WordPress, one of the most popular and widely used content management systems in the world, is now available as an application from the iTunes app store for the iPhone and iPad. The app allows you to add, edit and publish posts while on the go, giving you full capabilities for uploading photos and videos. You [...]
About John
John is a Designbysoap director and head of SEO. He's also an infographic designer and often works on large design projects along with the design team. You can follow him on Twitter (@john_pring) or email him on john@designbysoap.co.uk
Google Chrome OS – the future?
As we all know, Google ventured into the world of Internet browsers a while back with ‘Google Chrome’. An excellent addition to the browser market, it was a slow starter but figures now show it has overtaken Apple’s own Safari to become the third most popular browser. Google, however, intends to take it further by [...]
designbysoap Wins Contract For Skindred Website
We’re pleased to announce we’ve just won the contract to design and implement a brand new website for the amazing Skindred. Skindred are an internationally renowned band who have sold over one million records worldwide. Suffice to say we’re all very pleased to win such a high profile client. We’re starting work Monday (England are [...]
Firefox in Firefox in Firefox
Just a quick post, i remembered this easter egg for Mozilla Firefox the other day and i thought i’d share it with you. You can get Firefox in Firefox by inputting the following into your URL bar: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul This allows you to have a separate browsing window in one tab, and the process can be [...]
Mark Zuckerberg: An Odd CEO
You expect most CEO’s (particularly those of huge multinational operations) to be pretty slick; good with questions, suave, sophisticated even. Not so these days, as the digital boom creates more and more of a different breed of CEO’s. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, is the best example of this new breed; he’s a sweaty, [...]
Check Your Rankings in SERP’s
I’ve had a couple of emails recently asking what we use to check website keyword rankings in Google, so i thought i’d write a quick post explaining the process. I always use a combination of approaches to check Google rankings, all of which i’ll outline here. Before you start, go to the Google front page [...]
If designbysoap Managed England…
So we’ve got the two friendlies out of the way, just about coming through with two victories. After a decent 45 minutes against Mexico and an unconvincing performance against Japan, debate is lively in the designbysoap office as to who Fabio Capello should start with on June 12th. So after a quick office survey, here’s [...]
How Does Google Do At SEO?
I found this enlightening video on YouTube of Matt Cutts discussing how Google does at search engine optimisation in general. The answer might surprise you! The talk references Google’s SEO report card, which we mentioned in an earlier post. It just goes to show you have even the biggest search engine in the world can [...]
The Ultimate Colour Scheme Solution
A friend asked me the over the weekend how we come up with our colour schemes; in the past we’ve utilised colour cards and charts in the office but over the last few months we’ve been using the amazing Adobe Kuler. Kuler is an online tool that allows you to make 5 tone colour schemes [...]
Google SEO Report Card
Google’s SEO Report Card Looking through through the Google Webmaster Blog the other day i stumbled across this; Google’s SEO report card – created to help Google’s engineers and employees better optimise their product pages for search engines, this card proves even Google are aware of and actively participating in search engine optimisation.The report touches [...]
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