Archive for July, 2007

SEM Videos

It’s easy to put a website together about how valuable your services are, but there’s no better way to convey a message than a video clip explaining all the ins and outs of what you offer. And that’s exactly what IOM have done to advertise the Search Engine Marketing Services. They have put together a […]

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

Are you valid?

Are you sure your HTML is valid? It may not be, even though your web page may display fine in your browser. Browsers nowadays can handle incorrect HTML, however it valid HTML is more efficient. It loads quicker in your browser and does leave the page open to interpretation by different browsers. To validate you […]

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

Sell your leads

Did you know that you can generate additional revenue from your clients by selling them as leads to other companies. This technique allows you to monitise even those potential clients who have never materialised. And you can find websites that well act as a CRM for you as well as allowing you to sell leads.
The […]

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Create your own banner

I needed to create a banner for SearchMann and ended up trying a few sites around the web. There’s quite a few that will let you create a free banner. I finally settled on this banner maker that let me create one exactly as I wanted. I like it so much that I actually left […]

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Press Release: Social Network for Doctors/Patients

It’s great to see technology pervade other industries. The latest movement seems to be social networks and today I came across a news article about med3q, a new social network for doctors and patients. It’s aimed mainly a patients with chronic conditions, that is, people who need to live their daily lives with the ailments […]

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Submit your site

If you’re looking to submit your site to the major search engines there’s a number of tools out there that let you do it quickly and efficiently. Here’s one that lets you submit to the top 19 search engines and here’s another that submits to 1000 smaller search engines. The first one is more effective, […]

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Search Engine Opimisation

The biggest issue that most web site owners ask about today is: How do I appear on the first page of <insert your favourite search engine here>? It’s an interesting challenge and a whole industry has arisen around search engine placement and optimisation.
submitawebsite.com is one company that focuses predominantly on this particular area and has […]

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error ‘80004005′

I was getting a really strange error on all the subsites on this domain a few days ago. The error was one of the:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error ‘80004005′
family. There’s a whole range of reasons why this can occur, but when I contacted support they recommended I use the OLEDB provider instead […]

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Do you MySQL?

If you use MySQL all the time, you’ll know that there’s some confusion out there about tools that can help you manage your databases. It’s not the same like Microsoft’s SQL Server, where graphical tools are available out of the box for you to use. With MySQL you need to dig around and find something […]

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Isle of Man Limos

We’ve just finished putting Chauffeur Drive’s website online. They are a taxi/limo hire firm based in the Isle of Man and good friends of ours. They are just expanding their portfolio from taxi services to full-blown chauffeur services including adding a stretched limousine to their collection of luxury vehicles. The limo boasts a flat […]

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007