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Our thoughts, rants and inside knowlege of web design & development!
Our thoughts, rants and inside knowlege of web design & development!
Nov 8th
Innermedia are proud to launch 2 new websites with furniture specialists, Moore & Sons.
Martin Moore wanted a new website for Moores Sofas & his reupholstery site, Moores Reupholstery. We worked with him to create two websites that had similar elements of quality but were still unique in their own way.
If you are interested in web redesign, or web design in Hertfordshire, contact Innermedia
Sep 23rd
Adtech is an exhibition and conference where the marketing and advertising community come together to discuss new ideas and changes in digital marketing. We went there to find out what’s new in the online world of business and how we can keep ahead in the ways we advertise.
Much of the time we spent there involved listening to seminars by some of the leading industry experts, including Yahoo & MediaCo. There was lots of talk on the changes in social media, especially with Facebook making significant changes to it’s networking site on the same day.
As more and more people use Facebook and other social media sites, the importance of social media to businesses increases.
If you are interested in setting up social media for your site and would like training on how to use it effectively, contact us.
Sep 20th
Innermedia are extremely proud to launch this new ecommerce design website for Just Eternity. Just Eternity are one of the largest manufacturers of Eternity Rings in the UK and they have been manufacturing rings for almost 40 years.
This jewellery web project was designed and built using the Magento Ecommerce Platform. We wanted to create a site that represented the quality of the jewellery available from Just Eternity.
Visit the website: www.justeternityrings.co.uk and let us know what you think of this ecommerce web design
Sep 15th
Innermedia are always excited and proud to launch new websites. We have been working closely with Howarth Homes to produce a website for their luxury new homes development, Woodland Chase. We wanted to create a site that represented what this new development is all about; desirable, luxurious & modern living space.
We used WordPress to build the website as it was the ideal platform for creating the website that we wanted.
You can visit the website http://www.woodland-chase.co.uk/ and let us know what you think.
If you are interested in our website design or web redesign services, contact us today.
Aug 24th
Many private & independent schools are reluctant to use social media due to many of them fearing the unknown or because many newspapers have associated social media with cyber-bullying and other issues with students. The real risk of social media is actually that some students spend more time vacantly refreshing their social media news feeds, than they do revising. But most of these small problems will still exist whether your school is on Facebook or not.
Social media has become a must for any business, organisation or school. Facebook alone has a total of 400,000,000 registered users. People are spending a considerable amount of their time “living” on Facebook. Your school needs to be “living” there too.
Facebook is a great tool that can be used to keep people informed. You can set up a group or business page for your school and then you can invite all students (and parents) to follow this page. Giving all your followers regular updates. There is also a “create an event” feature on Facebook, which allows users to create an event and then invite followers; this is a great way to promote upcoming functions and events at the school. Another benefit of Facebook, is the More >
Jul 20th
The recent ’phone-hacking scandal which has tainted the reputation of Rupert Murdoch – who was already a hate figure in some media circles – and his News International corporation seemingly caused an online reaction so extreme that international hacker collective “Lulz Security” (often known as LulzSec) took steps to infiltrate the website of News International’s Sun – the best-selling newspaper in the UK. LulzSec officially renounced their retirement from hacking in June; however, they have claimed responsibility to the attack, at first posting a fake news story about the death of Rupert Murdoch on the Sun’s website with the headline “Media mogul’s body discovered”. Minutes later, any attempt to access thesun.co.uk caused an automatic redirect to LulzSec’s Twitter account. “How can we read this morning’s breaking Sun stories when there is no Sun website?” joked @LulzSec. Twitter has been for days the go-to site for information about the hacking scandal as it continues to break, and online pressure in the form of petitions and retweets has been blamed partially for the collapse of the News of the World, sister paper to the Sun and now closed down permanently. However, although News International still stands, its official website has previously been More >
Jul 5th
Social media rears its head whenever news breaks. Facebook, once the pinnacle of information-sharing, held its own for fast news stories, with Reuters, BBC News and Sky all using it – in conjunction with their websites, news tickers, and YouTube channels – to get news out onto the Internet fast, so that it can be used on the blogosphere, and perhaps even get noticed by the general public. However, in recent years, nothing can hope to beat Twitter, the fastest-updated social networking site ever created, which journalists have praised on account of the fact that typing a headline and hitting “send” is remarkably easy, wherever you are.
To work on this, Twitter has launched its own guide for journalists – “Twitter for Newsrooms” – encouraging the hashtag #TfN. TfN defines a “common bond” between news reporters: “the desire to make a difference in the world, bringing reliable information to the communities you serve”. The four sections of the service – report, engage, publish and extra – provide support for journalists across the globe, providing support for those not yet au fait with the power of microblogging, and networking for those who are.
Facebook itself has also launched a resource for journalism, encouraging news More >
Jun 28th
Google have unveiled their latest attempt at cracking the world of social media, titled ‘Google+’. After previous attempts such as Google Buzz turned out disastrously (and even resulted in privacy scandals), it is particularly important for Google to get it right now before they lose an irreclaimable amount of ground to Facebook.
In fact, Google+ looks very promising. The tool will be baked in across the entire suite of Google products – search, maps, GMail, Reader, YouTube and many other successful services. A notification drop down similar to the red icon you see on Facebook will be accessible and omnipresent across all of these services, ensuring that take up and continued usage is high.
Circles
Google have presented some innovative ideas to the status quo of social networking. They noted that granular sharing is ‘tacked on’ in many current social services, like ‘Friend Lists’ on Facebook, to which you can restrict access to your posts. Google wants to slip this on its head and make their social network reflect reality – hence their ‘Circles’ feature. A fun interface will allow you to drag and drop you friends in and out of your different social ‘circles’ – like ‘University friends’ or ‘Colleagues’ or even More >
Jun 24th
The Google checkout badges, which have formed part of the AdWords listings for over four years, have been dropped by Google.
According to eCommerceCircle, Google reportedly said, “We’re making this change to improve the user experience on Google search results pages.”
The move comes as Google looks to freshen up their operations with the new +1 badge. This new badge is designed as a way of endorsing a post, website or search result. It will act similarly to the Facebook “Like” button.
If you want to know more about the new +1 button and how it could affect the Search Engine Optimisation for your business, contact Areatrade.