Boost your sales by freshening up your offers

Are your offers and incentives looking stale and out of date? Are they the same as your competitors offerings? ‘10% off’ really isn’t attractive to anyone anymore so put some thought into new creative ideas. There are many events, holidays and celebrations so theme your offers to tie in with what’s going on so your customers can relate to it. Revisiting your offers give you the opportunity to re-communicate with customers and prospects to shout about your great new incentives.

Be creative with your photos

It costs nothing to take multiple shots with a digital camera, so experiment with different techniques. Take both horizontal and vertical shots. Zoom in and out (or reposition yourself if you don't have a zoom lens) to see if it looks better tightly framed or at a wide angle. Practice with different vantage points. If you're photographing children or animals crouch low to be on their level. Try taking photographs from an elevated position so that the camera is looking down on the subject. To get some great shots of an event such as a parade or festival visit the location in advance to check out the best place to position yourself.

SEO Tip

If you want to help the search engines to find you, remember to enter your keywords, title and description on every web page on your website and make sure that it is relevant to that page so they are all different.

How are your New Year's Resolutions?

The top resolutions in the USA are

• Drink Less Alcohol
• Eat Healthy Food
• Get a Better Education
• Get a Better Job
• Get Fit
• Lose Weight
• Manage Debt
• Manage Stress
• Quit Smoking
• Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
• Save Money
• Take a Trip
• Volunteer to Help Others

Unleash your Creativity - Using Framed Panels

This versatile, powerful object enables you to achieve many different effects for your web pages. Within the framed panel you can have text, images, graphics, videos and third party widgets. The use of this object essentially enables you to create framed layouts on your web pages without affecting the rest of the page.

Select from a variety of frame designs and customize the size and color of the frame and the background.

You can align your objects to achieve different effects. For example, add a photo and a paragraph, then align the photo to the top left - as you enlarge the image or the framed panel then the text will automatically wrap itself around the image.

Likewise, if you add a paragraph after the framed panel object and align the framed panel object to the top left, then as you enlarge the object the paragraph will automatically wrap itself around the framed panel object.

Examples of framed panels

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"The 350.com webpage templates were a great starting point in helping Cigys.co.uk create, customise and publish a fantastic looking website which we can easily modify and expand as our electronic cigarette business grows."

Colin Cowie

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New Year, New Look?

We pride ourselves on our service to our customers. Not only do we provide the best tools to enable you to create your own website but we also make our team of designers available to you when you need their input to make your website truly special or when you simply don’t have the time to create your website. It’s amazing how they can transform the 350pages range of customizable templates into something quite unique for you. Of course, the benefit of our designers creating your website using 350pages is that you own the account and can do any number of updates, whenever you wish.

Take, for example, our Origon template from which our team created this stunning, professional website – see how they created the website

www.allbreedsgrooming.co.uk

If you’re wanting a new website or a makeover for your existing website, remember that our team are on hand to help. Contact timesaver@350.com

January 2012 newsletter

See the January 2012 newsletter here.

Happy Holidays

We wish you a very Happy Christmas and enjoyable New Year celebrations.

From The Team at 350.com

How to create a Christmas Greeting or Party invite

With the seasonal banner headers and clipart in 350pages you can create a web page with your personal seasonal greeting or create a party invite and then post to Facebook, send a tweet or save it as a PDF to print out or send to friends. Your 350page is so versatile!

Have you noticed the two template families, Structure and Vegas, that enable you to change the complete banner header design across the top of the web page? Simply choose a layout in Structure or Vegas and click on the banner header to select it. Then choose an alternative style and customize the heading text in your favourite font. It's a simple and very quick two-step process that will leave you in awe at the results.

With the Christmas banner headers there are 64 unique header designs with 14 being available to free users. The template sets have at least 18 different layouts - or create your own with the free format template.

As you publish your web page you can announce it to all your friends on Facebook and Twitter. Simply check the relevant boxes as you save the page.

To create a PDF to print out or send to your friends, go to the File Manager and check the box next to your page and then select PDF button. PDF is the industry standard format for an electronic document. You can now select your paper size, margins, image compression, grey-scale and whether you want the background to be removed. Select ‘Generate PDF for your PDF that you can then save to your computer for printing or sending as an attachment in an email.

Example Christmas web page created with 350pages

This party invite was created using a blank template, adding an image to form the background, then adding a graphic heading and a paragraph of text.

See how to add backgrounds in the November newsletter