The value of the web economy in will nearly double by 2016, according to Boston Consulting Group research. It will grow from $2.3 trillion to $4.3 trillion. Google research forcasts that by 2016 3 billion people will be using the Internet for researching information or purchasing a product or service. Right now, every year about [...]
12
Jan
Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft has celebrated the imminent demise of version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser by baking a cake. The software giant held the light-hearted celebration as it revealed that the program was used by less than 1% of US internet surfers. It is keen to kill off the old version of the browser and persuade [...]
21
Dec
Closed for Christmas and New Year
Pixels Webdesign will be closed from the 23rd of December to the 9th of January 2012. Only emergency support will be available. if you are a client and have an website or hosting emergency please email us. We will fix your problem ASAP. A very merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to all [...]
11
Nov
Google Fresh
Google has introduces “freshness” of content into its algorithms. So when you type in a keyword or phrase the top results will be for the freshest content for the search term. Old outdated content will be penalised and pushed down. This adds a new dimension to search engine optimisation. If you think about this websites [...]
07
Oct
RIP Steve Jobs
The world lost a visionary yesterday. After a long battle with cancer Steve Jobs passed away. As Obama quoted the world learnt of his passing away on a device he invented. The global outpouring has been huge. Even in his death he has created records. Tweets were coming at 10,000 per second on the news! [...]
12
Sep
Misspelt email addresses
A missing dot in an email address might mean messages end up in the hands of cyber thieves, researchers have found. By creating web domains that contained commonly mistyped names, the investigators received emails that would otherwise not be delivered. Over six months they grabbed 20GB of data made up of 120,000 wrongly sent messages. [...]
11
Sep
Remembering 9/11
We all remember the 10th anniversary of 9/11 solemnly and reflect on the loved ones lost. This brings back a lot of memories for me. I was living in California at that time. I had dropped my son at school and was on the computer checking emails. A friend rang and told me to switch [...]
07
Sep
A frustrating experience
I had a very frustrating experience yesterday. I needed to print some postcards for a marketing campaign of mine. I got the yellow pages out. Circled a few ads , and got on the phone to get some quotes. I rang about 8-9 places that had large ads. Two telephone numbers were disconnected! Out of [...]
04
Sep
New site finally alive!
Phew! I finally switched to the new site. Took me like two months to to get it ready to be up and running. (Lack of time mainly) The layout is new the colours are new. Kept everything minimalist. Pixels is providing many new services like SEO – specific website packages with tools to grow your [...]
18
Jul
Short Lesson in SEO
If you are a small business owner you will want to generate leads through your website. If you are clever these leads can be free. To make this happen you have to rank well in search engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing. This post tells you how to do quick SEO for your site. This [...]
