Web Design

Facebook Connect Goes Mobile

Posted by Beth Still on September, 30th 2009

Facebook Connect was launched in part to replace the ill-fated Facebook Beacon, which caused great alarm because it tracked and gathered users’ information from third-party sites and then shared it with the users’ Facebook friends without their consent. For instance, if you bought something from Fandango.com or Overstock.com, your Facebook friends would be notified of this purchase whether you wanted to share this information with them or not. A lawsuit ensued, and earlier this month Facebook announced that they are shutting down Beacon.

With Facebook Connect, website users will be able to authenticate, connect their account in a trusted environment, and maintain control of any and all permissions. Facebook users’ personal information and privacy settings will follow them wherever they go on the web. Facebook Connect allows outside applications to access a user’s profile information when they

Google Services for Websites

Posted by Beth Still on September, 29th 2009

Earlier this year, Google introduced a new package of tools designed to help web design specialists / hosts improve their own sites and to pass on to their customers. Let’s take a look at the new tools and how they can help your business.

Webmaster tools
• Help make sites more Google and SEO friendly
• Optimize search engine crawling
• Show Google’s view of any site
• Help to diagnose problems
• Improve site visibility in Google search results
• Enhance and increase traffic to your site
• Automatically inform Google when you update your pages
• Show how users are reaching your site

Custom Search and Site Search
• Offers search functionality on one or more websites or specific web pages
• Embeds search directly on website
• Customizes look and feel of results to match their sites
• Displays relevant ads alongside search results

Catch the Google Wave

Posted by Beth Still on September, 28th 2009

Those smart folks at Google are about to unleash a new communication platform called the Wave in web developer preview mode. So what is Wave? Basically, it is part document and part hosted conversation. Wave is live. Wave is shared.

In Google Wave you create a Wave and add contacts to it. Everyone on your Wave can see anything you post, even feeds from other sources on the web. They can reply to your message or edit the wave directly. If they have Wave open concurrently with you, they will see on their screen what you are typing in your wave almost instantly. Therefore, Google Wave functions as an IM application, allowing your contacts to see what you type, character by character without your ever having to hit a “send”

Twitter: The Best Business Model EVER?

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on September, 25th 2009

Is Twitter a paper tiger?  Sure, it’s wildly popular, fast-growing, and set to secure $100 million in funding, which is a neat trick for a company that has no business model and generates virtually no revenue.  Apparently a lot of people are willing to bet that Twitter is going to become even bigger.  Descriptions like “next big thing”, “unlimited potential”, “poor man’s email service” are bandied about as evidence that Twitter can’t fail.

Some business owners live by the adage to “be wherever your customers are”, ergo, if they are on Twitter, so should your company be.  It’s easy to see how Twitter could help certain types of businesses, e.g. real estate agencies, reach customers and potential customers at a moment’s notice.  Some companies either have or are planning to have a Twitter “Czar” to interact with customers, making sure that

Website Launch – Grandstand Group

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on September, 25th 2009

Its Friday and we just launched the new web design for the Grandstand Group.

Grandstand Group | Web Design

Simple PC – New Web design

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on September, 21st 2009

We have just produced a new web design for Simple PC to replace a rather tired and outdated old flash based website. The new site is clean and contemporary and will be fully content managed with Wordpress allowing greater flexibility for Simon (the MD) to amend content and have greater range in the search engines. The new design comes with a new brand design created by us and will encourage site users to invest with greater call to action and a combination of simple conversion techniques.

New Web Design (initial concept…work in progress)

Web Design | Simple PC

Old Web Design

New Web Copywriter Joins the Team

Posted by Beth Still on September, 19th 2009

Juno Web Design has a new team member, a talented web copywriter called Beth who will be helping with our day to day website and SEO copywriting. Welcome Beth!