Recent content by julian_shaw

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    boxes 22-25 on tax return

    I have to agree with Elaine here. The cost of using an accountant to do your tax return alone should be manageable - you can definitely get great professional advice for significantly less than a few hundred pounds for sure. And it's going to be money well spent if you claim the right amounts...
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    Best Bookkeeping / Accounts Websites

    For bookkeeping, Institute of Chartered Bookkeepers site is pretty good. For accounts I have to recommend http://www.twdaccounts.co.uk Mainly because I wrote most of it... Hope this helps.
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    changing accountants

    Elaine is right, sounds like you've not had the best service. The amount you owe now depends on the agreed fee level. It's all a bit vague. When you change, get your new accountant to give you a clear breakdown of what it's going to cost you.
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    Marketing Accounting Services

    Awais You could do worse than look at these guys http://www.receiptangel.co.uk/ Tell them I sent you Regards Julian
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    Website comments

    Oops! I should have looked harder. I can't see any really glaring things. It all looks good. One thing I'd suggest is to make the three images at the bottom of the home page into links to the services page. I wanted to click on them when I saw them. Hope this helps.
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    Website comments

    Can you put a link in?
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    Marketing Accounting Services

    I've been marketing accountancy services for quite some time. What you need to do is make your services stand out. That could be price or your personal touch, or innovative ways of doing things, like a more collaborative hand-holding approach. All businesses will expect certain things from...
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    Do you think the vat rate decrease was worth it?

    Interesting discussion point. At one stage, I thought it could be a good idea. Here's an article I wrote on the subject, with interesting aspects that I had not realised until I did some reading around it. http://money.msn.taxbuddies.com/newsb.php?id=71 I don't think we will know until the...
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    Saving an image from a website

    absolutely. the logo is in the image info on this page, so i didn't get into all that css stuff! but this is really good general advice. the main point is to use firefox web developer tools.
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    Saving an image from a website

    that's just annoying old fashioned stuff that web designers used to do back in the 1950s. very irritating. if you use firefox, activate web developer tools. in there is a menu called images, with a function "image information". it will show you all the images that make up a web page. (it does...
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    Sponsor for brass band

    I love this conversation. Brass band music is hugely nostalgic for me. I was born and bred in near Saddleworth, home of the brass band contests they used in "Brassed Off". Played E flat bass for a while til the school took it off me for leaving it on a bus. Knights Templar played outside a pub...
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    Suggestion - Links Exchanges with UK businesses

    I think you are both looking at it in the same way, and as you say, with thought it could work. Can't harm to try - again, if we look at it sensibly. Given the type and ranges of businesses on here there is surely scope for getting valuable links. I say go for it!
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    Accounting on the move

    Intriguing. So, if we say yes, will you reveal the secret?
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    web site menu

    We have a couple of sites, one with mainly top navigation, one with a left hand side menu. Both seem to work. If you have only a few pages, with most being accessed via one click from the home page, as with John's duvet site, then a left menu probably works best. If a site has lots of pages...
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    Logo feedback - PR company

    If that was the effect you were after, it's nicely done. A couple of small points. for some reason i think speech bubbles go from the left usually (perhaps that's why it looks like a Q at the moment?). Also, the bubble looks like it's been drawn with a marker, but the text is drawn with a...
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