On Friday the 26th June the UK government release a response to a petition calling for all software produced by councils under the Timely Information to Citizens project be released under an open source licence.
One of our clients, La Fromagerie has been featured in the Independent's 'Top 50 Food Websites'. La Fromagerie recieved a glowing credit specifically mentioning the clever 'cheese room'.
We are very pleased to annouce that Richard Johnson has joined GPMD as a Director. Richard will be working on new business and brings 7 years experience in working for online agencies.
We are very pleased to be working with NESTA on improvements to their SilverStripe powered website. Ivan Selcedo from NESTA has been looking for a London based agency to continue to develop there website, after and initial meeting and review of the existing website they have asked us to start work on a list of improvements. NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.
Ingo Schommer and Tim Copeland from the SilverStripe team are coming to London to meet Developers and Businesses interested in using SilverStripe. They will be at Meaz at 6pm on 30th October.
The New Zealand Herald has published an article on SilverStripe's success since releasing it content management system as an open source product. The Wellington based company has increased turnover by 400% in the past year.
The recent release of Google Chrome saw Google's entry to the browser market. It has some nice features and is easy to use, although I think it will be a while before it challenges Firefox and IE.
Build a great website and the visitors will come - correct? Unfortunately not - building a great website is only half the picture it is important to have a clear strategy for marketing it form the start. Your online marketing strategy might include any of the following; search engine optimisation (SEO), pay-per-click advertising (PPC), affiliate marketing, email marketing, social media marketing, banner advertising and linking up with other website to drive traffic.
Google Site Links are the sub link sshown for some sites on the search engine results page. There is no way of forcing Google to link to certain pages, because the links are selected by an automated process. There are occassions when you may want to block some pages being shown, Google allows you to do this through Google Webmaster Tools.
I've just come across a free web conferencing service that looks set to become very popular, Dimdim Web Conferencing is a well built, easy to use, open source web conferencing solution. That means that is's free to use and includes all the features you'd expect (video, chat, white board, screen sharing).