In my last post, I talked about choosing the right hosting, I also briefly mentioned about a little scheme we are offering right now – free charity hosting. I would like to spend some time today explaining why I think this is a good idea, not just for the charities, but how it benefits us [...]
Continue Reading...We were recently interview by Advanced Photoshop Magazine for an article about creative self promotion. The article talks about various creative ways of promoting your work including our chilli sauce which we sent out to many people including the editors at Imagine Publishing. There is a nice big photo of our sauce in the article [...]
Continue Reading...Recently we have been using Google’s fabulous website optimizer to improve conversions on a site we are running. The system uses A/B testing and is very easy to set up and use. It does have one major problem however, and that is you cannot exclude the IP address of certain visitors. I discovered this when [...]
Continue Reading...Recently we sent out about 100 bottles of hot chilli sauce to our existing clients as well some to potential clients we would like to work with. Feedback has been very positive and it has also generated some new work which is never a bad thing. As well as tasting lovely, each bottle has a [...]
Continue Reading...We have just launched a new online marketing website, The Online Marketeer. We have only just started it and just written a couple of articles but check back soon for more! Where as the company blog serves tell people what’s happening with the company, and what’s going on in the web design business we hope [...]
Continue Reading...How have you been through the recession? It seems to me that being small, efficient and most importantly smart helps during times like this. It’s been really hard lately keeping up with all these blogs I run lately let alone do much personal work. This is a shame as I have quite a lot I [...]
Continue Reading...Our little web forum is growning slowly and building speed. It’s interesting how these things work out – exponetial growth, but as always its so hard to get the initial members in the first place. Exponential growth systems are facinating, it works like this: A site that has say 100 members has 10 times the [...]
Continue Reading...I recently wrote a piece about off-line promotion for the Creative Coding website. Here’s a small section: Having a fantastic website is all very well and good, but if no one knows that it exists then it is a complete waste of time and money. As one forum member’s signature used to say “If no [...]
Continue Reading...I just wanted to share the results gained from using Google new Website Optimizer Tool. I set up an experiment on www.voodoochilli.net the experiment consisted of a change of graphic, simply increasing the brightness of the register button slightly to make it a more prominent feature to see if more people would register on the [...]
Continue Reading...Here is something new I haven’t seen before. Apparently Google is trying out a new way of key wording images, getting humans to do the hard work! I did a search and eventually found this link. Google seem to have made the process fun by turning it into a competition. What a clever idea! To [...]
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