This is a really great tool! When you’re out and about you can post entries to your blog from your mobile phone. Makes keeping your blog updated even easier! Can you guess how i posted this entry… Oh the joys of technology!
I can sometimes get frantic calls from clients saying “My websites’ down!!” when in fact its up and running. The reason the client can’t see it can vary from their internet connection wasn’t working to a faulty BT exchange and that side of the country just wasn’t getting info from the server. So I was really excited to find this little tool:
www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Need to figure out what your website looks like on different systems with different browsers? Browser Shots is a great tool for quickly getting an idea of what users see.
A great opensource piece of powerful software. GIMP is a basically on free version of Photoshop which allows you to create edit almost any type of graphic. Really useful to be able to alter your images for use on the web.
I just received yet another really badly formatted HTML email. PLEASE let us professionals do these things for you!!! This one actually said “place logo here” under the logo the person had evidently placed. They had sent this to over 200 recepients this email using the CC field. Meaning everyone can view their customer list. Not a good idea.
There are rules about sending out bulk emails to your contacts here are some of them.
DON’T bulk send from outlook, mail, entourage
DON’T use the CC carbon copy field
DON’T use multiple punctuation eg !!!!!!!!!!!!! or ?????????
DON’T have too many graphics
DO use an online HTML email sending provider. This will also give you great statistics on who has opened it.
DO have an unsubscribe link
DO provide a link for an online version for example “If this email doesn’t display correctly, click here”
DO have a relevant subject
DO make sure the email looks good
DO get to the point immediately
DO write the HTML in table format with in-line CSS
This is not an exhaustive list. Just some pointers if you want to get going and do this on your own. Of course you can save yourself the hassle and give us a call and we’ll do all the nitty gritty stuff for you!
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