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Nation Wide Security Website Launch

2013-05-23T09:26:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to launch www.nationwidesecurityuk.com An UK based security company offering a wide range of services. We worked with their agent to produce the design work and upon approval developed the website along with contact forms for visitors to fill out.

The Basics Of Twitter

2013-05-20T09:47:00.000-07:00

Author : Wasim Ismail Every single person knows what Twitter is, whether you use it for your business or just to keep up to date with trends news and information, overall it's a valuable tool, but more importantly it's a powerful platform. Just the other day one of my friends came to the office to discuss having a website and coffee of course, and he’s Twitter profile now has over 41K

Google Panda And Google Penguin Updates – Meaning And Timeline

2013-03-17T03:33:00.000-07:00

Author : Bharati Ahuja In January 2011 Google had promised to take action against content farms which were growing like unwanted weeds on the web. Google has always been of the opinion that their goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible and this requires constant tuning of the algorithms, as new content—both good and bad—comes online

The Interflora Link Spam controversy And The Reminder About Selling Links By Google

2013-03-06T15:04:00.002-08:00

Matt Cutts the head of the search spam team issued a warning on the Google official blog recently. Google has always warned webmasters of the consequences of buying links which pass on PageRank. Infact Google on the webmaster guidelines page long time back has in detail mentioned-“Any links intended to manipulate a site's ranking in Google search results may be considered part of a link scheme.

The Bing Sitemap Plugin For Webmasters And SEOs

2013-03-05T15:09:00.000-08:00

Author : Bharati Ahuja No SEO campaign is complete without XML sitemaps. Sitemaps are the easiest way for webmasters to inform search engines about the URLs of their sites that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to

How everyone in your company can get on board with social media

2013-02-26T16:12:00.000-08:00

Author : Wasim Ismail You as a business owner do not have to be solely be responsible for every aspect of your online footprints. I’m sure you already have a lot in your plate to do. You can easily delegate certain tasks to your colleagues and partners, especially your social media campaigns, but still keeping a close eye on them and monitoring the activities. The main reason why

How to use Instagram for Business

2013-02-19T16:14:00.000-08:00

Author : Wasim Ismail Instagram flourished when Facebook bought it for $1 Billion last year (2012), now with over 100 million users on instagram increasing daily, many business are using this medium to position their brand in front of potential users. You must be thinking NO, not another social media platform, how many can one manage, we have Facebook, Twitter, two years ago we added Google

FCPM Mobile App (iPhone & Android)

2013-02-12T21:21:00.000-08:00

We worked with the FCPM team to design and develop a mobile application for its users on iPhone and Android. Our team developed the app with the below features: Stream Audio Online View & Read eBooks Read News & Events from the organisation Pledge Counter Push notification

Benefits of Creating Podcasts For Your Business

2013-02-05T23:52:00.000-08:00

Author : Wasim Ismail What is a podcast? Podcast is basically is an audio digital file for users to download and save in portable devices such as mp3 players, it can contain anything from music, interviews, or anything in an audio format. The general file format of a podcast is MP3. Wikipedia: MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. It was designed to greatly

Are You Neglecting Videos in Your Business?

2013-01-30T03:00:00.000-08:00

Author : Wasim Ismail Over the past couple of years Videos have become more and more important in building one's reputation and brand online. Business are investing in general videos about their products and services as a form of building engagement with the customers. Search engines have also emphasised the importance of video, by displaying them in search results, as you can see from the

Ideal Muslim - Matrimonial Website

2013-01-28T09:11:00.000-08:00

We are pleased to announce the launch of www.ideal-muslim.com. An online matrimonial service targeting muslim. We worked with the team at Ideal Muslim to design their logo, website, and marketing material. Logo Website Leaflet Business cards

Faceit - Mobile Phone App

2013-01-25T09:22:00.000-08:00

We are pleased to announce the launch of www.lets-faceit.com. An online mobile phone app that lets you quickly find and add new contacts on Facebook & Twitter, that are registered with Faceit. We worked on the mobile app and the website for Faceit. Website Mobile App

Mobile App or a Mobile Websites

2013-01-15T17:46:00.001-08:00

There is definitely an increase in the online mobile industry. Everyone has a smart phone these days, from which they easily access the web, emails, and share information with their networks through certain mediums. For business this is great, as they can target and position their business for this huge audience available to them in the form of mobile friendly websites or a business mobile

Importance of Creating and Sharing Content

2013-01-08T20:44:00.000-08:00

Everyday online thousands of new pages are created in the forms of blog posts, new websites being launched, news articles, press releases and the list goes on. All this content are being submitted online for a reason regardless of what format they are in (text articles, videos, and audio...etc). Some of the reasons 1. New companies/individuals/establishment setting up their presence online.

5 Simple Benefits for creating a business Mobile App

2012-11-13T16:39:00.000-08:00

1. Engagement: one of the many ways of keeping your customers and visitors engaged with your business is using a mobile app for your business. The app could be anything from a news portal about your industry to an educational game with the focus of keeping your customers tuned in.2. Communication: With push notification technology, you can easily send out important information to all of your app

How To Integrate FaceBook Open Graph - For WordPress And Blogger

2012-11-12T10:24:00.000-08:00

By integrating FaceBook Open Graph Protocol one can easily share content with FaceBook friends. Whenever someone like the content , it gets published on their FB profile if the Open Graph Protocol is implemented correctly. With the Open Graph, your app becomes a part of the user’s identity and social graph. Through a single API, you

Managing Android Applications

2012-11-06T16:00:00.000-08:00

To be able to get most of your Android mobile device, it is important that you know how to manage your apps. Here are easy-to-follow steps on how you can view protected applications and reinstall and force stop regular apps.How to view protected Android appsThere are two types of apps available in the Android Market: copy-protected applications and the regular Android apps. To prevent illegal app

How To Implement Twitter Cards

2012-11-02T18:38:00.000-07:00

With the shift of the web towards the semantic web and the focus being on data connectivity and its co relevant display. The web is giving priority to Rich Snippets, HTML 5, microformats and schemas. Twitter introduced ‘Twitter Cards’ in June 2012. Twitter displays a summary and a thumbnail image of the post shared on Twitter if the site has integrated ‘Twitter Cards’ by adding the

How to Side-load and Update Android Apps

2012-10-30T17:52:00.000-07:00

Android applications, in most cases, are installed directly on Smartphones via the Android Market app, which accesses both free and paid application available on Google’s online marketplace. However, Android apps can also be installed through a process called ‘side-loading’ – an installation technique that involves the transfer of apps from a desktop PC directly to any Android-operated mobile

How To Add Authorship Markup

2012-10-27T05:17:00.000-07:00

In our post dated 3rd October 2012 we spoke about how to prepare your site for the semantic web and mentioned that we shall be taking up each point in detail every Friday. So far we have discussed: HOW TO IMPLEMENT THE HCARD AND VALIDATE IT AS PER MICROFORMATS.ORG And HOW TO ADD VIDEO AND AUDIO FILES ON YOUR SITE USING MICRODATA AS PER SCHEMA.ORG Today we discuss about how to add

How to Backup and Delete your iPhone Files

2012-10-23T19:02:00.000-07:00

Are you planning to sell or trade-in your iPhone unit? Before you do so, make sure that all personal data you have on it are deleted and removed. Follow the steps below on how to delete data and settings on your iPhone so that no one can access your personal files such as emails, text messages, phonebooks, etc.Step 1: Back your files upIt is important that you make a backup of your files so that

How To Add Video And Audio Files On Your Site Using Microdata as per schema.org

2012-10-19T10:57:00.000-07:00

In our post dated 3rd October 2012 we spoke about how to prepare your site for the semantic web and mentioned that we shall be taking up each point in detail every Friday.Our last post discussed the hCard implementation using microformat and microdata format for adding the contact details.Today we discuss about how to markup video and audio files on your site

iPhone App Development - From Vision to Promotion

2012-10-16T19:46:00.000-07:00

So you are visualizing an iPhone app idea that you think is the “next big thing’. What will you do next? How will you get your visualized idea realized into an actual and tangible product? And when you actually have the app developed for you, how do you introduce it to the market?You may be the brain behind that “next big thing’, but, unfortunately it means nothing unless you can get it out of

How To Implement the hCard and Validate It As Per Microformats.org

2012-10-12T01:13:00.000-07:00

In our last post we spoke about how to prepare your site for the semantic web. Let us take up each point in detail every Friday. Today we have shared about the hCard implementation.hCard is a simple, open, distributed format for representing people, companies, organizations, and places, using a 1:1 representation of vCard (RFC2426) properties and values in semantic HTML or XHTML. hCard is one of

Quick Tips for Buying Android Apps

2012-10-09T18:56:00.000-07:00

The Android market has tons of fun and useful applications, both free and paid. Before you can download and install any app, you will need to have a working Google account. The following are quick tips on how to go about downloading and purchasing android apps:Sign up for a Google Checkout account. Visit the checkout.google.com, click “Sign up now” and fill in the required fields. If you already