http://www.marstoninnovation.com Centralized and Managed Web Services in Web Design, Hosting & Marketing for the Non-technical Small Business and Independent Professional Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:04:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just finished with another client web site, www.designsbygabby.com, this one focusing on e-commerce transactions, customer management and sales. It is a complete e-commerce solution and backend CMS system to sell hand-made jewelry from Designs by Gabby. A purple color scheme to made the companies colors and features such as ... http://www.marstoninnovation.com/2006/another-new-design-designs-by-gabby/ A new client project being finished is www.specializedautismservices.com. A website to showcase the excellent and professional services of Kelly Redden. To highlight her specialized autism teachings, services and expert knowledge. The goal was to provide a clean, simple yet colorful and fun web design. If you have an ... http://www.marstoninnovation.com/2006/latest-design-specialized-autism-services/ If you're a business or sell/promote products and services online then E-mail marketing serves as a very valuable tool to utilize for marketing. With your products or services, getting new customers is an absolute must, but your current client base or the prospects looking to become customers can be ... http://www.marstoninnovation.com/2006/what-e-mail-marketing-can-do-for-you/ I'm going to be talking about logo design for small businesses and independent professional and my review on a service I've used for logo creation. Branding and marketing is without saying one of the biggest factors in marketing and exposure today. You need a logo that people will recognize and ... http://www.marstoninnovation.com/2006/small-business-logo-design-creation/ Currently I'm working on a new service. This will be aimed at the smaller volume websites and businesses that need to showcase their services/products via a website on a budget. Those that don't need a completely customized website but something nice and that will work for what they ... http://www.marstoninnovation.com/2006/new-website-template-services/ As a sign of growth within the internet, NetRatings stated that search across the 3 major search engines: Google, Yahoo! and MSN rose 55% in the last year! "The growth of search and the role of search in usage of the Internet has been astounding," said Ken Cassar, senior ... http://www.marstoninnovation.com/2006/search-increases-55-over-the-last-year/ "Fifty-five percent of small-business owners plan for strong sales leading up to February 14, and 71 percent anticipate healthy online sales. Businesses are implementing online sales and marketing plans to ensure success." If your small business can capitolize, try to see how you can take advantage of this data. Feel ... http://www.marstoninnovation.com/2006/valentines-boost-online-commerce/ "Online product offerings require solid visual design to close the deal for many shoppers according to a report released by interactive marketing solutions firm Questus. Critical to making a decision to purchase goods on a Web site are site navigation (37 percent); the checkout process (32 percent); and product descriptions (38 ... http://www.marstoninnovation.com/2006/visual-design-biggest-factor-for-online-shoppers-2/ Maintenance has been finished with regard to the last post. The software has been updated and minimal downtime was incurred. http://www.marstoninnovation.com/2005/meaintenance-finished-software-upgrades/ Marston Innovation maintenance notification [Planned]: Date: 12/19/2005 - 12/23/2005 Start time: 03:00 GMT Estimated end time: 13:00 GMT Services/Equipment: All servers Type of work: Software upgrades Purpose of work: Apache recompile, PHP upgrade & MySQL upgrade Impact of work: See below: In order to maintain the best possible hosting environment, we will be performing scheduled maintenance during the ... http://www.marstoninnovation.com/2005/scheduled-maintenance-apache-php-mysql-upgrade/