We’ve just completed the first release of our latest site, www.marshaswanzy.co.uk, which features a catalogue of Marsha’s designs. The next release will feature Marsha’s new furniture range. Take a look at her amazing work here.

Google has just announced it’s public DNS service with some easy to remember IP addresses: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Google think by using their DNS it’ll make the web faster.

What is DNS? It’s short for Domain Name System, a sort of phone book for the internet. It turns your website name (ie www.solvd.co.uk) into a number that’s understood by computers and network equipment. Find out more at Wikipedia.

New look for the Solvd website! We hope you like the colour scheme.

An IPS TAG (sometimes called an IPSTAG) is a unique identifier given to each Domain name company (Tag-Holder) with Nominet, the registry for all UK domain names. The tag is used to identify the company responsible for the management of a domain but they only apply to UK Domains like .co.uk , .uk.com, .uk.net, .me.uk .ac.uk and .org.uk.

If you want someone else to look after your domain name you can do this by changing your IPS Tag. To change IPS Tag you need to contact the company where you have registered the domain name and ask them to change the TAG to the TAG of your new provider. You may also have to let the new provider know that an incomming transfer is comming its way.

The new Google Caffine engine may well spell changes for SEO and website design work as the new search algorithms take more note of social networking and videos than just plain ol’ text and images. This shakeup could spell intresting times for those people who are in the market of online marketing. The test site is up but you can checkout a side-by-side comparison here. More info on Matt Cutts blog and on the Google Webmaster blog. CMS web specailists like us will have to supply the easy to use tools that will allow the customers to keep ahead of the competion by uploading vids, demos, and getting those followers and retweets.

Just testing out a new more SEO friendly blog that should push our website design and system development news out to twitter and facebook in a more automated and managed way.

The social media portals are becoming more and more important as time goes on as you customers and friends don’t have to mess around with RSS or visiting your site, it arrives at thier social hub. The blistering growth of twitter and the fact that facebook is the most viewed site in the UK make these tools very useful for small businesses.

Breeze is a Content Management Web site tool we’ve developed to produce quality websites for people very quickly which can then be easily maintained by the prospected client. These web sites can be tuned to any particular requirement and can be designed to suit the customer’s company and logos.

• Local Authorities
• Regional Government
• Central Government
• Independent Grant Administrators
• European Sources

BeInspired09 – Well done Business Link!

I thoroughly enjoyed it and not just for the free gifts that were lavished out. This was excellent for local small Business and I hope it becomes a regular occurrence.

The Microsoft talk was mired in technical mishaps but the gist of web/mail/hosting/SaaS convergence was well understood and was on the money.

You could see where the the path was leading. The “traditional” marketeers looked a bit sorry for themselves whereas the web design company talk on SEO was playing to a packed house. Everyone was feverishly scribbling down everything that was said.

I really must finish the SEO and SEM marketing guide that I have been putting together as people obviously love plain English guides to optimising thier website for organic rankings. I guess in these tight times people are less willing to finance Pay Per Click (PPC) ads!

Once you have a stable code base you could consider compressing JS files so that your new customers get your site downloaded even quicker. Our CMS websites rely heavily on AJAX and JavaScript as do all modern interactive websites that have been designed for users to customise and update.

There are a number of ways of enabling various forms of caching and compression but a quick win could be to use a tool like the JavaScript compressor to give your site a little more zing. It will shrink a JS by about half which could be several 100K if you are using a modern library.