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Mobile phones including all iphones and androids usage has grown dramatically over the past 24 months with growth rates exceeding well over 35% per year. This rate is expected to grow & with mobile phone technology enhancements coupled with the price reduction of these iphones, it is just a matter of time before most online browsing and purchasing is carried out on all hand held and mobile phone devices. Carrier charges are becoming more competitive and international roaming rates are plummeting. Everywhere you look, people have these iphones – so the question to ask yourself is: has your business got a mobile friendly website design?

With the updates of Google, blogging has never been so important for your SEO or overall Google ranking. Many business and companies are unaware of how or why this works but I cannot stress enough to you the extreme importance of blogging for your SEO. And what is the best way to gain a great Google ranking? The answer is, write great content rich articles on your blog.

Content Marketing Will Really Help Boost Your Web Traffic, Search Engine Rankings as well as site Conversions. If you haven’t thought about content marketing and being the dominant player online with expert content, news, blogs and videos then you should really think again; content is a powerful marketing tool and it’s easily implemented.

Most real estate agents are just far too busy worrying about their next lead or listing to put time and effort into any marketing strategy other than what they have been doing in the past. Traditionally, most real estate agents have relied on cold calling, door knocking, letterbox drops and word of mouth to generate the next listing. The only issue with this is that every real estate agent is doing this and the chances of generating that all important lead and becoming slimmer and harder to find. If you are a real estate agent and you are happy to continue down this well worn path and waste your valuable time and money then the choice is obviously yours. Alternatively, you can be a lot smarter than this and look to other more powerful online marketing tools to get your name out there and in turn generate leads. If you follow the tips that I have outlined below, I can promise you that you will be two steps ahead of your competition down the road as I have found that not many real estate agents having taken the step of marketing themselves in the digital environment. I have found that most agents are just too lazy, don’t understand it and are afraid to learn it or just prefer to use marketing strategies that they are comfortable with, to change their marketing behavior patterns. It is this attitude that has left a huge gaping hole in the market that is ripe for the picking by those agents who are prepared to invest in educating themselves about this new online world.

If you are reading this article then there is a very high probability that you are actually viewing this on your mobile phone; whether iphone or android, it doesn’t make a difference The fact for the purpose of this blog entry is that you are on you mobile and viewing this.

It is not often that I discuss web design mistakes that business owners should avoid at all costs as I do tend to focus on all the ‘ must do’ things that business owners need to concentrate on for a successful web outcome; such as SEO, copywriting and intuitive design, where most of your focus should be. However, web page design plays an enormous part in your sites capability of converting site visits to sales or inquiries as well as affecting the way users interact with the site. Overall, web design can both attract users as well as turn them off. To be very honest with you, design plays a huge part with our website. I guess because we are in fact a web design studio, people coming to our site expect a higher than normal standard than they are used to. Saying that, this does not have to be the case. Just because you might not be a design studio does not mean that you cannot have a website that is not visually very creative. People need to have a great web experience if they are going to buy from you and engage with your website. Following are the most common website design mistakes and how to avoid them.

In today’s online environment, bad news spreads incredibly fast. In fact, one bad review or comment written in the morning can go viral by lunchtime and be around the world by close of business. This is the way it is in the digital age. But, on the flip side the internet has completely opened many doors and avenues for brands to immediately connect with their customer base, consumer base and clients very rapidly. In fact, as quick as bad news comes in, good, positive PR can be sent out.

One certain thing about the upcoming year, is that video content used on mobile phones will be one of the most common forms of information found in the mobile phone environment. More and more people will be wanting to look at videos to garner and collect information as opposed to reading text and looking at pictures.

Are you a plumber, electrician, builder, glazier, handyman, mechanic, tiler, pool cleaner, renderer, brickie, painter or even a landscaper? Whatever the trade, we can design and build you a website for your trades business that is :

The online world has made it that much easier to sell your products via an Magento Ecommerce website shopping cart platform. Hopping Mad Designs is able to provide your business with a Magento ecommerce solution which is packed with extra features, which allows you, the merchant the necessary control and flexibility to easily and efficiently manage the look and feel of the site, whilst also managing the sites content. This means that once Hopping Mad has designed you a new Magento website, you will be free to add or delete as much content as you like, when ever you like. On top of this, you are not stuck with a rigid, locked in, pay per month contract, that ties you into a web firm, which is often the case with other ecommerce solutions.

Preparing a correct and well thought our website design brief is often overlooked by many companies and organisations looking to get a new website or even a web revamp. It is a critical stage in the web process and if done incorrectly could end up setting your designers off brief and on the wrong design path. Having the right brief from the get go, will ensure that the project will be on time, budget and above all on brief. Following are a few helpful tips to help you get your website design brief right. Please note that this has been written by someone, namely me, who has sat on literally hundred’s of web briefing sessions.

An important announcement from the online giant Facebook , which is a very useful and handy search tool that allows you the freedom to search through the mountain of Facebook data and information. Think carefully about the impact this will have on your search patterns, moving forward.

As the internet world grows larger you will find that more and more people are starting to use their hand held mobile phone devices. This phenomena is growing at an extremely fast rate and will over the near future overtake desktop usage. All you need to do is look around you and all you can see are people on their phones searching or tapping away. The uptake in this technology is absolutely amazing, in fact, you can rarely go out in public and not see this happening. What amazes me more is even in third world countries where this was unheard of 3 years ago, you can see vendors on the beach using their iphones. People will start to use these devices to purchase their products online, rather than their desktop. I bought some vitamins on my iphone last week whilst in front on my desktop. How weird is that?

If you are thinking about getting a ecommerce site you should be aware of some of the most favoured user interface site practices for the checkout stages and process?

Responsive web design is a must have if you want your website to be viewable on all mobile phones and tablets. If you want to capture a huge mobile audience who are constantly on their phones searching for products or services, then a responsive website is going to be an invaluable tool for your business and marketing. Responsive sites are not difficult to implement, so make sure you ask us about this great new platform.

Ensure that the Menu or navigation is kept on the right side of the screen for ease of use Whilst interacting with a mobile phone hand held device the main menu should ideally be position on the right of the screen and not definitely not the left. If you think about the rationale behind this reasoning, most of the world’s users are right handed, meaning if you design for the left handed people you will be alienating a good percentage of the population. In business, especially in the mobile phone environment you really want to offer a seamless user friendly experience and catering to all those right handers is certainly a very good start.