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Launch of marc1wines.co.uk

John Kilroy, May 15th, 2008
Keywords: Ecommerce, News, Small Business

We’re raising a glass here today for the launch of marc1wines new ecommerce website. The site, based on our new range of general retailing ecommerce websites, has a great selection of mid to high-end wines from around the world.
Specialising in French and Italian red wine, and champagne, marc1wines has a growing reputation for quality wine [...]

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social meltdown sites

John Kilroy, May 10th, 2008
Keywords: Web Design

So much for social networking sites. I just tried again to update my MySpace site because last week when I tried to do it the site was so busy it just crawled to stop and I had to get off. This week - same story. I don’t know how much longer I can go on [...]

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Tim, nice and anything but dim

John Kilroy, May 9th, 2008
Keywords: News, Small Business

On an otherwise unremarkable day, April 30th 1993, something happened which changed the world. On that day Tim Berners Lee and his employer, CERN, released the World Wide Web (WWW) from its licensing bonds and set it loose upon the Internet as a free technology. The impact of this was almost immediate, leading to the [...]

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Welcome to our new website

John Kilroy, May 8th, 2008
Keywords: News

Today is the launch of our new website. We’ve been so impressed with the Wordpress sites we’ve recently been developing for our clients that we thought we’d really test the claims of Wordpress’s authors and use it as a CMS to build our own website.

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Death by SEO

Search Engine Optimization (or optimisation as the British prefer) is a key web marketing activity. According to Wikipedia it is to do with “improving rankings for relevant keywords in search results…

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Life outside the Google top ten

Some people undertake web marketing in order to get a page one listing in Google, which is a bit like aiming to open a shop on Bond Street or the King’s Road….

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The Google Top Ten

Although this article deals with the Google search engine, a real web marketing strategy will always aim for good spread across a considered (researched) list of other search engines.

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Introduction to web marketing

Web marketing is an umbrella term for a collection of services that aim to make your web site more valuable to your business.

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Recommending HTML rather than XHTML

John Kilroy, April 18th, 2008
Keywords: Technical

I know the current fad is to serve web pages using XHTML doctype, but this is, in almost all situations, wrong. OK, count to ten, and read on.
Unless you are going to serve your pages with a mime-type of application/xml (which virtually nobody does), and therefore make your pages innaccessible to the 65% of your [...]

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FTSE 100 web site survey, 2006

John Kilroy, June 14th, 2006
Keywords: Technical, Web Design, Web Standards

This survey assesses the technical quality, usability and accessibility of the homepage on the main web site of each member of the FTSE 100 group of companies.

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