips & Tricks, Web Programming
Responsive web design is no longer just a catchphrase, it's here. Analytics show that more and more people, especially the people you probably want to target, are accessing the web via a mobile device.
We're here to help.
The Case Against IMAP
Posted October 24, 2012 | By Hilary Smith, Customer Support Manager | Filed under: Tips & Tricks
Why would anybody not want IMAP? It's convenient. You can access your email on every device you own. It gets backed up on the remote server, so that if your local computer should die, miraculously, your email will "reappear" when you get a new computer.
But, what happens when the internet goes down? What if you have a brand new computer, phone, tablet, but it can't connect to the internet. How can you search for that email you've got to respond to....when you can't get to the remote server hosting your IMAP email.
If your email is set up as POP3, you can.
Do you have a Plan B?
Posted August 07, 2012 | By Hilary Smith, Customer Support Manager | Filed under: Tips & Tricks
Nobody wants to think about mortality or death and dying, and nobody wants to think about the possibility that their computer may not boot one day. But like mortality, you will probably experience the death of a harddrive sooner or later. Best to have a back up plan in place when this does happen.
Still think your dog’s name is a good password?
Posted April 12, 2012 | By Hilary Smith, Customer Support Manager | Filed under: Tips & Tricks
Only if your dog's name is &$kt!YG)
An ode to Captchas
Posted September 04, 2011 | By Kenneth King, Creative Director | Filed under: Tips & Tricks
A tongue-in-cheek look at the importance of Captchas
Shorten your Google Plus account number
Posted August 24, 2011 | By Hilary Smith, Customer Support Manager | Filed under: Social Media, Tips & Tricks
Disturbed by that brutish, nasty & long account number that Google Plus has assigned you as an account name? Personalize it!
Google Plus explained in song
Posted August 22, 2011 | By Hilary Smith, Customer Support Manager | Filed under: Social Media, Tips & Tricks
If reading about Google Plus isn't enough, there's now a helpful song
Safe Password Management
Posted February 21, 2011 | By Hilary Smith, Customer Support Manager | Filed under: Tips & Tricks
Heard of our new Support Portal, but have yet to visit it? One of the new areas we are working on, and hope you find useful is the Knowledge Base, which we are populating with answers to "Frequently Asked Questions" about Email setup for various clients. The thing we are asked most is "What is my password?" In light of that, we thought it would be good to post some information about Password Management here, and in our Support Portal. One of the headaches of the modern age is setting up passwords for each account we have online. These add up, and it is sometimes onerous to have to a) create them, and b) remember them. However, in this modern age, where we are increasingly relying on our digital packets of information, it is becoming even more important to have safe and secure passwords. Hackers increasingly are hacking people's email and online account passwords to mine personal information, sometimes just to spam other people, sometimes to garner financial data. Prevention is the key.
The Backup Plan: Do you have one?
Posted November 03, 2010 | By Hilary Smith, Customer Support Manager | Filed under: Tips & Tricks
Don't let your Backup-Plan get lost in the shuffle, especially since there are more and easier ways of accomplishing this important task.
Google Search Insights
Posted August 24, 2009 | By Robert Wallis, Senior Developer | Filed under: SEO, Tips & Tricks
"What's the big deal" about the new Google Insights? Google Insights for Search is like taking a peak into the demand of something, instead of the supply.