Around 130,000 UK businesses now sell online, in a market representing about 2.5 per cent of all household spending (over £18 billion a year in total) according to this article at the Retail Bulletin. In the last five years, internet retail sales in the UK rose by over 350 per cent, compared with growth of [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
FTSE firms’ websites criticised
The BBC reports this morning that the UK’s largest listed companies are not doing enough to make their websites accessible, a report says. According to internet company Nomensa, 75% of the FTSE 100 companies it tested did not meet the minimum requirements of the Disability Discriminations Act. The five most common problems: Poor quality web [...]
Date Posted - 27 Apr 2006 | Posted By - the-escape | Comments 0
Passion(ate) Me
How come when it comes to justifying our own passions, it’s okay – the £2000 stereo system, the second set of golf clubs this year. That’s alright, because we understand it. But, when it’s someone else’s passion it seems weird. Over at Creating Passionate Users, Kathy Sierra has written a great article about why people [...]
Date Posted - 26 Apr 2006 | Posted By - the-escape | Comments 0
The Moment All Web Developers Haven’t Been Waiting For!
IE 7 is out as beta (the real Beta) Tabbed browsing – how innovative – doesn’t Firefox already do that?
Date Posted - 25 Apr 2006 | Posted By - the-escape | Comments 3
Blog Optimisation
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is becoming more and more important on our web sites. It also needs to be for our Blogs argues Teen Web Masters. Of course, they’re right. Every time we write something for the web, we need to think about important keywords and optimisation, as well as linking in the right place. [...]
Date Posted - 25 Apr 2006 | Posted By - the-escape | Comments 0
Truck Stop
Impressive Advertising, pointed out by Advertising For Peanuts. Any questions on what they do? That’s the best way to advertise (in my opinion) – give it to them straight. By the way, we do great web sites and great design!
Date Posted - 23 Apr 2006 | Posted By - the-escape | Comments 0
China Becoming Top Spammer
The BBC reports on statistics from security firm Sophos show that China is fast catching up the US as a source of junk e-mail. According to the report, 23.1% of spam comes from computers in the US and 21.9% comes from China. The UK is tenth on the list of spam sources. TOP SPAM NATIONS [...]
Date Posted - 22 Apr 2006 | Posted By - the-escape | Comments 0
Steaming Coffee
Great Live Ads here (courtesty of Advertising For Peanuts) for Folgers with the coffee cups placed over the steaming manhole covers in New York.
Date Posted - 21 Apr 2006 | Posted By - the-escape | Comments 1
Web browsing on mobile phones taking off
Article in IT Week about a report from market research firm Ipsos Insight suggests that the mobile internet will become the dominant platform for web browsing over the next few years. As evidence, the firm cited robust growth in many markets, singling out France and the UK for showing the strongest gains, and Japan, where [...]
Date Posted - 20 Apr 2006 | Posted By - the-escape | Comments 0
Spelling is Impotant
According to this article at WebMetrics, users misspell terms in 10% of their search queries. Interestingly enough, recently one of our clients had a PDF newsletter with the word ‘minimum’ spelt as ‘minium’ in the phrase ‘minimum wage’ on a link on their web site. It made up 33% of their search engine visits over [...]
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