Brisbane Business

Getting your business online

Getting your business online

Maxlink Media Services and Brisbane City Life have been helping businesses and organisations of all sizes make effective use of the Internet since 1995. In these pages, we offer some of the information that answers the questions we hear most often. 

• Internet Access - how you get connected so you can browse the web, send and receive email 
• Web hosting - where your web site and email boxes sit on the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 
• Domain names - your independent web site and email addresses 
• Web Design - a few tips on choosing your web designer or developer 
• Publicising your web site - you need to be active to get people to your web site 
• The KISS principle - the golden rule of online and offline communication 
• Single page web sites - big isn't always better 

More products and services to help your online business

• Site Build It is an all-in-one site-building, site-hosting, and site-marketing product that makes it easy for you to build a professional, popular, and profitable business. This software provides the marketing as well as the technical knowledge needed to build a website that sells.
    
• FREE Trial Email Marketing Constant Contact, Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing helps small and mid-sized businesses and associations develop an ongoing relationship with customers and site visitors. Constant Contact makes it easy and affordable for you to build and manage permission email lists, create and send eye-catching HTML email newsletters, announcements and promotions, and track email campaign results. The new Anti-spam laws effective from April 2004 make it essential that you maintain control over commercial email sent out by, or on behalf of, your business.
   
• Get Expert Tips and Tricks for Promoting Your Business Online 
   
• NetMechanic: Power Tools for Your Web Site includes a free test of up to 5 webpages for 
  • Link Check - find dead links
  • HTML Check - spot HTML errors
  • Browser Compatibility Check - find unsupported HTML tags
  • Load Time Check - find slow pages
  • Spell Check - catch spelling errors
     
• Word Tracker It's all very well being in the top 10 of the search engines if you search for what you know is on your website - but are you using the same search terms that your customers use? Word Tracker provides a service to help you target the keywords people actually use. They offer a free trial.