Log into YouTube using your login and password.
If you don’t have an account already go to youTube.com and click on Create Account. You can use your existing email address or a gmail account to log in. When selecting a username please make sure that it is reflective of the company and your keywords
Click on the upload button on top right
Click on Upload Video button and select the video file from your local computer
Select one or more files from your local computer and start uploading
Change the Video information (title, description, tags, category) etc and click on Save Changes to save the information
Magento Commerce Developer
We have just added a dedicated Magento Developer to the team to make changes to the code of Magento and customise Magento stores to clients requirements.
Magento Capabilities
We have been building Magento Stores for Clients since last year and have produced heaps of stores in that time. Currently we are in the process of building these Magento stores
The Facebook Like and Send Button
Facebook has recently launched the Like/Send button that replaced their old like/share button. This means that now a user can do one of two things
Publicly like the page in Facebook
By Clicking the like button, the user us publicly liking the page and letting all of his friends know that he likes the page. The result of clicking the like button means that this information is displayed on his feed (wall).
Privately send the page to Facebook friends or Facebook group
A user can also use the send feature to send the page privately to one or more friends or to a group in Facebook.
Test it out
What does it look like? and how does it work? Test it out on top of the blog post here
We have just designed and launched a new website “NepalClubâ€. NepalClub is all about information and travel tips to Nepal.
The site has been built in WordPress and allows the client to go in and make changes to all the content quickly and easily.
DzineMail Email Marketing User Guide
The DzineMail Email Marketing User Guide has now been updated with newer content. If you are currently using DzineMail to send out your emails and haven’t received the latest copy, please get in touch with your account manager to get the latest copy.
The latest updated User Guide covers the following topics
- dzineMail Interface and all the different areas
- Importing your list into dzineMail email marketing platform
- Troubleshooting Data Imports
- Setting up and sending out an email campaign
- A/B Testing the subject line of your email campaign
- A/B Testing the body of your email campaign
- A/B Testing the From name of your email campaign
- Viewing A/B Testing Reports
- Email Marketing Resources
Go to http://www.picnik.com
Click on Get started now
Click on upload a photo
Select a photo from your local computer and click open
Click on Edit tab
If you have unwanted borders etc on your image, you might want to crop the image first, to crop click on crop
and drag the circle handles until you are happy, then click on ok.
Then click on resize
Put in the dimensions that you would like and click on OK
Click on Save and Share
enter file name
use format (jpg)
use recommended compression quality
and click on Save Photo
To start off the new year, we have just launched DzineClub Resources. This is a separate Resource section for our clients where they can go and learn how to make the most out of the platform that they are using.
Since we have developed 5 WordPress websites in the last month, the first few posts on the site are about WordPress and how to use it properly. Here are some tutorials
Adding an email ink to text in WordPress
Adding images to pages in WordPress
Quick user Guide to WordPress
We will be developing this resource area in the next few months so that our current clients can leverage their solutions to get the best results possible.
Please click here or on the image to go to the resources area
WordPress or No WordPress
We are now building the CMS platform for Zuccala Homes. Initially we were going to go with WordPress but turns out that WordPress is not very suitable because it cannot handle the tables and relationships of the database properly. That said however, we are doing another project where WordPress is the perfect solution for the CMS.
Custom CMS Build for Zuccala Homes
As such we built a custom CMS fro Zuccala Homes.This allows them to upload images, upload brochures, connect house designs to their house and land packages. We have also built all the image templates in Photoshop which they can now use to build promotions etc. themselves. The image is a very draft stage of the CMS which is being finalised right now.
Cutting Costs
We are setting up the CMS in a way that allows Zuccala Homes to make changes to most parts of the website so that they can cut down on maintenance costs of the website and use that budget on marketing to drive more visitors to the websites.
Finalising the website for Zuccala Homes
We are now finalising the Zuccala Homes website. Based on user feedback and customer feedback, we have implemented a lot of changes towards the newer version of the website.
New Changes
The navigation menu has been turned black, the search boxes orange and house and the Google maps from House and land packages has been removed because it wasn’t being used.
A header image that will be the default on all the pages that don’t need flash interactivity has been used to freshen up the look and reflect on the main theme of the page.
Mobile Friendly Website
With most of the home builders websites, we realised that most of the websites were built in flash so was not accessible from the iPhone. Zuccala Homes Website has been built so that it is mobile friendly and can be accessed just as easily through an iPhone, Android or a Windows Mobile phone.
CMS running behind the Zuccala Homes website
A custom CMS that runs behind the website is being built to allow Zuccala Homes to add new homes, house and land packages and display centres themselves. Next time we will discuss how the CMS works and how it was built.
Thinking of starting an eCommerce Store or a shopping cart. Here are the things you need to consider before setting one up.
1. Stock Inventory
How are you going to manage your inventory. If you put up a product online, you will need to make sure that you have the product in stock. Also if you sell the product from its physical location, you need to make sure that you update the product inventory on your website.
2. Postage, Handling and Delivery
How are you going to deliver your product.
- Are you going to check every order, put them in envelopes and send it through the post
- Are you going to hire a courier who can run around and get your products delivered quickly
- Does your product meet the requirements to go through post/courier
- Is it a fragile item?
- How much are you going to charge for Postage and Handling?
- Are you going to offer international postage?
- Do the dimensions of the product make it an issue for Postage?
3. Photographs of products
- How are you going to get photographs of the products.
- Do the photographs of the products adequately display the product
- Do the photographs answer all the questions your potential customer has from the look of the product
- Are the photographs so well done that the actual product looks inferior compared to the photograph?
4. Sale and Promotions
- Are you going to run sales and promotions
- Does your eCommerce platform allow you to mark products down
- How will you communicate sales and promotions to your customers
5. Marketing your Online Store
- How will you market your store?
- How will you initially get customers to the online store?
- Have you got a list of email addresses of customers that you can communicate to?
- Have you got an social media strategy?
- How will your existing customers know that they can buy products online?
More to come on this later….
