It’s like winning an award and brings a tear to the eye. Nice that all the hard work paid off as we made site of the day at The Daily Slurp (24/10/06).
In all seriousness it’s good to get recognised - we even had the Managing Director of another Web Agency call last week specifically to tell us how good our site was. A big agency as well.
Nice piece here from Neil Patel
Seems so simple doesn’t it… it is though you know.
Interesting artlcle from Katie Ledger at BBC Click about accessibility on the web.
For millions, the home office has become a reality that allows us to benefit from flexible working; online shopping is simple, and I cannot even remember the last time I stepped into a real bank. In theory it is all very simple. But stop and think for a moment. If you could not see the screen, use a mouse or a standard
keyboard, how much of a challenge would it be to stay connected?
It’s amazing the little things you take for granted.
Yes, it may be October but we only have 65 days until Christmas so better safe than sorry. If you are running a campaign or sending cards and gifts to clients, our Jac is giving you a wake-up now, so there are no excuses to miss that last posting date.
UK Last postage dates
16 December Second Class
19 December First Class
21 December Special Delivery
22 December Special Delivery (Saturday Guaranteed)
Packetpost/Packetsort
16 December Second Class
19 December First Class
International Contract Sorted Standard Mail
24 November
Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Far East, New Zealand, Central & South America
01 December
Canada, Middle East, USA
International Airmail and Contract Sorted Priority Mail
08 December
Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Far East (except Japan), Middle East, New Zealand, Central & South America
11 December
Canada, Eastern Europe, Japan, USA
13 December
Western Europe
Some of you may know, some of you may not, but Simon Calderbank joined us on Monday.
Simon takes on the role of Client Services Director as we look to increase our levels of customer service to deliver more and more comprehensive solutions.
Craig Killick commented on Simon joining:
We are a service business first and foremost. It’s the most important area of our business and the conduit between us and our clients. Our service offering has been transformed with the web and the greater needs of business so we know our product is good. Simon joins us to enhance our levels of service for existing and new clients as we look to expand the business over the coming years.
The fact that he is a Manc and a Red was a hurdle but we got over that one. He’s a great guy with a great personality and I have no doubt he will transform our levels of customer service.
I am sure we can pursuade Simon to introduce himself through the Blog over the coming few days.
"Lorks-a-Lordy!" (or something to
that effect), cried one of my colleagues this morning when we found out that the
long-awaited IE7 had been released. After much buzz and discussion amongst
the web fraternity it has finally arrived.
Microsoft have taken all our comments about poor security and difficulty of use
(compared to other browsers) and apparently addressed these issues with this
new version of the popular browser.
Will it be better than its predecessor? Will it be able to match Firefox
and of course the soon to be released Firefox 2? Who knows? It will certainly be interesting to see if
Microsoft can claw back any of the defectors who left IE for the increasingly
popular mozilla-based browser.
Check out IE7 here.
Another new tool from Google that lets you test and change your landing pages - the website optimizer.
This tool combines with Google Adwords and enables you to test different elements of your landing page to increase your click-through-rates.
Great idea here - www.givemebackmygoogle.com. Google without all the shopping sites like Kelko and Bizrate, etc.
You actually have more chance of finding what you want.
Link from Vitamin
