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E-mail marketing (part 2)
This is a follow up to my previous blog post about how to setup an account for email marketing.
E-mail marketing (part 1)
A surprising number of people still use outlook for e-mail marketing. This is a terrible idea.
News Update
Some small announcements: We re-launched the forums for Meg Cabot as the Meg Cabot Fiction Club. Readers will be encouraged to discuss a book of the month and to also write their own stories. The Durkin Group has expanded their service offerings. Steve Newman Fine Arts got a facelift allowing them to list their works [...]
How to Communicate Colors
Its difficult to describe colors. Often a client will say the want “royal blue” but their idea of what that shade looks like and our idea may be very different.
Twitter is not a social network
According to Ben Parr of Mashable, Twitter is not a social network. The term social network implies reciprocity where research has shown that Twitter following is not a two way street. On Twitter, people commonly follow people who do not follow them back. Also, the relationships between Twitter followers are not personal. Instead, following is [...]
How many people should you follow on Twitter?
According to this report from Get Satisfaction “over following” is a social media no-no.
Worst Website Ever
I would like to give a shout out to the designer who created “The World’s Worst Website“. A designer created the site to show all the rookie mistakes, all on one page!
WordPress Pages
Your wordpress theme may have more than one page template. When editing, you can choose which template your page uses. Visit wordpress.org for more details. If your site does not offer multiple page templates, or you would like to create one here are instructions. First make the template for a new page. You might find [...]
Add a gallery to your wordpress site
You can add a gallery of posts to your wordpress site that looks like this (your theme may show the gallery a little differently).
How to plan your website project
Good post today on Mashable about how to communicate your wants and needs to a web designer.
Why You Should Stop Using IE 6
Are you using IE 6? Its nothing to be embarrased about if you do not know. You can visit http://www.thismachine.info/ and it will tell you. Hopefully you are not, but experience tells me that there is a 15% chance that you are.
Tips on starting a new business
Great tips from the Harvard Business Review blog. I completely agree with the last tip: Pick a company name based on URL availability. A superb name that has no matching and natural URL is a wasted opportunity, and a suboptimal URL match is a tough and unnecessary corporate identity hurdle. Avoid the problem by guiding [...]
How does Justin Beiber do it?
Justin Beiber is the latest teen boy singing sensation. He isn’t that interesting as a musician (unless you are a 12 year old girl) but he is fascinating as a study in social media. Justin was discovered on You Tube. He posted videos of himself singing online and was discovered by an associate of the [...]
Join Me!
Ever feel totally frustrated because you are trying to explain something to someone over the phone and they don’t know what you are talking about?
Facebook Like Box
If you have a Facebook page, you probably have a button on your site pointing people to it. A better way is to add a like box.
Logo file formats
Before starting work on a project we always ask for a vector file of the client’s logo. Here is an explanation of what we mean by that.
Keep the copyright up to date
Here we are in July and I keep noticing sites that have 2009 in the copyright year. If you have a wordpress site, you can insert <?php echo date(‘Y’); ?> into your code where the date was.
FontShop
FontShop put together a 52 page guide to Typography. As a site that sells fonts, its a brilliant way to win new customers and educate people about fonts. I am particularly impressed with the design. The Flash animation shows selected pages from the guide, enticing you to download it and read more and the overall [...]
Web hosting
Our website and most of our small business client websites are hosted by Dreamhost. The cost of the shared hosting plan is $8.95 a month. They give you unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage, and you can host an unlimited number of domains. It took me a while to get used to their control panel, and now [...]
