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Promoting your business and website online
Often, when I talk with business owners and managers about their website, it is apparent they have a very limited knowledge of how to use the Internet to promote their business or the new website I’ll be building for them. With the Internet now such a mainstay of business communications it’s a concern that too [...]
Who is looking after your website?
It is a fair question, but unfortunately one that is often surrounded by misplaced assumptions. Is it the web host? Surely they do backups and can restore a site if there is any problem. Is it the the web designer? Surely they can simply re-instate it from a copy of the original. Is it the [...]
Image Editing Software: Pixlr and Paint.net
This is just a quick one. I often get asked what software I recommend for preparing images for websites. The short answer is this: If you prefer the software to be installed on your PC try www.paint.net (and click on the ‘get paint’ link). If you prefer to use an online service try www.pixlr.com (and [...]
What is Twitter?
‘Twitter’ – sounds like another name for a bird watcher doesn’t it? Twitter is a great way to stay in touch. It’s about sharing life’s little moments with you friends. Watch this great overview from Common Craft to find out all about it. [yt]ddO9idmax0o[/yt]
What is a Wiki?
Many of us now know what a Blog is, we have been visiting forums for a few years, and we are gradually wrapping our heads around such concepts as ‘Social Networking’, but how about Wikis? What are they actually and how do they work? Once again the folk from Common Craft have come to our [...]