November 2005

Dear clients and friends,

Even in Andalucia, formally renowed for its slow relaxed pace of life, time flies. As it's been a while since our last newsletter we would firstly, and most importantly, like to extend a warm welcome to new clients and salutations to our existing clients.

Andalucia Web Solutions has been busy actively keeping pace with the dynamic on-line world the internet has created. We have also been busy developing something outside of the world of web, namely our new office. Sneak image preview here and more on the move in our next newsletter.

And now to an update and some news items for your interest ...

Staff changes

Over the last six months there have been a number of changes with the team at Andalucia Web Solutions. Alex Wares, Sharon Murray and Bradley Tosso have recently left the Company to travel in Latin America, return home or continue studies. We all wish them the best of luck and will miss them in the team.

By way of introduction, for those of you who have not yet met the new members of staff please join me in welcoming Mike Cartwright as our newly appointed General Manager, Giorgio Maulini and Claire Griffin in Sales and Tom Ralph and William Eaton in Operations. Each brings with them years of experience, fresh ideas and vitality.

New Property Software

Andalucia Web Solutions are pleased to be able to offer clients a new concept in property software. Aimed at small and medium sized organizations, the software is a database system that requires no installations and can offer the following:

• Easy upload of as many media files per property as necessary
• Automatically generates PDF files with latest information and photos of property
• Easy administration from anywhere in the world
• Custom generated homepage with photos
• ... and many other features.

To find out more please feel free to contact either giorgio@andaluciaws.com or claire@andaluciaws.com

Useful website of the month ...

For checking the validity of a European VAT number (including IVA numbers) check it here ...

http://europa.eu.int/comm/taxation_customs/vies/en/vieshome.htm

Tip of the month ....

Want to improve your search engine ranking? Take a tip from Carlo, our in-house search engine guru.

Key points to remember when writing website content are:

• Speak your customers language clearly, document what is valuable to them to fulfil their specific requirements.
• Specify and outline the benefits of working with you. Provide detailed advantages.
• Use specifics, don't "blind them with science" and try to avoid confusing "marketing fluff".
• If possible, use real life testimonials.
• Remember, in this constantly changing search engine world, Content is King and it's the King who keeps the search engines happy!