PSPINC Official Company Blog

Announcement: Dreamersi system Update

Apr

Dear valued customer,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We are always looking to improve the services we offer you.
As such, we will be conducting Dreamersi system update.

You may experience downtime for a few seconds during the maintenance time below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Standard Time
- Apr 7th (Wed) 2:00pm - 2:30pm

* Japan Time
- Apr 8th (Thu) 6:00am - 6:30am

PSPinc provides services with uptimes of 99.9%

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com .

We would like to answer your questions by phone call.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

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How to structure and organize your website navigation

Apr

When it comes to designing and building a website there are many important things you need to consider when it comes creating something useful for your visitors. Above all else, “content is king” is a phrase that continues to ring true no matter what. If you aren’t providing useful content, what purpose do your customers have to come to your website?

With that being said, providing the best content is not helpful if you don’t organize it in such a way that your visitors can actually find it! Therefore, it’s really important that you invest time and thought into mapping out what pages you want to create, and how you want users to access them in your website navigation.

Common mistakes people make

Too Many Pages

The more pages you have, the more clicks you expect of your users to navigate through your content. It also presents challenges with how you organize your pages.

Too Few Pages

I know, kind of a contradiction of the last point, right? If you have too few pages, you end up cramming more content on fewer pages. Doing this forces a user to sift through to find the information important to them. At this point, you are encouraging them to seek their information elsewhere.

Bloated Top-level Navigation

When we say top-level navigation, we are referring to the navigation links a user can see at first glance when they visit your website. The more links you have in this space the harder it is for users to find what they are looking for. It also presents challenges when users on smaller screen sizes (such as tablets) stop by.

Multi-level Dropdown Navigation

A dropdown navigation is a box that appears when you hover over your top-level navigation item. It shows sub-pages that are nested under a specific category. While one level of sub-navigation is not only acceptable but very standard, adding another level of sub-navigation items should be avoided for usability reasons.

Tips for designing your navigation

While there is no minimum or maximum for top level navigation items, if you have more than 7 top level nav items, especially with a horizontal navigation, it is starting to get a bit busy.

Avoid extremely lengthy page/navigation names

Your site should be responsive (read a previous article for just some of the reasons) and when you are on a mobile device, your navigation should collapse into a hidden hamburger menu to make it easy for users to use your website.

There is a lot to think about when it comes to structuring your website navigation. If you need a professional opinion on your plan or help to build your website, please let us know. We have the industry experience to help you make the right choices for your website. Call us 1-800-232-3989, email us at contact@pspinc.com, or visit us at PSPinc.com.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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Announcement: New Email Server - Migration

Apr

Dear valued customer,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We are always looking to improve the services we offer you.
As such, we will be conducting Dreamersi email server update migrations.

During the migration process you shouldn't notice any loss of data, however any changes to emails (Mark as Read, Move to folder, Delete) during the migration process might not reflect after the migration.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Daylight Time
Beginning 4/8/2021 9:00am

* Japan Time
Beginning 4/9/2021 1:00am

PSPINC provides services with uptimes of 99.9%

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

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Domain Price Change Announcement

Apr

Dear Valued PSP Customers,

Among the many services that we offer, domain registration is one of the most common that we provide. This allows you to secure an online presence for your business and use it for your website and email. While it has been many years since we have changed any of our prices for this service, times and domain costs have changed and as a result, we are planning to adjust our yearly pricing.

Effective May 1st, 2021, we will be changing our domain registration prices based on the below table.
domain price

Please note that domain registration fees are included with any of our Dreamersi annual hosting plans. There will be no change in price for customers that have a domain associated with a hosting plan.

The past year has shown us more than ever that bringing your business online is important for sustainability and growth. If you have a domain and would like to get started with a website or email, contact us today and we can help you get started on one of our Dreamersi plans!

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at psp_service@pspinc.com or 425-957-0808.

PSPINC

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

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Announcement: Dreamersi system Update

Apr

Dear valued customer,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We are always looking to improve the services we offer you.
As such, we will be conducting Dreamersi system update.

You may experience downtime for a few seconds during the maintenance time below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Standard Time
- Apr 1st (Thu) 3:00pm - 3:30pm

* Japan Time
- Apr 2nd (Fri) 7:00am - 7:30am

PSPinc provides services with uptimes of 99.9%

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com .

We would like to answer your questions by phone call.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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PSPinc What's New Newsletter Vol.57 "What is SEO?"

Apr

For website owners, have you ever wondered why you have a website? The purpose of a website is to let people know about your company, products, and services. This is the same as a billboard or a brochure, which is why it is important to put signs where more people can see them and to distribute brochures to more people.

So what can you do to get more people to see your website? Many people use search engines such as Google to find the services or products that they need. Therefore, it is important to make it easy for people to find you on search engines. This act of making it easy to be found on search sites is called SEO.

SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, which generally means making changes to the structure and content of the website you want to promote to increase its visibility for search engines. By making these specific and targeted changes, you make it easier for people to find your website by increasing its ranking on search sites.

What do you need to change and how? How long does it take to see results after doing SEO updates? I'm sure you have a lot of questions. If you do, please feel free to contact us.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
info@pspinc.com
1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007 USA
800-232-3989
425-957-0808

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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Announcement: Mail V5 Server Update

Mar

Dear valued customer,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We are always looking to improve the services we offer you.
As such, we will be conducting mail V5 server update. Join our Mail V5 for a more powerful and improved mail service!

You may experience delay in outgoing emails for a few seconds during the maintenance time below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Standard Time
- Mar 31st (Wed) 8:00am - 8:30am

* Japan Time
- Apr 1st (Thu) 12:00am - 12:30am

PSPinc provides services with uptimes of 99.9%

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com .

We would like to answer your questions by phone call.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

#PacificSoftwarePublishing #PSPINC #WebandEmailHosting #SeattleBellevue #SoftwareDevelopment #WebDevelopment #ApplicationDevelopment #Bloguru

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#RestaurantsAreBack - how you can help restaurants recover

Mar

Dining and hospitality have been one of the hardest hit industries from Covid-19. As we look to overcome this pandemic and get back to business, restaurants need your support and we want to help!

We at Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. empathize with the struggles restaurants continue to face due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For this reason we have been hard at work to develop tools specifically designed to help those struggling during these historically devastating times.

Arguably the most noteworthy tool that we’ve designed specifically for restaurants is ImaMenu - which allows restaurants to create a complete digital menu which can then be accessed easily by scanning a QR code with your phone. It’s helpful for patrons, easy to use for restaurants, and completely free.

Learn more about ImaMenu.

We’re also encouraging everyone to support your local restaurants by helping to spread awareness through social media. Here’s how you can help:

Take a photo of a dining experience or your favorite take out
Post it to Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #RestaurantsAreBack
Tag the restaurant in your post (it’s important that you actually tag the restaurant’s account in your post for them to benefit)
Spread the word to anyone you know working in dining and hospitality that there are free tools available that can help them recover at restaurantsareback.com

Learn more about the Restaurants Are Back initiative.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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PSPinc What's New Newsletter Vol.56 "Why SSL and the SEO Effect"

Mar

Vol. 56

SSL is an acronym for Secure Socket Layer, which encrypts communication between a website and the browser. The encryption ensures that passwords, credit card numbers, birthdates, etc. that the user 'enters' cannot be stolen during the communication.

In addition to this, SSL has another major role to play, it authenticates the owner of the site.

For example, our company's domain name is PSPINC.COM. But there is no proof that PSPINC.COM is Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. To issue SSL, the website owner needs to be certified, a legitimate company can be identified by this level of certification.

If a website does not have a certificate or does not have SSL, not only will the page not show up in some browsers but in many cases, it will not show up on search engines like Google. Therefore, we recommend that you authenticate your website with SSL.

If you have any questions about obtaining SSL, please contact us at support@pspinc.com. You do not need to be our customer to contact us.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
info@pspinc.com
1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007 USA
800-232-3989
425-957-0808

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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Custom Development with PSPinc

Mar

What is custom development?

Custom development is the designing of software applications for a specific user or group of users. This custom software is usually designed to address specific needs within an organization, and is distinct from commercial off-the-shelf packaged software.

At PSPinc, we have the experience and know-how required to build the custom applications that businesses need when out-of-box solutions won’t cut it. Our team of developers utilize a variety of programming languages and have in-depth knowledge of database design.

What is the process for having a custom application built?

Our custom development process consists of 3 parts:

Consultation - We will meet with you to discuss your unique business challenges and brainstorm software solutions that cater to your specific needs.

Documentation - Depending on the complexity and scope of the project, we can prepare a blueprint that will be a roadmap for the project at hand.

Development - Using the appropriate programming language of choice we will build, test, and deliver a custom application to you.

What are some examples of applications PSPinc has built for others?

Nacalai USA - For this San Diego based life science research company we developed an online cart and ordering system that allows administrators to customize products and categories within a custom built content management system.

Sakura Rent-a-Car - Our team of developers created a multi-lingual inventory and reservation management system for this LA based car rental business.

Learn more about PSPinc's custom development.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business