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Emails are one of the most important tools for the business owner – they allow us to communicate with customers, friends, suppliers and staff easily and instanly. Most the time, we just click to send a email without a care in the world or a thought as to what actually happens to it.

When you send a email, your computer has to find where the email is going, convert it into a form that can be sent over the internet, through several thousands of miles of cables and numerous computers till it arrives ready to be downloaded by the person you sent it to. Once this person chooses to check his mail, the process starts again! OK, this is a very rough example of what actually goes on with a email but it will help illistrate a point that it is easy for things to go wrong.

There are so many factors as to why you send a email but it never arrives. Sometimes, they can just dissappear without trace into a black hole. Sometimes this maybe becuase of a large attachement or for a range of reasons. You may find your email is blocked by over protective spam filters. Usally however, you will get a delivery failure report message, in this message, it will state what went wrong, the most common of which is a mis-spelt email address. Other times it maybe the email address no longer exists or the server to which you are sending to maybe down. Whatever the reason, try to resend the email again and forward a copy of the delivery failure report to the website host.

Typically, the Vibrant Pulse hosting servers deal with thousands of emails a day off which the server will refuse a large percentage. STOP THE PRESS! Refuse a email? Yes, there are often emails that come into the VP Servers that are spam, blacklisted domains, incorrect spellings or emails looking for other recipiants not hosted on the server. The server will filter these out as well as try to find the correct place to send emails you send to. This is perfectly normal.

So, you got a problem sending or recieving emails? Check our previous post for some tips to check and failing that, check your account settings are correct and failing that, send us a copy of your message failure report and we will be able to tell you if you have a problem with incoming emails. 99% of the time, it is incorrect spellings of email addresses or is with the transfer of the domain name over to our hosting but worth checking everytime to be on the safe side.

We are scheduling a maintenance period which may affect all customers using the Vibrant Pulse website hosting service.

Maintenance Begin: Tuesday 24th August 2010 – 22:00 BST
Maintenance End: Tuesday 24th August 2010 – 23:00 BST

Reason for maintenance:

We are performing routine maintenance of networking equipment used to connect our 2 datacenter facilities.

Service interruption:

There may be a brief interruption of service lasting between 5-10 minutes which will only affect customers utilising this intersite link.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause and we do stress, this is a important and plannedworks to be carried out by our datacenter where our servers are situated. Distruption will be kept to a minimum and is nothing to worry about.

Thank you

Vibrant Pulse offer a simple, no nonsense web hosting service with a focus on speed and reliabilty. From time to time to time though, your website may become unresponsive, slow or may not even load. We have only had a total of 40 minutes of down time in the last 1 and a half years, the age of our servers. That is more than 99.9% uptime but how can you tell if your server is down?

To establish if it is a problem with your website and your server, there are a few things you should try first as loading a website is not just a case of getting from A to B, to load a web page, you travel through several steps.

• Check your internet connection – can you load other web pages? Are you connected to the internet? Do other web pages load, at normal speed? If not, this is most likely your problem.
• Is it your computer? – Check to see if the web page loads on another computer.
• Is the website being worked on? – If works are being done, some things may take longer to load, this should only apply for brand new websites rather than established websites.
• Is there a error message that shows? – The error message may help provide you with some information into the problem. You may be over your bandwidth limit for which a account upgrade will be needed because your site has become far too popular.
• Is my server down? – If there is an issue and you have looked into the above, there maybe a problem with your websites server and it maybe experiencing some problems. If this is the case, please check our Facebook page and Twitter feed to see if the problem has been reported. If not, please phone us direct to inform us of the problem.

So before you ask the question “Is my server down?” read the above and remember it is very rare, no matter whom your with, your server will be down and the last thing you should do it worry. Phone those who can fix.

The Exe Trail is a Cycle Path and Walkway that travels twists it’s way hugging alongside the beautiful Exe Estuary. Vibrant Pulse has been running the unofficial Exe Trail website for 3 years now with a great amount of interest. We have seen the popularity of the trail explode along with the growing popularity of the website which dominates the search engines.

We have been working hard over the last few months to ensure that the content of the Exe Trail website is up-to-date and accurate ready for the summer season, updating the previous website before we launched the new version. Today, see’s the launch of the new website which has been worked on by our Trainee website designer, Simon from Exmouth.

The new site contains a new map system which allows users to explore the trail itself and find out all the information on each stop along the way.

We are selling advertising on the site to business owners along the route. Businesses owners who would like online advertising on the Exe Trail website should contact Vibrant Pulse.

This version of the trail itself is only the first stage of the redesign which will continue to have improvements made to features and pages over the coming weeks.

Please have your say via the onsite form. This is a community site with YOU able to have your say in what it says.

Heart Pet Supplies is a company that has been established on eBay for around 6 months selling pet supplies throughout the UK. We have been working with them from the start and today, are launching the first stage of the website at www.heartpetsupplies.co.uk. More news will follow as we continue to work on the website in the coming few months.

Embedded Video is a underused advertising strategy with only a handful of companies taking advantage of this unique and effective advertising tool coupled with the power of Search Engine Optimisation.Vibrant Pulse is a Devon company that does BOTH search engine optimisation and website video production, this is our Video Advertising service we are launching TODAY!

Benefits for a video if used correctly are many, the most beneficial being:

• Increased  website traffic
• Easier and greater understanding of company/product/service
• Reinforcement of company image
• Increased brand awareness
• Attention grabbing

Using a mix of HD Cameras, Professional Editing Software and Social Video Hosting Services, we look after the entire filming process with you to include:

• Research and Storyboarding
• Onsite production
• In house editing and post production
• Website embeding and video promotion

Video production has to be done well. Kristian Butler, BA Hons Film, is a well qualified and respected filmmaker having films featured in festivals from the New York Surf Film Festival to the Cornwall Film Festival. Kristian also has credits on feature films such as Golden Brown and Weekend Retreat. Other projects include working for the Eden Project’s Sessions filming artists like Paolo Nutini, Doves, Mumford and Sons, Mika and Jack Johnson.

There is more information that can be found HERE.

I will openly admit that when your are performining Search Engine Optimisation that it is very difficult to get the correct message to your audience from your website. This is the challenge and where working with a GREAT copyright can work really well.

Vibrant Pulse is a Devon based company and although we do not offer Copyrighting services directly, we do work with some very well qualified Copyrighters where needed for Search Engines Optimisation packages.

Give Vibrant Pulse a call today to find out about our Search Engine Optimisation packages which are well used and very successful from customer throughout Devon.

Now, you maybe wondering what this blog post is all about? Well, if I tell you that we are a Search Engine Optimisation company based in Devon then you may start guessing that this is litterally just a quick test to see where we come from the power of a blog post for the search term search engine optimisation devon. Will be interesting!

It is common knowledge that almost 80% of internet users do not search for websites past page 3, if you are not in these first 3 pages, the chances are you will not be found and YOUR website will not be working for you as it should be. This is what Search Engine Optimastion is. We however, go one stage further than many other companies and to find out how, you will have to keep an eye onour blog!

DPM Teamwear are a local, Exmouth based company who offer T Shirt printing and custom clothing. They came to Vibrant Pulse from a initial contact from another client we are doing some work for.

The issues of the old website were raised with us and as a result, a full analytical study was performed, the result of which was a new website to help further the already growing business.

The emphasis of the website is to make a initial first impressiona s to what DPM do – Custom Clothing. The second was to help drive enquires and new leads along with acting as a referance point for exisiting customers with the online catalogue.

With photography, SEO, web design and hosting now provided by the Vibrant Pulse team, we are very happy with the result and will continue to work with DPM to help manage the website.

The website is a combination of JS, HTML, CSS and PHP.

For further information on the website design services the Exmouth based Vibrant Pulse offer, please follow this nice linky. In the mean time, we are going to be getting some artwork ready for DPM to print us some team shirts…. I can not wait.

Vibrant Pulse run a range of different  community websites under the name of East Devon Online. The aim of which is to help keep the local community up-to-date with the latest goings on and also to advertise the local area to people further away.

Further our commitment to these sites and the local community, we are now undergoing website improvements works on our Exe Trail website which helps promote the Exmouth Cycle Path that will eventually run to Dawlish.

The first stages of the works our now being carried out updating the content on the site, the second stage to the look and feel of the site will start very soon where advertising will be available for local business owners alongside the route.