Twitter and your business.
April 26, 2012 - 1:07 pm by alexfrance
As a social network, Twitter is one of the most effective ways that you can reach your customers and build a reputation in your industry. Even though your content is limited to 140 characters, it gives you an opportunity to create a thought-leadership platform and effectively build relationships with your customers through personal interactions. In today’s world, [...]
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Running a Successful eCommerce Store
March 16, 2012 - 9:35 am by alexfrance
In today’s competitive market, simply opening a store online isn’t enough. For organisations that are breaking into the eCommerce arena; or even those who have been in it for years, there are a few things that can be done to ensure your store attracts the most buyers, resulting in more revenue and a better business [...]
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Calling all Boutiques!
December 4, 2011 - 3:38 am by alexfrance
Storthes is a brand new, not yet released website for the masses. We are looking to speak to all boutiques which are located in England, Wales and Scotland. If you own a boutique, please get in contact with us to find out more about Storthes, you wont regret it. contact@storthes.com Storthes
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Find Luxury Abroad
November 13, 2011 - 5:41 pm by alexfrance
Over the last couple of months, one job I have been working on is a new travel website Luxury Abroad. The site is different to normal travel sites by listing only the most luxurious 5 star accommodation around the world. Luxury Abroad is your invitation to the world’s most luxurious hotels. Access unbelievable savings on 5 star accommodation [...]
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Windows 8 Developer Preview
October 22, 2011 - 11:56 pm by alexfrance
I have just been having a quick play around with the new Windows 8 Developer Preview. This is basically a quick screenshot guide of what to expect when it is released in Autumn 2012. The build number of the Developer Preview I am using is build 8102. The screenshot above is the new start menu, [...]
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Barcelona, March 2011
March 20, 2011 - 11:12 pm by alexfrance
This weekend I went away to Barcelona with my girlfriend Rachael Smart to visit the beautiful city. It was a surprise getaway for her so she was totally not expecting it. I just wanted to share this picture with you all as it was one of my favourites I took during the weekend. Make sure [...]
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Optimisation.
January 19, 2011 - 4:34 pm by alexfrance
The other day I was coding a script for my twitter trend website Tweetpop, I was coding to script because I want to add more to the site by starting to retrieve lots of random tweets every minute and parse through them to pull out how many characters are in them, how many uppercase, lowercase, [...]
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Huddersfield Sub-Station
December 21, 2010 - 1:21 pm by alexfrance
A couple of weeks ago we were given a new University project to work on, it is titled Identity Place. We basically have to take an area (place) and then expand upon that and stretch reality to realise a ambitious idea. I decided to do my project on Huddersfield Train Station as it is a [...]
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Dmnd.
December 13, 2010 - 12:23 pm by alexfrance
Over the past few weeks I have been working with a friend on a little idea we had. We want to create a new clothing company which provides customers with limited edition garments. At the moment we are currently selling T-shirts which are designed by artists/illustrators and are sold on the website for a limited [...]
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Name The Country
November 6, 2010 - 1:50 pm by alexfrance
For one of my University projects I required a map of Europe, so I decided that I wanted to create something a little bit different. I decided to create the map in text, each country would be made up of its own name and coloured as its flag, well that was the intention. What turned [...]
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