Here’s your chance…unlimited apps, long bat­tery life, ebooks, itunes etc…but what about the phone call qual­ity and sup­port from your IT Depart­ment  or is that too a thing of the past?  Click here for more information.

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A web­site is a great tool to mar­ket your com­pany, but some­times they get out of date. Items such as phone num­bers, addresses and con­tact infor­ma­tion can eas­ily be out of date. Even worse, infor­ma­tion such as spe­cial events still appear­ing long after the date makes your site (and your com­pany) look very unprofessional.

Vtech Direct can help with every aspect of get­ting your exist­ing web­site up to date. It could can be sim­ple con­tent changes, small design changes or a com­plete rebuild. We can also assist with new domain name reg­is­tra­tions, host­ing, email newslet­ters and of course our imple­men­ta­tion of a con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem, which will allow you to take com­plete con­trol of your site.

To find out more, con­tact us to see how we can help.

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Another great rea­son to be happy you upgraded your Win­dows Oper­at­ing Sys­tem.  Win­dows 7 users were not affected by the buggy anti-virus update pushed out by McAfee early Wednes­day.  Click here if you have McAfee and Win­dows XP to read more and get your anti-virus fix.  Call or email VTech Direct if you need help with this.

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If you have a small busi­ness or the biz bug because of your entre­pre­neur­ial spirit, you’ve already done the math and real­ized in today’s fast-paced, information-driven soci­ety, your cus­tomers, ven­dors, part­ners and can­di­dates increas­ingly expect you to have a Web site, and you are at a sig­nif­i­cant com­pet­i­tive dis­ad­van­tage if you don’t!

If you do have a web page — and there are more than a mil­lion of them on the Web today — then your web­site needs to achieve max­i­mum effec­tive­ness and gen­er­ate max­i­mum ROI. Your web­site needs to address many dif­fer­ent but com­ple­men­tary issues that span dis­ci­plines such as site design and aes­thet­ics, usabil­ity, con­tent, func­tion­al­ity and search­a­bil­ity. There are a lot of pieces involved in cre­at­ing an effec­tive web site, that’s where the Web­site Designer comes into play.

The Web­site Designer helps you to deter­mine the page lay­out, graph­ics, text loca­tion and col­ors of your site, as well as the nav­i­ga­tion and how pages will cross-link to one another. A Web­site Designer is the project man­ager for your site design after all; design­ing a web­site takes a wee bit of rocket sci­ence mixed in with some artis­tic magic and cre­ative vision. Your Web­site designer will under­stand your audi­ence to ensure that your vis­i­tors can get what they want quickly and easily.

Once your design con­cept is com­plete your Web­site Designer will take the design and cre­ate the code to make the site run. Your designer is also respon­si­ble for all the tech­ni­cal stuff that hap­pens behind-the-scenes to make sure the site works prop­erly for your visitors.

Of course your project doesn’t end here, you’ll still need to mar­ket your web­site and in a sea of web­sites online, you need to be found. This is where your Web­site Designer will work on your sites Search Engine Opti­miza­tion. Increas­ingly, peo­ple rely on search engines to find infor­ma­tion, so good search engine place­ment can make or break your site. Organic SEO will get your site included in search engines and will dic­tate your search result rank­ings based on site fac­tors. How­ever, search engines change their rank­ing algo­rithms reg­u­larly, requir­ing you to ana­lyze your traf­fic and usage pat­terns and con­stantly eval­u­ate and tweak your website.

Put your website’s design in the hands of experts. Whether you are look­ing for a redesign of your exist­ing site or a cus­tom design for a new web¬site, our design and devel­op­ment experts are ready to help you with your web­site design and aes­thet­ics, usabil­ity, con­tent, func­tion­al­ity and search-ability.

Con­tact us for a free quote today!

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The truth is being involved in social media takes time, some­thing that most peo­ple don’t have a lot of. In the past few weeks I have heard from sev­eral cus­tomers, friends and even my den­tal hygien­ist that they just don’t have time for social net­work­ing. So how can reg­u­lar folk get involved with social media? How much time does it really take and how can you fit get­ting involved with social media into your day-to-day rou­tine? Read more…

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Is it a full time job keep­ing up with your social net­work­ing con­tact data­bases? Microsoft and Linked In have just released a beta ver­sion to make your life a lit­tle sim­pler. Check out this arti­cle and with just two sim­ple down­load and instal­la­tions, you’ll be able to con­nect your Out­look and Linked in con­tacts with just a cou­ple of clicks.

Now if some of the other social net­work­ing sites such as Face­book, Twit­ter and Buzz would join in we would all have more time to work!

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