Original Web Solutions

Flickr is Having a Massage

It was great! Just as I was getting ready to post more images to Flickr of Eugene I got the message that Flickr is Having a Massage. Its nice to see other companies need a little maintenance time where things go down and they can communicate it in a nice way.

Eugene Oregon on a Sunny Day

So here I am spending some time expanding my companies presence online and testing out different Social Media Online Marketing Techniques and I decided to use Flickr for Social Media Marketing.

Even though it is pretty blatantly pushing my web design service I am also posting some great photos of Eugene, Oregon.

It is an interesting crosslinking scenario. I am posting quality images of relevant topics to my post. In my post I reference my local area and what I do.

My goal is obviously to enhance my exposure for eugene and web design.

So links coming from Flickr with relevant content and going to my site is of value.

But I don't stop there, now I am blogging about it and putting links back to Flickr and to my site.

So much fun...

Switching to Google Apps for Domains

We recently made the decision to test drive Google Apps for your Domain on our primary originalwebsolutions.com domain.

We have hosted our own email for the last 7 years fairly successfully, however it is always a pain point. SPAM and the general email support is very frustrating to keep up with and just isn't fun.

So I thought I'd give GMAIL for our domain a test drive and see if it is something we would recommend to clients for their email.

We can give them a solid email solution for only $50.00 per user a year. It comes with all the SPAM filter and other bells and whistles.

It was pretty easy to setup, all I did was:

Went There and Applied at http://www.google.com/a/
Typed in my Domain
Changed my MX Record
Setup 3 Users
Activated all 6 services
Setup virtual domains for each service

And that was pretty much it, even though it says it is still checking / verifying my MX records, the email works fine!

We'll see how this goes. The one problem I see is the disconnect between your Google Apps for Your Domain account and your regular Google user account. Not real seamless.

Anyways, we'll keep you guys posted if this is a solid solution we will recommend by trying it out on ourselves.

The Beginning of Original Web Solutions

Original Web Solutions was started January of 2000 right at the busting of the Internet bubble. The company was created by Kin and Ishbel Lane to provide custom web design to a handful of businesses and non profit organizations.

We are a Eugene Oregon web design company that specializes in custom dynamic web sites with content management systems giving site owners the ability to manage their professional site with ease.

We are currently in our 7th year of operation and going strong, and we will see many more to come!