Google Page Creator Beta
April 20th, 2006
Recent Projects
I’ve recently been testing e-commerce software for ease of setup and customisation and the ease of use for the end user to maintain their shop. More of that will come in a later post.
Having carried out that project I’m proud to say I’ve been invited to join the Google Page Creator Beta testing program to help them test out the features, functionality, ease of use, standards compliance and accessibility issues before public release.
Google Page Creator will be an online tool to make it easier for people to create and publish their own web sites. Read the rest of this entry »
Advertisers shun print for online formats
April 5th, 2006
An interesting new statistic & another boost to those looking to build a site for their business-and indeed an big incentive for those who hadn’t been looking to start thinking seriously about an online prescence.
Internet advertising grew almost two-thirds last year & was the only advertising medium to record positive growth in the UK. Total UK online advertising spend for 2005 has surpassed all initial expectations, growing a massive 65 % from around £825million to £1.3billion.
Internet advertising’s market share is now up to 7.8% & could break the £2billion barrier in 2006 according to Guy Philipson, chief executive of the Internet Advertising Bureau’s bi-annual study which is carried out in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The online advertising market would be bigger than adverts placed in the national press for the first time if this “real possibility” is achieved.
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