Design House designed and developed the logo and website with the client to establish a professional and modern brand. The solicitors now have a sharp new form of advertising which allows potential clients to research their business, services and to make direct contact.
You can view their website and services by clicking here; lmlaw.com.au
This Year I travelled to Sydney for the largest annual ICT show in Australia, known as CeBit.
Now, what is CeBit you might say? Well I wasn’t all that sure either when I signed up, I knew it was IT based and really, that’s all I needed to justify a work trip. CeBit is primarily a trade show for CEOs, CTOs, IT managers and the like to come along and discover what is out there and how they can go back home and optimise to stay at the fore front of the technology arena .
CeBit accommodated for members of the IT industry, from those just starting out to the CTO (Cheif Technology Officers). There were small talks on things like how to utilise the power of Plesk or cPanel and how to maintain a Joomla website plus expert researchers explained what the new Government is trying to do with Broadband and what they need to do.
Apart from these free talks happening everywhere there were also conferences in a lot of web based industries, Web 2.0 in Small business, e-Marketing, SEO and things like DSL discussions plus hearing from Federal members on what they are doing with ICT in Australia.
There was so much new technology out there it was fascinating to learn of some of the products that are in the market and how some can help the smaller business streamline their IT and save money. VOIP seemed to be one of the strongest presences in the expo, along with Wireless transmitters and web hosting.
Speaking of hosting I was fortunate enough to meet the Design House dedicated server & domain name provider, AussieHQ Pty Ltd. I met and socialised with the CEO of the company, my account rep and other techs.
On Saturday Night I attended the Forget Me Not Orphanage Fundraising Ball at Kingfisher Bay Resort on Fraser Island. Design House Fraser Coast donated numerous hours design time to develop artwork including; event posters, tickets, invites and paper ads for the ball. What a sensational night; the atmosphere was electric, the food was delicious, the swing band was going off and the donations were enormous (40K+)! Fraser Coast Regional Council Mayor, Mr Mick Kruger and State MP for Burnett, Mr Rob Messenger were among the many illustrious guests.
Naomi Wood, Mick Kruger and Jeanette Maynes, photographed at the ball.
Congratulations to Rob Garland and Lynda for taking out the best dressed couple award at the ball from our “Jail House Rock” table.
“The Ball last Saturday, May 17th, altogether raised over $40,000 for the Forget Me Not Children’s Home! Enormous appreciation to all who attended and the many businesses and sponsors who contributed in a variety of ways. Huge thanks also to Deb Haigh who worked incredible hours for months as the Ball co-ordinator and to her hard-working planning group.”
There were a few tears in the crowd for what was a moving fundraiser for the orphanage; helping with the provision of shelter, education and most importantly, love to orphans in Nepal.
I’m positive every year will be even more successful with the can do team behind this event and orphanage!
I found this quite amusing, and as a Design Firm, we relate to this every day.
Everyone wants their website, logo and business card to look how they see it in their mind / head and as graphic and website designers - we decipher and transform those thoughts into powerful visual designs concepts.
You probably know that a website is one of the most cost effective and useful advertising tools a business can have. It’s something that is open 24/7 and lasts all year - unlike basically any other medium plus it can have as little or as much information as you want on it…. pretty much unlimited.
Once you have your website - how do people view it? There is definitely a market of people who are searching for the services or products online and would find your site if it is optimised for search engines or discovered through online ads such as Google Adsense. But there is most likely an even larger amount of people who still trawl through traditional mediums, such as the newspaper, billboards, flyer’s, radio and TV.
If you have a website, and employ additional marketing mediums for your business, you should always advertise your website. What you can’t say or do on your tv, radio or paper ad, you can more likely do on your website. You can sell your products in more detail, track visitors, complete online sales and more. If you have invested in a website you should definitely be taking your visitors through to it!
Your website has additional powers that no other marketing medium has…. you know who has actually looked at your site, in accuracy. You can also track how many people have visited your website from watching TV or reading the Newspaper, or hearing your ad on the radio. Your website can help you partition your marketing budget into what is working the best for you.
At Design House, we can help you use your website to its greatest advantage. We know all the tips and tricks of the trade, that can help you market your business more effectively.
I received a phone call from a client recently who had signed up for their website and was about to go somewhere else for some other print media, like business cards.
A lot of people don’t know that Design House can design and print everything you need! From business cards, letter heads, flyer’s, stubbie coolers, right up to car / shop signage and newspaper ads. We don’t only just create outstanding websites, we also design print and promotional media keeping the clients branding and theme the same throughout all mediums.
Last Friday Ben and I attended the 3rdHervey Bay Business Network luncheon with keynote speaker Karni Liddell, who is a successful and respected Paralympics swimmer. Born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (a muscle wasting disability which affects all body muscles including internal), Karni has defied Doctors and the odds to have not only lived to the age of 29 but to have successfully embarked on an international sporting career.
I found Karni to be a very well spoken, inspirational and articulated young woman. Her will power, strength and life defining moments she kindly informed us off were truly inspirational and motivational. Her courage, competitiveness and drive, I felt was partly instilled by her parents at an early age as they were great role models (her father being a sporting hero also) plus their implementation of a continuous exercise program from the age of 3 has been phenomenal is Karni achieving such remarkable goals.
Karni holds every Australian record in her contested swimming events.
“Achieving things in life people say can’t be done is one of the greatest pleasures in life. Never say never!” Karni Liddell
What a fantastic luncheon and enlightening / motivational presentation and slide show.
Karni is pictured here with; L-R: Rob Garland from Jobsmart, Jeanette Maynes from Design House, Ted Sorensen Mayor of Hervey Bay, David De Bruin from Quantaslink and Scott Rowe Editor of the Independent.
There is no secret - we use one of the best hosting companies in Australia, Aussie HQ. I’ve personally been a user from before 2003 when I started some of my first websites.
Where your website is hosted is one of the most important things that can determine the effectiveness of your online presence.
As the old saying goes, “You get what you pay for”, and with your website hosting, ain’t that the truth. I tell my clients on many occasions that we are not the cheapest hosting provider. You get what you pay for. If you go to a budget hosting company and pay $60 a year - then you wont get the same service as someone paying $229 for premium website and email hosting. At Design House we invest every year in a dedicated server that delivers the quality and performance we want to sell to our clients.
Investing in a cheaper hosting provider will get you a slow website, that can go down and not work for periods of time. This normally happens because the hosting company puts so many websites on the one server it crashes, which can be a terrible experience for anyone!
You can read what was printed in the Feb. edition of NetGuide Magazine.
Whenever there is a problem there is always someone there to help resolve my issue! Never have I had service this great! All the staff are polite, friendly, and willing to help at any opportunity. I choose AussieHQ for their reliable hardware, and impressive features. I can sleep at night, trusting AussieHQ to host my valuable clients websites, and email.
Do you REALLY know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT.
Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses and names. As the messages are forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every E-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That’s right, all of that inconvenience over a few cents! How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps.
Try the following if you haven’t done it before:
1.When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That’s right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second. You MUST click the ‘Forward’ button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don’t click on ‘Forward’ first, you won’t be able to edit the message at all.
2. Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC:(blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don’t see your BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that’s it, it’s that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say ‘Undisclosed Recipients in the ‘TO:’ field of the people who receive it.
3. Remove any ‘FW: in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.
4.ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it?By Forwarding from the actual page, you wish someone to view; you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to see what you sent.
5.Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is often actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition. (Actually, if you think about it, who’s supposed to send the petition in to whatever cause it supports? And don’t believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just ain’t so! Totally impossible!)
6. Don’t send emails with a blank subject line.
7. Dont forget to wipe the anti virus messages and lines at the end also..
Some of the other emails I dislike include:
1. The one that says something like, ‘Send this email to 10 people and you’ll see something great run across your screen. Or sometimes they’ll just tease you by saying ’something really cute will happen. IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (Trust me, I’m still seeing some of the same emails that I waited on 10 years ago!) I know some of the mail is cute etc.. but I usually delete the part where it says forwatd to x amount of people
2. I don’t let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get deleted. (This could be why I haven’t won the lottery…!)
3. Before you forward a ‘Virus Alert’, or some of the other emails floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail that’s been circling the net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out a Snopes. Just go to www.snopes.com. It’s really easy to find out if it’s real or not. If it’s not, please don’t pass it on.
Why do I need to have a total co-ordinated look, for my logo, business cards, website, shop signage etc? A. This forms an essential part of your branding strategy. The main aim is to get the public familiar with your logo, colours and as much to do with your business as possible. You only get one chance to make a dynamic and lasting first impression!
At Design House we specialise in assisting you with your whole business advertising process. Why run from place to place for different print mediums and advice when you can have your marketing and advertising organised for you all under the one roof and hassle free. We have thorough product knowledge, prompt service and only use quality print suppliers; email info@designhouse.com.au for a FREE quote today, let us take your business to the next level!
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This Year I travelled to Sydney for the largest annual ICT show in Australia, known as 
dressed couple award at the ball from our “Jail House Rock” table.
