Freetimers Blog
Welcome to the Freetimers Blog, which is focused on Website Design, Development and Programming and just about anything else of interest that relates to businesses and the Internet! Freetimers also has a separate SEO & Web Marketing Blog, because it is such a huge subject in its own right, and there is a link to it at the top left for your convenience. Both Blogs will be updated with new articles regularly, and we do hope you will find the content of interest, and more importantly, useful to you!
If we spark any ideas please don’t hesitate to contact us on the phone numbers provided; we’d love to hear from you.
Greg Poulson, Managing Director, Freetimers Internet
Website Programming is a Key to Future Internet Competitiveness
Being able to compete on the Internet is tough and increasingly costly. In the history of the internet and ecommerce it used to be that having a reasonable price, a good looking site (not always the rule!), and being found on the search engines was enough to generate considerable success. Businesses who had deep pockets but were failing at search engine optimisation were able to get around the ‘getting found’ issue by using pay per click services like Google Adwords (at considerable extra cost I might add).
But the internet never stands still, and one of the key features of its effects on our world is that it eventually puts all the competitors for a product in one easy place for consumers to look at, effectively creating an online high street where prices and product specifications can be easily checked. Probably around 3-4 years ago experienced ecommerce practitioners like Freetimers starting noticing a clear change in consumer behaviour that put this process into sharp relief. Instead of just searching for a general product description using a ‘generic’ search phrase, and then buying the product from the first couple of sites they went to, people were now starting to use the generic searches for finding out information about the product, and then only buying after a very specific product search. (more…)
Top 10 Tips for Getting the Most from Your Website
Here are some really important tips for making the most of your website. Valuable stuff! (more…)
Freetimers Wins PepsiCo Contract
Freetimers Internet, Northampton’s largest web developer, also offers a wide range of new media design services, including first-class presentations blending video, sound, Flash, 3d and virtual reality, for web, pc, television, cinema, mobile phone or video delivery, and at rates lower than most design agencies. (more…)
Freetimers Has Moved!
After a long time at Adnitt Road, from August 8th, Freetimers is now at new premises at 78-90 Clarke Road, NN1 4PW
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