A guide to pushing your website content to readers

by Colman Carpenter | Dec 7, 2010 | Email, Marketing, News, SEO, Websites

You can have the best website content in the world for your particular area of expertise, but if you don’t tell people about it then it will sit in splendid isolation, unread and unloved. But how to get it out there? Here’s my guide to letting people know...

4 must-haves to get your site noticed

by Colman Carpenter | Nov 24, 2010 | News, SEO, Websites

A good friend of mine set up business a few months ago in a local village. The business is in the medical arena, and he trained part-time for 5 years to get to the point where he could pass his exams and start trading officially. So far his business seems to be doing...

IE6 RIP

by Colman Carpenter | Feb 3, 2010 | Google, Microsoft, News, Websites

If you know anything about web design, then you will know that one of the major bugbears of any web designer is coping with the multitude of browsers that proliferate on t’internet. There are 4 or 5 major players, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla...

Google wants to know everything about you

by Colman Carpenter | Dec 6, 2009 | Google, News, Open Source, Websites

Yesterday, Google announced a new service, somewhat out of the blue. I’m referring, of course, to Google Public DNS, which for the majority of the world’s computer users will undoubtedly be met with overwhelming indifference. And yet, this is a pretty...

Give your website an easy traffic boost

by Colman Carpenter | Nov 30, 2009 | Social Software, Websites

It’s not all about your website Here at Four Lakes we recognise that a website is a means to an end. For virtually all businesses, the ultimate goal is to have enough customers to meet income targets, and a website is a mechanism for attracting new customer and...

What is SAAS?

by Colman Carpenter | Jul 22, 2009 | Links, News, Social Software, Websites

The ever-useful wikipedia defines SAAS thus: a model of software deployment whereby a provider licenses an application to customers for use as a service on demand Another way of looking at it is: software that is used via the internet rather than a local server One of...