Why Facebook Apps matter with the new Timeline

timeline with pinterest and chillin apps

And what you need to know to create winning campaigns Its time for Timeline Facebook’s new timeline for fan pages rolled out on 31st March 2012. You’re already familiar with this from your personal Facebook page so it can be easy to take for granted the implications this will have on your campaign ideas. The [...]

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Whither Facebook’s IPO

Facebook-IPO-Google-Advertising-2012

Here’s an excerpt of an article Charan wrote about the Facebook IPO, in which he considers if Facebook will ever be bigger than Google and dominate the online advertising market. You would have to be living on another planet if you haven’t heard about the Facebook IPO by now. Deemed as one of the largest [...]

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4 Resources to get started with Responsive web design

Alfred talked about Responsive web design in an earlier article and since then we’ve been having lots of fun with Responsive web designs on our projects. Today we thought it might be useful to share some of the resources that we used to get us started on our responsive design journey. Framework – BootStrap from [...]

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What is a Javascript MVC Framework?

Javascript MVC sample code

I came across a new Javascript MVC framework via a tweet from Aslam who’s quite the front-end whiz. Checked out the project description and it dawned on me that I had no real idea what a Javascript MVC framework is. It seemed almost counter-intuitive to me that anyone would create a MVC framework for a programming language [...]

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Who to follow on Twitter for your small business

How to import friends from email in Twitter

So you’ve all heard about Twitter and how its supposed to be the next big thing after you get your head around this Facebook tsunami! As part of our Social Media and SEO house-cleaning, I decided to take a look at what we were doing with our own Twitter account and how I could get it [...]

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Why LinkedIn Business is worth the Money

Benefits of LInkedIn Business Pro accounts

I was recently invited to a free trial of LinkedIn Pro on my account. I had always wondered what the advantages of this would be, particularly from a marketing and sales background. I must admit that although I am an active user on LinkedIn I use it mainly to keep in touch with friends and [...]

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Getting back on the SEO Path – Tools

Google External Keyword Tool

Its been more than a year now since I have personally run a SEO campaign for a website. During the early days of Creately.com, I had spent endless hours devising strategies to grow traffic and gathered invaluable hands-on skills in organically growing traffic with a combination of a sensible content strategy, SEO optimisation, PR for [...]

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Ethan Marcotte: A Dao of Flexibility

Ethan Marcotte: A Dao of Flexibility – An Event Apart from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo.

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Responsive web design

The title, admittedly, is not all that new. But as the web is increasingly delivered through a wide range of screens, from smartphones to tablets, it is no longer right to assume that it’s okay to just use a fixed width of 960px for most “standard” 1024 by 768 screens. Our approach thus is to [...]

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Why Work doesn’t Happen

Here’s a great video from TedX by Jason Fried (of Basecamp fame) talking about the problems with work and why it doesn’t happen. I have to say we do really agree with most of these points and try our best to provide the right environment for great work…

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