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Email Mrs Jackaroo. She's a lovely lovely Welsh lady (strange I know) who's got her own web design business. She rarely comes on here now but you can get her through her profile. She'll probably be happy to give you some advice, tell her I sent you, she can abuse me later if she wants. :lol:

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Thanks. I'll drop her a line. :cool:

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Now that is just freaky! I NEVER come on here anymore and for some reason something drew me to this thread today - thats beyond weird!!

Abuse you... me?!! As if! haha

Of course... more than happy to help if I can - I've just read all the thread - definitely get a .com.au domain for Australia - helps with both search engine results and retaining your visitors (as they know for sure its an aussie website... very important over here!)

I run the web design business, have a reseller hosting account (and so register domains etc), and also teach web design... if I can help at all just shout! :)

And whats so strange about a welsh lady being lovely young lady?!! haha

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Just realised that it sounds like I'm trying to sell my wares (that being domain name registration etc!! haha)... that wasn't my angle at all sorry - was just saying that thats what I do on a daily basis and so I've got some experience in it if you need any advice :)

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That's why I came in :rolleyes:

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You only came on here to make me look dumb! :sneaky::lol: Btw your link to your business doesn't work. Presumably it's an old link.

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Yup it was an old link ... Just fixed it up thanks :)

Sorry Bix... My wares are all old and haggered these days... Wouldn't get much for them!! Haha

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Thank you for that link. Some useful info! My little e-commerce store has been 'open' for almost four weeks now, and I have been blown away with how well it has gone so far! I was hoping for two or three sales per week to start with, but I am doing that per day! Still tweaking the design of the website, adding products and trying to get my head around Adwords and SEO, but so far so good!

It is here if you want a look!

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Well done.
That's excellent.
Very easy on the eye.

I find a lot of websites, not just shopping, overclutter their pages which detract from the objective.

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is it gambling or porn?

sign me up!

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Wothout wanting to hijacl paulry's thread, I', looking for a company to host my company's website, it's nowt fancy, just text and a few graphics, no online purchasing etc. Which web hosting companies would those in the know recommend? . . . it's a .com.au business.

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For what you're looking for IPowerWeb is very good. I've been with them for several years now with my personal web site and they've always been very good - not badly priced either. A feature that I like is being able to live chat with them for answers to questions, configuration issues, etc. I'm not sure if they're quite good enough for my "loads of bells and whistles" business idea though. Busy setting up the company structure, IP, etc right now but identifying a suitable host is on my todo list.

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Thanks for that paulry, I'll look into them. :thumbup:

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Hi, thanks. :) I've managed to get most of the answers that I need for now and also busy caught up on a ton of other things. Busy busy here ...and I haven't even got a job yet :blink:

Having been raised in Wales I can confirm that there's nothing wrong with the Welsh :cool: It's those people from Milton Keynes that we've gotta watch out for :sneaky:;)

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What's wrong with Ozzie? :sneaky: