Archive for the ‘Company News’ Category

Win a Sony Pocket Reader

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Sony Pocket ReaderPart of a new Reader line from Sony, the Reader Pocket Edition™ puts a library in your hands. The diminutive device can store about 350 standard eBooks and provides up to two weeks of reading enjoyment on a single battery charge. Users can also access more than one million free public domain books from Google.

How do you win?

It’s simple really. We’ll randomly select one of our Facebook fans on Wednesday, September 2. To enter to win, become a Facebook fan.

We’ll announce the winner on our Facebook page.

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Southern Web Group Launches New Flagship Website

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Southern Web Group, an Atlanta-based provider of custom website design and Internet marketing solutions, has launched its new website. The re-branded website includes a new logo, fresh information on the firm, a revamped client gallery, and detailed studies on successful projects.

“We’re excited to refresh our own site and further showcase the work we’ve produced for clients” says Drew Barton, founder and principal of the firm. “Evolving technology gives our designers new creative opportunities, and we’re excited to share our expertise through this enhanced website presence — and through our client work.”

Though it is often associated with work for real estate companies, Southern Web Group’s 600 clients come from across the country and represent a broad array of companies and organizations that rely on a strong Internet presence. Much of the award-winning web design firm’s recent work has been for professional service firms, including attorneys, CPAs, architects and other small- and mid-sized professional offices.

“Our diverse client base allows us to become intimate with many industries, as well as with a range of non-profit groups,” Barton says. “We find that matching the aesthetic, marketing and operational goals of an organization to relevant technology is both challenging and rewarding for our team, our clients and their clients. I am especially proud that we continue to grow despite sluggish economic times.”

Southern Web Group’s new website showcases a series of success stories related to custom web development, content management systems, ecommerce, and mobile websites. Each case study demonstrates how the firm empowered the client’s website with new technologies.

“I was looking for a group that would listen to my ideas and help me create a professional yet user-friendly website to help market our firm,” says Vanessa Z. Williams, marketing director of The Finley Firm, P.C., a law firm with offices in Atlanta, Columbus, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama. “Southern Web Group created a website that was beyond my expectations. It (also) was the most enjoyable experience working with them.”

Southern Web Group Is On Twitter

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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Last weekend, we discussed the power of social media when KFC and Oprah featured a free coupon offer on Twitter. We are proud to announce Southern Web Group is now on Twitter. We welcome you to join us at http://twitter.com/southernweb.

If you’re not familiar with Twitter yet, it’s a something between a chat room and a blog. You can broadcast short messages of up to 140 characters on the Twitter website and users sign up to receive them. You also sign up to receive messages from other users, such as Southern Web Group. Find out what your favorite people and businesses are doing in just minutes through brief, concise updates.

It is free to open your own Twitter account. It only takes a few minutes to sign up and get an account name, referred to as a pogue. From Barack Obama to high school students, everyone is harnessing the power of Twitter to stay up-to-date about what’s important in their lives. Twitter is a viable marketing tool for many online businesses, as evidenced by the recent KFC/Oprah free coupon situation.

Once you have a free Twitter account, get to know the lingo. Tweets are the update messages you send out and receive. When you re-tweet, you are passing on messages from someone else on Twitter. Southern Web Group welcomes you to tweet and re-tweet our messages to anyone who needs the information.

Twitter has over 6 million users tweeting and sharing news about their lives, businesses, blogs and the world. From jokes to technical advice, users search for everything they want on Twitter. If you’re looking for an answer to a questions, simply send out a tweet and review the responses. Often you get answers more quickly than researching them yourself or searching for a real-life expert.

If you don’t want to constantly return to the Twitter web page  for updates, consider a free shortcut program such as Twitterific, TweetDeck, etc. The program runs on the edge of your computer screen or your cell phone to keep you updated in seconds.

In a competitive online marketplace, you need more than effective SEO content, a stellar web design and a linked custom blog. Use social media to connect with your clients and link with new ones. Southern Web Groups looks forward to tweeting with everyone at http://twitter.com/southernweb.

WordPress 2.7 Blog Updates

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Wordpress 2.7

A blog is essential element for online business success. As more of our clients add blogs to their websites, we are dedicated to offering the latest advancements. Southern Web Group just updated all our clients blogs to WordPress 2.7 so they have access to updated features and developments.

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform because of its flexibility and ease of use. The new WordPress 2.7 interface was developed based on user feedback regarding design and function. Almost every task in 2.7 is faster and takes fewer clicks so blogs are quickly and easily updated.

Here are a few helpful upgrades offered in the new WordPress 2.7 blogging platform:

  • new dashboard allows you to drop and drag important items to the top;

  • every screen is customizable so you can hide any elements you choose; and

  • instead of performing manual upgrades for updates they will be done automatically.

The latest advances represent the second major redesign of WordPress this year. WordPress has effectively broken free from interface bloat to offer a UI framework and interface language that will make it easier to build on WordPress in the future.

With the future in mind, WordPress will be tackling media including video, audio, improved tools for theme development and plugin, theme updates and integrated and contextual help. The face of blogging is better and more functional than ever.

Consider the future of your business and let Southern Web Group build your blog today. You and your customers will appreciate a blog for communication and news. Updates, new products and services and industry news are easily announced in a blog. With the new WordPress interface, it’s simpler than ever before to establish and maintain. Stay in touch with clients, connect with other people in your field and even become known as an expert in your business by maintaining an informative, easy-to-read WordPress blog.