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		<title>Sale extension!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well as it&#8217;s &#8220;that time of the year&#8221; again we&#8217;ve decided to extend the 3 Page Website for £150 offer through till January 23rd 2015! Just a little reminder of what you&#8217;ll get: A 3 page website (Home, About &#38; Contact) FREE .co.uk domain name FREE basic web hosting for 1 year FREE email addresses [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well as it&#8217;s &#8220;that time of the year&#8221; again we&#8217;ve decided to extend the <a href="https://sale.simplydesign.me" target="_blank">3 Page Website for £150</a> offer through till January 23rd 2015!</p>
<p>Just a little reminder of what you&#8217;ll get:</p>
<p>A 3 page website (Home, About &amp; Contact)</p>
<p>FREE .co.uk domain name</p>
<p>FREE basic web hosting for 1 year</p>
<p>FREE email addresses</p>
<p>UK based servers</p>
<p>UK based support</p>
<p>That works out at less than £3 per week to promote your business for a whole year! Where else can you got a whole years advertising for £150? Interested? Full details can be found <a href="https://sale.simplydesign.me" target="_blank">here.</a></p>
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		<title>So how secure is YOUR WordPress based website?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sdm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How many WordPress based website owners secure their site or take a full backup (database &#38; file system) on a regular basis? Not as many as you think! Just think how you&#8217;d feel if your website was compromised by malware, then blacklisted by Google. How many customers would that cost you? How much damage would [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How many WordPress based website owners secure their site or take a full backup (database &amp; file system) on a regular basis? Not as many as you think!</p>
<p>Just think how you&#8217;d feel if your website was compromised by malware, then blacklisted by Google. How many customers would that cost you? How much damage would it do to your business reputation? What you it cost you to get the damaged put right?</p>
<p>Just yesterday, Sunday 14th December 2014 over 100,000 WordPress based websites were hit by the SoakSoak Malware according to <a href="https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/12/soaksoak-malware-compromises-100000-wordpress-websites.html" target="_blank">Sucuri</a> &amp; Google has blacklisted over 11,000 domains with this latest malware campaign from SoakSoak dot ru.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1876" src="https://simplydesign.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/SoakSoak-RU-Blacklisted_web.png" alt="SoakSoak-RU-Blacklisted_web" width="640" height="329" srcset="https://simplydesign.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/SoakSoak-RU-Blacklisted_web.png 640w, https://simplydesign.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/SoakSoak-RU-Blacklisted_web-300x154.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>So how can you avoid your website being hit? Simple, be pro-active &amp; secure your website, or, if you don&#8217;t feel confident enough to do it yourself ask your web designer to do it. Yes you&#8217;ll have to pay for the service, but isn&#8217;t it worth that extra peace of mind?</p>
<p>Now, as well as making sure your website is secure, what would you do in the<em> &#8220;worst case scenario&#8221;</em> if for example the site database became corrupted because of a poorly coded plugin/theme update? Or, your site was hacked &amp; taken down by your web host?</p>
<p>Simple, you&#8217;d just upload your backup database/file system. You <em><strong>DO</strong></em> have backup&#8217;s, don&#8217;t you?</p>
<p>If you can&#8217;t afford to lose it, back-it-up! On some hosting packages you can do this from your account Control Panel for the database/file system, or via FTP for just the file system. Don&#8217;t panic if you don&#8217;t feel confident doing this yourself as there are many places that offer Maintenance Packages to suit your requirements.</p>
<p>We offer 3 different levels of <a href="https://simplydesign.me/#fix">Maintenance cover</a>, or if none of them suit your needs we can always customise them so they will. <a href="https://simplydesign.me/#contact">Drop us a line</a> if you have any questions, we&#8217;re here to help.</p>
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		<title>The 3 page website for £150 offer is back!</title>
		<link>https://simplydesign.me/the-3-page-website-for-150-offer-is-back/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sdm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 21:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back by popular demand! A 3 page website + 1 years basic web hosting + a FREE .uk domain name for just £150! So, how does this work? It’s really quite simple.. You decide how you’d like your site to look, logo, colour scheme, content etc, then fill in the Book Now form with your [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Back by popular demand!</h2>
<h2>A 3 page website + 1 years basic web hosting + a FREE .uk domain name for just £150!</h2>
<p>So, how does this work? It’s really quite simple..</p>
<p>You decide how you’d like your site to look, logo, colour scheme, content etc, then fill in the Book Now form with your preferred Domain Name and as much information as possible about the website you’d like. Once we fully understand what you require &amp; you’re happy to proceed we’ll issue you with an invoice for £75, which is half of the cost.</p>
<p>Once the invoice is paid (our preferred method is Direct Bank Transfer. We can invoice you via Paypal but will add 2.75% to cover fees) we will proceed as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Open a basic hosting account for you using your choice of domain name (registered to you, not us)</li>
<li>Set up your 2 email accounts for the domain</li>
<li>Construct the site on our development server using the logo/images/content you provide</li>
<li>Send you a link to the site so you can watch our progress</li>
<li>Make up to 3 changes to the site content/layout until you’re happy with everything</li>
<li>Once you’re happy we set a “Go Live” date and issue you with an invoice for the balance of £75</li>
<li>When the invoice is paid we move the site to the live domain and it’s live on the internet!</li>
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		<title>Single page scrolling website for £100</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sdm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, our previous offer of a 3 page website + web hosting + free .uk domain name for £150 has come to and end, but don&#8217;t despair as we now have a new offer running for 30 days! A single page scrolling website + 1 years basic web hosting + a FREE .uk domain name [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, our previous offer of a 3 page website + web hosting + free .uk domain name for £150 has come to and end, but don&#8217;t despair as we now have a new offer running for 30 days!</p>
<h2>A single page scrolling website + 1 years basic web hosting + a FREE .uk domain name for just 100!</h2>
<h3></h3>
<h3>So, how does this work?</h3>
<p>It’s really quite simple..</p>
<p>You decide how you’d like your site to look, logo, colour scheme, content etc, then fill in the <strong><a href="https://sale.simplydesign.me/single-2/#contact">Book Now</a></strong> form with your preferred Domain Name and as much information as possible about the website you’d like<strong>.</strong> Once we fully understand what you require &amp; you’re happy to proceed we’ll issue you with an invoice for <strong>£50</strong>, which is half of the cost.</p>
<p>Once the invoice is paid (our preferred method is Direct Bank Transfer. We can invoice you via Paypal but will add 2.75% to cover fees) we will proceed as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Open a basic hosting account for you using your choice of domain name (registered to you, not us)</li>
<li>Set up your 2 email accounts for the domain</li>
<li>Construct the site on our development server using the logo/images/content you provide</li>
<li>Send you a link to the site so you can watch our progress</li>
<li>Make up to 3 changes to the site content/layout until you’re happy with everything</li>
<li>Once you’re happy we set a “Go Live” date and issue you with an invoice for the balance of <strong>£50</strong></li>
<li>When the invoice is paid we move the site to the live domain and it’s live on the internet!</li>
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		<title>30 Day Web Hosting Sale!</title>
		<link>https://simplydesign.me/30-day-web-hosting-sale/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sdm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 18:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the next 30 days we are offering a Basic Web Hosting account for 1 year + FREE .uk domain name for just £52! That equates to just £1 per week! What else can you get for £1 per week.! Some of the features included in the Sale package are listed below Don&#8217;t delay, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the next 30 days we are offering a Basic Web Hosting account for 1 year + FREE .uk domain name for just £52!</p>
<p>That equates to just £1 per week! What else can you get for £1 per week.! Some of the features included in the Sale package are listed below</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t delay, the clock is ticking&#8230;</p>
<p>Features</p>
<ul>
<li>5000mb of storage space on the account</li>
<li>20000mb of monthly bandwidth usage</li>
<li>5 email addresses (with Webmail login as well)</li>
<li>1 MySQL database</li>
<li>1 FTP account (to upload/download content)</li>
<li>1 click install apps like WordPress &amp; Simple Machine Forums</li>
<li>Basic Website Builder</li>
<li>Google Site Map generator</li>
<li>Over 100 open source website templates</li>
<li>..and much more!</li>
</ul>
<p>Full offer details can be seen <a href="https://host.simplydesign.me/" target="_blank"><strong>HERE</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Why WordPress is the Best Choice for your Website</title>
		<link>https://simplydesign.me/why-wordpress-is-the-best-choice-for-your-website/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sdm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2014 17:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WordPress was first launched in 2003. At that time, it was seen an a fairly simple (yet competent) CMS for blogging purposes. Even as recently as a few years ago, many Web designers still thought of WordPress as a CMS best suited to blogs, and chose the traditional html/php method for websites.But, this is no [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress was first launched in 2003. At that time, it was seen an a fairly simple (yet competent) CMS for blogging purposes. Even as recently as a few years ago, many Web designers still thought of WordPress as a CMS best suited to blogs, and chose the traditional html/php method for websites.But, this is no longer the case. WordPress is capable of acting as the backbone for all kinds of different websites. It’s even used by names as big as CNN, Forbes and Samsung, to name but a few.</p>
<h3></h3>
<h3>10 Reasons that we recommend you consider using WordPress for your website</h3>
<ol>
<li> Although WordPress has retained ease-of-use (and practically the same “back end” interface) for a number of years, the features list has grown exponentially. Menu configuration and media handling are two good examples of things that have got steadily more powerful with no sacrifice made in usability. Clever enhancements in new versions of WordPress are what has made the platform evolve into a great CMS for all types of websites, and not merely a solid blogging platform.</li>
<li>With an easy learning curve, creating a new post in WordPress or uploading some images is simplicity itself, to the point that real technophobes can use WordPress without feeling intimidated. At the same time, however, there’s loads of functionality at your fingertips. It’s easy to ignore things you don’t understand, and then gradually learn more and more. By contrast, Joomla and (especially) Drupal, make the basics easy, but then leave you with complex documentation to achieve things that WordPress can do without blinding you with science.</li>
<li>There are thousands of great WordPress themes available, and many of them are completely free. However, it’s at the premium (commercial) end of the market that things get really interesting. Some of the premium WordPress themes essentially work like Web design construction kits in their own right and give you the ability to create sites that look truly world-class when customised correctly.</li>
<li>Selling products directly from your WordPress based site, can be handled easily by a range of plugins including the popular <a href="https://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/" target="_blank">WooCommerce</a>.</li>
<li>There are so many quality plug-ins for WordPress that you’d be hard pressed to think of any functionality you cannot quickly add to a WordPress site. For example, the <a href="https://www.wpgmaps.com/" target="_blank">WP Google maps</a> plugin has a very capable free version, but the paid for version does so much more! Need a calendar plugin to advertise your events? One of the best we&#8217;ve found is the All in 1 Event Calendar by <a href="https://time.ly/" target="_blank">Timley</a>. Again the free version is good, but you get so much more functionality with the paid for version</li>
<li>As WordPress is so popular, work on the platform never stops. Updates for the base platform are regularly released, so it makes for a system that’s constantly evolving and improving, with new functions being added all the time.</li>
<li>As you would expect from such a popular platform, the support community is active and huge. Aside from the dedicated WordPress support resources, you’ll find an abundance of third-party forums and other options for assistance. If you have any question at all, you can be pretty sure that somebody has already answered it somewhere.</li>
<li>WordPress is inherently quite SEO-friendly, with features such as the ability to automatically generate search-friendly URLS, but with the addition of a couple of plugins, such as the Google XML Site Map and the All-in-One SEO pack, you can force yourself to maintain good SEO discipline, giving your site the best chance of good search results.</li>
<li>Social media integration is again made easy, by the use of one of serval plugins that are available, that link to your Facebook/Twitter account.</li>
<li>WordPress remains the best blogging platform bar none. Its a great choice for a new website and an obvious choice for a new blog.</li>
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		<title>Does your business need a web presence?</title>
		<link>https://simplydesign.me/does-your-business-need-a-web-presence/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sdm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2014 12:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Giving your business an online presence means more than simply putting up a website with your company&#8217;s address and phone number. It means setting up a virtual version of your business, with a welcoming, informative website,and also a Facebook page and Twitter account. More people search online for the products and services they need as [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Giving your business an online presence means more than simply putting up a website with your company&#8217;s address and phone number. It means setting up a virtual version of your business, with a welcoming, informative website,and also a Facebook page and Twitter account. More people search online for the products and services they need as opposed to searching through a phone book. By gnoring this important potential marketing platform is akin to saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need any new business.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Internet never sleeps,it&#8217;s open 24/7 365 days a year, and every portal you offer online gives your business a virtual 24-hour showroom. This allows potential customers to research your product or service after business hours, and in the privacy of their own home. If you sell products, an online store allows for 24-hour order placement to capture a sale as soon as a customer is interested, as opposed to waiting for your brick-and-mortar store to open, by which time the urge to buy may well have passed.</p>
<p>The first step to building a Web presence is to create a website, or pay someone else to build one for you. Whether you run a business out of your home or represent a larger company, a website displays your services, products and contact information to customers. Once set up, a website can be far cheaper than manning a customer service line to answer questions about your business or to tell customers what your operating hours are.</p>
<p>Once you have a live website, the next logical step is to establish a blog and social media accounts. A blog gives customers fresh articles and content to view on a regular basis, drawing them back to your company&#8217;s Web presence repeatedly. It can also establish you as a credible voice within your industry. Social media accounts can be used as cheap advertising and to reach the millions of users that frequent sites like Facebook and Twitter daily.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a well-known marketing fact that people like to buy but don&#8217;t like to be sold. A well-written piece of copy for your products or services on your website allow buyers to make a more relaxed, informed decision to purchase, as opposed to feeling pressurised into buying by a possible pushy salesperson. Marketing your business is also easier and more far reaching, as the electronic format allows for a wider, more cost-effective distribution as opposed to traditional marketing, which usually included printing and mailing costs.</p>
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