On 26 May 2011, the amended Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations came into force, covering electronic marketing such as emails, faxes and text messages. They include some changes to the rules for “cookies” on websites, and introduce new powers which can result in monetary penalties if  the law may have been broken. Hold on, what’s [...]

We just want to say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone that took the time and effort to vote for the Beringer Tame website in the ‘best recruitment website’ category of the MARA awards. The fantastic news is that all those votes have ensured the site has been shortlisted as a finalist in the category! [...]

Every month we have our little internal get together to discuss what we’re going to shout about in our newsletter. Sometimes there are projects, that for various reasons, have been worked on and are looking great, but we can’t quite shout about them when we might like to. That’s just the way it has to [...]

Social media is a hot topic right now and there’s plenty of services out there… but which ones should you be using? Or more to the point, are there any you can afford not to be? To help guide you through the ‘t’internets social minefield’, we’ve put together a masterplan (aka… list) that’ll make sure [...]

If you’ve ever called your web agency regarding a problem with your web site and been told “it works on our machine” you’ll know how frustrating it can be. At the Escape we understand your pain and we never want to be *that* company so starting today we’re giving away “Our machine” FREE with every [...]

A few of us managed to get out of the office last month and make it to  the “New Adventures in Web design” conference to hear industry renowned speakers like Sarah Parmenter, Elliot Jay Stocks and “hardboiled” Andy Clark talk about the future of web design. We heard about “The New Language of the web” [...]

According to recent data from internet monitoring firm StatCounter, Microsoft’s share of the global internet browser market has now dipped below the 50% mark for the first time. The data comes as Microsoft has not only released a beta version of its latest browser, Internet Explorer 9, but also at a time that sees its [...]

To many of us, the company blog seems to have taken a bit of a back seat in recent times in favour of the currently more ‘trendy’ forms of social media such as social networking or micro-blogging. True. The blog may lack the cosy familiarity of Facebook or the soundbite immediacy of Twitter, but it still remains an component of social media that can drive quality traffic to your website as well as the previously mentioned social media channels.

We love sharing stuff over here at The Escape so we thought we’d let you into a little secret. No. we haven’t recorded a cover of an old Beatles song, we’ve just had a bit of a play around with our company website. You know the sort of thing… to use ‘marketing-speak’ we’ve basically given [...]

Just a couple of months ago, The Times’ free-to-access website, timesonline.co.uk, attracted around 2.8 million unique users in the UK alone. However, its owners, News International, launched two separate publications thetimes.co.uk and thesundaytimes.co.uk where registration would become mandatory and readers charged for exclusive access to the content. The problem now is that, according to ComScore, [...]