From the category archives:

Website Design

A perfect moment

23 March 2010

Yesterday evening I was told at the end of presenting a proposal that we’d won the project for a European product launch. There had been a few late nights ‘Sat by the Mac’ pulling ‘stuff’ together – oh, and that is me on the left – so it was great feeling to get the immediate [...]

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SEO: No animals were harmed in creating this website – part 4 of 8

15 March 2010

META Description Over the years META tags have been abused by many in order to try and manipulate search results. But in doing so many sites have been blacklisted. The importance of good META can’t be stressed enough and in this part of my mini series on SEO, I want to discuss why taking the [...]

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SEO: No animals were harmed in creating this website – part 2 of 8

3 March 2010

URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) Yesterday I wrote the intro to this 8 part mini series on SEO. So without further a do, let’s get stuck straight in. Firstly, this isn’t a discussion on what static or dynamic URLs are. (If you want to know to the difference then take a look at this aritcle although [...]

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Not exclusively from O2! Oversight or subtle marketing attempt? – over to you O2

25 February 2010

Searching this morning for things related to iPhone’s – which is a bit of a routine with me because I love mine, I couldn’t help noticing the description from O2: Errr, that’s not right…! The iPhone hasn’t been exclusive to O2 since last November when Orange started selling it, followed by Vodafone in January! Now, [...]

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One for your toolbox: Get it into your head!

4 February 2010

Effective search engine optimisation involves many factors. And trying to rank highly within search engine result pages (SERPs) is about providing content that is both relevant and informative; with proper page layout and coding. The coding side is generally taken care of by web developers, however, a lot of consideration should be given to your [...]

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You say potato I say solanum tuberosum: search term basics

20 January 2010

You’ve written an excellent post, checked it for grammar and spelling errors and now you’re all ready to publish… but STOP… will what you’ve written get listed on the SERPs (search engine results pages? A recurring issue I see, when discussing website content, is that people tend to write from their perspective – not from [...]

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QR Code Augmented Reality Website

12 January 2010

If you haven’t heard of QR codes yet… click that link, because if you’re wondering how far the web can go the video below shows that we haven’t even scratched the surface yet…! The iPhone App was specifcally developed for this project. Will it become the norm? Don’t know, but it is an amazing display [...]

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Are you visibly flexible?

11 January 2010

Today’s technology is strengthening at a tremendous speed; with the web – and its current guise of Social Media – quickly becoming the vital resource that the majority of the population counts on – from keeping in touch to sourcing the ‘best deals’. Until fairly recently, the majority of all users out there were browsing [...]

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