So successful have the websites that we have built thus far been, that we’re flipping the industry on its head.

No longer do you have to pay for a website and hope that it works. Now, you can buy your website on a per call basis.

With a per call approach, we build the site and you pay ONLY when the phone starts to ring.  There’s no up-front costs, no risk and no contract. If we don’t get your hone ringing, you don’t have to pay.

Check out www.builder-in-yorkshire.co.uk as one example, or www.yorkshire-windscreens.co.uk as another.

The complete list of features:

1. Cut/Paste
2. Copy/Paste
3. Shake to undo/redo typing
4. Text selection for easy mass deletion
5. MMS
6. Landscape keyboard in Notes
7. Landscape keyboard in Mail
8. Landscape keyboard in Messages
9. Forward texts or picture messages
10. Delete individual texts or picture messages
11. Sending progress bar in Messages app moved to title instead of over the keyboard area (allows typing new message while the first one is sending)
11. Sending progress bar in Messages app moved to title instead of over the keyboard area (allows typing new message while the first one is sending)
12. USB tethering
13. Bluetooth tethering
14. Stereo bluetooth (A2DP)
15. Spotlight search (searches all app titles, mail, media, contact details, and calendar appointments)
16. Search in Notes
17. Search in Mail
18. Search in iPod
19. In-App purchases
20. Option to have double clicking the home button go to the Spotlight Search
21. Option to have double clicking the home button go to the Camera
22. Preview icon in lower left hand corner for last shot taken in Camera app
23. Shake to shuffle in iPod
24. Scrolling of screenshots in App Store
25. Type of phone used under each call in Recents (i.e., mobile, home, work, etc.)
26. Call history log (including call duration)
27. Option to Share Contact in each contact listing
28. Hold link in Safari to Copy
29. Hold link in Safari to Open in New Page
30. Auto Fill contact information, usernames and passwords in Safari
31. Login to your YouTube account
32. See Comments in YouTube
33. Subscribe in YouTube
34. Rate in YouTube
35. Shake to undo what you have typed
36. Option to retry sending failed text messages, indicated by red exclamation point next to text
37. Turn-by-turn GPS capabilities
38. Maps can be run inside other applications
39. Access to dock port for accessories to communicate
40. Peer-to-peer connectivity using Bluetooth (no Wi-Fi required)
41. New Voice memo application
42. Extended Parental controls
43. Anti-phishing
44. Wi-Fi auto login
45. Note syncing in iTunes
46. Improved Stocks app
47. New calendar types (CalDAV)
48. Prompt to confirm deleting a note
49. Prompt to confirm deleting a photo
50. Option to select multiple photos to attach to an email
51. “Find My iPhone” option for MobileMe users
52. Unlimited size podcast downloads over 3G
53. Pushing home button on first home screen takes user to Spotlight
54. Pushing home button on Spotlight takes user to first home screen
55. Variable speed playback for audio books
56. App Store subscriptions
57. Push notifications
58. Audio/Video tags
59. New video streaming capabilities (HTML 5 video, h.264 and HTTP)
60. Calendar subscriptions
61. iTunes login
62. iTunes account creation
63. Encypted profiles
64. LDAP (directory services)
65. VPN on-demand
66. EAP SIM
67. Proxy support
68. OTA profiles
69. Revoke certificates
70. Exchange ActiveSync Policies
71. Media scrubber
72. More languages
73. Improved keyboards
74. Failed app updates now are shown in a duplicate icon and labeled “Paused”
75. When selecting multiple emails to forward/delete, any unread emails’ blue dot are shown next to the red selector dot instead of being overridden by the red selector dot
76. Non-contact phone calls list their city and state of origin in Recents and Visual Voicemail under the number.
77. Ability to change ringtones straight from Favorites
78. Lap time display now displayed smaller and above time in Stopwatch
79. Polished Phone, Messages, and iPod icons
80. Swipe to delete notes in the Notes app
81. Advanced Bluetooth options for Handsfree devices
82. Option to close a single web page in Safari page view, which immediately opens a new blank page
83. Improved predictive dictionary
84. Blue dot now displayed in center of location circle in Maps (V1 only)
85. Listening to music while charging the battery now displays the album art instead of the battery
86. Smaller font for song title on lock screen
87. Option in Phone Settings to choose your phone number
88. Option to disable text message reminder alerts
89. Option to disable text message previews
90. Option to show subject field in text messages
91. Ability to integrate iPod music into apps
92. Clickable email links in App Store app descriptions
93. JavaScript 3x speed boost
94. 11 homescreens now allowed
95. Reboots to “slide to unlock” screen instead of homescreen
96. In Settings>General>Home>Search Results, users can choose what is searched on the phone and in what order.
97. Application count added in Settings>General>About
98. Option “Load Remote Images” added in Mail settings
99. Global address book option available if Exchange account is set up
100. Speed control in audiobooks
101. 30 second repeat option for audiobooks
102. Improved scrubbing speeds when holding white dot in song progress bar in iPod
103. When sending a text, your text box where you typed smoothly fades from white to green instead of instantly changing from white to green.
104. When moving an app across homescreens, holding the app on either the left or right side will slowly advance the app one through one homescreen at a time, without leaving empty spots in the bottom right corner or each homescreen it advances through.
105. Album name displayed on lockscreen iPod controls
106. Shake to shuffle on lockscreen iPod controls
107. Podcasts saved on iPhone now show Run Time, Time Left and Date Published
108. Screen goes from dimmed to full brightness after each song when playing the iPod while plugged in
109. WAVE file support in Mail
110. Attachment no longer automatically downloaded until user taps the attachment in Mail
111. When using a bluetooth headset with iPod, volume bar is removed and bluetooth headset name is displayed in its place.
112. A hard reset on your phone (holding sleep and home for 10 seconds) now turns it off instead of restarting it.
113. A space is no longer needed between two words for predictive texting to function.

Apple’s browser on the iPhone, Safari now offers much faster browsing, so it is more important than ever to ensure that your website is mobile phone friendly. Unsure if your website meets the needs of the mobile browser?   Click for more.

Full list sourced from http://www.iphoneuserguide.com

Of course, in addition to solid construction, focus on H1, H2 and H3 tags and well written copy, your website needs that little bit extra to achieve page one ranking, certainly when it comes to very competitive search terms.

That little bit extra is you website’s PageRank.

Named after Google’s co-founder Larry Page (and not ‘page’ as in ‘web page’), PageRank is how Google sorts the relevant and popular from the unrelevant and unpopular in order to give what it believes is the best results return for its users.

Search engine giant Google explains PageRank in considerable detail here, but in short, it seems that Google’s PageRank system uses the Internet’s vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value.

In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to web page B as a vote, by web page A, for web page B. However, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a web page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.”

So, whilst all links from other (relevant) websites to your website are undeniably important, get your site to the top of page one by having high ranking sites link to yours.  That’s where the challenge lies for all of us.

There are plenty of free web statistics packages out there, such as the highly acclaimed Google Analytics, but these only tell you half of the story. Your website is really an extension to any other advertising you may be doing, or have done in the past. If you have designed your website to generate sales as well as traffic, then it’s important to understand how good your website is at generating sales, or at the very least, telephone enquiries.

This is one area where Google’s analytics tool; and all the others, fall short.

So how do you work out how many people have called you from your website?

If you try to track your calls manually, it’s almost impossible to understand where your customers have found your telephone number. By asking your customers (if you remember to) human error inevitably gets in the way and your call statistics get horribly skewed. But there is a solution. Use technology to track your inbound calls to see where the customers found you.

Services such as Media Spy’s AdTracker, will allow you to quickly understand the effectiveness of all your advertising and marketing - including your website, by counting the calls made to each of your adverts. It allows you to quickly determine which adverts are making you money and which are just costing you money. Once you know this, you can decide where to spend your marketing budget to be assured that it will bring you a positive return.

The concept is simple. Along with your website, Media Spy gives each of your adverts a different telephone number. All the calls come through to you as normal, but information relating to the calls get tracked along the way. The simple system tells you not only how many calls you have received, but tells you when the calls were made and where the caller is situated. It is inexpensive, hugely effective and, best of all is guaranteed to save you money or they’ll give you your money back.

Here are 5 examples of common web design mistakes and our tips on how to avoid them.

1. Being hard to contact. If you don’t have your contact details on your homepage, the second most popular page of most websites is the ‘Contact Us’ page. Users want to be able to reach the people with whom they are doing business, quickly, easily and without fuss. Having to navigate through lots of pages vainly hoping to find a telephone number will lead users away from your site. Providing an email address and a phone number (on every page, if possible) can help alleviate your customers’ concerns.  If you want to automatically track the volume of calls you receive from your website find out more here.

2. Slow-to-load pages. Most designers understand that web users want to go straight to the content they’ve searched for; however there are some who still insist on either making you sit through a splash page, while others use annoying and long winded flash introductions. For the web visitor there is nothing worse than watching ‘Loading’ for 40 seconds as your page loads up in their browser.  Numerous online studies show that no matter how well-intentioned these introduction pages are, their main result is to drive traffic away from your site.

3. Navigation hell. If visitors to your site cannot get where they want to go in two clicks, many will just leave out of frustration. Too many choices (pages and sub-pages of options), the omission of a simple “back” button that fails to take them to the last page they visited, and other such navigation mistakes will cost you many customers.  Keep it simple is the rule of thumb here.

4. Jargon. Business-to-business and high-tech sites are usually the worst offenders in filling their content with industry jargon. When writing any content for your site you must keep the user in mind. It’s highly likely that they just want the basic facts of what your business is all about and what services or products you provide and will be put off by unnecessary jargon and three letter acronyms.

5. Bad photos. Bad photographs - and bad graphics for that matter, can totally ruin your website and make your site look horribly amateurish.  Remember, for many users, your website is your shop window.   Poor photography means your chance to impress may be lost and you can ruin any chance you may have of converting a visitor into a customer. When you choose your photos and graphics, choose strong pictures that say something good about your business.  Better still, get some professional website photography done.  It is going to be more than worth it in the long run.

The above list is by no means exhaustive. We’d love to tell you more. Why not contact us to find out how we can help you.

If you’re running a business there’s little doubt that your potential customers unknowingly judge you these days by the quality of your website. In a matter of seconds (or split seconds depending on which research you read) customers will decide if you are the type of business they want to deal with. So, getting the design and content of your website is of paramount importance.

Why, then, do so many businesses not have a website at all? I remember reading a BBC article back in November of 2007 which stated that more than half of the UK’s small and medium sized businesses don’t have a website. Now, it may have changed dramatically in the last 14 months, but I find that quite astounding. If you don’t have any presence at all on the Internet, how will your past, present and future customers consider you?

Yellow Pages useage is rapidly declining

There was a time when your advert in the Yellow Pages was a clue to the credibility of your business. People would judge you on what they saw and it often gave them peace of mind. Sadly, thanks to the Internet the ‘good old Yellow Pages’ days are numbered. It served its purpose for more than 40 years, but times move on and the Internet is the way ahead. Back on to those 50% of businesses that don’t quite understand that…

Maybe it’s because, for many, it’s a relatively unknown quantity. Maybe they don’t put enough importance on the web. Maybe they just don’t want to be bothered with it (I know of an accountancy firm that still uses pencil and paper to keep their records and one or two companies who don’t have a PC, let alone access to the Internet!)

Maybe - and this is the basis on which Brightmix was born - they don’t have the time to even start looking into having either a new website or their current website updated. Well, it’s time to realise that a website is not just necessary; it’s potentially life threatening for your business if you don’t have one!