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Logo Contest Winner

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:03:35 +0000

Congratulations to Ms. Alegria Milanes for winning the logo making contest last December 9, 2008.

It was on the said date that Danalex Graphic and Arts organized a logo making contest for Capital Solution. There were hundreds of High School students and College students from different schools here at Baguio City who joined the competition. The participants were very artisitc and innovative that is why the judges, not to mention the owner of Capital Solutions and Professional Web Designers all the way from Las Vegas, Nevada had difficulty in choosing the best logo design.

Last January 22, 2009, the owner of Capital Solutions announced the winner of the said contest. Ms. Alegria Milanes had the most striking logo design. She was given ten thousand pesos(Php10,000.00) in cash for a job well done. Danalex Graphic and Arts Congratulates you and welcomes you in the family! (more…)

Putting It All Together For The Web

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:58:55 +0000

At this stage of website development, the webmaster uses a variety of design and programming skills to assemble all of the elements in an attractive and interesting way.

Special care is used to make sure that the information presented appears in its proper position on the page regardless of the size of the prospect’s monitor or browser used.

Complicated forms are programmed for prospects to request information, and auto response pages are designed so that prospects can make a copy of their filled-in information request form.

Internal site search engines must also be programmed to provide the specific information requested.

Only those special effects recognized by the major browsers are utilized to assure that the website works properly for all viewers. More than one programming technique is often available to accomplish a special effect, animated graphic or moving ticker.

A variety of methods can also be used to help visitors move easily back and forth between pages.

Once the pages have been programmed and reviewed by the design staff, the site is uploaded to the web server’s computer in a secure area not available to the public, ready for client review.

Is Your Website Functionally Deprived?

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:55:14 +0000

As companies grow and expand, and as their products and services change, their websites often remain the same. It doesn’t reflect the true nature of the business as it now stands.

With the advanced capabilities Internet programming offers, it is economically feasible for even smaller companies to offer e-commerce features such as product selection and payment…even if you don’t accept credit cards.

Response forms can be designed to gather specific information needed to provide quotes, product samples, or answers to visitor questions. They can also have required fields for the inquirer’s name, company and other useful information that would help you develop a list of prospects for later follow-up, or inclusion in an e-mailed newsletter or other promotion.

Can viewers download information, such as installation sheets, technical bulletins, or catalog pages for their off-line use?

Individual contact forms for key people often build confidence that the right person will receive their message.

Web-Mail allows anyone with an e-mail account to send and receive messages when traveling or at home, right over the

Internet, from any computer.

If prospects come to your facility, maps and driving directions are often a helpful addition.

These are just a few of the features that can enhance the effectiveness of your website.

Is Your Website Hiding Under A Rock?

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:53:29 +0000

Do you feel that the number of inquiries from your site has dropped off? Are you getting the interest that you think your site deserves?

Developing the site and installing it on the Internet server isn’t enough anymore.

If you have a site you feel is well designed, but isn’t getting the number of visitors you would like, we can help.

First, we would provide a review of the site to evaluate its built-in response generating capabilities.

We would also look at the internal programming of the pages to determine their search engine “acceptability”. This is very important. Each search engine, as well as the human indexed directories, use a variety of algorithms to determine what is relevant and what is not. Some sites are ruled out based on those same criteria.

A list of key search words and phrases would be developed and ranked. A site description would also be developed.

Based on these evaluations, we can then make a number of internal programming changes to your site to enhance its positioning with the search engines.

None of these actions will change the appearance of you site, or its pages, in any way. This procedure is called “Optimizing”.

The next step is to resubmit the site to the search engines and directories. We use both manual and automated techniques.

Don’t count on search engines to supply all your leads

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:44:15 +0000

Productive Internet Marketing Can Succeed Without Search Engines

Believe it or not, a business can operate successfully on the Internet without good search engine placement. That does not mean that you should not strive to get good rankings in the search engines, but it does mean that a company should not spend their entire budget trying to get great search engine placement.

Ten is the limit

Only ten web pages will be listed on page one of the search results at Google. Yahoo or MSN. That’s right; there will be only ten web pages listed on page one of the search results.

Search for any “key word” and most likely there will be millions of pages found, with only ten displayed at a time.

According to the Internet Archive there are currently 85 billion web pages on the Internet. And, they have not archived everything that is out there, so that 85-billion number is actually smaller than the real number of existing web pages.

With only ten listings on page one of the search results, there are going to be a lot of disappointed people in the world. They cannot all be on page one of the search results. And the cost of tweaking a website to improve its placement can be quite expensive for the results obtained.

Two essentials for success

There are two “First Steps” which will almost guarantee an effective and productive website.

Step One: Design the website to sell the chosen products or services. This sounds stupidly obvious, but is often overlooked in the development of fancy graphics, flash presentations, and other content that may not lead to favorable action on the part of the viewer. Sales conversion is the most important element in any successful business plan.

Make the website as complete as possible. Try to include everything a prospect might need in order to decide to place an order, inquire for more detailed information, or to visit your store. In general, include everything a good salesman would tell a prospect in a face-to-face presentation.

Step Two: Create other promotion tools specifically designed to direct prospects to your website. A few are listed below:

o Include your web address on all stationary, business cards, and forms
o Add your web address to all of your e-mail communications
o Use bulk e-mail to selected prospects
o You can use smaller ads designed to lead prospects to your website
o Direct mail programs should always include a prominent invitation to visit the website.
o Identify your website on truck and other signage.
o Don’t forget phone book ads, association directories, etc.

Keep it simple

It is all a matter of figuring out how to get traffic to your website, and more importantly, how to convert traffic to inquiries and sales.

It doesn’t matter if your site consists of just a handful of pages, or many hundreds. Start with the basics and test the results as you go along.

Building links is not about search engine listings

The fact is that every person using the Internet is clicking on links to take them from one website to another. Some links are in e-mails; others are in paid advertisements on websites. Even social bookmarking websites have links to other web pages.

Building links to your website is about getting your sales message, with its accompanying link, in front of the people most likely to buy what you are selling, in a way that encourages your potential customer to click your link and visit your website.

You may need to buy advertising at that location. You might be able to write an article to give to them, in exchange for a link to your website. The goal of linking is to give your potential customers more ways for them to find your website.

An extra benefit

Although this article is about succeeding on the Internet without relying on search engines, anyone who pursues linking for the purpose of attracting customers will find their websites improving in the search engine rresults.

Getting Your Website Seen

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:19:17 +0000

Just as with a beautiful well-designed full-color sales brochure, your Website must be seen by the right prospects to be effective.And, in addition to designing the site to get results once a prospect is there, a number of steps should be considered to make sure that those prospects with a genuine interest in your products or services actually find your location.

Here is a list of steps which can enhance the productivity of your Website:

1. Add your Web address to your letterheads, business cards and other stationery.

2. Add your Web address to all of your sales literature, advertisements…every promotion piece you produce. Place ads on other related sites with links to your pages.

3. Contact appropriate vendors, manufacturers which you may represent, and others who could link their site to yours. It might even be appropriate to reciprocate with a link to their sites as long as it didn’t lead prospects to a competitor. There are ways to design your pages so that when a visitor to your site links to another site, there is an easy return to your pages.

4. Prepare a special letter, announcement, postcard or direct mail piece to tell prospects about your Web location and why they should be interested in viewing it. Including a few pages of “reference” material in your Website is often a good idea. It provides a tangible reason to ask people to visit the site in order to see these special pages. It’s also a reason some people will return to your site.

5. Have your Web site submitted to all of the leading search engines…Google, Yahoo, MSN, Excite, WebCrawler, Go/Infoseek, AltaVista, Lycos, Snap, Look Smart, Hot Bot, Go, etc. There are thousands of them in all, and more being developed all the time. A dozen or two could be important to the success of your Web site. A few use special programs to search the internet, look at all of the different sites, and index the information presented. Many do nothing. And even those that do, don’t always pick up the key words that make locating your site effective. Waiting for those “spiders” to search the Web can often take months.

It is also advisable to update these announcements, and to repeat them periodically to keep your Web site listing closer to the top of the results the search engine produces.

A variety of submissions, with a different emphasis, is also recommended when your company offers more than one distinct service. Possibly you have both retail and industrial products, or your company has specialty services for certain industry segments. Maybe you offer a top-of-the-line top-of-the-price line of products, plus a budget quality line for a different group of prospects.

We have the special capability to send this information over the internet in the form the various search engines will use. The cost is modest and can dramatically improve traffic to your site.

6. Publicity releases should be sent to your industry trade publications. Again, incorporating reference material into your site enhances the interest of these publications to run your announcement. Preparing a release, and possibly including a photo, is not expensive and can be very effective.

How To Analyze Your Website

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:06:57 +0000

How good is your website? Does it do its job? Is it effective? These are all good questions that every business owner and marketing manager needs to ask him or herself. The website has become an essential tool for business. We all know we have to have a website, but are we using this venue to its greatest advantage?

Most people responsible for their company’s websites have statistics packages and counters to tell them how many hits, how many unique visitors, where they are coming from, what their IP addresses are, and what browser they’re using. So what! Who cares? The real question is do we have an effective website?

Now if you have a transactional website, commonly referred to as an e-commerce site, you know the number of sales you are generating from your site, which is important, but do you really know how effective your site is? How many orders are you losing because of bad layout, awkward design, confusing navigation, and poor copy? How many potential clients have you chased away because you haven’t put a phone number on your site and an accessible real-person that can answer questions?

A website is your business’s public face. Big businesses can look like mom and pop operations, and mom and pop operations can look like General Motors. The design of your website should not be taken lightly, its budget should not be an afterthought, and the designer you hire should be someone who understands more than code. Your Web-designer should be a multimedia-marketing advisor, someone who can counsel you how best to deliver your marketing message, and someone who can go beyond technical issues.

You can spend a lot of money and have someone analyze your site for you, but are you really going to believe him, are you really going to act on their recommendations? You can’t sell somebody something they really don’t want - that may sound obvious, but believe me, sales people do it everyday. If you don’t think you need a new website, you aren’t going to spend the money to have one built. So the best way to tell if you need one is to analyze the one you already have, yourself.

Below is a set questions you can ask yourself. If you answer them honestly, you’ll know whether you need a new site or not. After you’ve gone through the process, ask some colleagues to do the same. See if your answers compare.

1. Does Your Website Have A Purpose?

Every website should have a clearly defined purpose. Having a website just because everyone else has one is not an acceptable strategy. What is your website’s purpose?

a. Transactional sales-oriented site
b. Customer service support site
c. How to instructional site
d. Product or service demonstration site
e. Lead generation site
f. Marketing, branding, positioning site
g. Promotional campaign site
h. Viral or buzz creation site

2. Is Your Website Focused?

Too many businesses, both large and small, use their website as an information junkyard, a dumping ground for everything they do, everything they’ve done, and everything they ever thought of doing. This won’t work. Customers are like children; they want clarity, direction, and unequivocal answers. Your website should be focused on a single function. URLs are cheap, there is no reason you can’t have different websites for every major thing you do, or every marketing campaign you initiate. How focused is your website?

3. How Functional Is Your Website?

Everybody knows that websites should be easy to use, that you shouldn’t have to drill-down too deep to find what you’re looking for, and of course everything should work. Your website is a communication tool. If your website doesn’t work properly, the only thing you’re communicating is incompetence. How functional is your website?

4. Does Your Website’s Construction Balance Competing Concerns?

Websites by their very nature are a compromise of competing issues. Aesthetics, multimedia, frame construction, HTML, Flash, client-side, server-side, data bases, SEO tactics, information architecture, marketing communication, transaction efficiency all compete for precedence in the design of a site. Are you sacrificing clarity, focus, and communication for SEO tricks and unattainable traffic numbers? Did you start with an IT solution like a database and build your site around a poorly conceived information delivery system. Does your website’s design reflect your sites’ defined business purpose or is it a result of secondary technical concerns?

5. Does your website honestly reflect your business personality?

Does your website represent and promote your marketing objectives? Okay, this is a trick question for many small owner-managed businesses. Marketing is not sales. Marketing is about communicating who you are, what you do, and why you do it better than the other guy. Marketing is about image building, branding, and positioning, in other words, enhancing your business personality. Does your website honestly reflect your business personality?

6. Is your Web-presentation integrated into your overall marketing plan?

Too many websites bear no relation to the rest of their business’s marketing initiatives. Everything your company does should reflect an over-riding ethos, point-of-view, and personality. If your marketing collaterals don’t match your website presentation, you are confusing your audience. Is your Web-presentation integrated into your overall marketing plan?

7. Is content king on your website?

We’ve all heard the saying ‘content is king’. Is content king on your website? Does your website adequately display and explain what you do, what products you sell, and what services you provide? Are there examples of your work? Are there testimonials from your customers? Have you provided information on how to order, how to use, and how to resolve problems? Is content really king on your website?

8. Does your website have a distinctive look?

The notion of the flaming animated logo has become a cliché for bad design and style over substance, but that does not mean your website should be aesthetically boring and visually dreary. Your site should display clarity of vision; it should provide functional page layout; its use of colors, type, and visuals should be distinctive and purposeful. Your website should provide a defining “Look” that enhances your business personality. Does your website display a distinctive look that represents the true image of your business?

9. Do you list appropriate contact information on your website?

Websites are all about connecting you to your clients, not hiding from them. If you think you can put your website on autopilot and that a FAQ and Q&A are going to cut-it, you better think again. Does your website have adequate contact information? Do you list appropriate email addresses and phone numbers for the people responsible for various aspects of your business?

How To Select The Best Domain Name

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:49:58 +0000

A domain name should be just as carefully selected as you would for a new baby in the family. It is a unique name just for your company’s use. It is your internet address. Usually written in lower case letters, it takes the form…www.yourname.com.

It is fairly simple for us to register your domain name. First, a number of acceptable names are prepared, and then we run a search to determine which ones may still be available. Then, after one is selected, we register that name with an international registry service. The cost is currently $35 per year.

There is also a small setup charge to “install” this name on our Internet hosting service’s computer.

THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ADVANTAGES TO HAVING YOUR OWN DOMAIN NAME

1. You have a unique name that is yours alone to use as long as you maintain its registry. Even if you move your site to another hosting service, that name is still yours.

2. Because that name is permanently yours, you can feel free to promote it in your other advertising, on your stationery, anywhere at all without fear of it being changed or lost.

3. Customized e-mail addresses can be used for key people or departments which include your domain name. They are usually easier to remember. They would look like…john@yourname.com, or info@yourname.com. These are actually “fictitious or alias” e-mail addresses which would automatically be forwarded to each person’s real e-mail location. This means that if you changed from AOL to Earthlink, and they gave you a new e-mail address, we would then have John’s e-mail forwarded to his new Earthlink address. It sounds confusing, but is quite simple to accomplish.

4. And finally, the use of a domain name has perceived extra value to prospects. Firms that use an extension of someone else’s site are often thought of as smaller…more regional, and less professional.

The Difference Between Static and Dynamic Websites

admin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:14:32 +0000

by Brad Tafa Hemmings

While millions of people still rely on the good old black and white every day, it is the perfect example of a static media. Once it is printed a newspaper can no longer be changed, its type has been set and one will simply have to wait until the next edition to recieve the quote unquote latest news even if it has broken minutes after the paper has been delivered to your doorstep. Similarly, once a static website has been published it too will not change until the next edition; whenever the webmaster or someone familiar with HTML, or flash edits the content.

A dynamic website on the other hand uses programming in addition to the layout to not only allow the the flow of data in and out of the site but to make meaningful relationships with the data. For example an online business directory may allow local businesses to sign up and create profiles for their businesses. Visitors to the site may then search the directory based on their needs for example one may conduct a search for a laywer in their zip code who speaks Spanish or for a dance school in the area that offers tap dancing classes.

Dynamic websites empower their owners with the ability to upload information on their own, preferably through password protected administrative interfaces. One does not require knowledge about HTML or websites design to update or maintain such a site.

In addition to the budget there are several other factors that will determine if you need a static or dynamic site. What purpose will your site serve? If you are a relatively small business or the services and products that your provide are few and/or simple to explain then a static website could suffice your needs. On the other hand if you have a large inventory of products and/or services then you may wish to empower your customers with the ability to search through your inventory based on their selected criteria with a dynamic website.

If you were renting a small villa on a beach in the Caribbean and you simply needed to show a few pictures, provide rates and contact info, a static site would do. If you were a real estate broker in a competitive market and you needed to update your listings frequently, a dynamic website would be your solution.

Dynamic websites are not without their challenges: good programmers are harder to find than good designers often requiring one or more people to be involved in the design of a dynamic site. When considering a programmer or developer as they are often referred to as, ask to see examples of previous work and for sample code. Experience is critical.

While a dynamic website typically cost more because of its complexity, it can be a more cost effective solution in the long run. A dynamic website is the most effective solution for sites with content requring frequent updates and/or interaction with the visitors.

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xandy — Tue, 29 May 2007 05:10:55 +0000

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* 10 email accounts
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