Between now and December 31st, any new paying client you sign up will receive a FREE Website Match – at no cost to you! What is website match? We’ll review your client’s website, and create an email template that looks like it. All you have to do is add content… upload the list… and push the “send” button. Check out a video that explains it here

If you use Gmail, Google Reader, Google+, Google Search, Google Maps — indeed, just about any Google product — you’ve likely become familiar with that black strip across the top of the screen with links to the company’s other services. Google introduced it back in June. Opinions have varied ever since, but many of us have gone with: what on Earth is that ugly thing? Wonder no longer, because...

Google shows the first 60 to 70 characters in the search results. Make sure your important keywords occur early in the page title for scan-ability. If your title goes beyond 70 characters Google may cut off the title before 69 characters and display … at the end of your page title.an on your brand. Rather than making your page title just the keyword and/or starting your page title with the keyword,...

I get clients asking me this question a lot. Which is a reminder that what I think is basic info, because I’m “in it” every day, all day, is not common knowledge for everyone else. WYSIWYG (play /ˈwɪziwɪɡ/ wiz-ee-wig)[1] is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content (text and graphics) displayed onscreen during...

If that number doesn’t pique your curiosity and make you start thinking then you are probably missing a big opportunity. We’ve been doing Mobile Site versions and iPhone and Droid App development for a while now. The requests are steadily increasing, which is nice to see my client base “getting it” when it comes to technology movements. For those of you who haven’t started...

I got this link from a fellow art director and thought it was hysterical.

1. Ask everyone that comes to your place of business. Put a sign-up sheet at your register or reception desk. Ask callers on the phone. If you’re a web-based operation, send a follow-up after an order asking if they’d like to continue to hear from you. Have your employees and staff ask too. Don’t be shy! Studies have shown that over half of people will provide their email addresses...

IDEAS Design has now teamed up with a printer to offer paper products that are recycled from certified sustainable production systems. Recycled paper products contain recovered fibers, which include pre or post consumer sources, or both. As a result, there are significant environmental advantages of producing recycled paper over non-recycled paper. The advantages create an eco-friendly footprint which...

Microsoft will be formally launching the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, IE9, at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi) on Monday–an interesting place to launch, given that the Austin, Texas, geek fest is packed full of the hordes who have long since ditched Internet Explorer for the decidedly hipper pastures of Firefox, Safari, or Chrome. The new browser, which had...

As you might recall, last year we added the BRBL and adjusted your default spam settings to knock out a good chunk of annoying spam from hitting your inbox. Well, now we’re taking it a step further. Commtouch Premium Antispam One of the great features of SmarterMail 6.x is an add-on licensing system that allows us to purchase third-party services (which have been tested & integrated within...