Website Design
By · CommentsYour Business Needs a Website Now!
Here are just a few reasons why:
- A professional business website provides the opportunity to publish the who, what and why of your business in a powerful and effective manner.
- Increasingly, people search the Web before picking up the phone, when looking for a service or product.
- A professional business website is a better value for your advertising dollar. A website is an unlimited number of full page ads.
- A professional business website makes the internet your extended staff, there to answer questions anytime, day or night.
- Used in conjunction with your existing yellow pages, ads, coupons, etc. a professional small business website can greatly increase your advertising campaigns results.
- Chances are your competitors are already reaping the rewards of owning a website.
- We can help your business. Contact us today to get started on your professional business website!
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Marketing Materials – Business Cards
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Marketing Materials – Your Visual IdentityWhen competing with other businesses in the marketplace, your strongest weapon is your visual identity. The customer’s first impression of your business is based solely on the visual identity, which means that it is critical to make that impression unforgettable. All marketing materials are visual; a business card, a brochure, a flyer, an advertisement, a media clip or a web site are all visual marketing materials. Each one should be designed to represent your business to the customer. But beyond that, all of your marketing items should be viewed together as part of a larger marketing strategy that provides your business with a strong, cohesive image or brand. The goal is for the potential customer or client to immediately recognize your business as the only possible choice for their particular need, or to bring your business to mind when they do have the need for your product or service. People are visual beings. We are constantly viewing the things around us, and making judgments based on what we see. We are influenced, by our interpretation of our visual surroundings. As a business, it is extremely important that your visual identity be one that your potential customers find appealing.. Marketing Materials – Combining the Visual Image with the Key MessageThe proper integration of imagery and message in your company’s marketing campaign can reap immense rewards, such as increased buyer confidence, and increased sales. A business creates and sustains a powerful image when all the pieces fit together to form a complete marketing package. Remember, everything you give a potential customer says something about you and your business. Your business card, brochure and web site delivers a message about your business to your current or potential client. . Imagine how much more powerful that message would be if it was unified across all of your marketing fronts. That is the key to a strong visual identity. |
Professional Business Marketing Materials
Using business cards can be extremely advantageous for bringing in future sales and referrals to your business. A contact of a friend or client might be doing something at work that needs a service or product similar to what you provide, and what better place for that person to easily access your contact information than your business card? Using professionally designed business cards can be one of the most efficient and effective marketing strategies for you and your business.Google Speeds Up Search with Google Instant
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Google Instant’s new technology means that users don’t need to hit “enter” or click on a “search” button to see the results from a search. Google Instant, which will launch later today in the United States for people using the latest versions of most Web browsers, will cut two to five seconds off searches that previously took about 25 seconds, the company said.
Google will become available later today for users on updated browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Version 8. The new service will role out in Britain and a number of other European countries over the rest of this week.
“We’re really trying to make sure we have search as fast and as efficient as possible,” Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience, said in an announcement at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “It’s really providing results in real time before you have the opportunity to type your query.”
New Website – Aptos Yellow Barn Day Care
By · CommentsYellow Barn DayCare – Aptos CA - Small, clean and well kept family daycare facility in Aptos Ca – Santa Cruz area. Focus on safety and love keeping a balance between fun, education and moral awareness.
For Support – Please Use the Online Support Ticket System
Reminder to please use the online support ticket system for all support requests.
In order to streamline support requests and better serve you, a couple years ago we began to utilize a support ticket system. Every support request is assigned a unique ticket number which you can use to track the progress and responses online.
You can check the status of previously opened ticket. We provide archives and history of all your support requests complete with responses.
The support ticket system is a powerful and effective way of receiving support directly from the knowledgeable Andrechelle.com Staff. The ticket system is available for all clients to use and can be accessed through your client area. After the ticket has been submitted, it awaits a reply from a staff member. Once the ticket is solved, a staff member will mark the ticket as resolved.
Please provide as much detail as possible so we can best assist you. Tickets are answered in the order they are received. Paid support requests are handled before free support requests. Express service also available.
How to Send a Support Ticket
The support ticket system is located inside your client area at http://support.andrechelle.com/. To access support tickets, click Support Ticket from the client service menu. Below the SUBMIT TICKET area, there is an area that shows all the tickets you’ve sent and responses.
TYPES OF SUPPORT TICKETS
There are four types of tickets that you can send through our system: Hosting support tickets, Website Design support tickets, Internet Marketing support tickets and Website Update support tickets.. For the fastest support, please make sure you choose the correct ticket category.
When Should I Send A Support Ticket?
You can use the support ticket system at any time. A Support Ticket ensures that you speak only with our staff, lessening confusion and providing authoritative answers. Whenever you have questions that can only be answered by a staff member, you should definitely use a Support Ticket.
However, if your question is less complicated (involving, for example, where to find a specific WordPress setting), you may receive faster answers by posting on support forums. The forums see much greater traffic and have many more users available to answer your question.
Warning: Sometimes it may become necessary for a member of the Andrechelle.com Team to investigate the settings in your admin control panel. Requests for admin CP access will ONLY be made via the Support Ticket System. Our staff will never, for any reason, request access in any other way. Security is yet another reason we use this support ticket system.
Support Ticket Guidelines
* Please open only one ticket for the same issue. You can access active tickets by either clicking the link in the last automated notification response you received, or from your Open Tickets list. If a previous issue which has been resolved resurfaces, use the Closed Ticket History to post a new response to that ticket, rather than opening another ticket.
* Please limit each ticket to a single issue. Open a new ticket for new problems or questions.
* Please choose a descriptive subject for your ticket; otherwise, our support staff may modify the subject to reflect more appropriate subject.
* Support response time is currently within 48-72 hours. However, in almost all cases, it rarely takes that long and we are able to respond in far less time, depending on volume and staff availability. Subsequent response time for an open ticket will vary for the same reasons, as well as being dependent on the complexity of the issue we are assisting you with resolving.
* Response time during certain high-volume tickets periods (such as following a new release) may take longer than normal due to the increased demand. Your patience during those times is greatly appreciated.
If your question or issue concerns an aspect that goes beyond the Basic Support provided with your account, we may refer you to buy WEBSITE MAINTENANCE CREDITS.
Why Use a Support Ticket System?
Due to the nature of our business, we offer support via the online support ticket system. This allows us to resolve issues more efficiently, as it is much quicker to have someone copy / paste their URL to receive assistance with a specific issue, page or website. It also allows for archiving the issues and solutions and allows for quick easy look at the history of the domain(s) and all other pertinent settings and info.
Email and phone are not preferred methods of communication for updates for many reasons.
Why Not E-mail
We receive thousands of emails a day, most of which are SPAM. SPAM filters eliminate much of the junk before reaching our inbox, but in doing so also remove some non SPAM emails. If you sent us an email and we did not respond, most likely we never even saw your email, as it was filtered out with the SPAM.
Why Not Phone
We are available by phone, however for support we require you submit a support ticket first, you may then call to explain /clarify the ticket you submitted.
Phone support requires an interruption in previously scheduled work, often resulting in slowing the entire support system down. Phone communication may also require waiting on the line, lost calls (starting all over again), dropped calls, bad reception, misunderstood URLs or web addresses. Phone calls can not be shared with colleagues, allowing other team members input or feedback.
Now, I understand the urge to call for support, but its time to stop thinking phone support is best for updates. We are lucky to have an online support ticket system that works incredibly efficient. Call centers and overseas help desks ruined the old time ideal of calling the retailer for quick painless phone support.
Conclusion
Simply, our support ticket system is the best way to handle the type and volume or support requests we receive daily. Please use it! Help us to help you.
Bogus Rug Cleaning Inquiries
Received the bogus rug cleaning inquiry below from several of our website forms.
Name: Deb Adams
City: LOUISIANA
Email: debell002@gmail.com
Comment: Hello good day this Deb Adams and i would like to know if you do rug cleaning at the office and accept credit cards and can i speak with the owner .ok fine actually am relocating from my old house from LA LOUISIANA down to your city and i would like to know how much will 10 x 14 rug cost for cleaning and actually i have 15 rugs of that, can you do the total calculation for the cleaning for the 15 rugs sized 2500 square feet
Text Relay Calls
Received several Text Relay calls from i770.com lately. This is a legitimate service for the hearing impaired that is being abused by scam artists, prisoners, as well as pranksters.
In some cases they offer “payment” for more than the asking price, with a request for the mark to send them the balance as a refund (an example of the 419 fraud, which is commonly committed via email and is named after the section of the Nigerian legal code that outlaws it).
The only way to fight against the scammers is by educating everyone on this issue.
Website Services – Prices – Buy Us Dinner
By · Comments“Andrechelle helped us so much with our project. Can we buy you lunch (or dinner) for this?”
We have had several clients recently say something like, “I owe you dinner (or lunch) for this. I wish I was closer so I could thank you.” Absolutely, you can buy us dinner or lunch — virtually.
We really appreciate the fact you’d like to buy us dinner as a way of saying thank you. If you were particularly thrilled with the level of help, education or support you received you are welcome to send us out to more than one meal.
Ultimately we leave it up to you as to how much of a night out you’d like to share. You may use the button below and fill in any amount
P.S. If you prefer to just send a check, please drop us an email and we’ll pass along our mailing address
“Can Andrechelle help with a smaller project, just a half-hour of your time. Can we buy you lunch (or dinner) for this?”
Call us first to see if we can do what you want, and we’ll let you know if it’s worth Lunch or Dinner for two.
First, understand that it’s very hard to build a Web page that displays perfectly on every version of every browser running on every computer. And doing so may require you to leave out features that you want to have on your Web page.
Your Web browser is a translation device. It takes a document written in the HTML language and translates it into a formatted Web page. The result of this translation is a little like giving two human translators a sentence written in Greek and asking them to translate it into English. Both will get the meaning across, but may not use the same words to do so.
The basic rules for translating HTML documents are established by the World Wide Web consortium, which publishes the official HTML standards.
Different browsers interpretation of HTML, computer types, and font sizes settings, as well as browser bugs (and other settings, screen sizes and resolution settings also vary computer to computer) are not controllable by the website designer.
Different Browsers
Not only are there different browsers, but also different versions of each browser, (IE6, IE7, FF1, FF2, FF3, etc).
IE and FF (and Safari) each has different rendering “engines”.
IE uses Trident(MSHTML) as its rendering engine on Windows. IE for Mac used a different rendering engine than MSHTML.
Firefox uses Gecko. Safari… WebCore (KHTML and KWQ as the adapter library).
These different rendering engines do not always display the website (code) the same.
Different Computer Types
In theory, if you view your page on both a PC and a Mac using the same version of the same browser, it should display the same, right?
In practice that’s rarely the case. There are three reasons for this:
* Font Availability. When you tell your Web page to use a particular typeface, such as “Arial,” you may not always get the font you want. Fonts are a computer resource, and not all computers have the same fonts as your computer. That’s true even between different PCs, but it’s especially true between the PC and the Mac. If the typeface of your page suddenly changes between these computers, the website probably used a font that isn’t available on both computer types.
* Font Size. The Mac will generally render your typeface in a smaller pixel size than the PC will. That’s especially true if you use the FONT tag to set your type size, since this tag uses abstract units to define size.
* Internet Explorer. Microsoft outsources the development of Internet Explorer for the Mac, and so to a large extent this is a different browser from the PC version. In particular, the Mac version of Internet Explorer is prone to quirks and bugs that you won’t see in the PC version.
Different Font Sizes
Most browsers allow users to customize their default font size. Many users who work on computers all day do this to reduce eye strain. As a result, user preferences may cause the typeface that was used to design your Web page to increase as much as 50% larger in a user’s browser.
Each computer can have different settings for each browser (IE, FF) causing display differences between browsers on same computer system.
Browser Bugs
Building a Web page that displays well on all browsers isn’t easy. To make matters worse, sometimes you’ve done everything right, and your page still doesn’t display correctly under one specific browser. It’s not your fault – you’ve just encountered a browser bug.
Unfortunately, browser bugs are a fact of life. Each browser has its own unique set of errors and quirks.
What To Do To Reduce Display Issues
The first step to solving browser compatibility problems is to determine which browsers really matter to you and then letting your WebMaster know BEFORE they create your website.
If building your own website, be sure to use valid code. Invalid HTML code can cause display problems that turn away visitors and hurt search engine promotion efforts. Coding errors may hide large amounts of your page content from search engines – even though human visitors see the content with no problem. That is, if they can find it.
We wish it were easy to cure browser display problems, but fixing them takes time and can be expensive if decided upon after the website is complete. And doing so may require you to leave out features that you want to have on your Web page.
Website Design for Campgrounds and RV Parks
By · CommentsAndrechelle is offering professional website design services to Campgrounds and RV Parks
As perpetual travelers, we possess first hand knowledge and experience as to what other travelers would want to find on a Campground or RV Park website when researching and deciding on a place to stay, whether simply an overnight stop, an extended vacation or full time travelers.
We bring our extensive travel experience and professional website solutions to your Campground or RV Park, we can also design a professional website for your Cabin, Motel, Hotel, Recreational Facility or Tourism Hot Spot!
Everyday more people are using the Internet to plan their summer vacations and weekend get-a-ways than ever before.
If you don’t have a website, you are missing out on a huge, inexpensive way to reach the people that you want to be at your Campground or RV Park this summer!
If you already have a website, we also offer website tune ups and website re-designs. Website not performing? We can fix it!
An unprofessional website design will not give people the best impression of your Campground, RV Park, Cabin, Recreational Facility, Hotel, Motel, or Tourism Hot Spot.
Always remember, the staff at Andrechelle.com is here for you. If there is something that you don’t see in the Campground, RV Park Website Package let us know and we will add it for you.
Now is the best time for you to get a professional website at a very affordable cost for your Campground or RV Park! Contact Andrechelle to get your project started today!
We can even come to your Campground or RV Park to work on your project “on location”.
*If your Campground or RV Park can provide a spot for our coach AND either your location is near our route, or you pay our travel expenses (gas).
Campground, RV Park Website Design | SEO for Campgrounds | Website Hosting for Campgrounds
Websites need to stay fresh! Fresh websites get more traffic, don’t appear outdated and help you better communicate with your members, clients and potential clients. We offer a website maintenance plan with the websites we sell but also maintain many websites that we did not create.
- We can provide regular updates beyond included maintenance.
- We can clean up and maintain sites that Andrechelle.com did not even create.
- We can perform website software patches and upgrades for you for software like WordPress and Joomla.
- We can resize and optimize images for your website or apply special treatments like rounded corners or watermarks.
Our maintenance is easy to use. Simply SUBMIT TICKET FOR WEBSITE UPDATES and they promptly get taken care of. Time to complete website updates is determined by the size of the update and when it was received. Updates completed in the order they are received. Express service also available.
Even clients that have a WordPress or CMS website often have us do website maintenance for them. You need to run your business so give your website update work to the experts, right? When you need your car fixed, you don’t take courses on how to fix your car – you take it to the mechanic. Andrechelle.com is your website mechanic!
Our goal is your satisfaction and we aim to meet and exceed your expectations for website maintenance so that you continue to use us whenever you need updates to your website.
For updates to your website please use the support ticket system.
SUBMIT TICKET FOR WEBSITE UPDATES.
Only submit one ticket per issue. If you submit multiple tickets for the same issue, it actually slows down the support process.