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“Bandwidth” – A term used by web hosting companies, and Internet Service Providers, to describe how much data (information) can pass from the server your website is hosted on to people visiting your web site. This includes the files (images, documents, programming files) that make up your website as well as any data downloaded from databases or media files ie. video, audio etc….

If you have a small basic website, bandwidth this will not be an issue.

If you have a full database eCommerce driven website, or you have, or will be, running an e-marketing campaign, you will need a lot of bandwidth to cope with incoming visitors to your web site.

If your bandwidth is too small, your website will crash. Always check your website statistics to see the website activity and how much bandwidth is being used.

After taking onboard customer feedback and suggestions we are pleased to announce the launch of our Premium Email MailBox which comes with a massive 1GB storage for just £20 per year.

If you are an existing client of ours, you can bolt on the new extended Premium MailBoxes, simply drop our support team a line and they will add this in.

If you are looking for an Email Mailbox facility, we can provide this for you and have your account and Premium Mailboxes setup and ready for sending and receiving.

We offer both POP3 and IMAP mailing faciliites.

Contact the team to place your order.

Hi everyone, you may have thought “where are they”.

Don’t worry we are still here.

We have been busy working behind the scenes on improving services, support and improving our shared web hosting servers for you in preventing hackers getting in to your website.
We have also been busy in updating our now, large portfiolio of work, on our Facebook Business Page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Leicester-United-Kingdom/Michael-Associates/24316882614

We have been busy the past few months working on:

• an interactive virtual 360 degree tours of our business premises;
• e-newsletter campaigns for clients;
• winter promotion of our digital publication service;
• bespoke database driven website for the public sector;
• enhanced SSL certificate work on our servers for extended trusted online secure transaction;
• and working with our local picture framer to provide CD and DVD presentation plaques for awards or as a present.

Become a fan and keep up to date with our latest work and developments on your Facebook Page, if you have one.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Leicester-United-Kingdom/Michael-Associates/24316882614

We have been working with a successful landlord that owns two public houses in Warwickshire to deliver their new websites showcasing their offerings.

The brief was to firstly make the the website look friendly and attractive to families and businesses; to show most of their menus and to allow the landlord and manager to update the website according to what they require.
The website caters for all the above and is also search engine optimisation ready and most importantly, content management ready. This will allow the website to be kept updated by the owner allowing  fresh content for new events during the year such as valentines, easter, summer holidays etc…

Another task besides design and developing the website was to manage the web hosting and domain name which we have taken on board on our managed dedicated servers with 99.9% SLA uptime.

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As Leicesters’ award winning integrated digital communications agency, we are pleased to be a “Recommended Supplier” on ‘Recommended Agency Register’ (RAR), the UKs only client audited, design agency directory.

The Recommended status is given in secret by clients, scoring us from a set of questions and from commented feedback. This is then checked and validated by the RAR team who then make the decision to issue the recommended status.

We would like to thank all the clients who have submitted their personal private feedback in helping us to achieve this coveted UK wide status. We value your comments no matter how big or small, as this helps us improve our continued quality service and support in your projects.
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Here are some quick facts about .info domain name extension :

• Launched in 2003 (a)
• No restrictions on who can register and use it
• 5.2 million .info domain names registered to date (b)
• 5% of global generic (gTLD) market (c)
• 37% of all .info were registered in Europe (51% North America)
• 74 percent of .INFO registrations are actively used
• 4th largest generic top level domain (gTLD) behind .com, .net & .org

Secure your domain name before your competitor gets it. Contact the team on hello@michaelassociates.co.uk to place your order. Read the rest of this entry »

The team at Michael Associates would like to wish all our customers and visitors a Happy Chinese New Year, the year of the Ox.

To celebrate the New Year, we have created a wonderful Special Chinese Menu of Special Offers and Chefs Specials to help give your business a great start to the New Year.

Choose from a mouth watering:

• Dim Sum Design
• Flaming Flyers
• Char Siu Brochures
• Crispy Digital Publishing
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