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How much will it cost for a website?”   Good Question.

This is one of the most common questions we get asked.
Our response is always:  “It depends on what you want the website to do for you.”
If you want a basic, attractive website, that acts like an online advertising brochure; a site that isn’t too complex but allows you to be found online and lets you present your products and services, then we have just the thing. – the SmartStart Website.  And at $550 setup and only $39 a month it’s the best investment in your business you will ever make.

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The Hinterland Times is an independant magazine dedicated to reflecting those who live, work and run business in our region. When editor, Michael Berry, contacted us regarding his website, the needs were clear. The Hinterland Times website was to be, in short, the online version of the magazine. It was too provide everything the printed version has to offer, with the additional advertisement opportunities that are made available to those accessing the Internet.

For a Magazine, the opportunities that a professional website deliver can quickly become the business’ most prominent economic aspect. It means that, via the ever-expanding web, advertisements can have their products and/or services only a short click away from each and every viewer. With millions of potential visitors, online advertising seems only a logical necessity for every business.

The rich imagery, sleek and user-friendly layout of the website offers everything the printed magazine has to extend, compiled with the advantages of the internet and its broad market opportunities. This ensures that the readers still have access to the broad array of monthly stories, as well as everything that the online avenue has to offer.

For such a detailed site that is constantly being updated, the back-end needed to be strong and easy to used. Stories and images had to be able to be uploaded with ease and the absence of complications. Therefore making stragihtforward graphic insertion on many vital features of the Times’ back-end was very important.

To be easily navigated by viewers, to provide a search facility, to be completely user-friendly and to be neatly categorised were each aspects which were to be incorporated into the site. And to have each of these aspects and facilities included in the website without it becoming cluttered and confusing was something we were able to achieve within the final product.

View site: www.hinterlandtimes.com.au

Introduction

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Fig Connect: The first thing you will need to have is a contact list for all your contacts. If Fig Creative has set your system up we will have created your first list for you, however if you need to create an additional one this video steps you through the clicks

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What “Google Analytics” integration does is to track your links, and add “Google Analytics” specific code to the links so you don’t need to add those tracking code manually.

“Google Analytics” itself must already be integrated on your website in order for the link to be tracked by Google (http://www.google.com/analytics/).

So for example you got a newsletter that have a link to your website listed here:
- http://somesite.com/aboutus.html
- http://somesite.com/contactus.html
- http://somesite.com/ourlocation.html

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If you’ve created a custom field that uses multiple checkbox values, you may find that you are unsure of what format you need to import data for this field to be properly recognized by your Email Marketer. When you have a checkbox field, use commas as separators between all true (checked) values. As an example, for a checkbox field called Test with the unique values A, B, and C, you would want to use an import file similar to the following:

Email Address, Name, Test,
“bob@example.com”,”Bob”,”A,C”,
“jim@example.com”,”Jim”,”B”,
“jane@example.com”,”Jane”,”A,B,C”

You can import  from MYOB, an Excel file , Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook and others.

Things to remember.

• You will need to create the custom fields in Fig Connect BEFORE you can import
• Fig Connect will not load duplicate email addresses.
• If you have created a custom field in Fig Connect as a mandatory field, then make sure your importing file has data in that field for all contacts.
• Each contact MUST have an email address. If one does not exist for them, then you will need to create a dummy data entry eg name1@mysite.com
• Your importing data fields will need to “Map” across to your custom fields. This will be automatic if the header on your importing file matches the custom field titles
• Your importing file must be a csv (comma separated value) file.

To create a  dropdown custom field of all countries, Fig Creative can upload  files into your iem/ folder and run the import_countries.php file from your browser.

It will create a new custom field called “Countries” with all of the countries (from the CSV file) imported.

The Email Marketer sends one email at a time. Sending multiple emails at one time, or using the CC / BCC fields cause emails to be marked as spam by email clients and should be avoided.