<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699913998841315529</id><updated>2011-12-27T05:05:35.055-08:00</updated><title type='text'>IT Support Australia</title><subtitle type='html'>Technology news and personal thoughts on it along with shameless self promotion. Read on..</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8699913998841315529/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Chris Pentago</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05259626397448752734</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lkQ69yaYdo0/S3qVIYvquLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Z4JG_j7P808/S220/anface.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699913998841315529.post-5898504099117465417</id><published>2011-12-27T00:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-27T00:38:20.008-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Low Cost Webdesign for Australian Small Businesses</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;Small business can enjoy many benefits from an online presence. More than 95 percent of all customers now turn to online searches, even for local products and services. Those companies that leverage this opportunity achieve substantial benefits in sales, customer loyalty, and simplified ordering procedures. Businesses without a website cannot be found by searchers, and a competitor will get the business instead. Many Australian companies have been slow to adopt an online marketing strategy and are losing many potential customers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e9Z2XaSAUmY/TvmDbBlafbI/AAAAAAAAABc/H5lSNARfRkA/s1600/slide4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e9Z2XaSAUmY/TvmDbBlafbI/AAAAAAAAABc/H5lSNARfRkA/s400/slide4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A professional reputation can be critical for many organizations. Some companies have spent many years nurturing their image, yet these businesses have failed to adapt to the new marketing paradigm represented by an Internet presence. Websites for Melbourne companies indicate a high degree of professionalism, and customers expect to find their favourite vendors when they search online. Websites work for business 24 hours a day. Customers can always access information about a company’s products and services. Many customers complete their shopping online from the convenience of their homes. An online presence allows companies to sell products to multiple clients at any time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process of ordering is simplified. Customers can use shopping carts to load products and review their decision before completing the purchase. In some cases, the goal of an online site is to get the viewer to request further information. Good &lt;b&gt;web design&lt;/b&gt; can assist viewers to achieve the desired outcome, helping them navigate easily and informing them about the company and its products and services. This procedure moves customers along each step of the process to maximise buying decisions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An effective designer can provide a new online business with many services for &lt;a href="http://www.lowcostwebdesign.com.au/" target="_blank"&gt;web design Melbourne&lt;/a&gt;. Customers must be able to find a site from generic or local searches, and website design plays an integral role in how search engines locate and rank a given business. Search engine optimisation is an essential tool for online marketing, and the best websites link through other online resources such as blogs, social media, and articles written on subjects that link to the site. This strategy is very cost-effective when compared with traditional advertising venues such as print advertising, radio, or television spots. A well-designed site will provide essential information to customers and allow companies a high level of client interaction, which can help a business refine its marketing strategy for greater results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wAEiiyIfbPs/TvmDxs0dfBI/AAAAAAAAABo/4_TAuEgBtaU/s1600/google-analytics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="280" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wAEiiyIfbPs/TvmDxs0dfBI/AAAAAAAAABo/4_TAuEgBtaU/s320/google-analytics.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Free analysis tools, such as Google Analytics, enable a small business to conduct market research that rivals what large corporations routinely utilize. Companies can learn client preferences and adjust their services and products accordingly. Feedback can be analysed for different time periods, indicating what effect any changes may have on sales. Customer complaints can often be turned into sales leads for an aggressive sales staff, and site activity can be monitored from mobile devices at home or while travelling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Website design services provide comprehensive assistance for establishing an online presence quickly and realizing the extraordinary benefits available through Internet marketing. Service includes registering a domain name, hosting and design, and search engine optimisation (SEO) strategies. Effective SEO helps companies rank highly on results pages from major search engines, which leads to increased viewers and greater sales. Clients for website design can choose from static sites or a Content Management System. A static site is one that does not have many content updates, and these are cheaper to construct. If content needs to be updated regularly, the businesses should choose a Content Management System for greater flexibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8699913998841315529-5898504099117465417?l=it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com/feeds/5898504099117465417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com/2011/12/low-cost-webdesign-for-australian-small.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8699913998841315529/posts/default/5898504099117465417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8699913998841315529/posts/default/5898504099117465417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com/2011/12/low-cost-webdesign-for-australian-small.html' title='Low Cost Webdesign for Australian Small Businesses'/><author><name>Chris Pentago</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05259626397448752734</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lkQ69yaYdo0/S3qVIYvquLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Z4JG_j7P808/S220/anface.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e9Z2XaSAUmY/TvmDbBlafbI/AAAAAAAAABc/H5lSNARfRkA/s72-c/slide4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699913998841315529.post-3689686692494256057</id><published>2011-11-23T05:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T05:17:18.353-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Using Cloud Storage Services</title><content type='html'>One of the widely popular storage alternative solutions these days are &lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/cloud-storage/"&gt;cloud storage&lt;/a&gt; services that businesses often invest on and avail with a monthly subscription. If you're a small business owner or a highly addicted computer user with tons of data to store for future use, then this type of service can definitely benefit you in a huge way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;External hard drives, USB, and compact discs are now a thing of the past as cloud computing services have arrived. Let's face it, these hardware solutions that have targeted the main issue of storage database insufficiency isn't as effective as an online or software-based solution. For starters, hardware solutions that address the problem of storage insufficiency have the risk of getting lost or easily broken when dropped or from wear. Moreover, some branded and high-value hard drives may cost a fortune to avail with still limited storage space. Even for a small business, you may need two to three pieces of this device to be able to comply with your data storage needs. Another issue with these storage alternatives is its lack of accessibility. Sure it can save data from computer to computer or from laptop to laptop when inside the house or from a cafe that has WiFi or internet connection, but sadly, you aren't able to do this when you're in the train, the park, the marketplace, or at a plane ride heading to your vacation destination. And for a busy business owner or an office employee, you should be able to gain access to your important data whenever and wherever you need it. Something that hardware storage solutions have not been able to provide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how do cloud storage systems work? And what exactly is &lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/"&gt;cloud computing&lt;/a&gt;? To put in a simpler and more comprehensible term, the service provides computing with the use of third party offsite databases that are managed by their company. Rather than saving your data from a hard drive and then plugging in the hard drive whenever you need to access the data, this smart software-based storage solution enables you to store the data from the computer to virtual servers or database. Basically, the internet is what connects you from the storage utility and not long cables from a hard drive. What's great about the service is that you are given the freedom to access your data as long as you have an internet connection with you. This being said, you can easily access and edit it with the use of a smartphone or a tablet that you carry with you anywhere you go.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8699913998841315529-3689686692494256057?l=it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com/feeds/3689686692494256057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com/2011/11/using-cloud-storage-services.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8699913998841315529/posts/default/3689686692494256057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8699913998841315529/posts/default/3689686692494256057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com/2011/11/using-cloud-storage-services.html' title='Using Cloud Storage Services'/><author><name>Chris Pentago</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05259626397448752734</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lkQ69yaYdo0/S3qVIYvquLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Z4JG_j7P808/S220/anface.png'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699913998841315529.post-89639109966651724</id><published>2010-02-19T06:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T05:56:26.924-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Enjoy The Benefits Of A Home Cinema</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-chCqpG1La8U/Tqql1T0ThyI/AAAAAAAAABE/z23-Bvn4EAk/s1600/home_theatre1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-chCqpG1La8U/Tqql1T0ThyI/AAAAAAAAABE/z23-Bvn4EAk/s320/home_theatre1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My family and I love to get together and watch movies. There’s nothing better than kicking back, relaxing, and having a great time. I thoroughly enjoy hanging out and having fun while watching it. There are many great benefits to having a home cinema, and I really enjoy sharing these benefits with my family and friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first benefit of having a home theater is that we can watch movies on our own at our own convince. We don’t have to check the local listings to find out when the new movie is released and stay up late to go and see it. We can wait until the video is released, purchase it for a lesser price, and see it all at once. It’s very convenient to have the movie in our own home and avoid the stress of the movie theater. Seeing a movie in the theater is fun for sure, but we don't have to compete with screaming children and staying up late simply to access a movie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second benefit that we have is the cost. The cost is much more affordable than I think going to the movies is. When I go with my brother and his best friend to the movie, it can get quite expensive for all three of us. For half the price of us going to the movie and watching it once, I can buy and own the movie and see it as many times as I want too. I can also take a break and use the restroom without worrying about missing the best part of the movie, which is wonderful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also like the ability to rest, relax, and rewind. I love just kicking back and having fun while watching a movie. I find children screaming, giggling, or otherwise displaying inappropriate behavior in a movie theater very distracting. That's one of the reasons why I love my &lt;b&gt;home cinema Melbourne&lt;/b&gt; so much. All I have to do is slide in the DVD or other disc, put it in, and enjoy. It's much more relaxing than having someone constantly thump the back of my chair when I'm at the movie theater and annoy me because they have a need to consistently move.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My friends also enjoy the benefits of having a home cinema in my house. It makes us being able to get together so much easier. We can watch football on the movie theater in my living room and spread out, enjoying the fact that we're able to rest and relax in peace. We don’t just watch movies and hit releases, we’ll watch pretty much anything. It has enabled us to spend more time together and hang out, and enjoy the benefits of simply being friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the best benefit of having a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.homeitande.com.au/"&gt;home cinema Melbourne&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is that I’ve saved as much money as I have spent on it. My friends and I hang out at my house a lot more, and we don't go out to the movie theaters quite as often. It hasn’t really cost me anything extra, because as I’ve stated, I’ve saved that money by not spending it on other events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would certainly recommend that anyone who likes watching movies and television purchase a home cinema. I know that my friends and I have enjoyed the benefits of ours.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8699913998841315529-89639109966651724?l=it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com/feeds/89639109966651724/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com/2010/02/internet-security-in-todays-world.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8699913998841315529/posts/default/89639109966651724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8699913998841315529/posts/default/89639109966651724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://it-support-melbourne.blogspot.com/2010/02/internet-security-in-todays-world.html' title='Enjoy The Benefits Of A Home Cinema'/><author><name>Chris Pentago</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05259626397448752734</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lkQ69yaYdo0/S3qVIYvquLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Z4JG_j7P808/S220/anface.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-chCqpG1La8U/Tqql1T0ThyI/AAAAAAAAABE/z23-Bvn4EAk/s72-c/home_theatre1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
