Diary for April 2010
30th Running a Limited Company | DCCI
This half-day course provides an introduction to the legal requirements of forming and administering a limited company in England and Wales. By the end of the course, delegates will have learnt about the main responsibilities of a company officer. This is a packed presentation with discussions and delegate participation throughout, including time to ask individual questions. Topics covered Types of business entity (sole trader, partnership, LLP, company) Forming (‘inco...
27th How to Make PR Work for You | DCCI
A unique opportunity to develop skills from an industry related speaker. Over two hours, you will learn to distinguish newsworthy information, how to synthesise important facts and how to communicate with newspapers and editors. Let Tasty Marketing help to push your business forward and hone your natural talent. You will: Learn how to write a press release Develop skills in headline writing Discover the methods for liaising with journalists Know the importance o...
5th Alacrify Easter Holiday
We will be closed from 2nd April 2010 until 5th April 2010. The office will re-open on 6th April 2010....
4th Alacrify Easter Holiday
We will be closed from 2nd April 2010 until 5th April 2010. The office will re-open on 6th April 2010....
3rd Alacrify Easter Holiday
We will be closed from 2nd April 2010 until 5th April 2010. The office will re-open on 6th April 2010....
2nd Alacrify Easter Holiday
We will be closed from 2nd April 2010 until 5th April 2010. The office will re-open on 6th April 2010....
30th Rebrand for the New Year
We have just completed a series of re-brands for Artseeker today, updating their websites for the new year of arts exhibitions and shows. The suite of sites managed by Artseeker include: www.bridportopenstudios.co.uk www.ancientwessex.net www.artwey.co.uk www.artseeker.co.uk The layout has been turned into a 2 column design to allow more text and better display of image galleries. The colour schemes have been updated to reflect the corporate colours of the organisations where ...
29th Microsite Websites for Niche Marketing
I think most people have probably heard about the "long tail" in web marketing, and how good the internet is at putting niche customers in touch with niche suppliers. Well one way of achieving this is to develop "microsites" to promote a brand or particular aspect of a business. This week we did just that for Seven Springs Studios, a commercial photography studio in Dorchester, Dorset. They have had many years of experience in product or "packshot" photograph...
23rd Websafe Fonts that Work in All Browsers
Here's our little crib sheet of the web safe fonts that we work with in most of our web projects. I've ordered them by usage and popularity, and shown them with in their font-family groups we prefer: Sans-Serif Body Text Fonts Arial, sans-serif; Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; Serif Body Text Fonts Georgia, '...
21st Taxidermy Sale at Dukes
A collection of Victorian taxidermy from a closed museum has been auctioned in Dorchester, totalling £280,000. Over 200 pieces from the Brading Experience, on the Isle of Wight, were being sold after it closed in January following a fall in visitor numbers. Read the full story on the BBC We helped Dukes prepare a special selection of sale highlights on their website prior to the auction: http://www.dukes-auctions.com/sale-highlights/13-04-2010.php They will...
15th Useful CSS for Navigation Bars
We're working on lots of sites at the moment, and one theme that is regularly reappearing is the need to style up navigation bars with dividers between each hyperlink element. With CSS this is easy to do - simply set the left border of the A tag to #navigationBar a { border-left:1px solid #red; } However this means that the first link in the navigation bar will have a divider to its left usually next to the page margin. This looks weird. So to get around this we us...
9th Setting Website Language for International Websites
When you're setting up a multi-language website there are many pieces of the jigsaw that need to be put in place in order to get the site picked up as relating to a particular language. First it's important to make sure that all the text (as far as possible) on the site is actually written in the relevant language. If too many words creep in from another language (usually the designer's mother tongue!) then the search engines will be less convinced by the authenticity of the t...
7th 3 out of 3 ain't bad! Google SEO
A third and final (for now) quick mention of another success on Google organic results, this time with Bay Publishing's 3 health and safety magazine websites. Today they appeared as the top 3 links returned for a search for "articles on working at height". While you may think this is a bit of a specialist search term, and indeed you may be right, this is a great example of the power of "long tail" website performance, where you get lots of small bits of traffic fro...
1st No April Fool - Another Google Success
Sometimes things seem to come along like London buses don't they. After my note about Alacrify's top listing on Google, we've just achieved our most remarkable success to date. The website that we launched only 7 days ago for Catching Rainbows Fertility Therapies has now rocketed up the Google charts and is sitting happily on page one of Google for almost all their targetted keywords; and sometimes gets 2 mentions on the page! "Dorset Fertility Th...
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