August 2010 Company Blog Entries
Toile Solutions August 2010 company blog entriesAugust 2010 blog entries from staff at Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire web design agency Toile Solutions, older items are archived.
Notting Hill Carnival, London 2010
31/08/2010Had a fantastic weekend in London at the Notting Hill Carnival with family and friends. The rain quickly subsided and the sun came out over the parade.
Everyone was having a fantastic time and the colour, music and creativity was amazing.
The passion for creating the costumes was clear to see and made me think of some projects back at our Covent Garden, London office.
Our creative team are an amazing bunch and the passion for what they do is clear to see in their project work.
Whether it's designing the ...
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What Should Be in a Web Project Spec?
26/08/2010What Should be in a Web Project Spec?
Every now and then we get sent some really bad specs here at Toile Solutions.
Being Content Management and Application specialists our work is often very complicated and coding intensive, so making sure the spec for the project is right is absolutely crucial.
Making sure the spec is 100% correct is important for both the client and us.
For the client it ensures they get exactly what they want and for us it ensures we can accurately quote for the work we are going to ...
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Social Media It's Not in the London Dictionary!
20/08/2010'Social Media' It's Not in the London Dictionary!
No, it's not the London Dictionary, but the Oxford one, 'Social Media' has made it into the Oxford Dictionary, along with 'Interweb' & 'Defriend'.
I always thought Interweb was the word my mum used because she kept confusing it with the word 'Internet'! Perhaps that's why it only joined the dictionary 20 years after it appeared as an alternative way of saying 'Internet'.
Oxford English Dictionary (not the London one!) analyses over two billion words used in online or printed ...
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Free Marketing Tip from London Hosting Specialists Toile Solutions
19/08/2010Performance Tips Part 1
Performance is now a key factor for Google, so where do you start when trying to increase the performance of your website? Well, there are three key areas to consider:-
1) Programming - how your site is programmed, and if database driven, how that code talks to the database can impact site performance
2) Webserver Software - whether using Microsoft IIS or Apache, the webserver software has an impact on site performance. Microsoft.com reported a 10% increase in site performance when ...
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A Busy Week at our New London Design Office
18/08/2010Another busy week at our new London office!
Continual improvement is a key aim for us, we are planning our new Customer Care Centre to ensure all of our customer calls are answered and efficiently logged, this is a high priority for us.
Our new ticket system will speed up support and ensure problems are resolved to a high standard. Being custom programmed means it will be fit for purpose and easy to use.
To see how we care for our customers why not give our services a try, we retain 99% of our clients year on year and ...
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Social Media and Supermarket Sweep in London and Beyond!
10/08/2010It's amazing what you can buy in a supermarket today, whether you are shopping in London for your fruit, a nice bottle of wine or even to run a print of your best Facebook snaps. It seems ASDA are to offer photo printing of Facebook shots, the supermarket giant ASDA has teamed up with Fuji and PNI Digital Media to offer photo kiosks in a three month deal which will allow you buy your Social Media snaps whilst dashing in for your weekly supplies.
Toile Solutions, a London based Web Design Company have been developing innovative Social Media ...
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Creative Marketing Ideas Come at All Times
08/08/2010It is the weekend and new projects are buzzing around my head today. It is true that sometimes it is difficult to switch off but the opportunity for ideas does not always come when you want them to.
I read a fantastic book a while back, I remember it well. A chap was looking into the science of opportunity and had gathered a room of students to watch a pre-prepared video. The video was a basketball match and the audience was asked to count how many goals each team scored. At the end of the video the question was asked - everyone ...
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Top Requested Feature for YouTube?
05/08/2010What is the Most Requested Feature Made to YouTube?
Answer: To increase the 10 minute limit.
YouTube have responded and announced on their blog that they are increasing the limit to 15 minutes, now you can have your 15 minutes of fame.
Using video on your website can enhance your users experience - our own video work is in production and will be integrated into our website shortly. Carefully planned and executed video can greatly benefit visual edge.
Three benefits of adding video to ...
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Mobile Website Design and Navigation
04/08/2010Today I've been working on the layout for a mobile website, it's a scaled down version of the main fully interactive site which really opens your eyes up to one of the most important points of website design.
Navigation, Navigation, Navigation
Making the users experience of a website is key in the careful design of a site. We spend quite a bit of time looking at how we integrate the menus into a website to make it as easy as possible to surf around the site, whilst still looking stylish.
On a mobile phone with ...
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How Are You Using Social Media?
01/08/2010With so many different social media platforms out there it is difficult to know which one to be using for your business.
I have seen so many websites with a long list of social media platforms that you can follow them on - but are they all kept up-to-date?
When deciding, the best question to ask yourself is "What are my clients using?"
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn?
Pick just one or two and do them well rather than spread yourself too thin and end up with lots of empty accounts. That's what we do here at Toile ...
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