Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Tips for Buying your Domain Name

You can use the 350pages domain lookup in My Account to check domain name availability and get the domain name you're looking for!

When you’re looking for a new domain name (website address or url) it’s always a good idea to put in some serious thought. After all, this is the address you’ll be marketing to your customers and prospects.

You can see our guide on this here

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Friday, August 27, 2010

5 Top Tips to write Great Website Copy

A common issue for small business owners is writing good copy for their website and marketing/sales material. If writing is something that doesn’t come naturally to you then follow these guidelines and see how effective copy can make you more sales and your competitors green with envy.

See our article on great website copy here.

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Sunday, August 1, 2010

August 2010 newsletter

See the August 2010 newsletter here.

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Friday, July 23, 2010

Short Video Help

We have updated our help pages to offer video help for a variety of topics. When you now access the help pages for the Button Bar, Floating Objects, Framed Images, Gallery, Text Editor and the Graphic Editor, a short help video will be available at the start of the text which you can watch from within the help page.

We will be adding more short help videos over the coming months for several help topics.

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

New Home Control Panel

NEW Home Control pageThe new design of the Home Control page provides easy access to all the important actions, extra services, tutorials, videos, library information and news. Hope you like it!

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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Special Summer Offer - 25% off a Domain Name

Choose from over 20 different domain extensions, for example .com .org .co.uk .in .eu .be

The cost for Free and Lite users is now only $30 / £15 / €22.50 (+ vat if applicable)

The cost for full version users is now only $22.50 / £11.25 / €17.25 (+ vat if applicable)

Simply go into your 350 account and enter the discount code of 25D60E110

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

New Releases - More Gadgets for your Website

Enhance your website with the new community and store gadgets. When editing your webpage simply select to Add an Object and choose from the growing list!

Forum
Add a Nabble Forum to your website for support, discussion and interaction with your community or customers.

Meebo
Meebo Me lets you chat with anyone who comes to your web page. Visitors show up in your buddylist so you can strike up a conversation, answer questions, or just keep tabs on guests. Publish your online status so friends can see if you're available when they visit your site.

Vimeo
Growing in popularity as an alternative to YouTube, many of you have asked that we add a widget so you can add Vimeo videos on your website.

Dailymotion
Add a Dailymotion videowall to display a group of videos on your website. You can display up to 81 videos in a videowall.
Flash and Media content

Flash and Media content
Flashwidgetz allows you to create an online music playlist. There are thousands of free mp3s and videos that you can add to your playlist.

Google Checkout
Google Checkout is a fast, secure checkout process that helps increase sales by bringing you more customers and allowing them to buy from you quickly and easily with a single login.

Amazon
Carousel - Hand-pick your favorite products or choose from several lists including Amazon Bestsellers and Hot New Releases.
Recommended Product Links - Automatically feature products based on product categories or keywords.
aStore - Display products from your aStore. Add it to various pages of your website to drive traffic to your aStore.

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Thursday, July 1, 2010

July 2010 newsletter

See the July 2010 newsletter here.

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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Bit.ly url Shortening for your Tweets

With only 140 characters for your tweets 350pages has enabled you to use bit.ly to automatically shortened the url of your website and track the links to your web pages.

To enable this go into My Account > My Settings and select Bit.ly. Enter your username and your API key (you need to obtain this from your Bit.ly account).

You can tweet or make a post to Facebook when you save your web page or you may wish to wait until you have completed your website and then announce it from within the file manager by checking the box of the page you wish to announce and then selecting Publish.

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Friday, June 4, 2010

Social Media Objects

350pages now offers a simple way to integrate social media objects into your webpages. This will broaden your website's appeal, and assist your social networking by allowing your visitors to keep up to date with your microblogging on Twitter and Facebook.

For more details on social networking see the section New Articles in the Library in this newsletter.

For the links and content to work you will need to enter your relevant Twitter/Facebook details in My Accounts > My Settings.

Twitter ButtonTwitter Button
Promote your Twitter microblog by adding a Twitter button to your website.


Twitter Feed WidgetTwitter Feed Widget
Display your Twitter updates on your website.


Facebook BadgesFacebook Badges
Share your Facebook status updates, information, photos and favourite pages on your website.


Addthis Share ButtonAddthis Share Button
Your webpage can be shared to websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Stumble upon and many more. Infact, Share anything, anywhere, and boost the traffic back to your website!

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