So it’s happened. Facebook has changed things AGAIN. To a mixture of cheers and sneers we’ve seen personal profiles transformed into an image rich Timeline format. It was inevitable that Facebook would roll this out to company and brand pages at some point. Many brands have embraced the change already, turning their Pages into a [...]
How to Resize Images For The Web – Paint.net & Picasa
I’ve gone through the basics of image resizing using Photoshop (which you should read first, as the fundamentals are the same) however, if you don’t have Photoshop there are a few online tools that you can download to resize images. Paint.net is a relatively simple tool to use but you have to make sure once [...]
How to Resize Images For The Web – Photoshop
For the the purpose of this guide i’m going to use this image of a rather subdued Lemur I took at Toronga Zoo. The image to the left is one that I’ve edited to a size that I wanted with dimensions of; Width 300 x 225 and 133 pixels or dpi (dots per inch). But [...]
Why you should resize images for your web pages
When you put an image on a website, it has two sizes. One is the visible size on screen (it’s height and width in pixels) and the other is the size of the memory (file size) it takes up on the hard drive of the computer that hosts your website. Aesthetically, you need to get [...]
Tweetastic Bristol Airport
A few months back we were honoured to be asked to work with Bristol Airport to help them figure out how Twitter could work for a business such as theirs. They’re great people to work with so it was with some delight that I led the Social Media Style Guide Workshop. As a seriously well [...]
A-Z of Biscuits and Digital Marketing.
Here at Noisy Little Monkey HQ, we find that we work a lot better when we have a biscuit supply at the ready. So we thought over the coming weeks to broaden our horizons we would try to find a biscuit from A-Z and do a taste and review. As a digital marketing coming we [...]
What is "Alt Text"?
Put simply, ‘Alt Text’ means ‘Alternative text for images’. It is an attribute you can (and REALLY SHOULD) apply to any image on your website. It allows screen reading software (like Chrome Vox or Fire Vox) to describe the image to the blind person who is visiting your site. So this image: Has Alt Text [...]
Getting To The Top Of Google
If you came along to the talk that Jon Payne gave in Frome for Discuss & Do, the slides are available below. Getting to the top of Google – Feb 2012 View more PowerPoint from Noisy Little Monkey
Why I loved Discuss and Do in Frome
I do quite a few speaking events around the south west on how to get the most from your online investment. Be that getting to the top of Google, how to effectively use Twitter and Facebook for your brand, getting more from AdWords or understanding what’s important in Google Analytics. When I was asked to [...]
HTML You Should Know – 1
If you’re commissioning a website or just want to improve your existing online offering, then in addition to carefully planning the Information Architecture (where stuff sits on the website, how people can interact with it, how it is updated, etc) you need to ensure your web designer is doing the basics right. Without correctly written [...]
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Why I loved Discuss and Do in Frome
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How to Resize Images For The Web – Photoshop
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WordPress Spam
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Stop Link Buying. Stop It Now.
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Social Authority + PageRank – An Introduction
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MOT Your Website
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In A Twit About Your Twitter?
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Retargeting with Google Adwords
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Mon(k)ey Business
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Top 6 Tools From LinkLove 2012
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