In a nutshell,

let me manage the web and media stuff in your business that
you either cannot do or don’t have time to do.

My whole business philosophy is based upon what I have learnt in my long history in business (of many different kinds). A long time ago in one job as a rather ambitious and inexperienced Sales Administrator I decided to embark upon trying to fix a malfunctioning computer in the office. Yes, I was quite good at pulling computers apart and putting them back together again. But this one was puzzling me and I was determined to fix it! ‘Don’t worry about it. Just pick up the phone book and find a computer services guy to come and fix’, said my manager. ‘No, it’s OK. I can fix it. I’ll save you money’.

Anyway, long story short, I couldn’t put Humpty together again and herein learnt a good business lesson – while I was busy ‘fixing’ the dead PC who was doing my job, administering sales, following up leads, filing reports and the like? Yep, you guessed it! NO ONE!!! My enthusiasm and ability were not to be sneered at but in all honesty I did not save the company money by not hiring a computer tech but may have actually COST the business money and reputation in missed sales, late reports etc. (Don’t worry, that company today is bigger and better than it ever was).

With experience and skill in web design built up over years I can provide a valuable service that will save you time and give your organisation a professional image.

Ok, here’s a quick bullet point list:

1. I am friendly and relaxed to do business with;
2. …yet I am still professional in my attitude and approach to business. Easy going but not sloppy;
3. Experienced and know what works and what doesn’t;
4. Provide cost effective services, yet not cheap and nasty;
5. Available to provide an all-in web services package. Means you don’t have several different businesses and people to work with;
6. Able to take the strain and support your venture.

Go on! Give me a call or drop me an e-mail. Visit www.asounddesign.eu for more

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I have just put together a new web site for my business. I decided that while this blog is useful for adding news items, ideas and more immediate news I wanted something that gives more information about the core of my business, which is web design and multimedia creation.

My experience of a lot of business blogs is that you get a lot of comment but it can be sometimes hard to get straight to the services offered.

So have a look at the new site at www.asounddesign.eu

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I hope this will help answer some of the questions you may have about what is involved in creating a web site. Please use the Contact Me page to get in touch for a quote for your web site design/re-design.

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If you have some old footage on tape, maybe your own wedding or an event, and need it edited, adding some professional touches to spice it up and burnt to DVD or prepared for other media formats give me a shout.

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Screenshot of the RSS Feeds Directory

I’ve just redesigned and updated my niche web directory called RSS Feeds Directory, a directory where you can submit your RSS/XML News Feed for free.

I chose a fresher more lively feel for the site as it was getting a bit tired looking.

I have also changed from using the PHPLD directory software to run the database to the Joomla CMS and the SOBI2 directory script. I believe this will give me more flexibility over adding new features, such as advertising space, articles and more.

You can see the update at www.rss-feeds-directory.info

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I’d really, really appreciate it if you’d leave some comments with constructive feedback on how it looks, how useable it is and maybe any improvements I could make. Thanks.

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So what is it and why should you be bothered?

According to Wikipedia

“nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring.”

A link using the attribute rel=”nofollow” is not completely useless, visitors can still visit your web site through a link using this attribute, however you will be losing out when it comes to link popularity and search engine rankings.

What can you do about it?

First check out if the directory you are thinking of submitting to is using this attribute for its free links. If it is, pay for your listing if your link submission is mainly about building up Link Popularity.

If it is more about just being found on the internet then your free link may be useful even if it has nofollow.

At the end of the day a free link is a free link. If you have the time to submit it then go ahead. I have been amazed at the traffic that has come from weird, seemingly unknown directories.

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I don’t actually provide web hosting myself but would recommend the following company. I have been hosting several sites there myself for over a year and think their support and prices are very good. You can get support by the usual methods and by live chat, which is very good as it means you can get instant help. They provide unlimited web space and you can host as many domains as you like on them.

The above is an Affiliate link so please do use it as I get a small commission for each sale from this link. Thanks.

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