Creative Impact will be sending representatives to the Mega Marketplace at the Cocoa Civic Center this year. It is a powerful marketing event that is really best described as speed dating for networkers. It is an intense day of networking where you personally meet with and have brief meetings with over 100 other business people from across Brevard County. It is very exciting and we can not wait for tomorrow.
Connections are the life blood of any business and networking is one of the most powerful ways to build those connections. You can not sell your service or spread your branding without making connections with other business people or potential clients.
See you at the Mega Marketplace!
Category Company News |
A powerful internet presence can get your company in front of your client in places you personally could never go. A powerful web presence can impress, surprise, sell to, inform, or even humor a potential client or patron right in their very own office or even better… living room. They are comfortable and safe. They are browsing at their own will and looking for information. Now is the time to impress them. Now is the time to sell them.
When one of your potential clients or patrons heads to the massive world that is the internet to look up your business or perhaps just look up your industry… will they find you? And if they do find you, will they be impressed? Will they find the information they are looking for? Will they take the next step and contact you or visit your office/store?
“In a world where your web presence is a gateway directly into your client’s office or living room, we help you make a powerful impact with that web presence. A Website is your businesses personal identity on the internet. Your web presence. So if you have a business, but don’t have a website, we can help you get a powerful and custom internet presence.”
This is where we step in to help. We offer our clients free consultation to see just what they need. Perhaps they need a more impacting and impressive design for their website, better content and structure, or an easier user navigation. Or perhaps they need to be ranked higher in the search engine results such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. Whatever it is, we can sit down and give them our advice.
A website today really helps to establish who you are and helps build trust. It is your online office or store location. It represents you and many times is the first impression anyone will get of you and your company.
So… does your internet presence draw your potential clients in? Does it impress them? Does it move them to act? If not… give us a call
Category Marketing Concepts |
So it appears that someone finally went out and created their own “dislike” button. After all of the petitions and begging from the Facebook community, someone decided to take it upon themselves to go ahead and create this universal “dislike” button. Code for this button can be added to any website. Check out more information in the Mashable article below.
I’m not sure why anyone in their right mind would actually go to the trouble of adding a dislike button to their website, but I am sure we will find amazingly useful applications for this new social media button!
Mashable Article
Written By:
-Joshua Adams (Technology Director at Creative Impact Web Design)
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Category Tech News |
So Facebook is currently down. Some claim the Earth is ending, others claim Facebook has become self aware and is eating the staff at Facebook… we may never know. Actually, we will probably know very soon. Stay tuned!
We at Creative Impact are preparing for the worst and beginning construction of fallout shelters.
Recent Tweets on the Subject:
rbonini RT @shanselman: “Facebook goes down and then Twitter explodes with traffic asking if Facebook is down. Earth still on axis.”
Alexa RT @BillyLinker: The world is finally ending… Facebook is down
kaligoodz is anybody else’s facebook trippn?
jetemple @Emmalene Facebook is dead.
bernardgwilson #Facebook appears to be down. Twitter it is then.
ashleyatherton why wont it let me on facebook? *cries*
psarah The SS #Facebook is down – I expect Twitter is about to produce a whole new litter of whales in the wake while people try to survive in RL.
bhavnav @raharora21 facebook was down for a while..ppls lifes stopped.. 
jess3 RT @_StarQuality: i cant belive facebook goes down i have important stuff to do!!!
bevyboo628 RT @inkyhack: RT @mariancw: Facebook down. World surprisingly not over. World possibly improved, in fact.
breakernyc Don’t freak out…but it looks like Facebook is down. Makes me wonder if Facebook shut down for good…would people go back to Myspace?
Sarah_The_Nerd Facebook = EPIC FAIL =/
AlexisAdkins how hre we supposed to communicate with out facebook?! It’s like we are living in the dark ages!! *LAUGH*
destinyawakened Dear Facebook, you are suckish today. Kindly fix yourself or die slowly and painfully.
Written By:
-Joshua Adams (Technology Director at Creative Impact Web Design)
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Category Company News |
We get done building a fantastic website for a client, complete with Flash banner, custom graphics, and some high end programming with database management… now what? We put it live. But what exactly does that mean?
Well, when we put a website on the internet, we have to put it somewhere. The images and other files have to actually be stored somewhere. That is where web hosting comes in. It is the space on a large computer ( called a server) where all of your website files are stored. This server runs many different programs and applications to keep your website running smoothly.
If your website can be likened to your house, then web hosting is like the real estate you build your house on. It’s the empty land.
Web hosting is “rented” on a monthly or yearly basis and is required for any website to be available on the internet.
“Great, so it’s just space… so then any web hosting will do then, right?!”
Unfortunately it is not that easy. Shopping for web hosting can be very difficult as many factors have to be taken into consideration… such as:
- What is the price?
- Does the server have good up-time?
- What features does it have?
- What programs is it running?
- What programming languages does it support?
- How up to date are the programs on the server?
- What kind of statistical information is available?
- Does it support email? If so, is it an extra charge?
- How reliable is the email system?
- What kind of support do I get? Is the company local?
Our hosting services are priced competitively for the quality product we provide. All of our hosting accounts receive unlimited storage space, unlimited email accounts, up to date servers and programs, 99% up-time guaranteed (our server has never gone down), supports all the major programming languages, full analytical and statistical information, and so much more! We are also a local company that is right here for our clients.
We do our very best to make having a website as easy and painless as possible for our clients, which is why we provide web hosting services. This allows our clients to have all of their web needs with just one company. This keeps everything very simple and easy to manage.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. We are here to help!
Written By:
-Joshua Adams (Technology Director at Creative Impact Web Design)
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Category Uncategorized |
That’s right! According to Google’s official page, they have changed their name to honor the city of Topeka.
Tope-wha?! Topeka was the city who renamed themselves Google in an attempt to entice Google to put their experimental ultra-high-speed broadband project, in their city. And so Google has renamed themselves as Topeka… despite all of the branding damage this will cause them!
“We didn’t reach this decision lightly; after all, we had a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name. But the more we surfed around (the former) Topeka’s municipal website, the more kinship we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great Plains.”
Read more here! Googles Blog On the Subject
Ok… ok… so it’s a big April fools, joke. But we sure thought it was funny!
Written By:
-Joshua Adams (Technology Director at Creative Impact Web Design)
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Category Tech News |
A domain name is your website’s address on the internet. Every website needs one.
example: www.creativeimpactwebdesign.com
You will note that the above example domain is the domain name for the Creative Impact Web Design website. When this domain name is typed in your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc), your browser sends a request out to find where the website (and all of its files) are being hosted. It is essentially pointing visitors to the website itself.
Every website needs to have a domain name before it can go live online.
When choosing a domain name for your website, keep in mind several things:
- What domain should you choose?
- It should suggest the nature of your business or organization.
- It should serve as a strong trademark and be catchy if possible as it will become a large part of your branding.
- It should be easily remembered. Be careful of long domain names or hard to remember acronyms.
- Remember that a long domain name means a long email address too.
- It should be easy to spell and you should avoid double letters such as “creativeexam.com”. Notice how the double “e” can be hard to read?
- It should pass the phone test. This being, can you easily and successfully convey to someone, via the phone, the address?
- It may not contain special characters save for the hyphen (-)
- I recommend avoiding hyphens as it is hard for a potential visitor to remember them.
- What about “.com”, “.net”, or “.org”?
- I recommend obtaining the “.com” for your domain name as it is generally more easily remembered and is generally the first one users will try.
- If your website is a non-profit organization a “.org” name is acceptable and in many cases expected.
- “.net” is acceptable, however not as desired as the “.com”. It is usually a good compromise if you can not get the “.com”.
- The risk of using other TLD’s (Top Level Domains) besides “.com” is always that the user may actually try to type “.com” and get a competitor.
All of this being said, you will also need to choose a company to purchase your domain name with. There are plenty of companies out there such as Network Solutions, however we also provide domain name registration services and will take care of all of the behind-the-scenes work and issues as well as ensuring the name is renewed so it never expires unexpectedly on you.
Domain names are typically priced per year and the pricing is always better if you purchase more years in advance.
Contact Creative Impact Web Design for more details on our domain name services!
Written By:
-Joshua Adams (Technology Director at Creative Impact Web Design)
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Category Uncategorized |
So American Idol fans will now have another way to vote for their favorites! Another example of how social media and Facebook in particular is allowing interaction between brands and their customer-base.
Read the article on Mashable!
http://mashable.com/2010/03/29/idol-fanatic/
Category Tech News |
On February 1st SWT Web Design became known as Creative Impact Web Design and is now operating as a division of Creative Techniques. We are offering all of the services and quality of the old company plus many new features and an improved turn around time. I am proud to be working with my new business partner, Anna Trenary.
Creative Impact Web Design and Creative Techniques are now sister companies that work closely together. Since Creative Techniques is all about printing, promotional items, shirts, and other physical marketing; it is a perfect fit for Creative Impact Web Design which is all about web marketing.
Companies wishing to get all of their marketing and branding done uniformly now have a single one stop destination.
Written By:
-Joshua Adams (Technology Director at Creative Impact Web Design)
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Category Company News |
Welcome to the new Creative Blog!
I am Joshua Adams, Technology Director of Creative Impact Web Design. Along with my business partner Anna Trenary, who is the Creative Director of the company, we strive to provide superior services in not only the web design world, but in every area of marketing.
Creative Impact Web Design specializes in custom web design, e-commerce, and web application development. Our sister company, Creative Techniques specializes in print, promo items, and marketing. This strategic partnering of two powerful marketing companies allows us to provide exceptional results to our clients.
Watch for plenty of information to come discussing web design, marketing, company news, technology news, and so much more.
Written By:
-Joshua Adams (Technology Director at Creative Impact Web Design)
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Category Company News |
Creative Impact will be sending representatives to the Mega Marketplace at the Cocoa Civic Center this year. It is a powerful marketing event that is really best described as speed dating for networkers. It is an intense day of networking where you personally meet with and have brief meetings with over 100 other business people from across Brevard County. It is very exciting and we can not wait for tomorrow.
