Channel Computing Limited

1. Featured web site - Deep Blue Apartments
(Case Studies/Case Studies)

... level of integration between Google Maps, the Joomla web site, and a directory product for Joomla called K2. The concept was to take an existing library of very stylish luxury apartments, and make them ...

2. A guide to the main blogging platforms
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... spam comments.  Keep these in check with a great Wordpress anti-spam plug-in called “Akismet”. Costs of a wordpress.org blog So there is more to think about with this option. A basic blog might ...

3. Winners and Losers of Googles Farmer Update
(Internet Marketing/Search Engine Optimisation)

... recent has been dubbed the “Farmer” update by the press, although internally at Google it is called Panda.  This update has led to some dramatic changes for rankings and traffic for a number of websites.  ...

4. Sorry - You Are Not Really on Page 1 of Google!
(Internet Marketing/Search Engine Optimisation)

... the site to recognize your browser.  This can also be called a web cookie or a browser cookie.  You can disallow cookies but you may find some website functionality is lost if you do not allow them.  ...

5. Why opensource software helps YOU to win more often than not
(Web and Software Development/Web Development)

... make the development costs much higher than using something that already exists. Some companies have written their own (often called "Proprietary") systems, so they can say "We don't have to write it ...

6. Pants Matters
(Resources/Charities in Cornwall - and Further afield)

Pants Matters is a charity run by a lovely lady called Jeanette Preston, which raises awareness and helps people with Gynaecological issues, cancers and other nasty things. We didn't build this web site ...

7. Social Media Cornwall
(Internet Marketing/Social Media Marketing)

... and that means Google in the majority of cases (increasing your visitors from search engines is called SEO - Search Engine Optimisation).  So if that's where most of your visitors are going to come from, ...

8. How to post links in Forums
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... produces the same thing. However when posting in many forums they don’t let you use html, but something similar called “BB Code” instead. This stands for Bulletin Board code. The equivalent link in BB ...

9. Shadow Minister to meet Cornish Internet Entrepreneurs
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... want our additional support to really put the theory into practice on their web sites. The follow up will be called the "Kick Start" day ( I am after all a biker at heart), and will be available to our ...

10. Would you like some SEO with that?
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... point here is actually to work on a wide basket of phrases, not just fixating on one). So lets look at "cornwall hotel". The top site today is called cornwall-online.co.uk, and it has a Google Page Rank ...

11. The ten first steps you can take to bring visitors to your web site.
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... we want to rank for are highly relevtn to our business, and are called "Long Tail Keywords". So to the steps: 1. Get your site Listed in Directories. Genreating links to your site is the most important ...

12. Google Chrome Browser
(Resources/Free Resources)

... Explorer 5/6/7/8, or Mozilla Firefox (Currently at version 3.01). Firstly there is no search box, and where the URL (page address) lives in the browsers we're used to, there is now something called an ...

13. Did your web site not send you flowers this year – AGAIN?
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... of them are called Digg, Squidoo, Technorati, Del.icio.us, and other funny nerdy names. These are the main “Social bookmarking sites”, and the place to go to tell a web site that you love it. You get ...

14. Social Networking with Training Wheels
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... that important for the typical small business as they stand today. There may be very practical business reasons for some to actually use these and other, what are called social networks, for business gain, ...

15. Six tips for easier and more effective blogging...
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... results. This type of writing is one example of what is called "Link Bait", but its well worth understanding how that works: The power of high quality internet content - Channel Computing blog. Hope ...

16. Good Blogging: the power of quality content...
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... chap called Cameron Olthuis, who wrote an article so good that it propelled his company to the top of the Google rankings for one of the more competitive key-phrases on the web - "Life Insurance". The ...

17. A dozen most common Mistakes of new web sites
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... This is called "Semantic page structure" for those that are interested. 6. Text: Right lets get away from the code for a while, and take a look at the text itself. How much is there? In many cases very ...