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My mate Colin had been going on about how awesome skydiving was for the past year and his constant ramping on about it every time we went for a beer, which of course is a regular event, was starting to do my sweed. I decided to do it just to shut the annoying tit up [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Festival websites: as important as the line up?
It’s festival season and with so many choices out there people are now checking festival websites more and more to tell if it’s the one for them. As well as account management for web, I moonlight in festival organisation and have been noticing the importance of a good festival website a lot more since I [...]
Posted in Nudge Blog Tagged Boomtown fair, festival, Global Gathering, informatiion, line-up, marketing, Secret Garden Party, tickets, websites Leave a comment
This month is all about Gorillas!
I have been painting two life size gorilla sculptures as part of Bristol Zoo’s mass public art event; “Wow! Gorillas” The event is all about bringing together residents, visitors, schools, artists and businesses for a fun and engaging shared experience for the whole of Bristol. After submitting designs for the project in February, sponsors were [...]
Hosting and why it matters
Disclaimer: As well as Nudge Digital, I’m also a Director of Network EQ (www.networkeq.co.uk), a hosting company specialising in managed virtual servers. My views may be biased but I’ve tried to present a fair and balanced point of view. As web developers we rely on web hosting, the same way taxi drivers rely on cars [...]
Posted in Nudge Blog Tagged affiliates, development, hosting, server, virtualisation Leave a comment
Beware the bedroom developer
So you want a website, what do you do? Surf the net looking for companies, or ask around and find out that you mate’s cousin’s dad drinks with a bloke who knows someone who will do it for a hundred quid. Both of these avenues are fraught with danger, you should always consider more than [...]
Posted in Nudge Blog Tagged consultation, cost, developers, location, meetings, reputation, websites Leave a comment
Five tips to search marketing success
Get savvy with SEO While there’s no substitute for engaging, well presented and well written content, the hallmarks of good organic SEO should never be overlooked. A few of the myriad techniques include ensuring a decent spread of industry and geographic-specific key phrases relevant to your business, product, services or location. If you operate in [...]
Posted in Nudge Blog Tagged Google Adwords, search engine, search marketing, SEO, social networking, webmaster Leave a comment
Google Chrome OS – Should I get it?
I have recently been looking at how useful the new Google OS would be in my day to day life. It’s an interesting exercise as I use the web every day for a good proportion of the time available, it’s just what happens when you’re working on the web. So I was pretty interested to [...]