There is only one employee that can work 24/7, assist unlimited customers at one time, not take sick days, arrive late or cost you a weekly wage.

It’s your website! Your website has the potential to be the most valuable employee at your business.

When planning your website the website team at Design House, we ask what you aim to achieve with your website.

A good way to think of your website is how you can replicate systems and commonly performed tasks at your office.

Programming can be used to build small applications that can save you hundreds and thousands of staff hours, freeing your staff up to do more important things.

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Design House is pleased to anounce that after submitting an application and partaking in the interview process we have been confirmed as a Finalist for:

The Micro-Business Award (for businesses with five or fewer employees):

• Graphic design and print company, Design House Fraser Coast, Hervey Bay;
• Online lingerie and fashion company, HOTTIE.COM.AU, Hamilton;
• Parenting products provider, mumentum, Chermside; and
• Tourism business, River City Cruises, Cleveland.

2008 Media Releases: telstrabusinessawards.telstra.com

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by Ben May

Most of us have more than one computer, and it becomes a pain when want to use your emails on more than one computer. Emails start going here, but not there, and appointments are on this computer, but not the other one. You may be off site with your laptop and need to look up a contact you know you have on your work computer, so you now need to either drive back to the office, or ring up and ask for someone to get it for you - either way, it becomes time consuming.

Recently Apple computer has launched the successful iPhone into the Australian market, with a huge bang. Many people have gone out and purchased one, as it surpasses any other mobile phone with the amount of cool features it has. one of the iPhone’s features, is that it synchronises with Apples new service called MobileMe.

MobileMe is a great new system that you install on as many Apple or PC computers you have, and it keeps all your contacts and calendars the same. It also does this with your iPhone over the phone network, but even without owning an iPhone, it can be very useful.

For only a couple of hundred dollars, the MobileMe system, is really a great sollution for those who want to keep their Outlook contacts and Calendar at work, the same on their other computers or laptops around the office, or even at home.

It also gives you a really nice website you can login to and access all the data, so even if you’re at an internet cafe without your computer and need to look up someones phone number, you can do that!

If you’re in need of a small system like this, give us a call. We can make sure your email is in Sync, and assist with setting up your MobileMe account.

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