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Newsletters keep your subscribers "in the loop"
Electronic newsletters are utilized by many companies to communicate new and updated information to a large number of people with a simple email message. When utilizing a newsletter, your website should include an easy way for visitors to register (sign-up) to receive the newsletter. The actual newsletter email message you send should always include an "un-register" option for people who do not wish to receive the newsletter any longer. As a Web-JIVE customer, we can help you add this functionality quick while providing tips and guidelines on how and when to use newsletters.
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.
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. ...
Web-JIVE, Boyd Blackwood and I-D-8 make a great team
I-D-8 is owned by Boyd Blackwood, and for 30 years his creative ideas and applications in Advertising, Marketing, PR and Sales have made him one of the best within the consulting field. Web-JIVE utilized various design tools to produce this informative and functional site while incorporating great photos for a sharp, clean look. Boyd Blackwood, www.i-d-8.net, offers keynote speeches and seminars on personal and business innovation, brainstorming and creative persuasion techniques.
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Norgi.com - a site dedicated to people, press, & politics
NORGI (www.norgi.com) - The people, press, and politics of Little Rock, Arkansas! This is a very interesting site Web-JIVE created for owner and political activist, Norgi. Norgi is the moderator for the site - whose purpose is to "Question Everything", and that is exactly what happens on this site! Norgi.com is full of information on the latest politics around Little Rock, with features on the site for gallery shots of art pieces, as well as an e-commerce tool for purchasing Norgi art.
On norgi.com there is a very active blog area. If interested in keeping up and participating in discussions, register on the site and save www.norgi.com in your favorites!
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.
...Rollout Scooters is a hot site for a growing company!
Rollout Scooters is a business venture started by two college brothers who saw a real demand for scooters as the answer to helping our environment by reducing carbon emissions produced by other 4 wheel products, as well as saving you money at the gas pump. rolloutscooters.com is an informational site that provides visitors with information on the wide variety of scooters they sell, as well as their parts and apparel inventory. To understand and truly appreciate what Rollout Scooters has to offer, you must visit their site and take a look around! See for yourself why they are considered a top scooter shop with unbeatable prices and service. Their specialists are on hand in both store locations (Little Rock and Fayetteville, Arkansas) to answer all your questions and help you find the right scooter for your needs. Check them out today!!
Diane Crowder Designs launches a new site!
Diane Crowder's new site (dianecrowderdesigns.com) is unique vision created by Web-JIVE for interior design artist, Diane Crowder. Web-jive utilized a portfolio tool that allows Diane the freedom to display her work, adding new designs to the site, and updating her information as needed.
As a designer, Diane has more than 20 years experience helping her clients achieve their dream spaces. Her extensive travel throughout Europe and the U.S. has helped Diane deliver the best designs to her clientele. Whether it’s home, office, or outdoor areas needing visionary design, Diane can take your dream spaces and make them a reality. Check out her site, and see what she's done for her clients!
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.
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