Archive for February, 2011

Getting Mobile…

Monday, February 28th, 2011

The mobile generation is here and here to stay. With more and more people on the move, the office is becoming mobile. After all, we have now come to expect emails and internet browsing on a phone.

So why shouldn’t your website be mobile too?

This is an important step for any business as more and more the office becomes the back of a taxi or a train for commuters or a living room. It doesn’t have to mean a new site it just means upgrading the current one to include mobile pages that are designed for a much smaller resolution and cutting sections down to their core. We don’t change the main sites pages instead we make new pages that are viewed by the mobile devices automatically instead of the main site.

When dealing in mobile optimisation there are many points to remember and firstly is that it isn’t a computer. This mean its on a slower connection, with less processing power and memory. As well as needing to load fast its a good idea not to make the site too big as a lot people don’t have unlimited internet on the phone.

Every business benefits from mobiles optimisation.

Bing = Google?

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

Microsoft’s search engine Bing has been accused of copying the search results of search engine giant Google. Microsoft has denied the allegations and has stated that it has simply been using data gathered by Internet explorer 8 based on how users used the Internet to refine it’s own search engine.

Google however had built a sting operation by using there own search engine results to see if they would appear in Bing and there are sure enough examples to be found. But whether this proves anything is yet to be seen. Then there is also the matter of whether or not what it proves really is malpractice or not. Only time will tell which of these corporate giants is right.

Chrome going for Gold…

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Chrome is now one of the big players in the Internet browser war though still way behind the major players, and with apples safari just behind it. From December to January we saw a steady loss for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and though they were holding steady now Mozilla’s FireFox is starting to see a loss.This should lead to some interesting events later on in the year when gaps begin to close and measures are taken to try and gain supremacy.