Vicky Andrea has selected Rake Mark Solutions, a Website Design Company in Stafford, for the re-design of her Andrea Cards and Andrea Craft websites. This is the second Website Design project that Rake Mark and Andrea Cards have carried out. Vicky said, "Sarah is so easy to talk to, she really listens to what I [...]
July, 2010
Website Developer’s Friday Fun: Interesting Qualifications
Well we’ve been busy working on Website Design Projects all week at the offices in Stafford, so I think for my Friday blog its time for some fun. Now I know this doesn’t really relate to a blog from a Website Design Company, but I thought a fun post would be a good to unwind [...]
US Consumer Survey Gives Facebook the Thumbs Down
It’s the most popular website in the US but according to the results of the recently released American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), our cousins across the Atlantic are not happy with the social networking giant. Is this a case of ‘cake and eat it’ or are consumers having genuine issues with Facebook? Privacy Issues and [...]
How to Create and Run a poll with Facebook
We had a question emailed to us from a client recently on the subject of Social Media Marketing and how to setup, run and create a survey or poll using the Social Media Giant Facebook Polling Application. With the overall aim to ‘home in’ on a specific range of their website users. So thought I [...]
Google makes websites with news, blog and forum articles top dog
Ok so we all know about online marketing, SEO, SEF, keywords, Meta data and numerous other acronyms that if you are anything like me drive me totally insane, but are we (that being the royal we) taking full advantage of the tools and platforms that we have readily available to us already. Long gone are [...]
Facebook Hits 500 Million Active Users
On his blog today, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook has reached the 500 million user mark. He said,”500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them. This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook [...]
Are You A Website Copy Writer?
Copywriters are talented people don’t get me wrong, but writing copy for the web is different than writing copy for print and using copy in your web page that has been design specifically for print could spell disaster for your online effectiveness. In the cyber world it may seem like the programmers and designers have [...]
Rake Mark Release New Website Portal Application
Today Rake Mark Solutions, a website design company in Stafford have announced that they are releasing a new version of their Web Portal Software, RMPortal. The new version will include two new components, one for listing company contacts and one displaying testimonials on your website, and also an upgrade of the existing News Portal Application. Sarah [...]
Phil’s 5 Quick Tips for Successful Blogging
Blogging is a great way to share anecdotes, information and ideas in an informal setting, but writing for your business is a slightly different task. What you write will affect your business, if it didn’t then why would you write it, so you need to make sure that the effort you put into blogging translates into a positive effect.
So use good English, stick to one topic per blog and keep it short and sweet. Write regularly and write with a sense of humour. Hopefully some new bloggers will find this post helpful in their early days, I sure could have done with a few pointers when I was writing my first blog.
BBC Launch Their New Look Website
Yesterday was the official launch of the new look BBC website. According to Erik Huggers’ online blog, the new online website design is "…part of an ongoing process to make BBC Online feel like one coherent service, rather than a disjointed collection of websites". There is new Navigation, to give easier and faster access to [...]
