Salary: £17,000-£20,000 dependent on experience

Key Skills

• Highly organised.
• Excellent time management skills
• Excellent and confident telephone manner.
• Experience of dealing with multiple tasks/responsibilities.
• Numerate.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written).
• Copes well under pressure.
• Excellent IT skills and confidence and adaptability in using new programs and technologies.
• Excellent customer service skills.

Essential Experience

• Administrative experience.
• Experience in client facing roles.
• Customer service.

Responsibilities

• All company administration.
• Invoicing.
• Chasing debtors.
• Answering all telephone calls.
• Diary management.
• Project management.
• Client relations management.
• Basic technical support to clients.
• Attending networking breakfast/events.

Please email applications to info@access-bydesign.com with a CV and covering letter of no more than 350 words stating why you think you are suitable for the role and your current availability by 17^th April 2011.

Source article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/sep/07/google-logo-bouncy-birthday

Here are four tips to use your Twitter account effectively:

• Following other Twitter accounts that are in your target demographic will help you get an idea of what the conversation is.
• Then you need to post updates about your company, brand or product.
• As with any online medium, you want to be very careful to never spam any of your followers.
• Lastly, make sure that you follow successful online marketers, and look for other participants who are in your industry.

Follow this link to view the source article and find out more details about using Twitter for business>>>

But even such an important company with its enormous team of IT consultants and tech gurus have not produced a flawless website first time. On day 2 after launch there were issues with mobile devices not displaying pages correctly, facebook sharing buttons that weren’t there, problems adding localisation to the weather forecast, incompatibility with some software and problems with certain combinations of operating systems and browsers.

It must be said that all of these issues are being or have been addressed, but it is interesting to observe that, however many checks and layers of quality control that exist, a website is rarely perfect.

Reference article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/

All of Access – By Design’s existing clients can sit back and look smug now because their websites will all look great on the iPad! Access – By Design has been designing websites which automatically adjust to look great on all platforms for years. And for those of you with Flash animation – you needn’t worry that the iPad doesn’t support Flash because we will have provided you with an accessible alternative!

If you are thinking about how your website is going to measure up to the awesome power of the iPad, then why not contact Access – By Design and let your new website be designed by a forward-thinking company who want to ensure your website can be accessed by everyone!

For further views and information you may find the following article interesting:

The recent release of the highly anticipated iPad may just turn web design on its head. Popular technologies used on many of today’s most visited websites simply aren’t supported by the iPad. At first blush, many may think:  “so what?” After all, the iPad is really the first generation of usable tablet design.  How big of an impact can it really have?

When you consider its producer, Apple, you may just change your mind. After all, the release of the iPod single-handedly changed the way we listen to music. Website owners would be foolish not to consider the impact the iPad will have on their customer base. Some of the biggest names on the internet have already designed mirror sites that are compatible with the iPad. For those of us considering going with iPad friendly web design, there are a few ‘musts.”

One of the biggest considerations is the fact that the iPad doesn’t support Adobe Flash.  For those of us that are technologically impaired, Adobe Flash is a component used by website designers to integrate animation, video and games into websites. It is the most common element shared by websites that include animation. Obviously, websites that rely heavily on flash will not appear the same on the iPad. For this reason, web developers have had to turn to another solution.

If you are hoping to include video, animation or graphics on your site, it is imperative the site be designed using HTML5. HTML has long been the foundation for web development. Their latest version incorporates much of the elements previously only available via Adobe Flash. Luckily, websites designed with HTML5 are easily viewed on the iPad.

There are other things to keep in mind when attempting to create an iPad friendly web design:

• Orientation:  The iPad will display your site both horizontally and vertically, so it is important to keep in mind the different views your visitors may have.
• Contrast:  Because the iPad is a touch screen, it is important to build in a lot of white space and contrast to make the pad easy for visitors to use. After all, if they can’t click deeper into your site, you are never going to convert them.

Finally, while testing is an important component of any new web design, it has never been truer than when attempting an iPad friendly web design. There are already several sites out there that offer you the ability to take a ‘peek’ at how your new design will look on an iPad. First in line? www.ipadpeek.com – of course!

Online business owners would be foolish to ignore the release of the iPad. One can reasonably expect it to have as big of an impact on the way websites are designed as the iPod had on the way music is purchased. Working closely with a qualified designer will ensure that the latest industry technologies are used to create a “mirror site” that will appear flawless when viewed by an iPad user.

Source: http://www.optimum7.com/internet-marketing/web-design/ipad-friendly-web-design.html

Using our in-house, broadcast quality studio your business can commission him to write a jingle, a theme or the perfect music for your new product showreel.

Because everything is in-house – from composition, to recording, to finished media, you will be amazed at how affordable this service is for every sized business, community group, charity or even local school.

Want something really big? How about an orchestra?  Access – by Design works with L.B.W. – an international group of professionals wh0 just happen to have an orchestra to hand!

As you can see – nothing is too big or too small for music at Access – by Design. Whether you are just looking for background music for an online corporate video or you are a theatre looking for an orchestrated score  at half the normal fee for your next production we REALLY can do anything…

Call us on the studio number for more details or an informal chat…01243 514567

We have a professional, broadcast-standard, in-house studio where you can create and professionally record the spoken word (such as poetry, writings and meditations) or music (all genres) without the London prices.

With a background including writing and recording for Universal studios to the BBC, Clive Loseby will technically lead your session and mix your work to broadcast standard using the latest recording and digital media as well as tried and tested studio techniques.

Once created, we can help you distribute and/or sell your work as downloadable files. We can even make them ready for i-tunes distribution!

This service is also available for video which can be delivered online as streaming or downloadable files or even played straight from youtube to save your bandwidth!

Call us today on the studio number of 01243 514567 about your project. We are unbeatable on prices  in comparison with any other professional recording and distribution packages!

• How do we give you CONTROL?

By being innovators of what are called ‘Dynamic ‘websites. Forget HTML and tables!

• What does that mean?

We design you a great contemporary website. Then, because it is ‘Dynamic’ we can train YOU how to run it yourself with NO web design or prior technical knowledge needed and NO need for software or courses – only an internet connection.

• Why does that help my business?

Managing your website helps you beat the “credit crunch” by removing large website maintenance fees.

NO more waiting for busy designers to update your site at extra cost.

ADD new pages and images to your site as quickly as sending an email.

Jump into easy E-Commerce – fast and secure!

Link up to your Facebook page or Ebay shop and see how quickly your company grows.

• Why are we called ACCESS – by design? Isn’t all web design the same?

Sadly not all web design is GOOD design – no matter how pretty it may look. Whist looking for a way to make websites disability-friendly, we realised that accessible design helped EVERYONE. Now we are industry leaders!

Dynamic web design techniques allow our websites to work on anything:- PCs, Apple Macs, laptops, netbooks, mobile phones, iphones, Blackberrys and PDAs, all the way up to HD TVs!

• Why does it matter that my website works on all those things?

Our websites also work with all of the popular browsers because you don’t know what people will be using to look at your website. Believe us, if it doesn’t work for them, they won’t be back in the future! We work to global web standards and are top-level ‘disability friendly’ too!

• What about Google and other search engines?

We have fantastic search engine results for our clients, our unique dynamic SEO techniques mean that all of your pages are working for you round the clock to bring in traffic to your website. ALL our clients score over 80% in an international, independent SEO ranking.

• Won’t all this make my website slow?

If we hosted our websites the way most web design companies do, yes.  Your website would be slow because your website would be sharing the server with hundreds (if not thousands) of other websites.  Access – by Design is different. We invested in  our  own dedicated server, which is actually in Maidenhead, sitting right on the ‘electronic backbone ‘of the country for super-fast connection speed and response time. We only host for our clients and we don’t share with anyone! Think of it like taking a toll road –   you pay a little  to be on it but you get  the ability to go as fast as you like and you get to jump the traffic jams too.

Because we own our server, you also get a phenomenal amount of information about your site visitors’ statistics, tracking everyone who visits your website – even down to what they typed into the search engine that led them to you. Our servers are monitored  by real people, 24 hours a day and we get hourly reports  here in the Chichester office to check speed, security and status. Your website is also backed up every day, every week and every month so you have the added security that your information is in safe hands.

• Doesn’t all this mean Access – by Design sites are expensive?

We promise you will be amazed at how reasonable our quotes are and also how much you get for your money. We don’t ‘do’ hidden charges. By removing maintenance fees and ongoing costs most companies find they save hundreds of pounds a year by switching to Access – by Design.  Our hosting fee  is a little bit higher than some (think of the toll road example above) but when you see what benefit hosting on a dedicated server brings, you’ll wish you had made the change years ago.

• What about ethical buying?

We are please to say we don’t cut our costs or your quality by outsourcing our coding to Eastern Europe or Asia. We strongly advise businesses to avoid design houses who do. At Access-by Design you have your own personal designer whom you can phone, email and meet in person at our office.

We will work with you to create a contemporary, flexible website that presents you to the world wide web in your best light! Talk to us today on 01243 766399.

Access by Design – proud to do things differently!

We think these elements are top of the list as to why our websites are different to all the others out there.

• Firstly, you run your website yourself. If you can send an email you or anyone in your company can do it without any special software – just an internet connection . Why pay some who knows nothing about you and your business to run the most global department of your company?
• Becuase all you need is an intenet you can run your website from anywhere. How about the train on the way home by ‘Web  ‘n’ Walk’ on your laptop? Or perhaps you want to ad an urgent newsflash  to your website by changing your homepage using your mobile phone! If you or your staff need flexible working hours ALL of you can be updating areas of the website ALL AT THE SAME TIME, from home, from the office or even from another country.  Our websites are truely flexible and mobile.
• Our SEO rating is currenty 93% for our websites. What does that mean?  Basically, that the Search Engine Optimisation facilities that we use AS STANDARD get your website found in the page-ranking race. You simply do not need to pay out again for another company to get your website found on the internet
• Our websites are always written to web standards but also employ multiple visible and ‘behind the scenes ‘ aids that allow users with disabilities access to your information and/or service and products
• All our themes are tested by REAL people – both able bodies and disabled.  Although we use some automated testing when checking our sites meet the HIGHEST access standards, we also actually test them ALL individually.
• All our themes have also been tested on everything we can lay our hands on – from the most beaten up pc with a small  low resolution monitor to the most state-of-the-art phone with  mobile broadband and small screen rendering.  Our websites, work.
• With our websites, you don’t get great, contemporary designs – you get the design YOU want (not the one your designer thinks you should have)  AND a local team of friendly faces that will support and  guide you though training and getting your business online, no matter what your level of IT skills are. We never ‘abandon’ our clients. We are always here to help and grow the online sector of your business as fast (or as slowly) as you want to.

Any of that sound good to you? Call us today for a no obligation quote on 01243 514454