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Friday, 7 July 2006
According to Melbourne IT, while more than 90% of internet users get to websites via search engines, more than 50% of all Australian businesses who have a website cannot easily be found in a major search engine like Google.
What does this tell us?
Perhaps it tells us that most business website owners don’t really have a clue about how people actually use the web. The fact is that the days of brochureware websites are long gone. As users become more savvy, they’re come to realise that a website without interactivity is basically useless. It’s no longer sufficient to try and dazzle your potential clients with your “web presence”, you actually need to offer something of value. Having a page which says “please call this number” just isn’t enough.
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Tuesday, 4 July 2006
It’s been over three months since the launch of Windows Live, Microsoft’s klutzy “Google killer” project. Like Google, Windows Live is offering “personalisation of your homepage”, with news, weather, mail, and (apparently) more.
Apart from the weather service, which recognises that I’m from Melbourne, Australia (not Florida), it’s not really personalisation when none of the available news sources are from Australia, is it? But then again, it’s still in beta, so I guess Microsoft weren’t planning to unleash it on users living in faraway places like Australia just yet.
Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Some fifteen months after it’s announcement, Google Maps have finally got Australia covered. The new version of the API makes it a snap to add a customised interactive image map, such as this one, to your website.
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Friday, 2 June 2006
That’s what the people behind the “RankAttack SEO Technology” website claim anyway. Apparently, their “aggressive technology” (whatever that means) enables the overwhelming majority of webmasters to enjoy improved rankings with the search engines in a matter of just days. Yes, that’s right, days. Not weeks, not months but days.
Claiming that SEO is a “difficult task”, with the search engines “always changing the rules”, they have come up with a piece of $79 (US) software which is able to mislead the search engines into believing that your brand new and shiny website is suddenly getting lots and lots of enquiries, so the search engines might as well hurry up and get the bloody thing indexed so even more people can enjoy the seemingly many benefits it offers to the mass populace.
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Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Simpleton is an open source PHP application which enables you to view Picasa2 image galleries on the web, using nothing more than the Picasa2 XML “web export” feature and an FTP client. Simpleton parses the generated XML and renders the image galleries on the fly.
If you already use Picasa and have a website then Simpleton may be for you. It does not need a database and is easy to install, configure and use. See our products page for details.
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