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Archive for June, 2010

FBML - Spice up your Facebook Like Page with Custom Tabs

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Installing Apps has long been the only way to add custom tabs to a Facebook Business Page, due to recent fire facebook has come under due its privacy controls and relaxed data sharing amongst apps many people are or at least should be excerising caution when adding Facebook Apps.

This is where FBML comes in. It is basically HTML laced with a few facebook api features to display custom written content in a Tab alongside your Wall and Info pages. It allows for a promotional page, an informational page and also more advanced features to further promote your presence as a business on facebook. A particularly useful feature for some publishers is the fact that this new FBML tab can be set as the landing page for when visitors visit your Page.

We are offering FBML page creation for companies who wish to take adventage of this powerful, yet unobtrusive method of customising there Pages to further promote and pursue more advanced control of the content using FBML. It is powerful enough to create a mirco-site within you Facebook Page, i.e. allowing for details of products, google maps, special offers and many more possibilities limited only by imagination.

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16 Web-safe fonts for Windows, Mac and Linux

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Using fonts in web design has always been a challenging issue due to the fact that the fonts used need to be installed locally on the visitors computer, but the following selection can be viewed by more a less everyone.































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FireTracker Analytics now offering fully funtional Free trial

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

FireTracker Analytics, our  in-house web traffic analytics software has been some time in beta and we are now glad  to deliver a much more refined product.  There is still some work to do but our recent server and infrastructure upgrade has given us more to work with and an improved user experience.

I hear you asking, why would I pay for an analytics service when Google Analytics is free? There are numerous reasons to add FireTracker to your web traffic analytics arsenal, first and foremost it is a lot more user-centric and user friendly, providing an unparalelled clarity in gaining essential insights into your traffic sources without delving through the bloatware and complexity that is inherent in Google Analytics.  But thats only for starters, the single greatest reason to adopt this alternative is the availability of real-time reporting, no need to wait 3 hours or longer for data refreshes; you will see traffic data to your site as it happens - immediately - no waiting!

Free Trial and new subscription options

We have now implemented a free trial by popular demand for those who wish to take a peek at the reporting capabilities without committing to buy.  The free version is fully functional, only takes two minutes to sign-up, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch so tracking data is reset daily only offered reporting data on a rolling day to day basis.

Subscriptions start at a very reasonable rate from €14.99/month with the first week free, or an annual subscription for €149.99 with the first month costing only €4.99.

FireTracker Analytics

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Golden Pages and directory enquiries on mobile devices

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Directory Enquiries from a mobile phone can be expensive if used frequently, a good alternative to this is to use your phones web browser and go to http://m.goldenpages.ie, this is a mobile site that allows a directory enquiries search that works out a lot cheaper than calling 11811 or 11850, mobile data costs are considerably lower than calling the directory services.

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