Modbury Tourist Information Centre - Help for Advertisers

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Here are the answers to some of the questions you may be asking.

  • Can I advertise on this site?

Yes of course, provided your business fits with one of the categories listed on the left.  For more general adverts, we will consider adding a 'link'.

Click on the Contact Us tab and get in touch so we can talk about it.

  • Can you provide a link to my web site or email address?

Yes, as part of an advert on the site - let us have details.

Please click here for information about how we prevent SPAM mail being generated from email addresses on this site.

We would appreciate a link back to this site if we link to you but we don't insist on it; click our logo on the Links page and there's an easy way to put our logo on  your site.

  • Can I change my advert?

Yes of course, and simple text changes or changes of graphics are free of charge.  If you have a logo that you would like us to use, you can email it direct to our webmaster.

  • Can you use the same fonts that are on my other advertising material?

It depends what they are.  Web sites operate with a narrower choice of font than printed material, and how they display depends on the user's own browser.  For the more common fonts, that isn't a problem but, if the browser doesn't support one which you have chosen, it will default to a fairly boring one.  If you want something outlandish, it may be better to convert your text into a graphic.

  • Can I have a larger advert?

Yes, but to be fair to all our advertisers, we restrict individual adverts to two column widths and a single row or a single column and two rows.

If you don't have your own Web Site, and there's more you want to tell your potential customers, a low cost alternative is to have a 'More Details' link on your main advert so that it displays either a pop-out panel or a simple web page.

Use the Contact Us tab to get in touch for details of prices.

  • What can I have on my advert?

Generally speaking, text and one or two graphics.  We need the pages to load as quickly as possible and lots of large graphics really do slow them down. 

Although that's not usually a problem with broadband, not everyone has that and some people on holiday will be using dial-up connections on laptops linked to mobile phones.

  • Why don't you show my Email and Web addresses?

For two reasons; the first one is space, because some of them are very long and they would give a cluttered appearance to the site and detract from its main purpose.  However, by clicking on the link, the address will appear in your browser or email program.

The second is that, unfortunately, unmasked email addresses get harvested from web sites and sold to unscrupulous businesses to generate SPAM mail.  We use SteamEngine, an advanced system designed to hide email addresses from harvesting software.

  • What about copyright?

The site contents and design are the copyright of the Tourist Information Centre and Web Author respectively.  By submitting photographs, logos etc. for use in the brochure and on the web site, you are confirming that you are either the copyright owner or you have their permission to do so.

Some adverts are enhanced by photographs which have been downloaded from advertisers' own web sites.  In these cases we have assumed that permission has already been obtained from the copyright owner for their use on web sites in connection with the advertiser's business.

If you are the copyright owner of material which has been used on this site, and you feel that we have infringed that copyright, please inform both the webmaster and the advertiser, and we will remove it as soon as possible.

  • Will you build a Web Site for me?

Modbury TIC won't but our Webmaster will.  He specialises in providing low-cost web sites for small businesses.  Send him an email and he'll go from there.  Include your phone number too - it's good to talk; it helps to make sure that that what he builds is what you need!

  • You haven't answered my question.

Sorry, that's because we didn't think of it. Send us an email and we'll try.

 

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