Website design and marketing news, hints and tips
Archive for December, 2009
Happy xmas from everyone at Infobox Media!
Dec 23rd
We would like to wish all our clients, partners and subscribers a very happy christmas and a prosperous new year.
Look out for more exciting small-medium business initiatives from us in 2010 as we continue to make the web more accessible to companies just like yourself.
If you’ve not got in touch with us yet, give us a call and see how we can help your business to flourish in the new year.
Twitter hijacked!
Dec 21st
Twitter went offline on Thursday after being subject to a DNS attack from a group calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army.
The hijack redirected Twitterers to a defacement page depicting a flag.
Users were locked out from the site for over an hour whilst the issue was fixed.
Best Massage DVD site re-launched
Dec 16th
The Best Massage DVD is a really good product, and we are teaming up with them to provide a Wordpress driven website, complete with Buy Now Paypal functionality, SEO optimised blog, image gallery, YouTube integration and much more.
Head over to Best Massage DVD to have a look at the site, let us know what you think of it, buy a massage DVD or even let us build a similar site for one of your products!
Real-time search update
Dec 12th
This Thursday Yahoo unveiled its plans to launch a feature to integrate tweets into search results. This comes just days after our post highlighting Google’s own plans to integrate content from sources such as Twitter and blogs.
Microsoft’s Bing search already shows results from Twitter, but they are shown on a separate page rather than being integrated.
This news is yet another reason to get your social networking and social media presences setup and optimised to help your business get the most from the internet.
Drive people to your social media sites
Dec 10th
When you first setup a social networking/media profile and start to customise it can feel a little bit like you are wasting your time.
How do you get people to follow your updates, look through your articles or pictures or click through your links?
A good idea can be to run some sort of a promotion which gives users an incentive to look at what you are doing and participate in some way.
The Open University, for example – are running this competition to get people buzzing around their twitter profile.
They are offering a hamper of Thornton’s chocolates to the person who makes the most interesting tweet with their twitter identifier included in the tweet…genius!