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1. #digpen web conference is coming to Falmouth
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... The event was such a huge success that follow-ups were quickly planned. Ms Dolan said "I was amazed at the response - I don't think any of us realised quite how many top quality people there are living ...

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

... beginner Wordpress has two offerings - wordpress.org and wordpress.com, which are quite different.  Google's offering is blogger or Blogspot. There are meny other good blogging platforms but these ...

3. Cornwall's first Joomla! Training day
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

Well its quite late and I should be preparing, but I thought it would be worth blogging that the we are holding the first Joomla! Training day in Cornwall tomorrow. 15 hardy souls have signed their day ...

4. Autumn Training Programme - Joomla Course
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... including to my knowledge University College Falmouth, the Falmouth, the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce, and many others. We do quite a few sites in Joomla, finding that if offers a very good blend of ...

5. Benefits of multi-language web sites
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... to your web site - should you achieve support with the translations from UKTI.  Have a look at the very simple multi-language functionality we added to this site quite a while ago: http://www.neuteboom.it ...

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

... systems have been created. There are a wide variety of these ranging form the good to the bad and the really quite ugly. On the lower end of the scale are the "Template" systems where an unskilled ...

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

... into Plaxo E-cademy Business users - 33% from the UK Alexa Rank: 6012 Business networking is also encouraged here, but there is quite a lot of unsolicited (SPAM) in my view. Join the ...

8. Databases for business
(Web and Software Development/Software Development)

... a bespoke application of any kind can be quite a time consuming task.  Where possible we are able to add value to the process by finding and customising existing solutions, rather than building something ...

9. New Diesel Tuning web site goes live.
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... done quite a bit of web marketing to support his business we already had a good working relationship (I hope!), but this site was a little different to say the least. The difficulty if you can call it ...

10. On-line collaboration Tools
(Resources/Free Resources)

There are quite a number of tools around that help a team get together and collaborate on a project. This one is an interesting one, and should you have a number of people all trying to work together, ...

11. Online Image Editors - Pixlr
(Resources/Free Resources)

...  Well here are two programmes that give you image editing at a more reasonable price - free in fact. Pixlr is an on-line tool, looks quite advanced and has most of the functionality you are likely ...

12. The usual round of internet Scams - Adwords and SEO this week
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

...  That means they can hang on to more of it themselves. In addition 5 keywords are not usually sufficient for an effective Adwords campaign. With a new campaign you normally start with quite a lot of ...

13. Web site optimisation for Photographers and Artists
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... words on their web site, when their images are quite beautiful enough to do the talking? Well this brings us on to search engine marketing, and the one thing that search engines can actually read - words. ...

14. Web 2.0 doesn't work!
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... some things, but it is quite over-hyped at the moment!" Is that better? It does make you wonder though, whether the massive and increasing influx onto the web 2.0 sites are the same people that were ...

15. Twitter all a jitter
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

...  Now the main lessons of the story are this: 1. Its OK to use twitter, its quite fun and if you haven't tried it you don't know what everyone is talking about. 2. Don't automatically "follow" everyone ...

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

... or some of the other good optimisation companies in the area to do a "proper job" on your web site, however for the smaller businesses around even these quite realistic charges are out of the question. ...

17. Content Managed Web Sites
(Web and Software Development/Web Development)

... any functionality you require using wither PHP/MySQL, or Visual Studio and SQL Server. It is quite rare that a high quality open source product does not exist, so please ask us to look at each individual ...

18. Open Office
(Resources/Free Resources)

Open office is the open source (free) alternative to the ubiquitous but quite expensive Microsoft Office.  One of the lynch pins of the growing opensource movement, it provides you with all the normal ...

19. Google Chrome Browser
(Resources/Free Resources)

The Beta only arrived this week (first week in September 2008), but already Googles entry into the web browser wars has caused a storm.  Chrome is quite different to the main incumbents Microsoft's Internet ...

20. Plumbers Taps!
(Blog/Web Development and Marketing Blog)

... see past the superficial. To any that didn't - well - it was quite poor wasn't it! OK enough, please feel free to look if you have a minute, on: Channel Computing's new web site!  ...