Posts Tagged ‘google’

Idebaik + Google

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

These last weeks, we have noticed that the number of calls and emails we have been receiving at the office has increased – new clients get in touch everyday! If the fact that we recently won two big pitchings (Sunsilk and PALYJA among them) could play a role in it, we finally realized that this is partly due to a better positioning of our address on Google.

A really good surprise, not one due to coincidence, though. We actually did something about two months ago – we tried out some new tools to maximize our presence on Search Engines – for our own company website but also for our clients.

So then, for searches using keywords “web design”, “web design jakarta”, “website jakarta” – keywords commonly used by potential clients to look for a web agency – we’re always on the first page!

Fancy E-mail Signatures

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

@ Idebaik, we use Google Apps mail for a long time already. It’s simple, fast, and very easy to maintain, especially when you compare it to third-party softwares, such as RoundCube or Horde, for example. And, as long as you need less than 50 email accounts, free!

But Google Apps mail got a small weakness : it’s impossibility to handle HTML signatures. For people who want a simple signature (name – email – phone), that’s alright. But when you want to make your signature attractive (using colors and/or images), Google just do not support this feature – yet -. And for us, signature is something important. In a few lines a signature must not only contain the basic information about yourself and your company, but also a bit more than that.

That’s why we had to find a way to implement these HTML signatures in our messages. Then we found WiseStamp. WiseStamp is a Firefox extension allowing to… that’s it, embed HTML signature automatically to your Google Mail messages.

With a bit of HTML knowlegde, you can be able to create very good-looking signatures. Below are two examples of signatures generated with WiseStamp (each employee of idebaik got his own color). Easy to read and containing all the essential information about each employee and our company (Facebook + Twitter included), these signatures are there to show that an e-mail signature is not only a way to say who you are, but also to express the image of your company to your recipients.

Wisestamp is available for Firefox, Flock, Chrome, Thunderbird and Safari (beta). Click here to visit WiseStamp website.