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2010 - your online checklist…

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Firstly, Happy New Year! What are your online plans for 2010? Are you looking to generate more sales and enquiries through your web site? If so, below are five recommendations put forward by e-consultancy author, Kevin Gibbons. Kevin’s ideas mirror our own, so if you want to discuss in more detail, give us a call, [...]

E-mail marketing just got easier…

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Cite clients can now benefit from a range of improvements to their email marketing, following a major upgrade to ourĀ e-marketing software. It’s now even easier to use, simpler to manage your subscriber lists and more detailed in it’s reporting.
If you would like a free, no-obligation demo, give us a call on 0116 254 9888

Alpha Wolfram - the Google slayer… The birth of a legend and a new marketing challenge.

Monday, May 18th, 2009

After much speculation, the Wolfram Alpha project has arrived. Hailed as a rival (and indeed, successor) to Google, the Wolfram Alpha is a ‘computation knowledge engine’ rather than a search engine and wants to change the way people use online data. The plan is to give users direct answers to questions, rather than directing them [...]

Cite chosen by DHL / NHS Supply Chain

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

We are delighted to announce that Cite are now an official supplier to worldwide logistics giant DHL. Our first project involves assisting the NHS Supply Chain division with the implentation of an e-marketing strategy. Watch this space!

Web 3.0 - the semantic web is coming

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, is the computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web. Not satisfied with a bit of web 2.0 social interaction, Sir Tim’s vision for next generation of web sites and services involves developing applications that are capable of computing semantic searches, so called web 3.0.
Way back in [...]

Web design glossary of terms

Monday, March 30th, 2009

We though it might be useful to put together a glossary of commonly used web-related terms. Here’s a good selection to get you going and to help you find a web design agency in Leicestershire for your web or blog design requirements.
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Above the fold: The visible portion of your screen when a page first [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Designing the details

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Noticed any big changes to Google recently? Are you sure? The biggest change might just be the smallest. As this article on the BBC website explains, Google have update their favicon. As these articles explains, a favicon, is the tiny logo that appears next to the address of a website (in your browser’s address toolbar). [...]

E-tailing goes from strength to strength

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Following on from last week’s blog about the rise and rise of e-tailing, Rory Cellan-Jones has an interesting article on his dot.life blog confirming the continued boom in online sales.
Statistics from Nielsen Online report that UK online sales were up by a staggering 37% by the end of 2008. Cellan-Jones goes on to state that:
‘…Amazon [...]