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Great customer service

Thursday, November 9th, 2006
And why it generally doesn't happen in the UK The UK is notoriously bad for customer service. Many high profile companies (NTL, British Gas, PlusNet, and Audi UK to name a few) are held to ridicule over their failing levels of customer service. It seems to be an epidemic in this country for some re… read more

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Being focused…

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
When I first started this blog, my primary aim was to write content about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). Its essentially what this blog and site is all about. The angle from which I write about SEO is that of standards compliancy, there are some very real correlations between achieving web standa… read more

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Computerlove are hiring…

Friday, August 11th, 2006
Fancy a job in the city? Manchesters finest Code Computerlove are on the lookout for developers. I used to work at code and they are a fantastic bunch of people to work with but after 5 years working for media agencies - I just needed a change! If you take your ASP.NET with C# and can easily mold… read more

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Top ten on-page search optimisation tips

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
I finally managed to publish my first Highly-Visible article! Top ten on-page search optimisation tips gives a brief overview of how to optimise your web pages for search engines. As the name suggests, the article is split into 10 bitesize pieces covering topics such as URL re-writing and html valid… read more

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The SEO approach to site architecture…

Friday, July 7th, 2006
Structure your site design around search engines, not your homepage Conventional wisdom dictates that when planning or mapping out a website, we should start with the homepage (or, god forbid - a splash page) and then create branches and leaves out from this until we have all the required informati… read more

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Big thanks to Carl Seal…

Saturday, May 27th, 2006
My new layout went live today! A big thanks to twiggy for coming up with the "lanscape" theme for the corporate ID and for his much needed typographical input. Carl was responsible for designing the new Highly Visible masthead and the overall look and feel for the hi-vis branding. He's also helped … read more

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Computerlove wins Waterstones account…

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
I just heard that the guys over at Computerlove have won the account to do all Waterstones online branding and advertising for their new e-commerce website to be launched later this year. This is of interest to me for a number of reasons, mainly because I used to work for Computerlove and its goo… read more

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Scale later…

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Web 2.0 aficionados 37 signals recommend in their excellent e-book Getting Real that we should "Scale later...". Well I suppose I followed that rule! Welcome to my first post. At the time of writing, I am still using the default WordPress theme and to be fair my new domain highly-visible.net has … read more

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