We stumbled across this video about “thinking outside the box” and it made us chuckle. Thanks to Joseph Pelling for posting it up and brightening our day.
outside the box from joseph Pelling on Vimeo.
Remember guys, what you do with your clever little site is up to you and we’re working on including the huge wings, lasers and comfortable chairs!
Today we (that is myself, Ally and Alex) have been wasting our time writing haikus, and we’ve come up with some tech support haikus we’d like to share.
On hitting the panic button:
Haiku tech support:
If computer has frozen,
Press reset button
On Windows errors:
A mouse click creates
big bad error messages.
Haiku support plea.
On saving your life:
You have deleted
everything you just wrote.
Ctrl-Z may help.
On essay deadlines:
My printer won’t print,
I am bereft of toner.
Please print this for me.
On the best browser in the world (hur hur):
Nothing is working.
Oh, Internet Explorer,
You big pile of ****.
On where the blame really lies:
If you have Vista,
And your computer runs slow,
It’s your stupid fault.
If you’ve got any you’d like to share with the class, leave a comment!
Something crossed my mind as I was driving through St Albans today. I was sat behind a trader’s van at a roundabout, reading the stuff on the back of it. It had the guy’s name, what he did, and a phone number. Which would be an effective piece of advertising if it weren’t now a crime to pick up your mobile phone while driving.
Now here’s a quick test:
Have a look at that for a moment, then drive down to the shops, pick up some pop tarts and almonds, maybe drop in at your Mum’s house (Mums love it when you drop in) and then head home for a nice sit down.
Now, can you still remember that phone number?
Probably not, right? That’s because, at the end of the day, it’s just a bunch of numbers, and most people find long numbers pretty hard to remember. You tend to have to dress up like it’s the 70s and run around shouting if you really want people to remember.
Too much like hard work (unless you’re these guys, I guess).
Can you tell where this is going?
Domain names are easy to remember, guys! If you’ve got a website, put your website address on your van! If you don’t have a website, get a clever little site and then put your website address on your van!
Then people can get home, go to your website, have a good look at what you do and how well you do it, and then feel really confident about phoning you up for a quote, using the phone number you’ve also listed on your site. By the way, Clever Little Site makes it really quick to put your phone number on every single page of your website, all at once.
And remember, the more memorable the address is, the more likely people are to remember it – there’s no need to be boring about it. Why not try something like help-my-roof-is-leaking.co.uk (for a roofer) or lets-get-plastered.co.uk (for a plasterer).
Without putting a website address on your van, you’re missing out on a great advertising opportunity, and pretty much throwing away potential business. And if your website address makes someone laugh, they may even tell a friend about it!
August’s site of the month: www.comfortzonesalon.co.uk
This month’s ‘site of the month award’ goes to Beccy O’Conner for her business site, The Comfort Zone. She has used her own bold logo as well as lots of images to create a very attractive looking site. By formatting her text in a clear and easy to read way, Beccy’s ‘treatments’ page is a great example of how to display a vast quality of information without compromising the look and style of your website.
See it at www.comfortzonesalon.co.uk
I just want to post up a little reminder about our clever little forum. Everyone who has their own clever little site also has access to the exclusive forum as part of the package.
So what can you do on this forum?
So yeah. Get clever and check it out, guys.
Start taking advantage of your clever little forum membership
A cheap website? Time to get clever
Four steps to being clever
An inexpensive or cheap website should not mean a poor website. Buying your clever little site for ony £99 is really easy. You could be up and running in no time at all!
Please note:
We are not responsible for any outbursts of joy and / or general merriment upon completion and usage of any clever little site.
Four simple steps to get your clever little site
Enter your email
We will use this to send your login details for your website and email control panel.
Choose a website address
This is where your clever little site can be found online. (ie. www.yourwebsiteaddress.co.uk)
Account creation
Enter your information to set up your clever little site account.
Payment by card or cheque
If you can’t pay online by card, you can send us a cheque and we will activate your account.
A cheap website varies from provider to provider, time to get clever and checkout what is on offer with a clever little site.
Don't build a website, get clever
Build a website? Don’t waste your time, just get clever
If you are considering whether or not to build a website, why not have a look at everything that you can do with a clever little site. We have set this up so that those who require an online presence can see that there is now a viable alternative to taking time out to build a website.
Free online demonstration
You can even try our free online demonstration by clicking here. This demonstration will show you how easy using a clever little site is.
From now on, as well as being able to create extra pages, embed videos and get detailed information about your visitors, you can now even sell products and services through your clever little site.
We’re doing this through Google Checkout, which is another one of Google’s great new services. A whole bunch of online sellers have already chosen Google Checkout over various other e-commerce providers such as PayPal due to Google’s straightforward, simple approach, great support and up-to-date information.
Sounds brilliant, so how do I use it?
Choose your options...
Followed by this:
... and generate your Google Checkout code
If you save your changes and click “View Changes” to view your site normally, you’ll see the new buttons appear on your page, ready to be used.
Your Google Checkout placeholder...
... and it's equivalent button on your site
Okay, cool. So what can I do now?
Well, here’s a few ideas: You could create an online art gallery and sell one-off items you’ve created, like paintings or sculptures. Or, you could utilise all those extra pages and create a full blown online e-commerce shop. You could even use your website as an online box office and sell event tickets through it.
The possibilities are endless!
If you were a doctor, you might not appreciate someone telling you that you’re going to get multiple pages – that entails a lot of running around and performing amazing feats of medical heroism… which bascially all sounds like rather hard work.
Talking of hard work, here’s something that got absolutely nothing to do with hard work. In fact it’s all pretty easy-going stuff.
*Fanfare*
You can now easily add extra pages to your clever little site, name them whatever you want to, and hide them again if you feel like it. All these additional pages are free as well – you don’t have to pay any extra for them at all.
How To Manage Your Pages
It’s dead simple. On your clever little site’s Dashboard page, find the drawer named “Manage Pages”, and click the “Manage Pages” button in there…
Open up your Manage Pages drawer on your Dashboard, then click the button...
… and then you’ll see something like this:
... and you'll see your clever little page manager
There’s some simple instructions at the top to give you a few pointers when adding, naming, and hiding your pages.
It’s all really easy though – you don’t need to spend 4 years in medical school for this kind of heroism.