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Testing Testing!!!!!!

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 | Website Design | No Comments

When Impact Media are asked to design a website, we do not just ‘bash’ it together and hope that site visitors can access the site, we dedicate our time to ensuring that visitors can view these websites in some of the most common browsers.

Since Netscape is now ‘no more’ we have removed this from our testing list, allowing us to concentrate on the latest and most advanced web browsers.

The most common browsers are Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera. Although these are just a few because there are so many different browsers out there, and more being created each day, to change the user experience whilst surfing online.

The other day I learnt of Flock, a recently newish browser that is quickly becoming a popular choice which people who enjoy social networking, as it allows you to save and instantly upload to your blog, Flickr photos, RSS feeds and more. Flock and many of the other new browsers work and look very similar to Mozilla Firefox, but they all seem to pick ideas from each other as they further develop their selves and aim to take the largest market share.

Currently (Market share from January 2008) the market is dominated by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer slowly followed by Firefox.

Below are the statistics showing the current market share for internet browsers in January 2008.

1. Internet Explorer 75.47%
2. Firefox 16.98%
3. Safari 5.82%
4. Opera 0.62%
5. Netscape 0.61%
6. Mozilla 0.32%
7. Other 0.17%

What browser do you use?

As mentioned earlier there are new browsers popping up all the time, another of which is Maxthon. Maxthon boasts on their homepage that they have had 138, 192,542 downloads and rising. That’s a fair share of users! Yet still Maxthon are not even mentioned in the top 6, that just shows how many people are now online, and waiting to view your website (through the browser of their choice, of course).

So you can see why we only test our websites in the most popular browsers, and we are always keeping our eyes out and monitoring new and up and coming browsers as technology moves forward.

Tags: browser, firefox, flock, internet explorer, maxthon, netscape, opera, safari, website

Welcome To 2008!

Friday, January 4th, 2008 | Company News | No Comments

Firstly, I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas break and didn’t go too over the top with the celebrating on New Years Eve. So now we are all back working… well at work anyway, it’s time to look towards the future and see what the New Year means for your business. 2007 saw many new developments for Impact Media Design, our arrival into Studio 7 back in June! The launch of our new website in October and the introduction too many new products and services which we are continuing to promote throughout 2008. The most recent of which is our promotional ideas catalogue.

This month will see Impact Media Design launch a new promotional gift and incentives catalogue with over 1000 promotional products available for branding.

The new catalogue will have a variety of new and innovating products which we have collated in a new glossy catalogue. Customers, who are interested in ordering promotional items for 2008, please contact the studio today and we’ll include you in our late January mail out.

So I hope 2008 can be a successful year for all of our clients and if your have any design or print requirements please get in touch as we are only a phone call away.

I look forward to hearing from you, Happy 2008!

James

Tags: Design, promotional, website

New Domain Name For Impact!

Monday, November 12th, 2007 | Company News | No Comments

Currently our web address is www.imdms.com.

Now this can be very difficult to remember especially when sending one of us emails!

So we have decided to change our web address to something that is a little easier to remember…hopefully!

The existing website address will still be live although eventually we will be phasing it out. On the brightside it should become easier to contact us!

The new domain name will be www.impactbranding.co.uk

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New Telephone Number For Impact Media Design!

Monday, November 12th, 2007 | Company News | No Comments

Over the past few years we have been using an 0870 number.

There was never really a strategy behind the number although we were looking for a telephone number which was non geographical. We have recently taken into consideration that our clients have being paying up to 10p per minute to contact us.

Because of our large marketing material which we have produced using the 0870 number, unfortunately we will not be changing the number. However we have now included a new local number which we are issuing to our existing clients and now advertising on the website only.

Our new number is 01268 514622.

Some more good news is that from February all 0870 numbers will turn into a local rate numbers - meaning we will pay for half of the call!

Tags: Advertising, marketing material, website