We attended web 2.0 Surgery on 20^th of February and this is just to feed back to everyone about the “Buy with confidence” scheme run by the Trading Standards.

If you would like to improve your Photoshop skills, Flash skills etc in order to produce better graphics for your website here is a list of courses on offer in the East Midlands...

If you are looking for training courses in social media, here is a list of courses on offer in the East Midlands...

Here is a list of training courses for anyone wishing to learn more about eMarketing strategies.

If you are looking for training within the area of SEO and search here are some links to course and training in the East Midlands...

This is from Jonny's blog on the Axis Centre website.

“Don’t watch the web, watch these people” 
Books, sites and blogs to watch - Part 1, Seth Godin

In life and online most people just amble about looking a bit vacant in some kind of trance, never really looking up. And in a crisis (economic, whatever) they just do the same only the move a bit faster. It’s understandable, we haven’t all got the time to contemplate the enormity, fragility and bleakness of existence, let alone where we all might be headed.

This is from Paul's blog on the Axis Centre site, but I think it is relevant for lots of web site owners.

A lot of web designers and businesses will be at one time or another concerned about putting images onto a site because of people stealing or copying them.

To stop this you can put the words copyright at the bottom of your site pages and no one will touch them! Not entirely true, it is so easy to remove or copy any image from the internet and no law or copyright wording will stop them. 

This post is taken from Bjorn's blog on the Axis Centre site, but I think it is really good and could be good for any one (re)designing their website.

Stu Nicholls created a new site specifically for various types of CSS menus and CSS drop down menus. He has decided to take all the good bits about menus from his previous CSS Play website (www.cssplay.co.uk) and created a site called CSS Menus (www.cssmenus.co.uk). 

I have just come across these quick facts about social media on Econsultancy and thought they may provide a bit of "food for thought".

• 80% of companies use, (or are planning to use), LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees during the course of this year. The site has just celebrated reaching its 45-millionth membership.

One of the benefits of being a full  level eBusiness Champion is you get to share your Google Analytics stats. In order to do this we ask that you give us view rights to your account, this is a very easy 2 min job to set up, simply follow these few steps: