Email Marketing

How to create a Welcome tab on your businesses Facebook page

Posted by on November 12, 2010 at 10:23 am

I have been asked this a lot recently. “How do we make the facebook page look nicer?”. Facebook is very limited for styling as they want to make sure your styling does not take away from facebooks images to much. So when a client showed me the facebook page for beauty flash which showed a [...]

Christmas eCards for your customers

Posted by on November 11, 2010 at 9:33 pm

The folks at Heart internet have kindly given us and our customers Christmas eCards to use. If you host with Zone1 Creative then will be on a Heart Internet Shared or Dedicated server. Message packs include: “Merry Christmas”, “Seasons Greetings” and a blank card option so you add your own personal message. You can download, [...]

Credit Card Icons

Posted by on October 20, 2010 at 10:57 am

Louis Harboe, a talented icon and interface designer, is sharing a set of 35 credit card icons in his blog Graphicpeel. Icons include all major credit card providers like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, etc. with multiple versions and also there are items for PayPal, Google Checkout or Amazon too. They are sized 32*32px and come [...]

Use video to explain how to do something

Posted by on March 19, 2010 at 1:10 pm

As a developer/Tester I need to explain how I have fixed something or why something has broken. Usually this involves writing complicated emails with step by step instructions on how to replicate the issue. I came across screen toaster which make it much easier to create video tutorials of what is happening  on your screen. [...]

We have a new sign

Posted by on February 9, 2010 at 11:02 am

We have a new sign at zone1 HQs so clients will no longer need to walk into the printers below when looking for us.

Creating HTML emails that work

Posted by on January 18, 2010 at 10:10 pm

If you’ve ever sent an email campaign, you know that if your CSS is not coded inline, it is likely to get stripped out by email clients, which can make your email design pretty funky looking. Writing CSS inline can be time consuming, and repetitive. MailChimp has a CSS inline conversion tool built right in [...]