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Should Mobile devices play a part in my online marketing strategy?

It’s a good question and if you don’t feel that it is right for you quite yet then you should at leased be doing a little groundwork for it today; It’s not going to go away! The Stats There are now 32 million smart phone users in the UK right now with 17 million already going online, visiting websites, purchasing[...]

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Open Source CMS why use it?

Open source CMS or content management systems is software whose source code has been released to users worldwide. The different users come up with different changes that make the system more productive or adaptive to different situations. This ensures that the system does not become obsolete in a very shot time span or that it doesn’t loose its value by[...]

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Benefits of Using WordPress for Blogging

WordPress is at the helm of all the other blogging platforms available online today. Its gradual rise to the top of the list is attributed to many things including the fact that it is an open source platform and therefore can be modified to suit your needs as a blogger. WordPress for blogging gives you two different options as a[...]

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QR Codes for Marketing

QR Codes have been around since the 90′s but have only really been adopted as smart phones have become widely available. So what is a QR Code? QR or ‘Quick Response Codes’ are a type of barcode that can be read by scanning using smartphones and dedicated QR reading devices. The codes link directly to more extensive information, emails, websites,[...]

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Benefits of Drupal for Content Management Systems or CMS

Just like any other CMS or content management system, Drupal facilitates organizing, publishing and managing of any kind of content on a website. This means that a CMS does not deal with article posts alone but also with on page directories and even calendars on a Drupal website. Such a CMS is in use all over the world because it[...]

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Are you prepared for IE10 or will your website cease to function?

If your website is built in ‘Flash’, has elements of ‘Flash’, a Flash Gallery or worse has a ‘Flash’ menu then you are or should be aware that your website does not function fully or at all on iPads. Apple took the decision not to support ‘Flash’ and as a result sites that use the technology don’t work on their[...]

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It’s Time To Stop Supporting Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)

I can’t take it anymore, using IE7 that is! You might wonder why I am still using it? Well as web developers we need to make sure that sites render correctly in all the major browsers and that includes IE7. Yes you can use IE tester but in our experience these give an indication of how skewed your site might[...]

Pinterest – The benefits for SEO

As soon as you get used to Facebook, Twitter etc… as a form of marketing up pops another one! Have you heard of Pinterest? (That’s the name an amalgamation of the words ‘Pin’ & ‘Interest’ if you had not spotted that yet). Well this is the latest social network that has popped up and is already becoming popular. So what’s[...]

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Pushing the boundaries

2011 was a big year for web. A new coding language (HTML5) and way of styling websites (CSS3) came along after years of development, the only drawback is that older browsers such as Internet Explorer 7 don’t support it. But what they all support is Javascript and as a result frameworks such as a jQuery, Mootools etc.

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The importance of searches via mobile devices

searchengineland.com recently published figures stating that by the end of 2012 22% of all searches will be conducted via a mobile device, with the figure set to rise quite significantly over the coming years as the likes of Blackberry, Apple and so forth all continually improve on and release new mobile devices that users become more and more reliant on.

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