Archive for May, 2008
EtonDigital’s recent design for Premier French Property has been receiving excellent reviews, since its launch a couple of months ago.
The latest review, from Clarke Design, had this to say about the EtonDigital design;
‘First Impressions; Outstanding - What a superb looking website. Well laid-out, clean and tidy, using the latest style. The colour scheme works well and is easy on the eye.
The search bar is by far the most important item on the site and it is bold, clear and so easy to use.
Searching for property; Searches work well, results are well presented and sortable. The detail pages are excellent, quick loading and very easy to read with lots of information.’
We would like to thank Clarke Design for their excellent feedback…
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EtonDigital is proud to announce the successful completion of three current projects.
The first design - for PMW LTD, features a Wordpress Content Management System, and has already attracted praise from several online CSS galleries (including CSS Mania). Since its launch, average daily user numbers have increased from 20 to 600 when compared with the previous design. (PMW is an Essex-based, BMW and Mercedes service and repair specialist).
Secondly, we are delighted to announce the addition of a new feature to Sprintbio.com, for whom we recently provided a new homepage. We have now added a Wordpress e-commerce solution in the form of Sprinbio Retail, which offers an easily manageable financial transaction facility, with fully integrated PayPal services. Sprintbio is a leader in…
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Slideshare.net is looking like a real winner in the online media sharing market. Their Youtube-style content portal is designed for hosting and sharing slideshows, presentations, and ’slidecasts’, and is currently the leading site in this sector. I had a little explore of the various features on offer to see just how good it really is…
The first thing new visitors will recognise is the layout - the homepage features a search bar, a tag cloud, and then selections of most popular, most downloaded, and recently added shows. Further down there are links to users and groups (like Youtube, Slideshare encourages users to register into the community - though you can use the site without doing this).
All in all the interface is functional…
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The folks at Facebook have had a busy week. They began with announcing a forthcoming data portability product called Facebook Connect, (which marks the abandonment of their fundamental ‘walled garden’ approach to user data management) and then went on to ban Google’s own data portability service (Friend Connect) from their Facebook API, stating a violation of terms of use as the reason.
Some bloggers and commentators have been contemplating if this might mark a new phase in the development of social networking, with the earlier co-existence of the main players now giving way to a more open tug-of-war for market share. After all, new user uptake is slowing down, and one way for social networking sites to continue to grow will…
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This week saw Myspace win a huge victory against junk mail in the form of a record £120m legal judgement against two spammers. Their press sources are claiming this represents the beginning of a serious spam crackdown. For many however, the question remains; is this genuinely likely prove an effective example in curtailing spam, or simply turn out to be yet another high-profile waste of time?
Parallels with the record industry’s efforts to discourage illegal downloading with much-publicised lawsuits come to mind. Despite generating quite a few short term headlines, the lawsuits rarely achieved their purpose of scaring downloaders into paying or abstaining. The odds of getting caught were simply far too remote to warrant desisting.
In the case of Myspace spammers…
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