Lucy Temple

What you didn’t realise about SiteBeam

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When we asked SiteBeam customers what they thought about us at the end of last year, we noticed that many people weren’t aware of certain features or functionality.

We can hardly blame you, since we’ve been improving SiteBeam like crazy this year, and the tool is now more comprehensive than ever. But we thought you’d want to know about these things in particular: Read more

What you said about us: 2011 customer surveys

Are you happy?

In December we asked our SiteBeam customers what they thought about us. Here are the unabridged results (drumroll please): Read more

Shameful spelling gaffs – My top 15.

Psycic fair cancelled due to unforseen circumstancesAs a freelance copywriter, I pride myself on being able to spot a typo at 20 yards.

This can be both a real asset and a curse. Training your mind to notice errors in spelling, grammar and so on, is a bit like opening Pandora’s Box, or taking the red pill in the film The Matrix.

Typos jump out at you from everywhere – from shop signs, menus, TV ads – until you begin to wish you could go back and take the blue pill; erase what you know just to have a quiet life.

On the plus side, I thought it might make for an amusing blog post – here are 15 of the most unbelievable I’ve come across. Read more

Does SEO kill great writing?

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For most copywriters these days, an understanding of Search Engine Optimisation is fundamental.

Content continues to be king, providing keyword rich copy for search engines to spider and index, as well as drawing visitors to your site to consume and share your information (if you do it well.)

And therein lies the problem. I often wrestle with this dilemma: am I writing for the man or the machine? The human visitor to the website or the search engine? Read more

New SiteBeam, new packages, new ways to pay

Today’s a big step in our mission to make web designers kick ass. We’ve just launched the new SiteBeam (fanfare please).

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