Adding Administrators to Your Facebook Fan Page

Facebook’s Help Center  has some easy instructions for adding administrators to your Facebook Fan Page. We will walk you through each step to make the process even easier!
To appoint other users as Page Admins, take the following steps:

1. Select the “Edit Page” option when you are viewing the Page you currently administer.

This will take you to the Control page where you can edit your settings and applications.

2. Scroll down to the list of current admins on the bottom right column and click “Add.”

3. Choose the names of any people from your Friend List that you would like to add as Admins.

If the individual you wish to invite to admin your Page is not presently a member of Facebook, simply type their email address in the “Add Admins via Email” field. They can then register for the site and will be able to accept the admin request as soon as they join Facebook.

4. Click the “Add Admins” button.

The friends you select will be able to help you manage your Page. Every Admin can manage the Page from their own Facebook account using the Page Manager application.

You can an unlimited number of administrators for your Fan Page; just be sure that everyone who helps to administrate your fan page is “on the same page”

We welcome your feedback. How many administrators do you have for your fan page? Do you find it easier to have one person in charge, or is it helpful for your business to have additional administrators?

Landau Design Supports Green Hosting

For 2010 Landau Design has committed to reducing our carbon footprint. In a company that does development work, our electrical output is a big part of our energy consumption. As a way to reduce our energy output, we are committed to utilizing a green hosting company for all our hosting needs, and we recommend green hosting to all our clients.

What is green hosting?
Companies who receive the official green hosting label have done specific things to reduce their carbon footprint. As the owner and operator of servers that are on 24/7, you can imagine the electrical energy they consume. Read How Can Website Hosting be Green? to find out how these companies do their part to help the environment.

Please join us in our commitment to help the environment. All the little steps we each take will combine together to make a big difference!

Say it in a heartbeat

One of the most evasive things to understand is what makes a good web design. If you have not created a website before, it seems easy. After all, you know what you like and you know all the details of your business.

A website begins with the homepage and the home page needs to bring a compelling marketing message in most cases. It should answer why should someone do business with you now or in the future? If a visitor can’t find this reason in the first 15 seconds, they are gone. So an effective home page should “say it in a heartbeat.”

To do this, a home page needs to have the right mix of images, white space and a few key words or ideas. Images that capture your competitive benefit remind your existing customers why they continue to use your company. They also immediately communicate what your potential customers will get “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

If visitors are interested, they will look further. A good site will be organized according to how your customers think i.e. by the problems you solve for them. To a customer, it is not really about what you do but about what they get. The ability to organize content or information architecture is not a skill that every web developer has. As you look for a developer, find one that has this skill and you will be miles ahead when your website is completed.

There are an infinite amount of style considerations that help you communicate your marketing message. Many of these will be discussed in our upcoming e-book about building sites Joomla. Stay tuned for updates.

21 Years of Using Macs

This spring is an auspicious time for me. It’s been 21 years since I used my first Mac computer. I still remember the day my friend, Michael Fukutome, dragged me from a typewriter to a Mac Plus, insisting I would learn the computer that day. I thought he was nuts. The only computer I had ever touched up until then was a DOS computer, and we all know how not-easy those are to learn! But he was right! Within hours I was using the computer without issue. I quickly became smitten with this wonderful new invention!

I got my first job because I knew how to use a Mac. It was as a receptionist in a printing company. They noticed I had a flair for graphics, so I was moved to in-house graphic designer and they hired a new receptionist. And the rest, as they say, is history. My entire graphic design career evolved from the fact that I learned how to use a Mac.

Today I read an article about Microsoft’s new ad campaign to try and prove that PC’s are better than Macs. Apparently the recent Apple ads about a young-hip Mac-user versus a geeky PC-user have rubbed Microsoft the wrong way. They are fighting back with their own version of a hip PC-user. But does it really matter? I mean, don’t we all know that Macs are the true usability experts when it comes to operating systems?

What do you think? If you’re a PC user, do you wish you could throw it in for a Mac? And if you’re a Mac user, would you ever give it up for a PC?