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Bit.ly up the game as Goo.gl chases fast

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

The war is on and the kiddy gloves are off. With the increased success of URL shortening sites such as Bit.ly (the year’s fastest growing website) and Tiny, the big boys have decided to join the party.
It’s no surprise really, with the increase of Twittering and other social networking activities more people are sending shortened [...]

DAB Civil Engineering launch new website

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Civil Engineering company DAB Civil Engineering Construction Ltd has joined the ranks of websites designed and launched by Cite web design agency.
The Leicester based construction company wanted a site that would be used to direct their existing customers to, but also to be used to gain new business in a competitive market place.
Naturally, they came [...]

Pfizer men’s health website launched

Monday, October 5th, 2009

We’ve just launched our latest site for Pfizer: www.manmot.co.uk.
Digital PR agency, Red Consultancy is running a campaign for the leading pharmaceutical company to help raise awareness of health issues amongst men.  To assist the national campaign, being championed by ex British racing driver Tiff Needell, Pfizer required a website that would allow men to talk [...]

Cite developer makes national press

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Cite’s talented young web developer Andrew Sharman hit the headlines this week in a big way.
Rather than complaining about a terrible holiday and the lack of customer services, he decided to hit travel agents Thomson’s where it hurt most – in the googles.
He wrote about this experiences on his blog, and then using social [...]

Wordle Creates Word Clouds

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

You’ve seen word clouds dotted around on blogs all over the place. But have you ever thought about how you could create your own, outside of your blog?
At Cite, we’ve been using Wordle, which is a great tool for generating your own word clouds. This one below is using our blog as a [...]

Twitter takes giant leap

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Over the last year Twitter has slowly been crawling towards that tipping point, where things become such a huge phenomena we start wondering what we ever did without them.
It’s increasingly been used by PR guys and dolls to promote their wares. But this week it’s been the surgeons who have been using this social networking [...]

Facebook celebrates 5th Birthday

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Social media site, Facebook is celebrating its 5th birthday today.  It’s hard to believe that the social networking medium that has infiltrated most of our lives has only been around for five years.
Unlike some of its competitors Facebook has refrained from selling out to the big boys in the playground, hoping to make it on [...]

Cite launches UK’s biggest music event site

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Cite have launched two websites for the biggest music show in the UK.
Despite great competition, Cite won the contract because if it’s creative approach and strong search engine optimisation of websites.
The London International Music Show,  will take place between June 11 - 14 at Excel London with a variety of musical stars performing including Steve [...]

Take over of the iPhone and other Internet-enabled devices

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

There’s no denying, the iphone is a thing of beauty, and not only does it look good, it does everything short of making your morning brew.
So it comes as no surprise that an estimated 10 million iPhones were sold in 2008, and that iPhone applications have risen from 2,000 to over 10,000 in a matter [...]

Mobile Social Networking

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Times are a changing.  If you’re old enough (like a few of us here), you’ll remember the first mobile phones that came out, and how enormous they were.  When people called them bricks, there was a very good reason for it.   So who would have thought , a few years down the line, they’d be [...]