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Tips from Idea15 Web Design

Tips from Idea15 Web Design

http://idea15.wordpress.com

Idea15 Web Design is a professional web site design company based in Glasgow, Scotland. This blog will share some marketing advice and business tips learned along the road in the private sector, the public sector, and in academia. In particular, I’ll focus on common problem spots for companies both large and small, as well as the joys of being a woman trying to make it in business in the anti-business, anti-women environment that is the West of Scotland.

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  • Server switch tonight

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 08:01

    Our web hosts are moving our VPS account to a new server tonight.  The switchover is scheduled for sometime between 6 PM tonight and 6 AM, and we are in the process of repointing all DNS information this afternoon.  Between now and then, our own we...

  • The 5 Minute WordPress Security Audit

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 11:14 in wordpress

    WordPress is now the open-source CMS of choice.  But like any web platform, it isn’t perfect.  The responsibility for keeping the installation secure falls solely to you, not to a faraway company. As a designer, I am occasionally asked to pee...

  • T-Mobile staff sold customer data, got shouted at by me

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 12:13 in t-mobile, general business

    Big news here today: T-Mobile staff sold customer data Staff at mobile phone company T-Mobile passed on millions of records from thousands of customers, a spokesman for the firm has confirmed. The suspected illegal trade emerged after the firm alert...

  • Text advertisements on your web site – from hell

    Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 18:16 in web design, Marketing

    A client contacted me today seeking guidance about an odd email he had received.  Here’s what it said: I was hoping you might now have had the chance to think about my email, sent to you some time ago. Would you be interested in placing a simp...

  • Mothballs and tumbleweeds: the great client disappearing act

    Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 12:00 in web design

    Web design, it’s safe to say, is a field which has some very unique challenges. Just yesterday a colleague and I were commiserating -  to the point where we were saying the same words in unison – about potential clients who ask you to co...

  • Has your web designer gone out of business?

    Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 05:08 in web design, general business

    In the spirit of trying something new, I’ve had an article published on the excellent Find Networking Events site. Click here to learn what to do if your web site designer has gone out of business. Posted in General Business, Web Design ...

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This blog is currently rated a 4.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

chrisso

4 stars chrisso

Very useful information here, good blog.

Posted: September 15th, 2008 | More Reviews From chrisso | Report This Comment

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