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Gather the right requirements for your website

So you have decided you want a new website, or that current tired looking website really needs a fresh look to bring it out of the 1990’s.  Where and how do you start? Here are a few important points to help you through this important phase of your project.

Start with the end in mind

In many projects, especially for large organisations, most ideas and requirements are driven internally within your organisation.  In many cases, the project sponsors (the people paying the bill) will have an agenda the project team will endeavour to satisfy.   While it is obviously important that internal requirements are met, this common practice has often left one important group of people out in the cold - your end users.  More »

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Dying Online

I read an interesting article a few years ago on what happens to your ‘web presence’ after you die. Cheerful? No. But it got me thinking. Just how many virtual versions of you are there? How many presences do you and your brand have online?

When we started out in web, a ‘web presence’ tended to refer to an entity’s public website. The old ‘dub-dub-dub’ site. Build it, upload it. Count the hits.

Online marketing is much more complex today, although the principles remain the same. Eyeballs. Who’s eyeballing your brand or entity online?  Who’s looking at you, when and where? And what are they saying? Once you answer those questions, you’ll quickly realise that your online presence has the capacity to stretch well beyond your painstakingly worded, carefully designed, search engine optimised website. More »

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Microsites maximise your business

We placed a very creative Microsite live earlier this month Jag the black series.

Created for JAG Clothing the Microsite is designed to promote a limited edition jean range. A range that is so exclusive and limited that we have even developed a stock control counter for each product, when each hits zero that is it, no more available!

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Cloud Computing – In a nutshell

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud Computing is the latest buzz word in the world of IT, some consider it the next step in the progression or development in computing. This new technology is simply a platform for which online and offline applications can be ‘hosted’ – similar to current hosting models – but way bigger, better, more integrated, and hopefully more secure.

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Information overload!

How to manage your website browsing more effectively with RSS

As an Internet Development Specialist (rough translation, GEEK) I read a lot about this wonderful place we call the interweb. A lot of which is delivered over the web. Everything from current affairs to gadget news fills my reading material and I am both better and worse off because of it.

Clients often ask me how I wade through all the content that is out there and I commonly tell them that although I read the latest content from hundreds of websites each week I very rarely actually visit the sites…

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Software as a Service

The traditional model in the computing world has been “software as a product”, that is software is boxed and sold as a physical product that users buy and then own (or at least have rights to use) forever. This concept is so ingrained that software venders who only offer their product via download, with no physical component, will display images of virtual cardboard boxes over the download button.

“Software as a service” dispenses with the idea of software ownership. Now instead of the software vender selling you their software to keep forever, they rent you the software’s capabilities for just when you need it. More »

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