When it comes to website marketing, understanding your customers is paramount.
Head to your local newspaper shop and pick up a copy of a leading sector print magazine. Who knows how to talk the talk better than the guys who write these magazines? Read More
We’re pleased to announce the general availability of the new CRM feature. We’ve had it in beta for some shops, and we’re eager to get it out to everyone!
This feature allows you to manage your customers easily by allowing you to create customer groups, tag your customers, view customer purchasing history, and more. You’ll find a number of useful customer groups already in your shop to get you started, and creating your own is super easy. Original Post
The WordPress IPhone app 2.6 has been optimized for touchscreens. “We are very pleased to announce that WordPress for iOS Version 2.6.1 is now available in the App Store. This release addresses issues many of our users reported with Version 2.6.” WordPress for iOS
A client asked me an interesting question the other day: what’s the difference between Taxonomy and Folksonomy? So I thought I’d be a good Samaritan and share my answer. Firstly, Taxonomy and Folksonomy are common place on the web as tags – tags are keywords that describe data. Content creators and consumers add tags to describe their data. The difference between taxonomy and folksonomy lies in who adds the tags to the data.
This weeks web design critique is Brande07 by Rob Palmer. Beautifully clean mix of cool blues and well polished surfaces creates a relaxed and crafted feel. Rob obviously loves birds (Puffins) as theres illustrations of them everywhere. The attention to detail sets this design apart, lets discuss.
The latest update to Firefox 4 Beta brings super fast graphics and incredible new audio capabilities to the Web. Firefox 4 Beta now leverages hardware acceleration to improve graphics performance for Windows users and also allows, for the first time, the visualization of audio data within the browser. If you haven’t already, you should download it for free, today! | Original Post
Our approach to building a faster web browsing platform, as seen in the Platform Previews, involves using everything the PC and its hardware have to offer. Before IE9, browsers used perhaps 10% of the PC’s capability. IE9 has shown the clear performance benefits with full hardware-acceleration of webpages.
Our approach in designing a site-centric web browsing experience also involves using everything available around the browser. We see all the pixels and code that people need for a significantly better browsing experience already there on the screen. The beta of Internet Explorer 9, available now at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com in 33 languages, reflects this unique approach. Original Post
If you’re based in the UK and self-employed you can save money by getting tax relief for your business expenses. If you pay for a service for business and private use (like your phone bill), the bill can be split so you get tax relief for the part that’s just for your business.
Tim Berners Lee talks at TED earlier this year highlighting the uses of open data and mash ups and the Open Data Movement:
Last night I had a rather unusual web marketing meeting with the one and only Basil Brush. Read More