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Understanding websites

Understanding websites

There’s no magic to setting up a great looking website. You don’t need to pay someone else to do it for you. You can easily set up your own website in a few hours. A little planning and a little knowledge go a long way. This article looks at what elements you need for your [...]

Planning your website

Planning your website

Everyone needs a website these days. Whether that’s a blog, or a business home page. Having a page of Facebook, and a twitter account are both great things to engage with your friends, customers and community. But ultimately you need a place to call your own. A website with your own domain name, where you control the shots.

Brellabee goes Freemium

Brellabee goes Freemium

Brellabee has moved to the Fremium model, so you can keep your website online for free, or upgrade to a low monthly subscription to get premium features. We’re calling the subscription levels: Free Bee –  get your web site or blog online for free, (ad supported) Worker Bee – Map your domain name, remove ads, [...]

10 tips for better copy

10 tips for better copy

The content of your website can have several purposes.You may be selling products, or writing a blog post. Regardless of the intent, there are some basic rules that you can follow when writing for the web. Below are few tricks, that I have learnt, followed by some suggestions of professional copywriters that you can follow on Twitter to learn more.

SEO: snakeoil or savior?

SEO: snakeoil or savior?

Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, for short is the technique of making your website appear attractive to web search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. There’s lots of SEO experts on the web, and they all offer to solve your problems in a trice…for a fee. But…

Brellabee is launched

I’m pleased to announce that Brellabee is officially launched. This doesn’t mean that development has stopped. Far from it. From here on in, I’m committed to continuously improving the Brellabee service. Upcoming additions include be the ability for each Brellabee site to host their own forums. This will allow businesses to provide customer support right [...]

Getting ready for launch

Brellabee.com is nearly ready to launch. We’re just cleaning up a few design and feature issues. Then we’re going to optimize the server infrastructure. Then we’ll launch. What’s the launch date, I hear you think? Well. We are aiming for the first week of August 2011. We can’t wait. And we’ll keep you posted.