So you’ve decided to go ahead and get that website. What now?
The first step is to be prepared for the development. Put together the required content needed for the website, even if it’s only in note or dot point format.
Then, once you’ve decided who is going to make it, i.e. Web One Design Studio, you can be ready to hand over the content at the very beginning of the development, making it as fluid as possible. Often not having the content ready is what delays a website’s development.
And from a developer’s point of view it is better to get too much from the client rather than not enough so put together as much as you can think of that would be relevant to promoting your business.
Here’s a list of things you should consider;
Website structure (what pages you want) - this will help to identify what information you will need
Logos & corporate colours
Images - the bigger in size the better! (products or services, projects, anything relevant to the business, industry or the mood of the website)
Text (remember every page needs at least 200-250 words for search engine indexing)
The next step is to commission the development of your website and hand over the content. And notice the quietly pleased look on the developers face when you actually have the content for him or her in advance!
National Cyber Security Awareness Week 2010 ends tomorrow (6-11 June, 2010). No matter when you are reading this it is well worth visiting the official Australian Government website at www.staysmartonline.gov.au for lots of easy to understand tips and information for home users, business, teachers, teens, kids and more.
For anyone who has ever received an email that has either been sent to multiples of people or forwarded from many before getting to you, you’ll understand what I mean.
Hide the email addresses of your recipients!
This is how alot of email addresses end up on SPAMMERS (senders of unsolicited emails, like the Viagra ones) hit-lists. There’s also the possibility that if even just one person of those you e-mailed gets an e-mail virus, every person on that list is at risk of getting it. E-mail viruses check for ALL addresses that person has in his/her e-mail.
So the best way to send an email to many recipients is to send it using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) option. It is available in 99.9% of email programs/clients and website-based email.
A Domain Name, or URL (Uniform Resource Locator), is the unique address that allows your website to be found on the Web. You can also attach email accounts to your domain and the amount of accounts is only limted by the specifications of the hosting package provided by your Web Host.
In Australia domain names are administered by AUDA (Australian Domain Names Administrator) whose main role is to mange the use of .com.au domains for “fair and legitimate use”.
When you register a domain name you only have the right to use it, you don’t own it. This means AUDA has the right to revoke your registration if you haven’t complied with the rules of Australian Domain Registrations.
And this is a good thing. Imagine you have a business name and want the matching domain name but someone has already registered it before you. And the registrant doesn’t have a business that suits the domain name but rather is “Cyber Squatting” it in hope that he or she will be able to sell it at a high price to someone who wants it for legitimate use.
You have the ability to appeal the current registrants rights to the domain and AUDA can revoke the registration, meaning you still possibly can register it.
To find out more about AUDA and domain registrations in Australia go to www.auda.org.au
Web One Design Studio is conscious of the fact that all of the Computer/IT equipment used to make and host websites requires a lot of energy to run.
It is estimated that at present, between 3 and 4 percent of all electricity (and the associated carbon emissions) used in the world goes to running data centres.
That is why we are committed to using green alternatives where we can in an effort to reduce our carbon-footprint.
At Web One Design Studio we offer a truly “green” web hosting service for all of the websites we host.
We recently spoke to a Web One client who had their laptop broken in transit when flying on a Virgin Airlines flight. Virgin had quickly agreed to replace the laptop and made the whole process relatively simple for him.
We immediately began to reminisce about the United Airlines saga and how the viral hit on YouTube, “United Breaks Guitars” became an instant hit and did damage to both the airline’s image and their bottom-line (it has been estimated to have cost United $180 million with the stock price plunging 10%).
For those who don’t know the story goes; “Dave Carrol (an aspiring US singer/song-writer) flew United Airlines in the Spring of 2008 with his band. His guitar ended up broken at the hand of employees, and the airline offered no compensation. After almost 12 months of trying to resolve the issue with United and getting no-where, he responded by creating a music video about the experience. Now, United Airlines is feeling the back-lash of public journalism, the social web network, and the millions of airline travellers who can identify with his experience.”
Anybody who has ever lost any work done on the computer due to a crash (or any other reason) will understand the importance of backing up.
Just imagine you’ve had your laptop for 2 years. You’ve done all of your accounts, proposals, research documents and alot of other valuable work on it, and have saved it all on the hard drive. Now, just imagine your despair when the hard drive fails, or worse, the laptop is stolen and you’ve never done a backup.
It would almost be the end of the world. So as we say at Web One Design Studio; Backup, Backup, Backup!!
You may have already received a copy of the email hoax that promises a FREE Ericsson Laptop for simply forwarding the email to your friends.
This is a hoax that has been circulated over the Internet for many years. Sony Ericsson don’t give away laptops (it’s not how they make their money). And the model numbers mentioned in the email are actually that of discontinued mobile phones (as this hoax originated as a FREE mobile phone giveaway).
And to top it off there is a new version of this hoax email that now claims you can get a free Sony Vaio laptop by forwarding the email to 20 people.
The idea is to cause congestion to mail servers with all of the extra emails flying around and to waste people’s time in sending it.
