Award Winning Website Designs and JumpStart Websites From $119. Search Engine Optimization, Email Marketing & Blogging Services
Utilizing blogs to update and promote your site
As a Web-JIVE customer, you have many tools and applications at your disposal that can help you keep your site dynamic and current. These tools allow you to advertise upcoming events, discuss issues and news specific to your business, announce specials, and post examples of products and/or work performed so potential customers can see what you offer. This is just a small sampling of the tools available to you! We will cover some of these tools, in depth, in upcoming blogs.
Lets start with blogging. Blogs are becoming one of the most popular tools that companies are utilizing to promote their name and products/services. As a customer of Web-JIVE, you have a basic blogging tool included with your site.
Is your website getting all the traffic it should?
As business owners, one of the first things we often do, is forget to promote our website like we do other areas of our business. In order to attract potential customers and ultimately sell your products or services, your website URL ("www.web-jive.com", for example) needs to be on every promotional tool you use.
Business cards, flyers, letterhead, envelopes, invoices, and all other forms of print media should include your URL. Yellow page listings, billboards, and newspaper and magazine ads should too. Be sure to include your URL on promotional items like pens, coffee mugs, and mouse pads. The more a consumer sees your web address, the more likely they are to remember it and check it out when they are shopping for your product or service. Another thing this exposure helps with is, word-of-mouth business, the best kind.
Web-JIVE Announces Weekly Newsletter
NEW! Starting March 1st, Web-JIVE will be sending weekly newsletters aimed at helping you grow your business and utilize your website to it's fullest potential. This weekly newsletter will tell you what's happening on board at Web-JIVE, announce upcoming events and training sessions, and provide useful information about your site - your business - and your success! We will discuss ways to market a website, Search Engine Optimization, how to use our system, and much more!
RSS Feed??? What's that?
Web-JIVE's customers periodically come to us with questions about technical "lingo" that is discussed on the web and in many publications. Our most recent question revolves around the term "RSS Feed". RSS (Rich Site Summary, or REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION as some people define it!) is a format for delivering regularly changing, and automatically updated, web content. News-related sites, weblogs, and other online publishers are examples of sources who syndicate their content as an RSS Feed. This format enables them to share their content with whoever wants it. Job listings, personals and classifieds are a few more examples of information you can get via RSS.
Feed Reader or News Aggregator software allows you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read and use. A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. There are also a number of web-based feed readers available. My Yahoo is an example of a web-based feed reader. More and more sites offer RSS feeds, which you can identify by a small button that says either RSS or XML, or has a symbol like the symbols at the beginning of this blog. However, if you click one of these links, you will most likely get a page full of code in your browser. To properly read the feed, you need an RSS reader.
PLEASE NOTE: The following internet browsers have the technology to automatically read RSS feeds without any additional work on your part! They are Internet Explorer 7 and newer, Firefox 3 and newer, and Safari 3 and newer.
Here are a few sites that explain more about RSS feed readers, and how to get and use one if you have a browser version older than the list above. ...
Big Country Investments is a piece of "Heaven on Earth"
Welcome to BIG COUNTRY located on Beaver Lake in beautiful Eureka Springs, Arkansas! bigbeaverlake.com, Big Country Investments, is family owned and has been providing its services since 1996. Web-Jive and Image Works Media designed this site with fast loading features so each development has photos and highlights listed in a flash. Nestled in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, Big Country holds 5 unique developments: Del Lago Estates, Timber Ridge, Odum Ridge Estates, Neadum Ridge Estates, and Summit Peaks. Each property is a piece of heaven on earth, and Big Country Investments, bigbeaverlake.com, will help you select the perfect property for your needs and within your budget.Guillermo's (G3) Coffee is a great site for some fantastic coffee!
g3coffee.com is the web-home of Guillermo's Gourmet Grinds. Web-Jive fashioned the G3 website with some of the hottest internet communication tools out there! It is a fun and interesting site that offers not only information on how each brand is custom hand-roasted in small batches, category listings of coffees, equipment information, and products like eco-friendly mugs, gift-boxes, sample packs, and flavorings and syrups, but twitter and Facebook feeds are also available. Guillermo's Gourmet Grinds is a specialty coffee supplier and wholesale coffee roaster featuring beans from Kenya, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico and Columbia. Visit g3coffee.com today and sign up for their newsletter while you're there! 
Woodson Incorporated is an informative site with loads of information!!!
Woonson Incorporated (woodsonincorporated.com) is a site devoted to informing it's visitors of the intensive services and the knowledge base this corporation has to offer. Woodson is commited to natural resource management and helps land woners understand and manage their properties. Soil sampling, prescribed burning, logging, re-forestation, timber invertory, storm restoration, clearing, and vegetation management is only a small sample of this company's skill and their mission!!!
Their site explains the many services they provide, as well as listing land for sale. They also offer timber and timberland appraisals and GPS/GIS mapping. Woodson Inc. is not just land managers. They have extensive experience with marketing and acquisitions of timberland, hunting properties and wildlife habitat management and assessment.
...Introducing the Sushi Cafe of Little Rock Arkansas
In what started out to be another typical web design and development project soon turned out to be an unexpected culinary delight and surprise.
This web project started off like most with great conversation and ideas on how they wanted their website presented and soon progressed into much more.
Web-JIVE gets a new look!
After a lot of playing with new designs, we have finally settled on a web design that works well with all browser variants. Over the past few months, we have been experimenting with new designs for the Web-JIVE site. The last design was a beautiful dark design with rotating background images which were rotated depending on the time of day.
The problem with that last design was with Internet Explorer 6.. This is where we soon hit a wall with an older browser where we just could not get that design to pan out. Hopefully, everyone will upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or latter which solves this challenge. There is hope! Internet Explorer 8 is promising strict HTML and CSS standards support which puts it back in the game.
...