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Top 10 Biggest Website Mistakes Stopping You From Winning Business
Every day here at Seven Creative, people show us their sites that were built by other companies and ask us things like “why doesn’t my website appear in Google” or “Why do I hardly ever get any calls from my website” so we thought we should produce a quick check-list to help you evaluate your website and hopefully spot…
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Google Doodle Celebrates Thomas Chippendale’s 295th Birthday
Here at Seven Creative web agency and Sheffield SEO company, we’re big fans of the Google doodles. You’ll often hear a little yelp and the words ‘Google doodle!’ from behind a computer whenever we come across one. Today, we are treated to a Google doodle commemorating Thomas Chippendale, the English 18th Century cabinet maker and…
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Earth Day 2013 celebrated in Google doodle
Google celebrated Earth Day 2013 with a very special, interactive Google doodle this morning. The doodle features the cycle of the seasons and sees the sun and moon rise and set over the image. Users can create wind, make it rain and see animals emerge with the click of their mouse. This fantastic animation marks Earth Day, celebrated…
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5 things you must do to have a successful website!
A successful website helps the right person understand your business and take the next step. It does not need every fashionable feature, but it does need to work for its audience. 1. Make it usable on a small screen Check the navigation, text, buttons and forms on a phone as well as a desktop. Try…
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SEO and Social Media workshop success for Seven Creative!
Thursday 7th February marked an important date in the Seven Creative calendar. We held our very first search engine optimisation and social media workshops at The Workstation in Sheffield! It was a pleasure to help lots of new people and some familiar faces get to grips with Search Engine Optimisation and Social Media. With a…
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Icon Business Solutions discuss the role of management in business
Here is the latest article from Tano Rebora, our guest business writer. Management in all business and organisational activities is defined in dictionaries as the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planning, organising, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organisation (a…
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Google Doodle commemorates the Zamboni ice machine
The frosty spell of weather we’ve experienced recently, coupled with the 112th birthday of Frank Zamboni, have inspired the latest google doodle. The interactive doodle features an ice cleaning machine, invented by Frank Zamboni in 1949. Frank Zamboni invented the world’s first self-propelled ice-resurfacing machine. Trademarked in his name, the machine is known as a “Zamboni”. This…
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Domain owners watch out for this new scam
A customer of ours received this email and asked us what it was. From: <scam-company> Admin Department [mailto:admin@<scam-company>.co.uk] Sent: 19 December 2012 02:42 To: INFO Subject: Pending Transfer-IN <your-domain-name.co.uk> Dear Mr <your-name>, Please note that your domain <your-domain-name.co.uk> is not yet transferred to <scam-company>. Transferring of a domain name is a simple process. Kindly contact…
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Updating your password in Outlook 2010 tutorial
It is very simple to update your email collection (POP3) password in Outlook 2010 by following the steps below: Open Outlook Click on the ‘File’ option at the top of the page you’ll now have an option for ‘account settings’ – click here click on the account you’d like to change then select ‘change’ from…
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Outlook – certificate security warning
If Outlook warns that a server certificate cannot be verified, do not solve the warning by turning encryption off or accepting an unknown certificate. The warning deserves investigation. Record the problem Note the exact message, the account affected and whether sending or receiving fails. Do not publish your login details. Check that you are on…
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Updating your email password and security settings on Outlook 2007
Here is a short tutorial on how to update your email password and change the connection to the SSL security type. Note: this tutorial relates to email collection (POP3 or IMAP) not email sending (SMTP) and email collection connection security only. Updating the email collection security type to SSL Step 1 – open Outlook and select…
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Build your business with a blog
A business blog is useful when it helps customers make a decision. It gives you room to answer questions, explain a service and share genuine work in more detail than a short sales page allows. Publishing for the sake of having something new is a poor starting point. Start with real questions Keep a list…