We came up with the idea for our brilliant Wake up Your Website service after being asked to create a better website design and brand image for The Stroke Comedy Club in Lichfield, Staffordshire. www.strokecomedy.com
The website was old fashioned, badly laid out, had slow loading images, didn’t portray the quality of the club and its massive success, and the business owner was not enjoying adding updates or promoting it. So we had a meeting and started planning the improvements.
As you would expect, the revamped site’s function is to quickly give details of forthcoming shows but we also wanted to include everything that people would want to know – how to get tickets, directions, who’s played there before, what the club is like, etc. Continue Reading »
There are several applications that you can download for free that will tweak your computer, and allow your internet to run the way it should do.
In my written instructions for each application, boxes you need to click for each step are in italics.
1. General Internet Speed: You can tweak your windows registry using TCP Optimizer.
a) SpeedGuide.net TCP Optimizer *Doesnt need Installing.
Direct DL Link: http://www.speedguide.net/files/TCPOptimizer.exe
Website: http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
Once it’s open, click Modify All Network Adapters then click the bubble next to optimal settings. Then Slide the connection speed to your match your approximate broadband speed. If you don’t know your broadband speed go to www.speedtest.net. Once done, click apply and reset your computer. (A quick note to remember, all these settings are applied to your specific broadband connection.)
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Here at Roxbourne we’ve been using WordPress to build certain websites for a while now, and we love it, but there are still a lot of drawbacks.
Thanks to the work of hundreds of contributors to WordPress, plug-ins can address a lot of these drawbacks.
So here is a top ten list of some of the ones we use. No doubt we’ll do a part two to this post if it’s useful to anyone!
1. Customising The “Read More” Tag.
A small problem I faced was when someone clicked “More” or “Read More…” to read the rest of a blog post, It would scroll the article down to where the more tag is. This plug-in prevents this and starts the post properly from the beginning.
Search “More To the Top” when adding a plugin.
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There are plenty of guides on how to speed up your computer or Laptop out there. However, many of them are:
- Out of date.
- Encourage you to purchase unneeded software.
- Tend to be very basic, and don’t cover everything.
So we thought we’d take a stab at it here at Roxbourne, and provide you with 10 tips that cover all basics to speed up your computer.
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There are many forms of nasty infections your computer can pick up. The most common is Spyware.
Some common symptoms of Spyware are:
- Website Redirections: Upon visiting a website it sometimes re-directs to a different advert filled website.
- Slower Computer: Your computer takes a long time to boot up and load programs.
- Regular Blue Screens: Often during boot up.
This guide will not only teach you how to remove Spyware, but every other kind of nasty “threat” you may find. These include:- Adware, Malware, Trojans, Keyloggers, Dialers, Hi-jackers and worms.
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Most broadband packages these days offer “Up to 8MB“…however most people get an average of about 4MB at least, from that. It all depends on how far away you live from the telephone exchange.
However if there is something wrong, your speeds can be greatly reduced.
Some Problems you may be experiencing:
- Constant slowdowns during peak times
- Regular disconnections (More than say three times a day)
- Slow downloads
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One of our favourite websites for assistance with Search Engine Optimisation is, you guessed it. SEOBook.com.
In particular they provide FREE tools as add-ons for Firefox.
We’ve been using:
A few features of Rank Checker worth mentioning:
- It enables you to check all your keyword rankings within the SERPS of Google, Yahoo and Live Search (MSN).
- You can specify which Google to check. We’ve been using the .co.uk version of Google.
- It performs quicker than a lot of other tools we’ve tried out. (Web CEO for one…painfully slow)
- The top 200 results are checked for a rank, if you aren’t found you’ll see a dash.
- After using it for a month or so we’ve found it to be not always accurate, but its usually within 10 places or so.
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Spotify - Stream Music for Free. – If you haven’t heard of this yet, then you really should check it out.
DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.spotify.com/uk/get-spotify/go/open
You’ll need to sign up, and then login with a username and password. This allows you to be able to access your account on anyone elses spotify and use your saved playlists.
Heres a quick rundown of its features and downsides:
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Like many things, you get what you pay for when hiring a web designer, but the resultant website and its ability to achieve your business objectives is very much dependent upon YOUR input too.
Let’s use the analogy of custom building a desirable house……
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Leadership begins inside; with the inner character not the outward personality.
Being a Great leader requires a combination of skills, character traits, experience, mental strength, intelligence and principles.
If you are a leader and you lack any one of the following YOU WILL ultimately get found out and crash and burn:
- Can articulate a compelling vision of the future that’s clear and focused
- A good communicator with a simple message
- A charismatic and enthusiastic character
- Able to mobilise people and hold their company/team together
- Can inspire confidence and empower others
- Can bring out the best in others
- Is credible, courageous and proactive
- Has admirable principles which guide decisions
- Makes decisions intelligently, quickly and with commitment
- Has high expectations in self and others
- Can establish a success formula and achieve tasks efficiently
- Searches for new opportunities for their company to consider
- Is flexible and can refocus in light of new opportunities or threats
- Predicts future demand and trends and plans for them
- Embraces technology
- Puts health and family before work (within reason)
- Can take advice and knows the right people to get it from
- Can manage change effectively
Alexander Bullivant
Roxbourne Marketing Consultants
