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What We Mean By “Search Engine Friendly Sites”

A professional team of web designers, web developers, and SEO experts will create search engine friendly websites through on-site optimization. Here are some steps that should be taken to ensure that your site is optimized: 1. Title Tags It's the...

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Looks Aren’t Everything

Looks Aren’t Everything

Many new website owners, graphic designers, and web surfers are placing far too much emphasis on the looks of a site and forgetting to consider how a site should function. There is no use having a beautiful site with attention seeking graphics and...

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Halloween- Gangnam Style

Heyyyyyyyyy! Sexyyy Haunted House!   The Gangnam song and dance craze has now reached new levels of "viral". The Korean number 1 hit song has been synchronized with a Halloween light display that has currently got an audience of over 2 million...

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Mini Surprise?

Apple is hosting an event tonight in San Jose, California, where it's believed they will announce the "iPad Mini". It's speculated to be between 7-8 inches and to cost an affordable £200. While Steve Jobs had claimed that a smaller tablet would not...

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Twitter: no longer as ephemeral as you might think

We've proclaimed the benefits of social media many times: we've also warned small business owners to update their status with some degree of caution. With online services that you use in your own private life, it's all too easy to lapse into an...

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Domain confusion

We learned this week that the police inadvertently tried to launch a new service under a domain name that already exists. The news does not really surprise us. As the Internet constantly proliferates, the fact is that simple or obvious domain names...

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Ordnance Survey map data now available

Following the news that Ordnance Survey has released their map data, we'll be watching with interest to see how they compare with the omnipresent Google Maps. Google Maps have been open-source from the beginning, meaning that they have been 'mashed...

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The online gender divide

Is your customer base made up of more women than men? Many are: there are the obvious examples such as women's clothes shops, beauticians, and spas - and there are also those areas where, for some reason, women seem to do the final decision-making,...

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Web design companies

Web design companies are not all the same. Unfortunately, what is an art for some is just a way of making money quickly for others. Do be wary of folk who have no portfolio to show you, and no qualifications to their name: web design is a serious...

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Above the fold advertising from Google

Traditional web design has it that the most important information and action buttons should appear "above the fold" - ie on the area of the screen that the user sees without having to scroll down the page - although we have seen research that...

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Jump on the iPad bandwagon

Clearly the big news this week has been the launch of Apple's iPad in the States - we in the UK will have to wait a little longer unless you are fortunate enough to be able to pop over there to buy one. Already, Google is announcing specific iPad...

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Google Streetview

A couple of weeks ago, Google Streetview finally rolled out for most places across the UK. It was a cue for us all to virtually 'walk' down the same roads we actually traverse every day in real life - well, it's the novelty factor, isn't it? Since...

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London Web designers

The great thing about the Internet... well, let me correct that: ONE of the many, many great things about the Internet, is that it allows you to be local as well as global. As a Web Services company, we have customers from many different countries...

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Managed internet services for small businesses

As a small business owner, it makes sense to outsource certain work. If you need a new shop frontage, you call a sign-maker; if your electrics are on the blink, you find an electrician. The chances are that you also paid out for a website. If your...

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CMS for small businesses

Has anyone ever told you-you to need a CMS? For many of us, the only answer to that would be a blank face as we tried to take in one more piece of jargon. Yet, CMS might just be the three most important initials you will come across if you are...

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Free web design

How we love seeing the incredulous looks on our customers' - and competitors' - faces when we tell them that we offer free website design! Not much is free in this day and age: bus travel for old age pensioners, the kind of newspapers you get...

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