NoteWay Notes Newsletter #3
Welcome to our next edition of NoteWay Notes, the official newsletter from NoteWay Media. This edition includes tips for what to avoid when building a website, along with new features that are available on your NoteWay website.
Please read on and enjoy!
The NoteWay Team
www.noteway.com
In This Issue
- New Contact Form Available For Contact Page
- Featured Article: Things To Avoid On Your Website
- Tell-A-Friend About NoteWay and Get a Month of Free Service
New Contact Form Available For Contact Page
NoteWay has added the ability to include a contact form on your contact page. Now visitors can simply enter their name and comments into a form on your website and have that information automatically emailed to you. This is in addition to any text that you want to include on the contact page.
Adding the contact form is very simple. Simply login to your NoteWay control panel and select the Website Pages option. From the list of website pages, select Contact and then "Edit text on this page". At the bottom of the text box, check the option to "Enable contact form". To disable the contact form, simply uncheck this box.
Any comments sent by visitors from the form will be emailed to the primary email address on file. This can be changed by going to Main Menu, selecting Account Details, and then "Update primary contact". Future versions of the contact form will allow you to specify a separate email address for your contact form.
After doing the above steps, the new contact form will automatically be available on the Contact page of your website. To keep things simple, it already includes the basic name, email address, and comments fields so you don’t have to configure these yourself.
NoteWay is pleased to include this new contact feature as part of your NoteWay service. We hope it provides another convenient way for fans to stay in touch with you.
Featured Article: Things To Avoid On Your Website
When building your website, you want to make sure that it is user-friendly and allows your visitors to find the information they are looking for with minimal fuss and bother. It’s important to be aware of the fact that not everyone visiting your site may have the latest hardware and software. A feature you think would be “cool” for your site may actually be unusable for someone on a dial-up connection, for example, and could potentially cause them to leave your site. Here are some guidelines for things to avoid on your website.
Flashy intros
You’ve probably come across sites that display a big flashy intro or splash-screen that you have to click through before you can get to the actual content on the site. There are several problems with these kinds of intros. First, they often take a long time to load, and if your visitors are using a slow dial-up connection (many Internet users still do), they may get impatient and leave your site before they even get to the content. Even if they’re on a fast connection, visitors may become annoyed at having to click through the intro each time they visit your site. Imagine if Amazon forced you to watch a splash screen with a huge version of their logo every time you wanted to buy something from them! You would probably choose to do your online shopping elsewhere.
Graphics
A common mistake I see on many websites is the use of large graphics or too many graphics on a page. Graphics take much longer to load than text, and some sites that are too graphics-heavy are all but unusable on a dial-up connection. Make sure that you keep the file sizes of your graphics small, and only use a small number of graphics on each page.
Tell-A-Friend About NoteWay and Get A Free Month of Service
NoteWay is proud to announce the launch of our Tell-A-Friend referral program. This is our way of thanking our existing customers for helping to spread the word about NoteWay.
The Tell-A-Friend referral program allows our customers to get a free month of service for every friend they refer to us. Each NoteWay customer will receive a free month of service for each friend that signs up for a NoteWay website and maintains their account for at least 30 days.
If you’re an existing NoteWay customer, we’ve made it easy to get started. NoteWay customers can refer friends directly from the NoteWay control panel and track the status of these referrals. Simply follow the link below to log into the control panel and then follow the link at the top that says “Start referring friends now!”. This will take you to a form where you can quickly send out invitations to your friends via email.