tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61563550432632796042011-11-09T12:10:25.713ZTrembirth Design can help your company get noticed by designing a tailor-made website to promote your business on the Internet.Ian Tnoreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156355043263279604.post-89111653222577349172011-06-14T09:36:00.002+01:002011-06-14T09:38:54.934+01:00

A 10 page website does not cost 10 times that of a one page website. Let me say that again just so I’m clear, A 10 PAGE WEBSITE DOES NOT COST 10 TIMES THAT OF A ONE PAGE WEBSITE. Almost every small business that I speak to about designing their site asks me about the number of pages they can have on the site and how much extra pages cost and it reminds me of a conversation that takes place during

Ian Tnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156355043263279604.post-75014321398993229182011-03-11T22:58:00.001Z2011-03-11T22:58:07.261Z

After telling you the worst last week, it’s only fair (if only so I don’t look totally negative) to give you the best sales pitch in the world (in my humble opinion): “Do you want fires with that?” I’ve a lot to say about McDonalds (alright, negativity for a little bit longer), none of it good.  I don’t like the food, I don’t eat there and I have a real problem with them taking over the way

Ian Tnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156355043263279604.post-39654064853104125862011-03-08T16:54:00.003Z2011-03-08T16:59:22.966Z

With many thanks to E-myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It As I travel a lot by bus and train (I don’t drive) I get time to read.  On a journey a couple of weeks ago I read  about how a business’ communication with it’s consumers is more important that what it sells.  So how do you interact with your consumers?  Staff in retail and those working on trade

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There are some great opening lines in literature: “Call me Ishmael” - Moby Dick “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” – 1994 ”It was a pleasure to burn.” - Fahrenheit 451 ”My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip,

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So, firstly, it’s been far too long since my last blog post.  No excuses other than time management issues and the launch or update of a number of sites over the Christmas and New Year period. That’s in the past and it’s time to look at the year ahead.  I’ve already planned my goals for the year but I’ve not planned specifics, there are no “New Year’s Resolutions”, they’re too easy to break and

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I’ve had a few problems running Internet Explorer recently (I still use it as most of the people looking at my websites use it).  It would crash for no reason or pages would stop working but there wouldn’t be one thing that I know would cause it. So I did a quick search and found this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949220 Now there is a link on this page to Microsoft’s (fairly) new “Fix

Ian Tnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156355043263279604.post-18866132189203295242010-11-16T11:41:00.001Z2010-11-16T11:42:55.621Z

There is one irrefutable fact about the Internet, it’s everywhere. Estimates suggest two billion people now have regular access to it via their computers, their phones, their games consoles, their TVs and various other appliances around the house.  This is obviously great for business, there is an audience out there that’s waiting to find out about you and your products and services. What I’ve

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It was 25 years ago that the first .uk domain was registered.  As it was registered before the formation of Nominet (the not for profit organisation that oversees .uk domain registrations) nobody knows what the domain name was and who registered it. Despite being 25 years old, .uk domains are still be registered in record numbers.  There was an 11.5% growth in the number of domains registered

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One of the big things I always get my clients to do is to give examples of their work on their website.  “Facts tell,stories sell” and all that. As well as case studies you can post testimonials, pictures, videos (more on this another time) or just put a few random quotes around the site from satisfied customers.  Tell people how you helped your client and how happy they are with the work that

Ian Tnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156355043263279604.post-16020118817788256032010-09-27T16:47:00.001+01:002010-09-27T16:47:31.331+01:00

Back in July I posted a link to a Yell.com advertisement where the person advertising was not impressed with the service, or the results, he was getting from the site. I was reminded of that this week when talking to a business owner who’s spent a four figure sum this year with yell.com and got absolutely nothing in return.  No calls, no clicks through to his site, nothing. For a fraction of

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Since November last year I’ve been working on a website that I’ve been really excited about but haven’t been able to talk about but now that the site is launched, I’d like to tell you a little bit about it. Ernyit is an auction site, like other auction sites around the Internet, that let you buy and sell your own goods. Listing fees start at 10p per item and there is a fee of 6.5% (capped at £35

Ian Tnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156355043263279604.post-74820566037920994712010-07-28T19:35:00.000+01:002010-07-28T19:35:03.385+01:00

This will be all over the web soon but I’m going to post it here as well. I’m sure yell.com will get rid of it soon enough but an insurance firm in Wakefield weren’t that impressed with the service they got.. Many thanks to Mike for the heads up.

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I’ve been asked by a few people if I’m going to offer to develop “apps” for either the iPhone, Google’s Android phones, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile phones or the Blackberry. I would love to but there are a few stumbling blocks: All the systems are different.  You cannot develop one program and it work on them all so that’s four times the development time. Each uses a different programming

Ian Tnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156355043263279604.post-62428298084043317512010-07-20T20:50:00.001+01:002010-07-20T20:50:18.760+01:00

Time flies when you have fun and, apparently, time flies when you’re very, very busy.  There’s no excuse for not posting anything for two months but there’s an awful lot going on.  If I’ve worked it out correctly.I have seven projects on the go at the moment with three people to speak to about starting new projects over the coming weeks.  A lot of it has been tying up lose ends, dotting the i’s

Ian Tnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156355043263279604.post-4210819375420566192010-05-20T16:35:00.001+01:002010-05-20T16:35:58.241+01:00

There really is no limit to what you can do with a website.  If you have the idea, you can turn it into a .com (or .co.uk or whatever). I’ve been really lucky recently in working on three great projects (amongst others) that started out as three really good ideas. 3right.co.uk 3right.co.uk is a website that has taken four successful maths books and allowed people to use them online.  In

Ian Tnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156355043263279604.post-12703890243746496002010-05-11T16:49:00.001+01:002010-05-11T16:49:40.121+01:00

I’ve just updated the website of one of my clients.  Confident Mother Doulas helps new parents or soon to be parents with the massive changes they are about to go through with their lives.  It’s a really great service and one that is helping a lot of people. The reason for the site update was to tidy up the site design a bit (there’s still a little work to be done, particularly with the logo)

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Over a month since my last blog post, not good enough! Anyway, I was talking with a potential client last week and he was telling me that his bosses at the company were talking to another of their employees who had offered to re-do their website for them. They’re a small farm park near Nottingham (a place we’ve visited on a few occasions with the boy Trem as it turns out) and the current

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The conservative party find the Internet useful The conservative party find the Internet a hindrance Companies are being asked to embrace the technology of the Internet but as the above proves, they need to get the right advice before they do it!

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When someone comes to your website to take a look around, there’s no way to find out who they are and what they were looking for.  You can use tools like Google Analytics to find out how they got to you, what pages they looked at and how long they stayed but who are they? Getting some sort of contact information is obviously very useful to a business, having a conversation with that person is

Ian Tnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156355043263279604.post-52485822057551827312010-03-02T16:31:00.001Z2010-03-02T16:31:32.329Z

One of my clients 3right.co.uk sent out a mail shot this afternoon advertising their website.  They’ve done quite a bit of marketing since we launched the site but they felt it was time, just after the half-term holidays, to remind their mailing list (made up of previous customers and people who had just shown an interest in the site) that it was there. Within two hours of sending the e-mail, 10

Ian Tnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156355043263279604.post-26579903017177513792010-02-23T12:40:00.001Z2010-02-23T12:41:34.772Z

Let's get the first post out of the way!Every company's website should be kept up to date with the latest goings on within the company and their reactions to any events away from the company that somehow affect it.This is where I intend to do that.

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