Have you noticed that the YouTube logo has a little cartoon Psy next to it? Well, if you press it, it takes you to this hilarious video that summarises the top trending videos and events of 2012. Psy and various viral celebrities got together at...
It's that time of the year again where you stress about what to get your colleagues for the office Secret Santa. Here are some of my suggestions for gifts to buy on different budgets. £5 and Under Hand Warmers For just £4.99 you can get one of...
While I had stated a couple of weeks ago that looks aren't everything, it has to be said that this statement is only true to a certain extent and there are some very obvious exceptions. When looking at the following sites, be sure to be equipped...
1. Purpose of your Site It's important to outline the purpose of your site and the type of information you would like it to contain. Before you begin working on your site, it is necessary to have a clear idea of the purpose of this site. On-line...
As the new government takes its place, the BBC reports, there is a frenetic dash to update the official Whitehall website. Any owner of a website will be well aware of how even the most innocuous-seeming content can date. Did it seem like such a...
We mostly work with small businesses, and we mostly help them to optimize their sites for the major search engines, so we thought we'd share a link that many of you should find extremely useful. Google keep a number of different blogs, each...
Strong words from Barack Obama this week: With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations – none of which I know how to work – information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the...
'Keep a vibrant social media profile' is now common advice to small businesses, and we at Notting Hill Biz repeat it as often as everyone else. But when you find that you're spending half the day posting on Facebook, updating Twitter, putting...
When was the last time you looked at your site on a browser other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer? With the news that Chrome is expanding its user base and Firefox usage remains steady at approximately 21%, it's high time you took a look. Sites...
The well-regarded social media guide Mashable reports that Twitter has come up with an intriguing business idea - and one that could benefit businesses if they play it right. The promoted tweet is an interesting concept which goes where no...
Here's a fact that never ceases to be amazing, published this week by the Guardian: All human language used since the dawn of time would take up about 5,000 petabytes if stored in digital form, which is less than 1% of the digital content created...
An alert popped up on my screen today that looked interesting. Wait, I understate: it looked, well, world-changing, at least within in the environs of the SEO community. Google was to enter the SEO business, charging the cool US $25,000 per month...
I've seen casual mentions of Groupon for a while now, in a number of the blogs I read - but only the American ones. Phrases such as "I took advantage of a Groupon for a spa day today" or "I can't believe this photographer can afford to charge such...
The best websites are those which appear simple - the most-often cited example being, of course, the Google website, with its plain search box. Of course, like the duck (serene on top; legs paddling frantically below the water), even the barest...
Thanks to Google, many of us are familiar with the concept of online document sharing - a savior for businesses with geographically diverse workforces. Documents are stored in 'the cloud' (is that term catching on, do we think? I see it a lot in...
The news is full of comment on Facebook's latest innovation. That familiar 'like' button has escaped the bounds of Facebook itself, and can now be found across the web on all sorts of other sites, from news providers to film directories too - of...