Home » Design Blog
Friday, March 12, 2010 | Telephone : 01252 692 765

Problematic Changes

As I designer I’m all for changing websites; maybe the design got a bit stuffy, maybe there’s a new layout you’d like to try, maybe you’ve got a better idea than before, or even your focus has changed.
Change is good. But yesterday I noticed some websites that once had very important links to my clients’ [...]

Crawler.com hijacked my browser

After installing an app last weekend I’ve had Crawler.com hijack my browser to be my default search engine. I didn’t tell Crawler.com to do that so I’m pretty pissed off with them and every attempt to uninstall the damned search engine has failed.
The hijack doesn’t appear to have had a massive effect on boosting their [...]

cuil sucks

That new search engine, cuil, you know the reputed Google killer? It sucks.
From England I typed in “Small business news” and got served a dish of useless American websites – useless to me anyway. Why do I sit in an office in (Old) Hampshire and wish to see small business news from Cleveland, New Jersey, [...]

Microsoft to buy Yahoo?

Oh no. It looks like Microsoft have made an offer to buy Yahoo!
Microsoft have apparently offered $44.6bn or £22.4bn, in cash and shares.
It sounds like a good deal for shareholders who’ll get 62% over the closing value of the share on Thursday (31st Jan) night when the shares are down 46% on their high of [...]

Oceanwide Properties

We’re currently working with a client by the name of Oceanwide Properties who sell property in Turkey.
As well as consulting for their web design & web development projects we’re project managing their SEO strategy and slowly but surely raising their profile in the search engines.
The site will be undergoing a redevelopment & redesign to help [...]

SEO Rant

A new client has asked me for some help with their website and part of the task is to assist them with their SEO.
Their current SEO company have submitted their URL to a few dozen search engines and are apparently re-submitting every month for a fee of £40. For this £40 my client receives a [...]

Google Notebook

This new Google Notebook feature is handy. At long last we don’t have to just cut & paste URLs into our bookmarks or CTR-D the page when we get there, we can also note URLs from within Google and write notes to go with them.
Look, we’ve searched Google for 22i design Farnborough. In the page [...]