By Jordan Hall 28th April 2010
I previously posted on how Nokia open-sourced the Symbian mobile operating system and the advantages this will bring to mobile web developers. Nokia has now released their first mobile device based on the open-source version of Symbian, the Nokia N8 phone. It is the first version of the software since the Symbian foundation announced that it had made its code open source in February. The Foundation - which includes Nokia, Motorola and Samsung am...
By Jordan Hall 22nd April 2010
A recent automated update to McAfee Anti-virus software caused the software to mistaken detect a key Windows system program as malicious and move it out of its proper location to a McAfee anti-virus quarantine. Due to the critical nature of the quarantined system program, 'svchost.com', affected computers failed to start correctly and were sent into a rebooting loop. According to Microsoft, the affected file 'is a generic host process name for ...
By Jordan Hall 21st April 2010
The Moira Fund, a grant making charity, has been established in memory of Moira Jones, ... Following her death, family, friends and colleagues of Moira wished to establish a fund in her memory that would support others who found themselves bereaved through violent death at the hands of another. Rapid Web Services have worked with the Moira Fund to produce a custom web design built upon the well established, open-source blogging platform, WordPr...
By Jordan Hall 20th April 2010
At Rapid Web Services, we are very happy to announce the launch of the Grinnall Cars website! Grinnall Cars manufactures specialised sports cars, trikes and kit cars, from the Scorpion III, IV to the BMW 1200CL. I would be lying if I said they did not look like tempting purchases! For Grinnall Cars, Rapid Web Services put together a custom web design which was then integrated into a custom developed website. Each product featured on the Grin...
By Jordan Hall 19th April 2010
Here at the Rapid Web Services offices, we all like cake. Rightly so as well, because cake is fantastic. On a related note, we're deliciously happy to announce the launch of the 'Love at First Bite Cakes' website. Here's a quick snippet from the website describing the personal history of Love at First Bite Cakes. A lot of people ask me if I’ve been to college to learn my skills, but my training was more traditional… I’ve learnt them throu...
By Jordan Hall 7th April 2010
WordPress, the super popular open-source content management and blogging software has recently gone into beta. Version 3 of WordPress looks to bring many new features to the system including a revamped administration system and the ability to deploy a network of WordPress powered blogs simultaneously on the same domain in either seperate directories or subdomains. WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 also comes with a new default blog them called Twenty Ten whi...
By Jordan Hall 1st April 2010
Firstly, happy April Fools' day to you! There have been a crazy amount of April Fools' jokes flying across the Internet today. Here are a few of the best from some of the biggest names. Google Animal Translate Google have supposedly released an ever so sneaky version of Google Translate that can translate animal noises in to English! This is a mobile application, suprisingly for the Android platform and is (not) available in the Android App Stor...
By Jordan Hall 30th March 2010
Web visibility is of vital importance to any web business, be it e-commerce or otherwise. The visibility of your website is one of the key focuses of search engine optimisation.SEO will increase your web visibility through by improving the rankings of your websites in search engine results pages (or 'SERPs'). SERPs are the pages you land on, as an Internet user, when you enter search terms into an online search engine. They present a list of we...
By Jordan Hall 18th March 2010
Google is highly likely to be shutting down Google Search in China, after discussions with Chinese authorities regarding censorship laws appear to have reached an impasse. Last Friday, the Chinese government challenged Google directly, stating that it refused to compromise its censorship laws to prevent Google from leaving China. Google's removal of censorship occurred after a number of 'cyber-attacks' has occurred to Google's systems from an ...
By Jordan Hall 12th March 2010
I previously posted about Google's new web design, and now the BBC website is undergoing a beta web design. Take a look at the new BBC web design in the screenshot below. Click the image above to view an enlarged screenshot. Alternatively, you can take a look at the beta BBC directly at http://beta.bbc.co.uk/ The new BBC homepage design is even heavier in JavaScript and AJAX functionality allowing for some extremely dynamic customisation of the ...
By Jordan Hall 8th March 2010
Google has recently released quite a tweak to its google.com web design to a select few users. Below are a couple of screenshots of the new web design from Google. Clicking the screen shots below will show the new web design, which features more squared off search button, a highlighted sidebar on search results and a change in default link colour to a significantly lighter shade of blue. This also appears to be a slight re-brand of the Googl...
By Jordan Hall 1st March 2010
About Keyword Density In the context of search engine optimisation, keyword density refers to amount of times a certain keyword or phrase appears in web page content relative to the total number of words present within the content being analysed. The keyword density is usually shown as a percentage indicating the number of times the keyword or phrase, in comparison to the total number of words, but can also be expressed as a ratio of the same dat...