February 2009

Tweet Am wholly indebted to Dave Chaffey’s post at e-consultancy on what the factors that work most for SEO…

Tweet We were rather moved by this request for a link swap and impressed by the lengths the other guy would go to – unique, personalised copy to be placed on your site, linking back to his. Read the email behind the approach:

Tweet New research from Scene 7 saying that over 90% of online merchants to add rich media and social networking functions in 2009. (As a rich media supplier, we could have guessed a big number).

Tweet Great & opportunistic interview with the Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh, taking about the approach & culture that took Zappos to $1bn in record time.

Tweet We have recently been asked to jot down a few website extensions and updates (“gizmos” that we have implemented recently. Screen Pages has a team whose sole purpose is to extend existing websites – fundamental to our approach of creating bespoke websites, but the trick is to develop modules that can be easily re-deployed [Read more]

Tweet A lot of online debate about the merits of Zappo’s new search interface. Most commentators laud the innovation, ease of use and stimulus to “explore” the shoe ranges on offer. We await the quantative feedback…

Tweet Am indebted to Paul Dunay who has loving compiled a list of brands that use Twitter (for whatever reason).

Tweet Monday 2nd Feb 2009 was officially snow day – nobody could make it to Screen Pages’ offices owing to the snow (VPNs and internet made remote-working poossible). Here’s what the Courtyard looked like once the blizzards were over.