How to Write Like a Print Newspaper Journalist Online: 10 Tips

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As online blogging becomes a more popular method of transmitting information, many writers are beginning to search for ways to improve their writing style. As a result, many bloggers are looking to newspaper journalists for some helpful tips. After all, they write for a living and are often faced with limited word space and pinched [...]

Improving the Creative Design Process

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wireframe

I wanted to share with you all my recent experience dealing with design briefs and taking into account specific advice from some of the fantastic designers I’m currently working with. The goal of this blog post is to help you make your design process more streamline and if your a client, to help you keep [...]

The Importance of Website Copy: Q&A with Jenny Catton

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Copy Writing

This is an interview with local Harrogate based, freelance copywriter Jenny Catton of Call Me Copy. Jenny, it’s very nice to have you on the Smartdog blog as a guest today, thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. For those who don’t know myself and Jenny used to work together at a previous agency [...]

Mobile Websites 5 Tools to Help you Create One Cheaply

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Mobile is the future

When I was presenting at North East Expo 2010 earlier this week, a couple of people asked me how easy it was to get a mobile version of their website developed. There are many good web designers and companies out there who can build your existing website code to be adaptable for mobile deceives. In fact, I was [...]

Presentation Slides from North East Expo 2010

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I had a really enjoyable day yesterday speaking to the attendees of North East Expo 2010 (minus the technical issues), it was great to see so many businesses interested and actively getting involved in social media. Thank you to the following people Thank you to both Andrew Charlton of BACK Consulting who was helping to look [...]

Why Auto-following on Twitter is Bad?

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Why Auto-following is bad

There are  various tools out there that help you find Twitter accounts automatically which are likely to follow you back, you should avoid them and be careful to use only professional tools. We like to think of ourselves as teachers here at Smartdog HQ, educating companies about online marketing and after all we provide online marketing [...]

How to get the Best from your Website Designer

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Designers are cool

Every designer needs clear instructions from a client to what they are specifically asking for, unfortunately not everyone knows how to get the best from working with a talented website designer and a lot of clients need help communicating their instructions across more clearly. You wouldn’t tell a builder to put your front door on the roof of the [...]

Wine Website Design Inspiration #4

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Wine Websites

We’re back and with some more juicy, beautiful & gorgeous looking wine websites. Illiya you ask, what is your obsession with wine websites, well as I explained in my earlier post 10 MORE  Examples of Beautiful Wine Websites, a client of mine once asked me to research and supply some examples of wine websites for a winery website they were thinking [...]