- How to increase site performance through A/B split testing — UX Booth
- MTVs brand new look — Creative Review
- Clever billboard campaign for safe driving — Creativity Online
- 80 corporate website designs for design inspiration — Instant Shift
- Introducing the Google OS — Google Blog
- Time to invest in email — ClickZ
- Perform better with Google Adsense: the ultimate round-up — Smashing Magazine
- Facebook makes spontaneous event planning easier — TechCrunch
- Four questions every usability professional should be thinking about — Dexodesign
- 10 Usability lessons from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think — UX Booth
Weekly round-up
- 10 UI design patterns you should be paying attention to — Smashing Magazine
- jQuery for absolute beginners — Nettuts +
- Let’s make the web faster — Google blog
- Download iPhone GUI PSD 3.0 — teehan+lax
- Design for mobile wiki: resources for designing and building apps and sites — Little Springs Design
- Rupert Murdoch’s web ambitions — The Guardian
- MySpace is forced to slash workforce — The Guardian
Big opportunities for the property industry in the digital age
Bluewire Media, the Brisbane based web design and strategy agency, has undertaken an extensive study of 16 leading property websites, evaluating them against 25 criteria covering web design, web development, useability, content quality, email marketing, business process use, Google search and social media use of websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Youtube.
While the property industry received an overall pass mark, there is opportunity for property companies to add value and differentiate themselves in the digital age.
Toby Jenkins, Managing Director and co-founder of Bluewire Media reports:
… Continue Reading“To achieve results online requires a deep understanding of what the user is looking for and how they wish to be engaged.
Weekly round-up
- How to improve your branding with your content — Smashing Magazine
- Optimising conversion rates – it’s all about usability — Smashing Magazine
- Non-profit website design: examples and best practices — Smashing Magazine
- Complete beginners guide to information architecture — UX Booth
- Visual hierarchy in web design — Theme Forest
- Twitter surges past Digg, LinkedIn and NYtimes.com with 32 million global visitors — Tech Crunch
- Google values MySpace deal at 75 million a year or less — Tech Crunch
- What we know about the Apple Tablet so far — Tech Crunch
- Google Products’ new look logos — Google Blog
Facebook strategy ideas to try out
Facebook strategy ideas
Over the next few of my posts, I’ll share some ideas on what we recommend implementing in terms of a social media strategy.
Before I start, I thought it was be wise to clarify how I define social media & web 2.0
Social Media – (also known as social network websites) is online communities that allow people to interact in much the same way as they would in the real-world.People can be friends, contact each other, join groups, look at friend’s photo albums.
Web2.0– is another term for the Internet today where most people belong to social websites that allows them to interact, upload their own photos, videos, blogs & comment on other peoples.Web…
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