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May 12th, 2008
Backups are often taken for granted - especially when using third party hosting companies. Yet, when it goes wrong there is often no one to turn to. The hosting companies state in their documents that they don’t accept responsibility. We had such an incident here at Xebidy last week - be aware!
May 9th, 2008
In just 12 months Xebidy has achieved a Google page rank of 6 - which is pretty good by most standards. Here’s the the secret to achieving good search engine rankings! It’s in the power of the blog.
May 9th, 2008
I downloaded and installed the latest beta release of the Opera browser yesterday as I was excited by the prospect of it having it’s own version of Firebug, called Dragonfly. For those that don’t know, Firebug is a tool used by web developers with the Firefox browser to help us inspect and sort out virtually everything to do with the look and feel and operation of a web page. So, I was pretty excited about trying out Dragonfly for Opera. Unfortunately, I have to say for me it was a failure!
May 8th, 2008
In a post earlier this year I could not criticism Boots n All and Lonely Planet strongly enough for their small-mindedness in deleting what were perfectly good threads about Oz Experience as they were being promoted by the company themselves. Despite the fact that these posts were completely independent and that everyone had a right to ask and answer questions.
Now it is the turn of Travelblog who although I applaud their initially stance and foresight in recognising the worth of a thread on Oz Experience have allowed the opinion of one person to effectively steal what was a perfectly good discussion thread and commit it to obscurity leaving in it’s place an irrelevant piece of garbage.
May 8th, 2008
I have been working on the Travel Generation design, and those that know about the project will know a how much it means to me. Anyways, I came across an interesting list of how a non-designer should think in order to have a designer point of view. The list is actually 50 points long and is part of designer Karim Rashid’s Karimanifesto but here is the top .
May 5th, 2008
The ‘new’ Internet is about creation of your own work as well as an empathy with the work of others. These are skills that we would say are determined by the right side of our brain; skills that in the past were valued not as highly as so-called left-brain skills such an analytics, calculation and the processing of data which lead to roles such as lawyers and accountants. Today’s Internet as well as today’s society increasingly favours those who think more in their right-brain, those that posses a greater entrepreneurial flare, are more inventive and more creative.
May 2nd, 2008
I look at so many web projects where there has been lots of different but similar websites created by the company for different angles of their business, yet they are all marketing pretty much the same message. What tends to happen is these sites all kind of have the same look and feel but are selling the virtues independently of a particular product or division of the business. I guess the idea behind this sort of strategy is to spread yourself out over the Internet - try and make a bigger sales web. Unfortunately, I believe that this sort of strategy is missing one essential point in search engine and internet marketing. That being the value of a site is in it’s perceived authority and at the end of the day it’s number of links.
April 30th, 2008
We here at Xebidy spend a lot of time working in and around “open source”, but we often receive questions as to what, why and how. That is, what is “open source”, why does it exist, and who is responsible for it?
April 22nd, 2008
Generating a site map is an important part of search engine optimisation. In this post we look at what’s involve in a site map and submitting it to search engines.
April 21st, 2008
Friday saw the launch of SwuzzleBucket - New Zealand and Australia’s newest online advertising network for the backpacker market. Xebidy has been involved in this project since the beginning designing and developing the website and developing the ad serving software.
Xebidy designs and develops leading edge Web 2.0 eCommerce strategies, websites and Internet marketing and search engine optimisation marketing programmes
Xebidy is based in the beautiful city of Queenstown and boast a proud list of international clientele.
Xebidy has completed re-engineered the way Oz Experience sells on the web resulting in the design and development of this magnificent site.
Brand new site for Australian Adventures called Discover Australia designed and developed by Xebidy.
Xebidy developed the original Base site and this reincarnation is designed and developed by Xebidy.
Xebidy is undertaking a Google cost-per-click campaign on behalf of The Park.
Xebidy converted a flash site to HTML and Javascript. The project is ongoing.
Beta release of a completely new site designed and developed by Xebidy. Subsequent releases are due early '08