The Internet is a massive collection of networks. It connects millions of computers and mobiles and other smart devices together globally. According to the Internet Live Stats, there are more than 3 billion Internet users worldwide. There are over a billion websites as well. So, it is important that you take proper precautions while browsing the net. Preparing your computer/mobile/other smart devices for the Internet It is always better to …
According to recent studies more than 65 percent of the web development Brisbane projects do not use a content management system. With so many advantages, it is surprising that more people are are not making use of content management systems development Brisbane.
Earlier this year I was approached by an organisation I volunteer for, Cochlear Implant Club and ADvisory Association (CICADA Qld), to help with a request to help them conduct an inexpensive website freshen up for their existing website, built using a product called Zoho Sites. Their main concerns were the dated, lacklustre appearance of the site, cluttered content, and confusing navigation. I admit I have never heard of Zoho, as …
One of the great things about open-source CMS Joomla is that it has so many pre-existing free or inexpensive extensions available, allowing the Joomla core to be easily adapted to incorporate just about any functionality you might need, for all kinds of different websites.
Newscorp has just sold MySpace for $35 million. That might sound like a lot of money, but six years ago they paid $580 million for it. I used it as an example in some of my university lectures of how different the online world was from the offline because it has somewhere around 294 profiles set-up by Rupert Murdoch impersonators. And these impersonators aren’t there because they love Murdoch. So …
Maybe they are targetting the only demographic sympathetic to their cause, but amazingly the retailers campaigning for GST to be applied to overseas online purchases are running their campaign exclusively in the print media at the moment.
According to Greenlight BP has bought-up big on Google and Yahoo search terms in an effort to improve its public relations after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
There is a woman that haunts the Stones Corner Hotel, my local watering hole. She is a blow-up doll version of Marilyn Monroe. Not to be taken seriously. Perhaps even pitied. In the old days of search engines, the blow-up doll versions of Marilyn Monroe could get equal ranking with the real Marilyn Monroes, because the search engines believed whatever was in their advertising, otherwise called metadata.
One of our client sites was recently hacked to promote pharmaceuticals – the so-called “pharma hack”.
There is probably more money wasted on search engine optimisation (SEO) than any other aspect of website design. We all know there is no such thing as a free lunch, but for curious reasons, many of us are actually prepared to pay for one.
