http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/ Web Design Blackburn Lancashire Internet Marketing Manchester en-gb Copyright (C) 2004 - 2009 by Brick Web Design Lancashire Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:38:36 GMT Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:38:36 GMT Newspapers http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 2 http://www.brickweb.co.uk/images/page/logo.gif http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/ 222 39 http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/june/twitter-is-not-for-the-birds.html Twitter is no longer one of those ‘hot, new’ technologies that early adopters are predicting to be the next big thing. Once the baby of the social networking world, it's now mainstream with one of the fastest growing user bases in the world... 243 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 4:58:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/june/new-ofcom-rules-for-0870-telephone.html Effective 01 August 2009 the regulator Ofcom have new rules to encourage communications providers to stop charging extra for 0870 numbers and include them in call bundles 242 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:26:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/june/facebook-give-users-personalised-urls.html Get yours while their hot! 00:01 hours Saturday EST on the Internet this weekend means a virtual land grab for personalised URLs on Facebook. The social networking site is set to allow members to create usernames for personalised web addresses... 240 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 2:20:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/june/you-say-tomato.html We love our American cousins right? But it seems our UK customers don't love US English. If you want to make sure your documents are compiled in UK English. Please check your computer settings... 241 Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:35:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/june/bing.html Microsoft's Bing search engine is now publicly available, allowing the Internet users to decide whether Microsoft's search engine has the where-with-all to compete with Google. 239 Mon, 1 Jun 2009 4:40:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/may/brick-internet-marketing-services-or.html A lot of companies out there are offering low end SEO services. Before you choose how to deal with your Internet Marketing take a look at some of the pros and cons... 238 Wed, 27 May 2009 4:58:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/may/are-backlinks-still-important.html There are plenty of reasons to want your content to be linked to: search engine algorithms, visibility, credit, the sharing of valuable information, traffic to monetise you site, etc... 237 Wed, 27 May 2009 4:44:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/may/argos-earns-more-than-1bn-in-online.html Online sales at Argos have reached £1.1bn for the year ending February 2009, with that channel now representing 26 per cent of all sales at the retailer... 236 Tue, 12 May 2009 5:30:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/may/content-management-from-tharctic.html Rebecca (Director of Brick Media) is safely back from her Arctic experience. She was able to content manage her Brick website using a satellite phone from the most northerly community on the planet!... Well done Rebecca and welcome home! 235 Wed, 6 May 2009 7:23:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/april/blackburn-company-gamexchange-launch.html We're very proud to announce the launch of gamexchange.co.uk. This Blackburn Lancashire based company chose Brick to design and develop their national website. Please take a look at this highly complex yet simple to use "game" site... 233 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 3:32:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/april/content-management-from-the-north-pole.html As you probably know Brick has sponsored Rebecca McKnight on an expedition to the great white north. Rebecca is updating her Brick website daily via satellite phone... if it works instantly from there, I'm sure we can handle UK websites ;) read Rebeccas blog... 232 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 8:07:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/april/easter-opening-times.html We wish everyone a happy easter holiday. Whether you're in the garden, going on vacation or just chilling out. Here are our opening times.... 231 Wed, 8 Apr 2009 6:55:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/april/web-development-ibm-partner.html Brick technology is an IBM Business Partner offering global intelligence and collaboration solutions on-demand. 230 Wed, 8 Apr 2009 6:40:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/april/easter-eggs-for-geeks.html A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, web page or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many Western nations, but actually is derived by the practice of the last Russian imperial family's tradition of giving elaborately jewelled egg-shaped creations by Fabergé which usually contained hidden gifts themselves 229 Tue, 7 Apr 2009 14:14:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/april/questionable-seo-techniques.html Whenever people are tempted not to do the right thing, the Golden Rule is a reminder to "treat others the same way that you want them to treat you". The Internet era rewrote that rule, and now a similar maxim regulates relationships between webmasters, search engines and visitors to sites. So when a webmaster is thinking about using a questionable technique, the new rule recommends walking in the site visitor's shoes. "Do it for your site visitors, and not for search engines." Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Creating regional versions of a site is one of those questionable techniques. 228 Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:42:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/march/do-you-need-our-content-manager.html Brick's Content Management systems are world class. All of our sites include content management, news, RSS, Blog, SMS and newsletter auto-compile modules. If you're looking to upgrade your existing static website. Call us for a free evaluation. 227 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 6:42:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/march/update-your-site-for-easter.html It's not just easter eggs, cards, flowers or candles that sell around easter. The easter holiday generally starts the summer season. We are currently helping our client myGardenCentre get ready for the season... If you have products and services that do better in the summer Easter is the time to review your site... 226 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 6:29:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/march/e-commerce-websites-need-to-convert.html Online retail websites need to ensure they follow usability guidelines to drive conversions and discourage shopping basket abandonment. This is according to the findings of a new study by GSI Commerce and YouGov, which found that more than three-quarters of consumers who had abandoned online shopping carts did so as a result of problems with the website in question. 225 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 6:07:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/march/internet-marketing-outlook.html Conventional TV and radio advertising spend declined last year but reports suggest that online marketing budgets are rising, in spite of the global economic downturn. Recent surveys predict significant and continued increases in online spend during 2009. Internet Marketers will be using all the digital resources they can muster to keep ahead in 2009. 224 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 6:00:00 GMT http://www.brickweb.co.uk/news/2009/march/want-more-sales-or-enquiries.html Brick's simple formula for creating great ads, web pages and newsletters. You can use these steps to ge more results... 219 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 5:29:00 GMT