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We are now on Freeindex

Tony — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:19:09 +0000

Freeindex is a business directory, we think its one of the best. you can find us by following web design wiltshire

Apple’s New Operating System iOS 5 coming soon

Tony — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:59:28 +0000

Apples iOS 5 operating system has been previewed for the iphone,ipad and the ipod. And in less than a day it has been jailbroken by the iphone Dev team.
Now I own a iphone and I have never felt the need to jailbreak it, but if your wondering what jailbreaking is here’s a quick summary for you.

What does it mean to Jailbreak your iphone
The process of jailbreaking your iphone means that it can open up the device to do far more than apples operating system previously allows. Once your phone is jailbroken it can run apps and other software that has not been approved by the Apple Store. The process of opening up the iphone operating system has been around for years in fact ever since the first iphone came onto the market.

Should you jailbreak your iphone
To be honest I have been totally happy with my iphone and everything on it. I think Apple has done a great job with the iphone operating system, its stable and does what it says on the tin. But if you want to break away from Apple’s grip on your iphone then jailbreaking could be a way to go.

Sounds all a bit risky to me
In the past there was a risk of legal action, but that’s no longer a problem. The main risk is on a technical level. If you are allowing your phone to use third party, non-approved applications then this will carry the same risk as surfing the web. I know I’ve been in this situation, you download a program from the internet and think it looks ok, but after a while you come to realise that its stuffed full of malware and other nasty stuff. Well the same could happen to your iphone. With the average price of an app at 59p it doesn’t break the bank and you know its legit. And with so many free apps out there as well I really don’t see the point in trying to jailbreak your iphone.

Moshi Monsters now has 50 million members

Tony — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:21:48 +0000

If you have children then you may have heard about a website called Moshi Monsters. Its a popular childrens social network where they can play games, build

a house for their Moshi Monster and send messages to their friends.

The Founding British company based in East London has just signed up its 50 millionth member since starting Moshi monsters three years ago.

Michael Acton Smith is the brainchild behind Moshi Monsters and in the UK alone the site has signed up 13 million children, thats over half of the country’s

6 to 12 year olds.

It has been said that the service is widely considered as one of the most successful technology businesses to have emerged from East Londons tech hub for

years, it is expected to turn over £50 million by the end of this year.

The parent company of Moshi Monsters, Mind Candy was close to bankruptcy 3 years ago but with the invention of Moshi Monsters this has reversed thier

failing fortunes.

Google Phasing out old browsers

Tony — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:21:05 +0000

If you searching for web design Swindon and your still running some of the older versions of Internet

Explorer of Firebox the you will need to upgrade soon to continue using Google’s online services. As of the 1st August 2011. Google Apps and Google sites

will no longer work properly with old version of browsers.

Google have recommended that you should upgrade to any of these:

Internet Explorer 7.0+
Mozilla Firefox 3.0+
Google Chrome 4.0+
Safari 3.0+

They are moving in this direction as part of a trend to stop the use of ageing browsers which can be insecure and not cleaver enough to handle the latest

web technologies.

For more information regarding this you can see the news report on the bbc website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13639875

Twitter and Facebook

Tony — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:20:39 +0000

We are now on twitter ( http://twitter.com/WebFutures ) and Facebook (

href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Web-Futures=Design/125984517480596" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Web-Futures=Design/125984517480596

)

Search Engine Optimisation

Tony — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:19:57 +0000

Today I got my hands on a book called “The art of SEO – Mastering search engine optimisation” by O’Reilly. It has completely changed the way I look at SEO and how Google and the other search engines rank web sites. Let me say its been a real eye opener !

The Vale Hotel, Cricklade, Swindon

Tony — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:19:18 +0000

We are currently redesigning the Vale Hotel’s website. The Hotel is situated between Swindon and the Cotswolds. We have incorporated a content management

systems (CMS) into their site so they can update prices and menu’s whenever needed.

After the website officially goes live at the end of October we will then concentrate on their Search Engine Optimisation campaign and get those rankings

higher in the search engines. This can take anything from 3 to 9 months to see results. Phase two of this project will involve incorporating their hotel

booking system into the website so customers can book and pay for there rooms online.

Sorry i thought you said £106 Million!

Tony — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:18:17 +0000

After a long mornings work i thought lets have a break and a read of some news. One story jumped out at me and it was about government spending on there

website’s.

One website was picked out in particular, www.businesslink.gov.uk which is run by Her Majesty’s

Revenue and Customs (HMRC). They (HMRC) were stated to say that this website had cost £35m a year to build and operate for 3 years and suggested that it has

been poor value.

They reckon they have 1 million hits per month on there site so i can understand they would have to spend some serious money on there infrastructure

(server’s, networks etc). And they would also need some full time web developers on this type of project but in my simple mind i still cant see how you can

spend £35m a year on something like that.

Mmmm I wonder is i could get myself a government contract to do one of their website’s !!!