Last night Facebook announced that it had over 500 000 000 users.

Some facts that have come out of this are that: 

8% of the entire world are on Facebook Metro
Facebook was valued at $11.5 billion The Telegraph
More than 150 million log in through their phone The Guardian

While Facebook is one of a kind, hard to surpass, if you need a social network site for your project or market then please get in touch.  TalkWeb has an excellent record for producing fun, exciting social applications customised for your market.

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It's all well and good spending money on a beautiful website, but will it make your company more successful?  Here at Talkweb we pride ourselves on creating concise, effective, fun applications that make the users experience pleasurable.

But how do we do this?

There are many things to consider when creating a website or web application:

Is your site Search Engine Optimised (SEO'd)?
When creating a website, you need to be aware of 'keywords' and phrases that are relevent to your business sector.  What are people going to be searching for when they are looking for products and services that you provide?  If you do not have a website that can be easily 'spidered' then it will simply drift in the internet ether, never being seen as relevent or important enough to be shown on search engine results pages, with the consequence that you will never pick up passing trade.

Do you have a good Content Management System (CMS)?
Are you spending hours updating each of your web pages, wasting time on the administration when you could be concentrating on sales and marketing?  An effective CMS system will save you valuable time and lead to a more consistent message in your site as well as enabling fantastic features that you may not have been able to create yourself.

Is your website design engaging?
It is always worth bringing on an impartial person to have a browse through your website and give you criticism and praise about what works and what doesn't for the user experience.  If your website is falling short for someone you have asked to look through, then think about the customer who has the choice of hundreds of companies across the web.  Will they choose your site?  Contact us for a free website evaluation and find out!

Check out your website analytics.
Are you aware of your website's analytics?  Have a look and see which pages are holding people's attention, and then create more like them!  Where are your customers coming from and on which pages are they leaving you and wandering off into the internet ether?  All this is essential information to tailor your website for your customers.

These are just a few things that we at Talkweb take into consideration when we look at a new project.  Now that you know give us a call and find out what we have done and how we can work our magic on your website!

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TalkWebSolutions have finished their website for the BBC.  This site can be found at www.projectcanvas.info. 

We developed our CMS Platform so that it would disseminate their content to the social web-sphere with little effort from the administration team. The site uses our CMS system so that the BBC editors can quickly and easily update content on the site. What is unique is that with one click the information they add can get pushed out to many social media websites such as Twitter, Delicious, Linkedin and Facebook. We also made an aggregated reader via Goggle reader which pulls in content from several sites, if the news from these feeds in relevant all the BBC team have to do is promote the store and it's pushed onto the website. The removes the requirement to scour several websites find the news as well as the need to re purpose the content.

We also created a secure access portal for their partners to share content online as well as managing the hosting of this site.

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TalkWebSolutions has been working with ArtReview magazine for a few years now and Daniel from ArtReview comments on the way that we work:

'TalkWebSolutions act as our outsourced web development team and offer us the combination of technical expertise and flexibility that we need. As a rapidly growing business in  fast changing business environment we rely on suppliers that can change and adapt to our needs quickly with the minimum of fuss - TalkWebSolutions achieve this for us.'

To find out what TalkWebSolutions can do for you please contact us!

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The BBC have commissioned TalkWebSolutions to create an information website for their new project, known as Project Canvas

Project Canvas is a proposed partnership between the BBC, ITV, C4, Five, BT and Talk Talk to build an open internet-connected TV platform, subject to BBC Trust approval.

The partners intend to form a venture to promote the platform to consumers and the content, service and developer community.

Like the UK's current free-to-air brands Freeview and Freesat - a consumer brand (not canvas) will be created, and licensed to device manufacturers, and internet service providers owners who meet the specifications.

This site will be a CMS platform that would disseminate content to the social web-sphere with little effort from the admin team.

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TalkWebSolutions has created a brilliant, customised e-card and animation for their customers featuring the office mascot - a rescued greyhound called Tenzin.

Get in touch with us today for your own customised e-card featuring characters and words of your choice or of our suggestion. 

Email us today on: xmas@talkwebsolutions.co.uk

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TalkWebSolutions has taken a green IT maturity test through Accenture Green Maturity Assessment and scored four out of five.

Through this we were informed that our organization has progressed to a mature Green IT level. This is because most, if not all, projects include assessments around environmental impact and senior staff are incentivized to improve the efficiency of the organization.

There is still more that we can do however to reach five out of five.  This includes automating monitoring and reporting, collecting performance data from systems and using advanced analytics to understand where additional performance can be achieved.

TalkWebSolutions is committed to achieving this and creating a greener world for all of us.

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ArtReview.com is an exciting website for members of the art world to communicate and educate each other through the medium of the internet. There are artists, curators, collectors, galleries and general art lovers involved, making this site a real mecca of creativity.

Talkwebsolutions have been working very hard on this project and have brought ArtReview users, an easier to use blog system, a forum for art reviews, an exciting and interactive features page, and featured articles among a multitude of other astounding features.

Talkwebsolutions has enabled ArtReview to achieve its ambition of being a unique blend of editorial and community content, combining the insight and critical weight of some of today’s most important artworld voices with the input and opinions of everyday enthusiasts from around the world in a very new and exciting format which allows maximum input for all users and maximum exposure for the client.

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Here at TalkWebSolutions we are passionate about web development and making sure that websites are working to the best of their ability. That is why we are offering a free website evaluation to companies that contact us with a requirement for a new website, a revamp of their current site or an online business solution (i.e. eCommerce, CRM etc).

Here are a few things you will find out from your free website evaluation report:

A report summary
This is the first page of a finished 100 page report. Here you can see the summary scores ('Accessibility', 'Content', 'Quality' etc), a screenshot of the site and a list of good and bad bullet points for the site (partly off the bottom of this screenshot).

Readability results
This test explains how easy the text in this website is to understand.

Metadata results
You can view and search through all Metadata on a website, include meta tags, etc.

File usage results
We show how effectively the files in your website are used.

W3C compliance results
Technical users can delve into as much detail as they like. Here your can see a list of all W3C compliance issues found with full explanations and code extracts.

And much more.

Please contact us with the ref: TWSBlog0809 and get your free website evaluation today.

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