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http://www.deskdemon.com/

A website for all United Kingdom secretaries, office managers, administrative staff, office workers, home workers and PAs – your own site, just for you!

Well, in fact, DeskDemon was launched as long ago as August, 2000 and has been through a couple of changes since then but certainly deserves to be better known.

The idea of the site is to provide a range of useful services and tools for running an office all in one place and to provide a pleasant and worthwhile place to stop during the day for a few moments relaxation.

There is so much content available that you really have to take a look yourself but it covers more or less most of the jobs that you would want (or expect) to have to do at work from job hunting to training sessions online to working out tax problems.

There’s also a huge range of calculators and links to dictionaries, encyclopaedias and world time clocks that are easily accessible along the left hand edge below the navigation.  This area includes links to a wide variety of useful and essential resources such as transportation schedules, holidays around the world, travel and general information.  In fact, it is worth keeping this site bookmarked just to have this information in one easy-to-get-at place!

But it isn’t just helpful tools, for there are a host of useful and informative articles covering most aspects of office life, including the more enjoyable articles in the ‘Lifestyle’ section.

In fact, this website has articles and material to cover all aspects of office life including a job search board and the ‘EssentialDesk’ and ‘KnowledgeDesk’ areas which provide some of the essential information for the office worker.

Also, the ‘Career’ area has a wealth of articles that deal with employment issues, including many that offer advice on surviving and navigating our way around the office jungle.

Creating an account (it’s free) allows you to receive a useful monthly email and gives you access to a range of features like a free email address and various training packages along with job vacancies and the ‘Break-Time University’.  In addition, there are freebies, a forum and access to networking events and conferences.

In use, the content seems well presented and the site slick.  The colours used are good and make the content easy to see.  Navigation was intuitive and it was easy to find wanted pages without difficulty.  The pages opened quickly and without drama, with all the content of this large site available from the top, left or sub-menus.

There is a search function which uses the Google search engine and which worked well and very quickly and which produced the results in a separate tab to allow you to keep the results page open as well.

This is a pleasing site which contains a vast amount of useful and, in some cases, vital information.  It looks good and seems to work quickly and efficiently and, if you work in any form of office, we think it is well worth a visit and a big bookmark.  We noted, too, that the website is also made available on the intranets of some large companies.