I’ve been doing online meetings for a few years now, mainly using Microsoft Live Meeting and Webex from Cisco. While these 2 products are excellent tools for conducting online meetings, they have a cost associated to them which can be difficult to handle if you are a freelancer trying to work with a shoestring budget.

Today, I’d like add a free alternative to your toolbox. Yugma web conferencing allows anyone, anywhere to instantly share their desktop and ideas online with others. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux and it’s free if your meetings have less than 20 users.

Of course they also have a professional version that you pay for, but I’ve been really happy with the free version so far.  I highly recommended it if you need to share your desktop with someone else far away.

HTML has a tag known as <sup> which stands for superscript text. This tag properly places text half a character above the baseline.

Example:
bite size technology, design and marketing ideas^SM

In order to achieve the service mark symbol as you see above, you need to align your “SM” text to the top of its line-height and decrease the font size to 50% of its original size. The following code samples will produce the service mark symbol on your web pages.

CSS code:

HTML code:

Let me know in the comments section if this code helps you, or better yet, share it with others who might need it.

HTML can easily render the registered trademark symbol.

Exposed Elements ®

To produce this yourself just type the following HTML code:

Bryan Eisenberg has written about 69 Free (or low cost) Tools to Improve Your Website.  The article focuses on conversion so this isn’t simply a list of cool things you can do, there are some very useful suggestions for business owners as well.

The word “branding” is often tossed around in business and marketing circles and many times missing the mark. To me branding is more than just having a pretty logo and matching stationary to go along for a business. Sometimes, it’s a good idea to step back and think of the perceptions of those you want to influence; are you giving the right impressions?

A brand is the collection of perceptions that your customers have about your business.

Branding is the management of these perceptions at key touch points, places like your website, online & print ads, social networks and so on. This of course is my interpretation of this very broad topic and I am curious to find out, what does branding mean to you? please leave your thoughts in the comments below.