I can't take it anymore, using IE7 that is! You might wonder why I am still using it? Well as web developers we need to make sure that sites render correctly in all the major browsers and that includes IE7. Yes you can use IE tester but in our experience these give an indication of…
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Pinterest – The benefits for SEO
As soon as you get used to Facebook, Twitter etc... as a form of marketing up pops another one! Have you heard of Pinterest? (That's the name an amalgamation of the words 'Pin' & 'Interest' if you had not spotted that yet). Well this is the latest social network that has popped up and is…
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Pushing the boundaries
2011 was a big year for web. A new coding language (HTML5) and way of styling websites (CSS3) came along after years of development, the only drawback is that older browsers such as Internet Explorer 7 don't support it. But what they all support is Javascript and as a result frameworks such as a jQuery,…
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The importance of searches via mobile devices
searchengineland.com recently published figures stating that by the end of 2012 22% of all searches will be conducted via a mobile device, with the figure set to rise quite significantly over the coming years as the likes of Blackberry, Apple and so forth all continually improve on and release new mobile devices that users become…
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Time to do away with the sign-up button?
Sign ups are still thought to be of a standard design, a bit of basic content with a simple "sign up" button below. The common thought that if you remove the button that your website will suffer a decrease in people signing up for more information on that particular product or service. A recent study…
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AddThis Tool! Make Sharing Easy
Get more traffic with the most popular sharing platform in the world. Help your users share your content everywhere. It only takes seconds to get AddThis, and it's free! (more…)
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YouTube – Your Channel to Market!
Once the playground for would be film makers, YouTube is increasingly becoming a major marketing channel. With Google owning YouTube and placing strong relevance on search engine ranking of videos that match a search term, we should all be looking at the best ways to utilise YouTube to promote our products, services and websites as…
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The explosion of social ecommerce
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, has stated that social ecommerce is the next area to explode and experience high levels of growth. The explosion has already begun though. Back in March 2010 Pampers Facebook store was experiencing 1000 transactions per hour, Gap launched a $50 voucher for $25 and it had 441,000 buyers.…
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