Archive for August, 2011

7 simple ways to give visitors a great first impression

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 30/08/2011
7 simple ways to give visitors a great first impression

1. Optimise your site speed If you have a content-rich index page or feature multiple hi-res images, make sure they’re optimised for the web. There are also various browser plugins and online tools you can use to test your page loading speeds. Social media plugins can slow down your site a lot, so make sure [...]

Heart Internet reseller exclusive: Free white label marketing emails

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 25/08/2011
Heart Internet reseller exclusive: Free white label marketing emails

Next time you log in to your Reseller Control Centre you’ll see two changes. The first change you’ll notice is we have grouped the marketing support we offer in to a new section called “Marketing”. You’ll also see a new icon called “Email marketing”. Here you will find white label HTML Emails to send to [...]

Using social media to sell more web hosting webinar slides & transcript

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 24/08/2011
Using social media to sell more web hosting webinar slides & transcript

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our webinar “How to use social media to sell web hosting”, we hope you found it useful and it gave you some ideas you can use. As promised, here are the webinar’s files for you to download, refer back to and share.

Resellers: Tips and ideas for blog posts

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 24/08/2011
Resellers: Tips and ideas for blog posts

Blogging often ends up at the bottom of your to do list when you’re a reseller without much time on your hands. However, we’ve been seeing an increase in the number of our resellers utilising blogs recently…

Interview with July WOTM winner Little Doone

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 22/08/2011
Interview with July WOTM winner Little Doone

July’s Website of the Month winner was award-winning dressings company Little Doone. Run by husband and wife team Colin and Tanya, Little Doone’s unusual and handmade dressings have won numerous Great Taste Awards from the Guild of Fine Foods. We caught up with them to find out more about their website and business. Tell us [...]

18 unmissable articles and resources for web professionals

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 18/08/2011
18 unmissable articles and resources for web professionals

The amount of content being added to the web on a daily basis is impossible to keep up with, so we’ve listed some of the best resources, tools and articles we’ve come across recently to help you improve your skills, website and browsing experience. We also post similar links on Twitter on an ad hoc [...]

The marketing support we offer all our resellers (100% free too)

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 15/08/2011
The marketing support we offer all our resellers (100% free too)

Last year we surveyed all our reseller hosting customers to find out more about what they think about our reseller hosting (good and bad) and how they thought we could improve. One of the questions we asked was to rate various aspects of our services on a scale of 1 – 5. Whilst the majority [...]

Now & then – How brands’ websites have changed over the years

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 04/08/2011
Now & then – How brands’ websites have changed over the years

We’re all so focused on web 2.0 and the newer era of social networking websites and start ups that it’s easy to forget just how much web design and development has changed over the past few years. With that in mind…

Interview with Tom Ross, founder of web design blog fanextra.com

Posted by: Ben
Date posted: 03/08/2011
Interview with Tom Ross, founder of web design blog fanextra.com

Fanextra.com is a hugely popular web design blog edited by its founder, Tom Ross. In this interview Tom discusses how he drives traffic to his blog, how he motivates himself to keep blogging and his plans for the website.

Half of web designers are not considering mobile users

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 01/08/2011
Half of web designers are not considering mobile users

According to research we recently conducted with the chaps at Design Shack, a lot of web designers are still not taking into account mobile web browsers. The survey of 500 web designers found that that only 50% are considering mobile web access when designing a new website. (If you think 500 doesn’t sound like a [...]