Anyone looking at the BBC website today cannot fail to see the news story ‘Government to axe hundreds of ‘unnecessary’ websites‘. It refers to the fact that the Government are going to review all of their 820 existing websites and retire a portion of them in a bid to cut costs and save £100m.
When I was reading through the article a few figures jumped out at me (not least the £4m cost to build the UK Trade and Investment website!) If you look through the article and do the sums you’ll see that in 2009 – 2010: Read more…
Industry News, Web Design
WordPress 3.0 has just been released and we decided to use on of our blogs as a guinea pig for a bit of testing and trying out of the new features. WordPress 3.0 is the 13th iteration of WordPress, it took 6 months to complete and involved the work of 218 contributors. That’s a lot of people working together to bring the world this updated release so hat’s off to them all for giving up their time and expertise to get involved. Read more…
SEO and Internet Marketing
Google is always adding new features to its products and giving webmasters and SEO’s more data to pore over. In the last few months Google has added some new data in webmaster tools. Is this data accurate and can it be of any use? Let’s have a look at what it offers to see how useful it could be.
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SEO and Internet Marketing
May 18th, 2010 | Written by Lisa
Purely for illustrations sake lets think about vodka for a while, two well known vodka brands lets say Stolichnaya and Absolute; same fundamental product yes but two different branding personalities. Absolute vodka’s personality would be young, hip and cool in comparison to Stolichnaya’s brand personality which would be more intellectual, conservative and more mature. Read more…
Branding
Recently I have been wanting to visit several restaurants or tourist attractions and have looked them up on my smartphone. Maybe I have been unlucky but approximately 50% of these searches have resulted in being unable to progress with either a visit, a booking or me getting my dinner! Why? Read more…
Web Design
In the beginning, God created MySpace, then Rupert Murdoch bought it in 2005 and then it became old news! (see what I did there?). The purchase of Bebo by AOL in 2008 perhaps marked a similar fate for the once enthusiastic puppy of the social networking world, now it’s an old dog with no new tricks and is at the risk of falling out of favour and being replaced with a new breed. Read more…
Branding, Industry News
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