Web Design & Development

A new contender has thrown its hat into the ring of search and SEO. New engine Blekko launched at the beginning of November and promises to provide full transparency regarding its ranking data, with cutting-edge technology which will filter out all spam and low quality sites. But how is Blekko different? And what has made it decide to launch late on into an already crowded arena? Blekko chief executive Rick Skrenta outlined the company’s aim as ‘to build a search engine that not only lets you do your usual searches, but also lets you do searches that you just can’t do anywhere else.’ [Read On]

The ongoing rivalry between Bing and Google became focused on the mobile internet search market this week as Latitude released mobile search figures for the first three quarters of the year. The mobile search market has grown exponentially over this period and at this early stage in the sector’s development, Google is well in the lead. In the UK, Google’s mobile search traffic for pay per click has grown at an average of 76 per cent each quarter for the beginning of the year. In a secondary blow for Bing, this figure has just surpassed the number of Bing users who access PPC via their desktop. [Read On]

As the 7th International Cloud Expo gears up for its November run in America, cloud computing is once again brought to the forefront of the industry. Although not suitable for every business, cloud computing can provide excellent ROI and flexibility in a number of cases and is becoming increasingly popular, mainly with large corporations, but also among a number of fast-growing SME’s. If your company decides to switch to cloud computing, how will this affect your website design? [Read On]

Following last week’s blog on Google TV, another milestone in internet TV was hurdled this week as Ofcom announced it would not be launching an investigation into the UK’s equivalent YouView, following complaints by non-associated broadcasters. This could offer them enough breathing space to herald in a new era of web design. [Read On]

The first range of Google ready TV’s were launched by Sony last week and are expected to hit US stores this weekend, well ahead of Google TV’s own launch in a few weeks heralding new possibilities and opportunities in web design. In its own words, Google TV will combine ‘TV, apps, search and the web’, ultimately colonising the only household device with a monitor that no-one on the internet has yet penetrated with any great success. [Read On]

I was carrying out some research for one of our clients and came across something I'd never seen before in Google, their site dominating the top three slots on page 1 for one of the key phrases we're optimising for. [Read On]

When you’re looking to design a mobile website, there are several languages you can choose from each with different pros and cons. WML, Wireless Markup Language was one of the first languages designed specifically for mobile. Consequently, it was essential to the birth of mobile internet and its subsequent explosion. However, it has now been superseded by several different technologies. For those new to mobile web design it has very few uses, being mainly the reserve of legacy systems and companies that target older phones either in the UK or developing world. [Read On]

Once you have a mobile website set up, you need to start directing traffic to it, just as you would for an internet site. Similar approaches apply to marketing a mobile website and the major search engines have created channels of communication between sites and engines that mirror existing internet applications and methods of search engine optimisation to help mobile sites gain recognition. [Read On]

Apps are becoming big in the mobile internet market, really big. This fact was underlined recently as behemoth Amazon threw their hat into the ring with a, necessarily vague, announcement that they intend to set up a mobile apps service. [Read On]

Some of us are seeing a blue arrow pointing to the top Google search result. It looks like this and frankly looks more annoying than anything else. [Read On]