filed in Blogging, Google, Misc on Feb.24, 2009
Gmail, usually one of the most reliable email site on the Internet has been down for a few hours today. Â Google has taken a bit of a beating for not responding within an acceptable time (3 hours). I don’t use my Gmail as my primary email account so I’ve not really suffered but one [...]
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filed in Misc, Techie on Jan.09, 2009
One of our clients received this email today from a company called 3w-net.com about another company called Meiao Development Co: Today we formally received an application from Meiao Development company. They are applying to register “**domain name deleted**” as their domain name and Internet keyword through us. which regarding your trade mark and company’s name. [...]
filed in Misc on Jan.05, 2009
Darren Rowse has written a good overview about Twitter being used as a platform for a phishing attack. It’s a shame that it’s happened and I’m not sure if I can see a way for Twitter to easily stop this happening in future. But it reminds us to always be wary about clicking link – [...]
filed in Misc on Dec.25, 2008
Just a very brief note to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2009. Â We have some really exciting things in the pipeline for 2009 that I’m looking forward to sharing with you all. And we’ll have all the best SEO and website marketing tips right here! But for the moment, [...]
filed in Blogging, Marketing, Misc, Social Networking on Dec.12, 2008
I have over 3500 followers on Twitter and it’s growing every day. Â I’m often asked how I manage to do it and the answer is very simple: I give my followers what they want and I interact with them. The #1 mistake people on Twitter make is that they use it purely for their own [...]
filed in Google, Misc, SEO on Dec.02, 2008
I was checking out some of my competitor’s websites a few days ago (something I recommend that you do periodically) and was amazed to see that some of them were still offering a ‘search engine submission’ service. There may have been some value in this service back in 1997 but to offer this as a [...]
filed in Misc on Nov.25, 2008
The Chancellor has announced a cut in the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) of 2.5%. Â This takes the current rate of VAT to 15% and is the first change in the VAT rate since the early 1990s. Back in the 1990s, ecommerce didn’t really exist and so many of the ecommerce systems that have [...]
filed in Misc, Website Design on Nov.07, 2008
Those of you who regularly visit our home page at Mass Media Design will have noticed that we have a new website design. It was time for a change – we wanted a fresher design but we also wanted to increase our conversions as well so we’ve implemented a few little features that we’re expecting [...]
filed in Misc, Techie on Oct.24, 2008
 This is a supporting article for our sister website – Small Business Website Marketing. N.B: These steps are for Microsoft Outlook 2007.  For other versions – try this article: http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2006/06/13/add-a-signature-to-your-messages-outlook-20022003/ Creating a signature Click on the Tools menu item and go to Options -> Mail Format -> Signatures Click on New Give your new signature an [...]
filed in Misc, Techie on Oct.22, 2008
Today we re-launched our Mass Media Design blog with a new design and a whole bunch of changes under the covers. As you’ll see below, the move from the old blogging platform to the new hasn’t been without its problems and in the process we haven’t been able to move the comments to the new [...]