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Posts tagged social media
Screencast: How To Move / Change The Order Of Tabs In Facebook Pages
Mar 19th
If you’re new to using Facebook’s fantastic Pages functionality you may find yourself frustrated at trying to move or change the order of Facebook Tabs.
It can be quite an annoyance but you’ll be relieved to know that it’s actually very simple. The short and concise screen cast below will show you how.
How To Move / Change The Order Of Tabs In Facebook Pages
Signs Of A Healthy Twitter Account
Feb 26th
If you’re like me you use Twitter daily; it’s a nice place to catch up with people and stay up to date with your choice of interests etc.
But, of course there’s the whole business side to Twitter too, which I intend on writing about separately.
As Twitter has become more prominent in people’s social networking lives, it’s sometimes hard to find decent people to follow / interact with without clogging your home Twitter feed up with “noise” from people that don’t give much value or engagement.
Of course, you can use Twitter’s great ‘Lists” functionality to segregate people into different places, but still; More >
Data As A Product – Facebook’s Lack Of App Control
Jan 21st
When you start an app on Facebook that isn’t regulated by Facebook itself, you need to click an option that allows the app to view your data with the reasoning that it will make the app work more efficiently. This is never really explained and many people have been left questioning why their profile information needs to be accessed for them to play something as simple as an arcade game? This means that once you’ve access the app, the company who run it can have access to all the information you’ve posted on your profile, such as your phone number More >
mojoPortal Review – my first experience creating mojoPortal skins – is this the best open source .net CMS?
Dec 17th
Hi, and welcome to my mojoPortal review, sprinkled with a few tips from my first time creating mojoportal skins.
Let me give you the bits you need to know before I get into the review proper:
- You can download MojoPortal from here
- It is developed by the extremely helpful Joe Audette
- It is written in C# .NET
- You can use the very good Community Forums to help get you started, along with the official documentation
- You can check out the mojoPortal demo to have a play around
Ok, so that’s where you can get the information you need, so let me give you a bit of a background of me More >
How to write a design brief for web design projects and SEO success
Dec 14th
Hey hey
We put a post up a while ago about the importance of a good design brief and promised we’d follow it up with how to write a design brief. Well, here it is.
We’re lucky enough to work a wide variety of projects through our SEO and web design work and the most common thing that we find is that clients don’t actually know how to write a good design brief.
“Why should the client have to write the design brief?” you might ask. Well, it’s a fair question. The answer is that they probably shouldn’t, it’s what we do More >
The importance of a great design brief based on our web design & SEO experiences in Barnsley & Sheffield
Nov 14th
Hello hello!
So, this is a post covering, well, what it says on the tin.
Our blog posts are all about opinions and our experiences, and this one focusses on our experiences working with companies in Sheffield, Barnsley and the rest of Yorkshire and the importance of collecting a great brief before starting any SEO or web design project.
Ok, so; why is a brief so important?
Well it affords you the chance to get to know your client, get to know their products or services and get a feel for the way they work, how they want to be perceived and, most importantly: what their More >
Google’s new Twitter deal – some different thoughts on how it could help you and your business, not just your SEO
Oct 27th
Us geeks have been singing the praises of using Twitter to boost your search rankings for a while now, and some of our clients are certainly directly benefiting from their Twitter use. This week Google and Microsoft both announced deals to include live Twitter updates in their search results pages, and whilst full details are still under wraps, spending a bit of time getting on top of this could make a huge difference to your online marketing. So, what could this mean to your business?
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