About Alchemweb
- I live in Sheffield, England, UK (a little island off the coast of France).
- You can contact me here
- I own and run Alchemweb, an internet marketing company that covers the basics of design, copywriting, advertising, marketing, search engine optimisation, customer profiles, usability testing etc. etc. Alchemweb specialises in all things Wordpress.
- I have ambitions for my business and that means I need to know a bit about everything. Think of me as a good-quality general builder who it's very useful to know
'Sounds good to me, I'm a big corporation ...'
- Bye bye!
- Very large companies are a pain in the rear because of back-stabbing, butt-protection, scapegoating and office politics, not to mention that you never get paid on time. And of course Alchemweb is just a tiny company starting out and doesn't really have the resources to cope with massive companies ...
'Okay, I was lying, I'm actually a small company with 1 to 50 employees ...'
- Perfect! Let's talk! Phone me now on 0114-2431460 and we'll get going!
'Tell me more about yourself'
- I'm married with two horrible children, struggle with writing fiction and enjoy ice-skating.
- I have a lot of experience of personal websites and am fascinated by internet marketing.
- In my early 40's I wanted a change in life and decided to turn my hobby into a business
- What am I good at? Oh ... I specialise in WordPress (blog software), love figuring out business strategies and business models and want to learn about Social Network Analysis ... but if you REALLY want to know what I'm good at ... it's analysing problems, figuring out how to make things work and then getting on with it.
- You can ring me on 0114-2431460 but if you're inflexible, if you're not THAT interested in your own business, if you want to listen but not learn (eugh ...) then it would be better if we didn't meet.
Alchemweb can help YOU create a brilliant web site and communicate with the world!
Telephone 0114-2431460 or
e-mail me NOW to find out more !
It has taken me thousands of hours of learning to create this business, and I couldn't have done it on my own. There are many, many sources of information that I have used.
In particular I owe a great debt to the following sites:
SEO Book - still great
Copyblogger - copywriting with pizzaz
Search Engine Land - industrial strength insight
Shoemoney - flair
Frank Schilling - thank you!
High Rankings forums - traditional
Cre8asite forums - warm
I'm also grateful to Dagon Design for the free contact form script
Anybody who's into web design will sooner or later need FONTS.
Ultimate Font Download has over 10,000 fonts for a very small amount of money. The licence agreement is here. I've emailed the guy and read around and it seems perfectly legit.
Digital Graphics has a few free fonts for commercial use. The licence agreement is included in the single downloaded zip. (Warning - frames, which is why I can't link directly to the download page.)
Larabie Fonts has a lot of nice fonts that you can download individually. The licence agreement is on the front page (and also in the download).
KingThings has some lovely fonts available free for commercial use. I've emailed Kevin and he confirms that they're free.
Manfred Klein has some fantastic fonts available for commercial use (you're requested to make a donation to a charity). The licence agreement is here and from this licence agreement is a link to the fonts.
Getty and Corbis are two corporations that send webmasters threatening letters demanding ridiculous amounts of money for alleged image copyright infringment.
You can see how to react to the Corbis and Getty problem in this Corbis and Getty letter summary. And here's a further description of Corbis, Getty and PicScout.
The hired legal hounds are Baker and McKenzie.
The debt collection agency are Moreton Smith. Note that there is no debt until a case has gone to court.
A pro forma letter for UK residents to send to the hired hounds or to Getty / Corbis can be found here
A Canadian legal view can be read part way down the bottom of this page.
Here's a lame article in The Guardian newspaper that drifts through some low-level investigative journalism about Corbis and Getty. Corbis and Getty supply the media with images - look for their byline next to photographs.
Another website dealing with these clowns is extortionletterinfo.com, run by a US attorney. The forum for that site is here
Yeugh.
Thanks to fsb.org.uk (the Federation of Small Businesses) for having a little bit of courage.
And thanks for your forum help, BeeDee - if you live in Scotland you might need Glasgow Web Design
On a more positive note you might find the following interesting or useful:
Imapix - gorgeous photos (at least the older ones, without the text) that provide me with beautiful desktop backgrounds.
Wallpaper Changer for randomly selecting those backgrounds.
CSS Play - an inspiring Genius (especially in relation to CSS menus)
AdvancedArtist.Com - first class Corel Draw and Corel Paint Tutorials, well worth the price.
I use Treepad Enterprise for writing and to run my fledgling business - it's brilliant!
Copyright Alchemweb 2008 - 2010, all rights reserved worldwide. Alchemweb is a U.K. Internet Marketing Company for small businesses and individuals based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire and is a trading name of Alchemweb Ltd.(company no. 7125340) based at 322 Ferrars Road, Tinsley, Sheffield S9 1WR Tel: 0114 2431460
