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Google to Start Charging for Google Maps API in 2012 (11/3/11)

Starting January 1 2012, Google will be putting a limit on the free usage of the Google Maps API.

Late last week Google announced they are putting a usage limit on the usage of the Google Maps API for 25.000+ hits per day. While many of you do not have that kind of traffic volume on your website, some of you may have the volume of traffic and should be aware of the changes coming in the New Year.

Websites that utilize the Google Maps API (such as through embedded maps on a website) will have a limit of 25,000 (2,500 for styled maps) map views per day, and sites exceeding these limits will be required to pay for the overages. Rates starting at $4.00 per 1,000 views.

This means that if you have a website with one or more Google Maps on it you will be able to get 25,000 people per day taking a look at that map before you have to start paying.

If you are in the estimated traffic ranges of 25,000+ map views per day and want to learn more. Zee Creative recommends that you contact us with your questions. Call our office at 406-259-6730 or email us.

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Zee Creative Offers Facebook Courses for Business Professionals (4/27/11)

BECOME A FAN ON FACEBOOK!

Sound familiar? We thought so. Social Media has rapidly taken the traditional marketing format and transformed the ease and saturation of brand awareness into a ‘word of mouth’ concept. With the ease of numerous options in commerce, a person or business can create a network that allows them to continually update and address a consumer base that is literally linked into your product and services. That's why Zee Creative is now offering a Facebook for Business Professionals course. Social Media sites like Facebook are now valuable and relevant tools that businesses and business owners use to market and brand their products through word-of-mouth social connections and online media platforms.

Starting in May, Zee Creative will offer four classes based around the basic tools and media advantages of Facebook. The value of learning how to utilize social media tools to promote, advertise, or share your work is an incredible asset to any marketing campaign. Spending a small amount of your time to gain some fast easy knowledge about social media advertising is a time well spent.

Join Eric Marshall for one hour each class, and learn how set up a Facebook personal profile, learn the differences between personal, business, group pages, creating a business page, basic marketing tools and advanced marketing techniques to develop a loyal fan base, gain new customers, increase company exposure with advertising and testimonials, or build a better brand awareness. Facebook is a great way to kick start your social media efforts, so why not take some time to move ahead of the competition and expand your knowledge and marketing to the world of social media?

Class size is limited, so we recommend signing up soon. Worried about class times? Zee Creative will set-up the class times based upon the preferences of those who sign up for each class, just let us know if you prefer morning, afternoon or evening.

Email us or call us at 406-259-6730 to sign–up. Class pricing is $60 per session. Sign-up for all four by the end of April and pay only $190 (a 20% savings).

Classes are filling up quickly and we have the first two sessions booked and will be begin in a couple of weeks!  Contact Zee Creative today to sign up for the next session to learn more about the business tools of Facebook.


Zee Creative Domain Service Changes (1/26/11)

As of January 7, 2011, we made some changes to the domain Storefront. These changes will give more control over anti-fraud measures and provide a better overall level of service. This change also means that the domain name purchased will now appear in the Payee field on users' credit card statements. This should remove end-user confusion about what the credit card charge is for.

Stored credit card data for your domain Storefront will be removed as a result of the switchover. For those end-users with auto renewals enabled, domain Storefront does send a series of automated emails to let you know that there is no valid credit card on file. The email instructs users to log in to add a valid credit card for the transaction to be completed automatically.
 
Please be assured that your services will NOT be interrupted if your payment information is updated.  To update your account,  you simply need to re-enter the credit card information through your domain Storefront account. Please log into the secure site at http://domains.zcreative.com/manage to update your payment information.


Zee Creative wants YOU to Win an Apple iPod nano (1/13/11)

Over the next year Zee Creative will be giving away THREE Amazing Prizes! Valued at $150.00, Zee Creative wants to give three lucky people a new Apple iPod nano. The first giveaway will be April 1st, no really! - April fool's day, The second giveaway will be July 1st and the third giveaway will be September 1st. See full details here and to signup for your chance to win.


Zee Creative Annouces New Support Offering for Web Design and Programming Customers (1/10/11)

We now offer an Advanced Support Subscription to provide our clients an even higher level ongoing and preventative website and content management system support and code security patching. This subscription entitles you to submit up to six support incidents per subscription year on the web or by phone. This will provide proactive support for your site as well as major cost savings for support-related issues. See full details here.


Zee Creative Now Offers Creative Writing and Content Creation Services (1/5/11)

We are proud to announce a new service - creative writing and content creation. Let us help you create the content for your next project! If you don’t have the time or just aren’t a wordsmith this is the solution for you. Contact us by email or give us a call at 406-259-6730 to find out more.


Zee Creative Holiday Office Hours (12/2/10)

The Zee Creative Offices will be closed for updates and the Holidays during the week of December 27th through December 31st. We will have our emergency phone and email support available as usual. We wish everyone a safe and Happy Holiday!


New Hosting and Email Upgrades Coming this Fall (9/14/10)

We excited to announce some major upgrades to our hosting and email offerings coming in the next couple weeks.  Features will include robust standard email improvements (a great new webmail interface, improved spam controls, 1GB of standard email storage), cloud-base hosting environment (this allows for quick, easy adaptation to growth, major redundancy improvements, and load balancing) plus much more.

Existing Zee Creative clients will be upgraded at no charge.  We will be contacting you shortly to schedule your site and email migration.  Migrations will happen over the remainder of 2010. Hosted email and exchange clients will not need to do anything with their email.  If you have questions on how this pertains to you or on the new features please contact us.


5 Reasons You Need to Upgrade from IE6 (8/16/10)

We haven't designed to Internet Explorer 6 in years but have run into a handful of clients that are stilling using this outdated browser. If you or someone you know is still using Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and need more incentive below are the Top 5 reasons to upgrade:

  1. Old and Unsupported - IE6 was released in August 2001 (This means that IE6 is 9 years old now) and support was discontinued by Microsoft in 2006.   With the public beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) coming on in September of this year it is very much time to retire this browser.

  2. Not Secure - IE6 is a major security risk due to security issues, holes and other bugs that put your privacy and data at risk. If you are using IE6 you have been significantly exposing yourself for some time when it comes to security.

  3. Lame - IE6 users are missing out on all the latest browser advancements in usability and functionality such as phishing protection, privacy settings and tabbed browsing.  Many of today’s sites will not render correctly (or some cases at all) in IE6 not to mention the new HTML5/CSS3 standards.

  4. Non-Compliant - IE6 does not follow web standards (nor did it in its day) causing higher development costs for website, workarounds and troubleshooting to accommodate it. Continued use of IE6 is degrading the development and innovation of the web because of it does not support current or past standards.

  5. Cost – Upgrading IE6 is free and easy.  To upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer (IE8) by going to: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx and follow the prompts.

Note to All Zee Creative Domain Name Customers (5/13/10)

As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the potential for credit card fraud we've undertaken a clean up of credit card data associated with some of our domain end-user accounts.

Beginning on March 23, 2010, we began using enhanced criteria for detecting fraud. As a result of the change, credit card data stored before March 23, 2010 has been removed from our payment provider's systems and those end-users will have to re-enter their credit card information at the time of their next transaction.

For those end-users with auto renewals enabled but no credit card data on file, our domain registrant service will send a series of automated emails to let you know that there is no valid credit card on file and instructing you to login to add a valid credit card for the transaction to be completed automatically.

There is nothing to be concerned about and you will simply need to re-enter your credit card information in order to ensure you don't have any interruption in service. There was absolutely no breach of security and no credit card data was compromised at any time.

If you have any questions or need assistance please give us a call at 406-259-6730.


Zee Creative Selected by Goldline Again for 2010 (1/20/10)

We have once again been selected as one of the Leading Providers or Web Design and Web Services for 2010 by Goldline Research. As an independent third-party research firm, Goldline Research sets the standard for dependability in professional services industries across the United States. We are proud to have been chosen in this region to receive this award. This is the third consecutive year we have been selected.


Website Security Alert for Website Owners! (11/13/09)

If you save passwords using your browser you need to read this. This injection uses a malformed pdf, flash file, website or similar to compromise and harvest your saved passwords from your browser. The hackers then login to your websites and inject code into them that redirects your site visitors to their site .If you are having problems with this on your website please give us a call - we can help. To find out more visit http://blog.unmaskparasites.com or http://www.scmagazineus.com.


Updated Pricing for Email Marketing Service (11/6/09)

Our new pricing is now online for our email marketing service. We will also be upgrading our service later this year and adding SMS messaging to the list of services. Please visit our Targeted Email Marketing page for current pricing.


Zee Creative Selected by Goldline for 2009 (7/6/09)

We have been selected as one of the Leading Web Designers of the Western United States for 2009, and have been published in the July 13th issue of Forbes Magazines by Goldline Research. As an independent third-party research firm, Goldline Research sets the standard for dependability in professional services industries across the United States. We are proud to have been chosen in this region to receive this award. This is the second consecutive year we have been selected. Click here for Goldline Research's review of Zee Creative.


New Hosting Plan for Small Websites (6/15/09)

We have introduced a new entry-level web hosting plan, eStarter, for those who have small sites or are just getting started. Please visit our hosting page to learn more.


New Security Offerings from Zee Creative (5/21/09)

We are proud to offer ControlScan's Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance solutions for ecommerce and retail customers. Find out more at www.controlscan.com/zcreative/.


Google Analytics Qualified (5/8/09)

Along with our years of SEO experience we are now qualified in Google Analytics. If you have questions on what they can do for you or how better to use them please contact us.


New Security Solutions (5/6/09)

We are proud to offer ControlScan's Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance solutions for ecommerce and retail customers. Find out more at www.controlscan.com/zcreative/.


Zee Creative Finishes Server/Datacenter Upgrade (4/24/09)

We have completed our server/datacenter upgrade this week. With this upgrade we have improved bandwidth, security and server capacity.


Zee Creative is on Facebook (4/16/09)

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Reserve your domains online through Zee Creative (2/17/09)

We just finished adding our online domain system. Clients can search for domains, purchase, and manage their domains right from our website. To try it out please visit http://domains.zcreative.com.


New online payment methods (2/12/09)

We now offer the ability for clients to apply all of their invoice balances to a credit card on file as one transaction. If you are interested in getting your business setup with this please contact us.


New Zee Creative web site (1/13/09)

Our new website has finally launched with our new look for 2009. The old site had been up since 2004 and reworked several times over. It was definitely time for fresh look for everything. We were hoping to launch in 2008 but were too busy to focus on our own stuff. Let us know what you think!


Zee Creative open house (1/5/09)

We will be having an open house January 8th, 2009 from 3pm-8pm. Everyone is invited, so if you are in the area please stop by and see us and the new offices.


Server upgrades complete (1/5/09)

We finished upgrading our servers over the Christmas Holiday. Please contact us if you have issues or questions.


Zee Creative turns 10 (11/1/08)

Zee Creative officially celebrates 10 years in business this month. We have been celebrating all year but this is the month. Thanks to everyone for your help and business throughout the years.


Zee Creative is moving (10/25/08)

We will be moving in November of 2008 to our new location at 513 Hilltop, Suite 4 in Billings, Montana. The new location is just a few blocks west from our old offices and is a big upgrade on all fronts. Once we are settled in we will have an open house sometime in early 2009.

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