As many of you have probably already noticed, your Control Panel looks quite a bit different now. We created a new look but kept all the best features. 

You can now update your Account Information, Description and Keywords right from the first page. You can also send us a Support Request from there as well now. Other sections that were improved or fixed were the Website Statistics and View/Pay Bill Online and there are now buttons to our Blog and Newsletters.

Not everyone has updateable pages on their website, so for some of you, that button (Update My Website) will not work.  If you would like more updateability on your website, please contact us!

We have gone to a monthly billing policy, HOWEVER, we want to remind you that YOU CAN STILL PAY ANNUALLY if you wish.  It does save you TWO MONTHS and it's one check to write versus 12. You can also Pay your Bill Online via credit/debit card through your Control Panel Login or by calling us.  We accept Visa, MasterCard, AMEX and Discover as well as Paypal. 

We recently learned that Google has been providing free email servers since 2006, so we decided to look into this as a possible option for us. We knew if it worked for us, we could assist our clients in making the transition.

We set up our own email accounts on google apps for halemultimedia.com. It was easy to setup and we noticed an immediate reduction in spam and how easy it was to use google mail with our own domain. It did not take long to make the decision to advise all our customers of our new recommendation to use the google mail servers. We will even make the switch for you at no charge.

What does this mean to you? it means that will have better email service and the only thing we will have to do is walk you through changing a couple settings in your email program. Once those are reset, you won't do anything any differently than before. Your email address won't change and you won't have to do anything any differently... That is unless you want to take advantage of their easy to use web interface to check and store your email. I liked it so much, I don't use anything else now unless I need to dig up an old email. It even has contact manager and calendar that are super easy to use.

One thing that will slow down a website is photos that are too large. We have always encouraged our clients to optimize photos before uploading and many of you have done a great job with this.  However, to make it easier for our clients we developed an Automatic Thumbnailer function that can be built into your Control Panel. Instead of having to resize every photo and/or upload an additional thumbnail, we have a simple upgrade that will take care of all that for you on the fly. All you have to do is upload your original photo and the computer will do the rest. This will GREATLY decrease your website's load time and save yourself a bunch of time and possible headaches.

This upgrade to your photo uploader takes about an hour to install and would therefore cost $75. (one-time fee added to your next statement)

We are excited to announce that we have added a new radio station to the Hale Broadcasting Network.  KGYN in Guymon, Oklahoma is a powerful 10,000 watt 24-hour station that reaches all of the Oklahoma panhandle as well as most of the northern Texas panhandle and even into parts of Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico!  Click here for a Coverage Map.

More radio stations means more exposure for our clients!  With the addition of KGYN, that makes 30 great radio stations that are carrying our programming across 9 states.  Welcome KGYN listeners!