Web development

Create a Free Mobile Site With Google

Posted by admin | Filed under Google, Google Adwords, Mobile Search, Web development, What's New?

Google once more shows that Mobile is very important to them! The last few years Google is focusing on mobile a lot by helping website owners to make their website more mobile friendly. The latest approach is by Google Sites, they launched a new feature where business onwers can create a simple mobile site within minutes.

They offer six different templates depending on the site you would lke to create with different options for colours. The sites are aimed for small businesses giving them an easy option to create a mobile website for free and with no coding skills.

The video below showcases how easy is to create a mobile website:

Search traffic from iPad

Posted by admin | Filed under Hotel Marketing News, iPad, Mobile Search, Tips, Trends, Web development

The worst thing as an iPad user is when you visit a website and by default it directs you to a mobile page which is set for mobile phones. Suddently the images dissapear, the menu has changed and you cant do anything about this. The webmaster decided that iPad is a mobile and that’s why they should see the low resolution website with an option to call. A good example is WorldHotels.com, Accoring to their website: “Worldhotels is an exclusive collection of the world’s most unique independent hotels. Under the banner “Unique Hotels for Unique People”, it now has almost 450 affiliate properties in more than 250 destinations and 65 countries worldwide.”

Overall a nice looking website with a clear structure and to the point:

In terms of traffic again WorldHotels.com gets about 49k unique visitors with 150k pageviews .

When you visit though from an iPad this is what you get:

In this case WorldHotel do offer an option the user. again not a great way for an iPad user but at least better than others. We do hope that in the near feature web developers will put more thinking into the iPad users. We have noticed that in the past few months the traffic more iPad devices hasn increased alot. Below you can see a graph taken from GA for one of our clients. The iPad traffic has increase more than 10,000 times year on year with over 50k visitors. Something that you cant ignore any more!

HTML 5 Links and stats

Posted by admin | Filed under Graphs, Online news, Web development

Lately there is a lot of talk about HTML 5 and when is going to be ready, we added a few useful links that might help you understand more.

What is HTML 5 by Wikipedia:

HTML5 is currently under development as the next major revision of the HTML standard. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Google Gears.