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Web design made easier with Photoshop 4

Posted At : 24, October 2008 10:29 AM | Posted By : Jamil Shehadeh
Related Categories: Web Design

Of all the new features in Photoshop 4, I am most excited about the new Content-Aware Scaling feature.

When laying out a website design I tend to spend way too much time sourcing images that will suit the design, and more importantly, the design layout. This is a task that all designers have to contend with and unless the client supplies good quality image files, one that will always be necessary.

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More reasons to love Google Webmaster Tools

Posted At : 20, October 2008 11:53 AM | Posted By : Sam Gipson
Related Categories: Search Marketing

Webmasters around the globe have been jumping with joy after a recent addition to Google webmaster tools: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/.

Google have recently released a new feature which integrates into the existing Diagnostics > Web crawl menu in Webmaster Tools. Before now, Google would inform you of 404 errors which broken links would return, which would leave webmasters with the ‘exciting’ task of finding the offending broken links, which was like trying to finding a needle in a haystack.

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Google AdWords gives green light for gambling websites

Posted At : 16, October 2008 03:42 PM | Posted By : Ashley Fletcher
Related Categories: Search Marketing

In breaking news today from Google AdWords advertisers will be able to bid on gambling related terms as of the end of this week.

As quoted in the Google’s Advertising Policies:

“Google AdWords allows online gambling advertisements to target Great Britain (England, Scotland, or Wales) as long as the advertiser is registered with the Gambling Commission and provides a valid operating license number. Advertisers based outside the UK and within the European Economic Area who wish to target online gambling ads to England, Scotland, or Wales must be licensed to advertise online gambling in their respective country.”

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Google: RSS search results on the way

Posted At : 13, October 2008 02:54 PM | Posted By : James Fairweather
Related Categories: Search Marketing

Google have announced that they will be making web search results available as RSS feeds in the future. Reportedly, it will be introduced as an extension of the Google Alerts service, which currently only allows notification by email.

RSS results will allow users the option to follow search results with a feed, giving more flexibility over the way they handle the data. It will even be possible to embed a feed of all the latest results for a search query into their website. Currently, Google is the only major search engine not offering RSS feeds of web search results.

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Top tips for updating your CMS-driven website

Posted At : 6, October 2008 05:18 PM | Posted By : Jamil Shehadeh
Related Categories: General, Web Design

It’s all very exciting. Your website designer has finished work on your new site, you’ve gone through your final checks and the site has gone live. You realize that all those hours of hard work were worth the effort because your shiny new website is now online, ready for your colleagues, visitors and clients to browse.

If your site is built on a content management system (CMS) you’ll no doubt have the ability to make updates and add content to the site yourself.

The process of updating text and images is generally straightforward, but at times the web editor can unwittingly introduce formatting into the page which can radically throw out the design and structure of pages on the site: a design that you and your designer have worked hard on to get right.

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Celebrate Google’s 10th birthday!

Posted At : 2, October 2008 08:25 AM | Posted By : Ashley Fletcher
Related Categories: Search Marketing, SEO

As Google is now 10 years old they have released a special birthday gift for all their fans.

We’ve had great fun looking back at the search engine results pages using this tool.

It really shows how much search engine optimization and paid search has changed the shape of how we click on results. 

Enjoy!

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