Posted: Tuesday, 12th July, 2011, Category:
Site Launches
Broadland Products Ltd is a steel fabrication company based near Norwich, in Norfolk. With over 20 years experience of Commercial and Domestic steelwork, Broadland has the expertise and equipment to meet all steel supply and steelworking requirements.
Posted: Thursday, 7th July, 2011, Category:
Better Design
Don’t make the mistake of spending your entire budget on the design of your website only to forget about the text. Even on a fantastic looking website badly written web copy will turn off customers and lose you business.
It’s not just the more common spelling mistakes and errors in grammar you need to be aware of:
- Is your written content talking to YOUR customers?
- Is it TAILORED to the demographic you’re aiming for?
- Does it tell your customers WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR or only what you think they want to know?
- Overall is it: CLEAR? CONCISE? CREATIVE? CUSTOMISED?
Copywriters can supply effective website text which, as well as getting your key messages across, is keyword rich to help with that all important Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
To see more and learn about copywriting services visit the website of one of our favourite copywriters, Nigel Woollsey:
www.nigelwoollsey.co.uk
Posted: Thursday, 23rd June, 2011, Category:
Site Launches
This month saw the launch of the Cley Parish Council website, designed to assist the council to disseminate information (meeting minutes, accounts and similar) and to offer general information for residents and visitors to the village of Cley in Norfolk.
The website is powered by our favourite content management system, WordPress which allows the client to update their web pages very easily and also provides a simple but effective blogging/news system. As with all packages of this nature, the client receives full training on the operation of the website, has our own support website to consult when required and has a hosting contract which ensures that WordPress is continually up-to-date (and backed up). We’ve tried to cover every angle!
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Posted: Wednesday, 22nd June, 2011, Category:
Tips and advice
One question which comes up frequently is how website owners can protect their images from being stolen. One of the first things to realise is that almost any information, be it text or images, placed online is in the public domain and therefore vulnerable to thieves. One simple rule to follow is therefore not to put anything online which you would not like to be stolen.
However, one of the primary reasons for operating a website is to display your products and if your products happen to be images (e.g. artwork or photography), it’s difficult to advertise these without placing them online. So, a catch 22 situation arises, where on the one hand you wish to represent your work in the best way possible, but at the same time, you don’t want your work to be ripped off.
Another important point to understand from the beginning regards the enforceability of copyright. As we‘ve said in a previous blog post, copyright (when breached) can be very difficult to enforce unless you are a very large company (usually a corporate) and even then, it can be difficult to control.
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Posted: Saturday, 28th May, 2011, Category:
Tech News
It was great news to hear that Norfolk has been selected as one of the 4 counties to receive government funding for faster broadband speeds.
Josh.biz was one of the 200 businesses in Norfolk who backed the campaign (rallied together by the EDP). Sadly, Suffolks bid was unsuccessful. The BBC explains:
‘Currently more than 50,000 homes and businesses in Norfolk are in broadband “not spots”, having no broadband access or experiencing speeds of less than 2Mbps (megabits per second), Norfolk County Council said.
It promised every property in Norfolk could access a minimum connection of 2Mbps by 2015 and superfast broadband would be available for most of the county. Superfast internet would be at least 10 times faster.’
This is a fantastic result for Norfolk and cause for celebration. In these difficult economic times, it’s a very positive boost for the Norfolk economy.
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Posted: Tuesday, 17th May, 2011, Category:
Comedy
Posted: Wednesday, 27th April, 2011, Category:
Tips and advice
Running since 1998, the Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as the DMOZ is a large human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
It’s Google ranking of 8/10 is a solid indicator that it is treated in high regard by the major search engines. Listing your website on the DMOZ costs nothing and undoubtedly can have a positive effect on your search engine listings.
Click the ‘Suggest URL’ link at the DMOZ website to begin the process of adding your own website. There’s a fair bit of reading to first but it’s definitely worth doing this to ensure that your applications stands the best chance of being added. The most important task is selecting your most appropriate category. This can take a little while to determine.
Remember, this directory is edited by humans so an entry can be very slow to appear (in some cases taking several months). Others report problems in getting listed at all and give up. Whatever the case, it’s certainly worth spending 30 minutes of your time on submitting your website.
Posted: Thursday, 21st April, 2011, Category:
Site Launches
An exclusive collection of pots, handmade by Joanna and Andrew Young in their Norfolk workshop.
Yes, finally we’ve succumbed and Josh.biz now has a Twitter account.