Sorry to jump on your bandwagon Craig, but another very important event happened this week. We got a super duper new fast boiling kettle! This now means we each have approximatley 6 more minutes per day* to dedicate to all our lovley clients!
Andy was so pleased he even gave it a polish!
* Well it depends how much tea you make for everyone - you know who you are!
Much easier to have a run down of work for the whole week, rather than the individual case studies, so welcome to our new weekly post. (I did rip it from Brandflakes - it works so much better, so thanks for that).
It’s hissing down in Basingstoke so have a nice warm and dry weekend.
As a web designer i’m always on the lookout for new and creative ways of doing things on websites. Here is a great example of thinking differently as far as a site navigation is concerned. It seems to be inspired by a family tree. Have a play at evasolo
Techcrunch reports today on an encouraging act of collaboration between Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
They have just announced that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org, the system instructs web masters on how to install an XML file on their servers that all three engines can use to track updates to pages. This should make it easier to get your pages indexed in a simple and standardised way.
People who use Google Sitemaps don’t need to change anything, those maps will now be indexed by Yahoo and Microsoft.
A couple of weeks we created a video tutorial on how to do this which we have put here. Effort vs. Reward = got to be done!
Over the past decade search queries in search engines have gradually increased from 1.2 words in 1998 to 3.3 in 2006.
With so many web pages trying to get your attention, we have developed our skills in looking for what we want. Some of the problem with that is that we are still all very different.
This cut-down guide from E-Consultancy points to a comprehensive report on the subejct of keywords and key phrases.
Hitwise have released a new report on share of
searches powered by the leading search engines and some analysis of
paid and organic traffic going to some leading websites in the UK.
There is more to come so go look at the blog, or subscribe on Hitwise for the report.
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, at least they are letting you have your say.
Number 10 have made it easier for you to create petitions online.
Just imagine the greater reach and impact petitions could have, let alone the cost and time savings. Also, the petitions you could sign online that you didn’t know existed. I for one, have never really signed any petitions, but now… the extra possibilities for moaning are endless, and (flippancy aside) my tiny voice could be electronically linked with all those other tiny voices out there.
Interesting read here at one of my favourite Blogs - Techcrunch.
A legal letter from Youtube regarding copyright infringement in an article Techcrunch posted about how to download Youtube movies to your hard disk.
With so much copyright material on the Youtube network in the first place, this is an amazing stance to take?
Nice set of tips published on the e-consultancy about subject lines for E-Mail Marketing with Christmas coming.
Tuesday November 14th 2006 is World Usability Day:
World Usability Day 2006 promotes the value of usability engineering
and user-centered design and the belief that every user has the
responsibility to ask for things that work better. The Usability Professionals’ Association
is doing that by encouraging, organizing, and sponsoring 36 hours of
activities at the local level around the globe, all occurring on
November 14, 2006.The importance of usability is not trivial; it is connected to
important everyday things such as education, healthcare and safety.
Tools and systems that are usable are more effective in teaching
students. Healthcare professionals can be more confident with safer and
understandable tools providing better quality healthcare to their
patients. Government institutions can rely on easy to use and
understandable voting machines to insure accurate and democratic
elections. Usable technology makes a difference to everyone, everywhere
around the world
Usability is an interesting thing. Many Companies look at it as a hinderance but it is plain common sense with real commercial value. We all love things (and websites in particular) that are easy to use; so why not give that to our clients?
