We just completed a new website for the Stonnington Group and we reckon it looks great!  Really nice on each of the web browser, the iPad or your iPhone.  Really nice images and smooth transitions make this a beautiful profile piece for the Stonnington team to showcase their work.

Go to the website at http://www.stonningtongroup.com.au.

Google plans to penalize overly optimized sites because they want to level the playing field for other websites who do not concentrate on such efforts. Basically there are sites out there that completely focus their efforts on SEO and not content and those results would rank higher than sites that don’t focus on SEO.

Google Engineer Matt Cutts explains the following: “We are trying to make GoogleBot smarter, make our relevance better, and we are also looking for those who abuse it, like too many keywords on a page, or exchange way too many links or go well beyond what you normally expect.”

The search engine at Google is about to go through a major overhaul and de-prioritizing sites with heavy SEO is just a small part in the big picture to bring better search results. The changes to the search engine will be coming in the next few months.

What’s your “most wanted response” for your online business?  Is it people buying stuff and checking out, researching and bookmarking, reading and sharing or just filling in that application or contact form?  For many companies the most wanted response varies the main thing is you know clearly what it is and base your strategy around it. For many social media websites the most wanted response is “time on site”.  The longer people stay the more they engage with your site content the better advertisers like it and it means the UX guys, usability people are doing a good job.

Have a look at this infographic about the darling of the social world Pinterest below:

Thanks to mashable.com and comscore

Have a look at this great INFOGRAPHIC from Mashable.com.

A good article that goes a bit deeper into the legalese behind the SOPA bill.

http://mashable.com/2012/01/17/sopa-dangerous-opinion/

It’s been a busy year.  This year we have locked in to our core PHP frameworks, Symfony and CodeIgniter and modernised our WWWCMS using the CodeIgniter framework.  We set up a cloud hosting program with Amazon S3 for hosting high quality digital assets.  We have launched some amazing websites with powerful back end applications for Leo Burnett and created a number of new Email Marketing templates for new clients making use of our eDM product.  We also built mobile websites using JQTouch and built our own iPad online testing platform called iPadPreview.com

We continued to support Mitre 10 and Flight Centre with small updates and enhancements to existing developments and launched new websites for Flagstaff Consulting, ZeroThree, Vocal Alchemy, I Love Discounts, Sprunje, NWIF, Prasino Technologies, Boxy Design, Desert Cave Hotel, Opal Inn Hotel, Readers Digest, Bet Optimiser, Gaggenau Australia, Sailing Shack, Chilarity, Tivoli Cards & Paper, iPadPreview, PHP Developers.

Social media played a large part in our work during 2011 with manmy of our web projects incorporating social media integration and encouraging interaction in various ways.

In 2012 we’re looking at more mobile development, our server stats are showing huge growth in mobile browser usage.  We’ll be looking towards a few major Enterprise developments using the Symfony framework and moving more and more of our owned hosting platform across to the cloud.  Coming up with clever social media strategies to boost our clients cut through in these markets will continue to be a major focus for us.  We also continue to focus on the latest Google changes with Places, Business Pages and Panda changes and general SEO practices.

Our fixation with the fantastic open source blog software WordPress continues as does our relationship and expertise with the OpenCart shopping cart software and we will continue creating and supporting these applications.

So that’s us!  Have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year and we’ll see you on the other side.

If you’re looking for support on your OpenCart implementation please give us a call or email us at helpmequick@wwwshop.com.au.

We can help with design, plug-ins, workflow, payment gateway implementation, inventory management, template implementation and more…

We are an oscommerce shop that converted to opencart about 18 months ago.  As well as opencart we build many websites written in the PHP codeigniter and symfony frameworks so are very familiar with MVC theory and modern best of breed development methodologies as they relate to open source technologies.

So if your looking for a new website using the latest technologies – Codeigniter 2.1, Symfony 2.0.6 opencart 1.5 etc. give us a call!

Oh…to keep up with the latest PHP News go to PHPDevelopers.com.au

…and to see how your old school 2009 website looks on an iPad go to ipadpreview.com

Shameless inbound links but we do what we can!

Cheers,

WWWShop

Check her out here: Contact, 0417 890 244 Mark

We have just launched the new website for PHPDevelopers.com.au.  It’s a news aggregation site featuring a number of feeds that are PHP or just generally web development related.  The news is ranked based on the number of tweets and Facebook shares each story receives and we are linking new stories through our Twitter feed @php_wwwshop.

So have a look and if a feed that you want is not there just add it!

phpdevelopers.com.au

Have a look at the two graphs below from statcounter.com.

Android may be doing robust business in the USA but in Australia it’s all iPhone and iPad!

To ensure your website looks OK on these devices go to ipadpreview.com