﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>16interactive</title><link>http://www.16i.co.uk</link><description>16interactive - News Feed</description><item><title>Fitness Apps for Spring</title><description>With Easter just around the corner and the promise of warmer weather ahead we here at 16 Interactive have decided to take a break from web design and development, and focus on improving our fitness.  But we (being as interested in technology as we are) thought there must be some great techy...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/fitness-apps-for-spring/</link><pubDate>20/03/2013 16:27:59</pubDate><author>Steph Brooks</author></item><item><title>We are proud to present AM Digital and Everyman Theatre</title><description>The last few months have been a busy time for the team at 16 Interactive; we've been designing, developing and launching impressive websites. Below are a couple of recent examples.
Everyman Theatre

Website: www.everymantheatre.org.uk
Everyman Theatre came to us last year to redesign their...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/we-are-proud-to-present-am-digital-and-everyman-theatre/</link><pubDate>15/02/2013 10:45:48</pubDate><author>Jordan Sayner</author></item><item><title>Samsung S3 Calendar </title><description>

Samsung S3 Calendar dates.


How to sync with Outlook



Are you a lucky owner of the world&amp;rsquo;s bestselling mobile handset(1)? No, not an iPhone but the glorious Samsung S3! It wasn&amp;rsquo;t long ago that I used to be a typical iPhone fan boy, I could never envisage jumping ship to...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/m-blogsamsung-s3-calendar-dates-outlook/</link><pubDate>06/02/2013 11:27:21</pubDate><author>Craig Windsor</author></item><item><title>Our views on Apple’s change in tactics and past successes</title><description>In our office the Apple vs Android debate is always on-going; the Apple fans are dedicated and will show avid support to the end, with their adversaries just as passionately arguing against the multinational corporation and its product. One topic that regularly presents its self is the question of...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/our-views-on-apples-change-in-tactics-and-past-successes/</link><pubDate>28/01/2013 14:08:45</pubDate><author>Steph Brooks</author></item><item><title>Automatic Spell Checker for content management systems</title><description>Today we're sharing a very useful tip for people who use content management systems.

If you regularly use a content management system, our browsers of choice here at 16 Interactive are Firefox or Chrome as they do such a nice job of being compatible with WYSIWYG editors.
Another real bonus is...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/automatic-spell-checker-for-content-management-systems/</link><pubDate>03/09/2012 12:02:08</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>16 Interactive Awwwards nomination</title><description>16 Interactive nominated for another Awwward!

What is an Awwward?

"Awwwards are the awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world.

An international jury, made up of some of the most important designers, bloggers and...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/16-interactive-awwwards-nomination/</link><pubDate>07/08/2012 16:49:26</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>New website for Superior Hot Tubs</title><description>Website design for Gloucestershire hot tub retailer.

Superior Hot Tubs have been using our content management system for close to a year now, having brought an existing design to us which we built for them.
Problems with the design prevented it from getting search traffic, and also from...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/new-website-for-superior-hot-tubs/</link><pubDate>06/08/2012 16:57:33</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Couch Commerce - how to capitalise on surging tablet sales</title><description>Why your next website should be responsive

With desktop devices (PC, Mac and Linux) starting to landslide in the wake of Couch Commerce (purchases made from Smartphones and Tablets), it's of ever increasing importance to cash-in on this, by making your site re-size and rearrange its interface...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/couch-commerce---how-to-capitalise-on-surging-tablet-sales/</link><pubDate>05/07/2012 09:21:57</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Use of cookies on websites</title><description>Cookies
Just a quick one from us (as in-case you hadn't noticed by the date of our last post), we're incredibly busy with client work!
You've probably heard about the recent changes in EU legislation around the use of cookies in web browsers, so this is a quick post about how this might affect...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/use-of-cookies-on-websites/</link><pubDate>29/05/2012 13:09:03</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Mobile Websites - The web is dead!</title><description>The Web is dead, long live the mobile Web!


At 16 Interactive, we live and breathe websites, so when a change as big as this sits on the horizon, we get quite excited. The next twelve months will see some epic changes for the online world, with gesture and voice controlled browsing already...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/mobile-websites-the-web-is-dead/</link><pubDate>09/01/2012 12:15:27</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>eCommerce web design</title><description>eCommerce Websites	

Check out our latest eCommerce website here: http://www.gear4yourcar.co.uk although credit for the amazing finish on the front-end design goes to Sarah&amp;nbsp;from Hatch Designs &amp;ndash; another excellent collaboration!
The client said: "You should be very proud of your team...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/ecommerce-web-design/</link><pubDate>16/12/2011 15:12:06</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Facebook Business Pages</title><description>Facebook business page design

The team at 16 Interactive have been busy designing and building a few custom Facebook business pages for our clients and agency partners recently. This post aims to provide some more information on how they work, and what the benefits are.
Essentially there are...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/facebook-business-pages/</link><pubDate>15/12/2011 13:24:21</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>A New Google</title><description>Many people use it every day, and some will have it as their homepage, and from today there will be some minor changes that might affect you in a big way.

The first noticeable change is that users are greeted with a new navigation for Google&amp;rsquo;s other services. Rather than a series of text...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/new-google/</link><pubDate>02/12/2011 09:39:24</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>Facebook Privacy and How to Control It</title><description>Last week, I detailed the latest changes Facebook brought in with Facebook profile, the timeline.
By now, you've probably seen the new profile along with various other changes Facebook have been making to the social network. The latest changes to Facebook will no doubt confuse and annoy a few...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/facebook-privacy-and-how-to-control-it/</link><pubDate>29/09/2011 17:45:25</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>Facebook Timeline - A New Kind of Facebook Profile</title><description>Shortly after we posted about the new features coming to Facebook, myself and Andy were granted access to the new timeline that Facebook have been developing. Therefore, this is our first impressions of the Facebook Timeline.

The first thing that hits you is the new cover photo. You can select...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/facebook-timeline-new-facebook-profile/</link><pubDate>23/09/2011 15:56:52</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>Facebook F8, The Future Of Facebook</title><description>Last night, Facebook held the F8 conference live on Facebook. Presented by Mark Zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook), F8 is held each year and gives Facebook an opportunity whereby new features and additions to the Facebook platform are announced. This year&amp;rsquo;s event received a lot of hype&amp;nbsp;and...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/the-future-of-facebook/</link><pubDate>22/09/2011 20:08:21</pubDate><author>Andy Bell</author></item><item><title>Microsoft drops Flash Support in Windows 8's new touch interface</title><description>Microsoft has announced that it will be dropping support for Adobe Flash Player, in the version of it's Internet Explorer (IE) browser that will be integrated into its new "Metro" touch interface. The main desktop version of IE will remain unaffected.
Microsoft new interface, code named Metro...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/microsoft-drops-flash-support/</link><pubDate>16/09/2011 16:32:36</pubDate><author>David Beesley</author></item><item><title>Software development and website design for recruitment</title><description>Software development and website design for class people
How we made the perfect system for class people
What they needed
class people, one of the leading supply teaching agencies in the South West approached 16 Interactive to add some new functionality to their systems, to refresh the now tired...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/software-development-and-website-design-for-recruitment/</link><pubDate>08/09/2011 15:01:12</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>HTML5 Websites</title><description>16 Interactive steps up to the HTML 5 plate


Over the past few months you may have heard a lot about HTML5, the latest iteration of the language used to create web pages.
What is HTML5?
In short, HTML5 is the next evolution of the programming language that lays out content on websites. In...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/html5-websites/</link><pubDate>18/08/2011 11:59:54</pubDate><author>David Beesley</author></item><item><title>Oxygen Helpdesk – Our latest Website launch</title><description>Today we launched our latest website design and CMS conversion project, Oxygen Helpdesk &amp;ndash; a leading provider of Help Desk Software and Service Desk Software.
We designed it in-house with a heavy client influence to turn their vision and ideals into the perfect website for their...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/oxygen-helpdesk--our-latest-website-launch/</link><pubDate>09/08/2011 10:14:52</pubDate><author>Andy Bell</author></item><item><title>Ofcom smartphone stats</title><description>Apples for adults and Blackberry for teenagers

As we&amp;rsquo;re really quite busy (for a change!) polishing some finished websites for the usual Friday deadlines, this is just a quick post, but it&amp;rsquo;s incredibly relevant to our mobile web design page.

Very interesting figures released from...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/ofcom-smartphone-stats/</link><pubDate>05/08/2011 14:55:21</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Project Spartan – Facebook’s answer to the App Store </title><description>There has been a lot of recent talk about a new Facebook development project named &amp;ldquo;Spartan&amp;rdquo;. The aim is to launch a HTML5 App Store and a Facebook app which are both purely HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript-based.&amp;nbsp;
It has been suggested that this is a direct attack on Apple&amp;rsquo;s App...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/project-spartan--facebooks-answer-to-the-app-store/</link><pubDate>22/07/2011 12:09:12</pubDate><author>Andy Bell</author></item><item><title>More Google Updates</title><description>Along with the changes Google have been making in social networking with Google+, they have also been updating all their other services in the process to coincide with the new look. 
Users are now greeted with a black bar across the top of their sites with a +You in the top left hand corner,...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/more-google-updates/</link><pubDate>13/07/2011 09:49:00</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>Google Plus Preview</title><description>Last week, I noticed that a friend of mine was on Google+. Not wanting to feel left out, I asked him if he could send me an invite. Now, at this point I wasn&amp;rsquo;t sure if Google had stopped invites momentarily. Moments later, there was an email in my inbox saying click the link below and you...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/google-plus-preview/</link><pubDate>05/07/2011 12:03:27</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>Google Plus</title><description>What is Google+ (Google Plus)?

Possibly one of the most significant shifts in "Search" and "Social Media", ever.

Back on April 1st this year (it wasn't an April fool), we told you about Google's new service - Google +1 (Google Plus one)
Yesterday, it turned out our prediction of it being...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/google-plus/</link><pubDate>29/06/2011 10:36:36</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Google asks what do you love?</title><description>Google have a new search portal designed to bring together all their services into one place. Search for something that you love, and you can see some images, set up an alert, email someone about it, or see its popularity in Google Trends for example.&amp;nbsp;





At the moment, there is no...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/google-asks-what-do-you-love/</link><pubDate>28/06/2011 09:16:06</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>The Web Browser Support Countdown</title><description>The Web Browser Support Countdown


At a time when Microsoft themselves are urging people to "say goodbye" to their Internet Explorer 6 web browser, Google has joined them in phasing-out support for IE6 and other more recently released but nonetheless ageing browsers, as of August 1st this...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/web-browser-support-countdown/</link><pubDate>06/06/2011 10:07:56</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Digitalks Cheltenham - 12th May 2011</title><description>
Yesterday evening we attended Digitalks at D-Fly in Cheltenham. We watched some very interesting lectures about HTML5 and CSS3 in the real world and Social Media Video within a business marketing environment.  
Along with the lectures, we witnessed the new Digitalks brand being unveiled. We...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/digitalks-cheltenham-12th-may-2011/</link><pubDate>13/05/2011 09:30:24</pubDate><author>Andy Bell</author></item><item><title>Mobile security a top priority at Vodafone</title><description>Mobile security top priority at Vodafone

According to Vodafone director of business products and services, Scott Petty [right], the biggest technology problem faced by him is managing the security of the plethora of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets.
According to the BBC who...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/mobile-security-top-priority/</link><pubDate>09/05/2011 17:24:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>16 Interactive Mural</title><description>16 Interactive design and commission a mural for our sales and creative floor.


The ground floor of our stylish new offices not only makes the first impression for visiting clients, but is also home to our creative and salespeople. Local artist Lucy Steel hand-painted our own artistic design...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/16-interactive-mural/</link><pubDate>09/05/2011 12:03:04</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Internet Browsers: What browser do you use?</title><description>Last week we decided to ask a simple question on Facebook, &amp;ldquo;What browser do you use to browse the internet?&amp;rdquo; Not a particularly hard question you would have thought, but one that provoked a few tasty discussions at that. 
At the moment, IE is still the browser getting the most usage at...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/internet-broswers-what-broswer-do-you-use/</link><pubDate>08/04/2011 13:56:35</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>CMSWire: Web Content Management in 2011: It Ain't Going Anywhere</title><description>According to CMSWiRE, Web Content Management in 2011: It Ain't Going Anywhere

Web content management is becoming even more relevant in 2011, with the main focus on delivering multichannel marketing, via social, mobile and other trending channels, as the following info suggests:


CMSWiRE said...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/cmswire-web-content-management-in-2011/</link><pubDate>06/04/2011 18:07:50</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Google get's all social with Google Plus One</title><description>Google get's all social with Google +1



Google is now encouraging social interaction between Google profiles using it's new "Google +1" (similar to a Facebook Like).


According to Google: 
The +1 button is shorthand for "this is pretty cool" or "you should check this out."
Click +1 to...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/google-gets-all-social-with-google-plus-one/</link><pubDate>01/04/2011 18:48:21</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Has your CMS been hacked? Pay now or you could pay later: Why it pays to pay for your content management system.</title><description>Has your CMS been hacked?


Pay now or you could pay later: Why it pays to pay for your content management system.


There are 101 companies out there who take a free open source content management system like Joomla or Wordpress, slap a free template on it, change a few fonts or graphics and...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/has-your-cms-been-hacked/</link><pubDate>31/03/2011 19:12:08</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Our new improved blog!</title><description>Recently we decided to redesign our blog to make it easier for our readers to look through the posts. The things that a user will be interested in a blog are the title of the post, when it was written and the post itself, so we&amp;rsquo;ve made it a bit clearer on that front aesthetically.
Not only...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/our-new-improved-blog/</link><pubDate>24/02/2011 13:14:52</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>16 Interactive needs YOU! [Especially if you are a .NET developer]</title><description>We're hiring yet again!

If you are the lucky person who gets to join our growing team, you will be the fourth person to be recruited, and double the size of our workforce, in the last 12 months.

With this kind of growth, in a "recession" it's no mean feat to be joining such a successful...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/16-interactive-needs-you-net-developer/</link><pubDate>17/02/2011 15:34:53</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Developer meets a salad</title><description>It's a surprising day today; for the first time ever, Andy (one of our developers and creative genius) is expanding his diet and has gone down the route of eating a salad box for lunch rather than sandwich and crisps. &amp;nbsp;He wasn't convinced in the slightest and I don't think he'll be having it...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/developer-meets-a-salad/</link><pubDate>14/02/2011 12:34:44</pubDate><author>Alex Clough</author></item><item><title>Press Advertising</title><description>Today we have submitted our first print based advert to the press. We were given a lucky opportunity to have some front page space for this Saturday s publication (29/01/11) of The Gloucestershire Echo. Although we deal primarily online marketing techniques and SEO, it is still a good idea to...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/press-advertising/</link><pubDate>28/01/2011 17:46:57</pubDate><author>Andy Bell</author></item><item><title>W3C release new HTML5 logo</title><description>Yesterday, W3C introduced their new logo for HTML 5. The logo will be used to visually identify websites which use the new standard of the mark-up language. This new standard is a much discussed and debated subject within the online community, and many strong supporting and opposing views have been...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/w3c-release-new-html5-logo/</link><pubDate>19/01/2011 09:43:35</pubDate><author>Andy Bell</author></item><item><title>Our new green screen</title><description>Exciting things are happening at 16 interactive. We are developing our Creative Media department and with that, we have an excuse to play with new kit!&amp;nbsp;

A green screen enables us to use a technique called Chroma key within video and photographic productions. The main purpose of Chroma key...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/our-new-green-screen/</link><pubDate>18/01/2011 12:14:36</pubDate><author>Andy Bell</author></item><item><title>Don't you just love a helpful error message?</title><description>This is a bit of an old one now, but the joke is that this is still in the BIOS for a brand new Intel Core i7 PC. 
</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/dont-you-just-love-a-helpful-error-message/</link><pubDate>14/12/2010 14:27:59</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>The internet is to run out of space in spring next year!!</title><description>A widely discussed topic online is the fact that we've almost run out of unique identification numbers which are used to identify addresses on the web.

Rather like when British car number plates switched from X000XXX format to XX00XXX format, the same thing is required online, except the problem...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/the-internet-is-to-run-out-of-space-next-year/</link><pubDate>02/12/2010 11:18:48</pubDate><author>Mark Teece</author></item><item><title>The pitfalls of outsourcing overseas</title><description>We get several emails each day asking us to outsource work overseas.

We will never do this, for a few basic reasons:
1. Language barrier - I was contacted via LinkedIn by a so-called Brand Consultancy based in India. They are called "Zero Creativity" - enough said there. Google them at...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/the-pitfalls-of-outsourcing-overseas/</link><pubDate>01/12/2010 10:07:50</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Gameboy Emulator in HTML5 and Javascript</title><description>
    
        
            
            Remember the good old days of the Gameboy and when Mario was a simple scroll and jump? We do too, so when we came across an emulator written in HTML5 and Javascript we had to share it with you. Not only is it a fine example of the capabilities of the...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/gameboy-emulator-in-html5-and-javascript/</link><pubDate>30/11/2010 11:21:21</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>16 Interactive gets an honourable mention at the CSS awards</title><description>16 Interactive recently submitted our latest work to the CSS Awards who have already credited the site with an honourable mention. We're waiting to see if the praise stops there, or if we will be given further credit by the CSS Awards team with a&amp;nbsp;full-blown CSS Award! 

Click to see our...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/16-interactive-gets-an-honourable-mention-at-the-css-awards/</link><pubDate>15/11/2010 16:49:58</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Google now providing search results with instant previews</title><description>In the past week, Google have updated their search results to show an instant preview of a website on the right hand side of the page as shown below.


These are activated by simply selecting the magnifying glass next to the search result. By default they are not shown. This is another welcome...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/google-now-providing-search-results-with-instant-previews/</link><pubDate>12/11/2010 15:59:56</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>The right to link - Is this considered an infringement of the copyright for the site being linked to?</title><description>A few months back, I was asked to sign a petition (which I did) that requested a change to the law around copyright infringement when linking to other sites... it's now been reviewed by The Government. Here is their response:
&amp;nbsp;

You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to commit at...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/the-right-to-link/</link><pubDate>08/11/2010 16:13:59</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Google Local Search - Updated today!</title><description>Today, the 28/10/2010 saw a noticable update in the way that local search results are displayed.

It appears that Google has merged it's data from Google Maps and its organic listings to re-order the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) and display the information differently. 

Now last time I...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/google-local-search-updated/</link><pubDate>28/10/2010 15:06:32</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>We're on Digg!</title><description>We thought we'd give you a heads up to let you know that we are on Digg, which is a site that is used to find some really cool content. The idea is to Digg content on the internet if you like it, the more Digg's a post or article gets on a site, the more it gets shared on the internet and...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/we're-on-digg/</link><pubDate>27/10/2010 09:45:22</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>Designing your website for use on a mobile device</title><description>Mobile devices are getting more advanced these days and with the uptake of so called smartphones growing 41% in Europe for the past year [1], a need for a mobile website is getting greater, or at least more advised since these devices are more than capable of providing internet to the mobile user....</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/mobile-website-design/</link><pubDate>18/10/2010 16:27:16</pubDate><author>Thomas Morris</author></item><item><title>PPC, Tread carefully - Marks and Spencer sued by Interflora over use of their trademark in Google Ad campaigns</title><description>Interflora sues M&amp;amp;S over allegations that they paid Google to promote their own flowers when users searched for the Interflora website.

Google Adwords has very strict dectection systems to prevent misuse of other brand's trademarks, yet in this instance, according to the BBC website:...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/ppc-tread-carefully-marks-and-spencer-sued-by-interflora/</link><pubDate>13/10/2010 19:29:01</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>16 Interactive cake</title><description>One of the things we love round the office here in Cheltenham is cake, so when we had a cake specially made for us by Hennie Bee Bakery, we had to share it with you.


Many thanks!</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/16-interactive-cake/</link><pubDate>04/10/2010 15:28:05</pubDate><author>David Beesley</author></item><item><title>16 Interactive launch Cheltenham SEO Training.</title><description>For many businesses, spending&amp;nbsp;money on SEO each month provides them with valuable enquiries with which to grow their business.

However some businesses, particularly those with just one or two staff, can often struggle with budgeting for this.
Due to popular demand, we've now...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/16-interactive-launch-cheltenham-seo-training/</link><pubDate>24/09/2010 09:05:40</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>SEO and CMS advice from Google’s very own SEO guru, Matt Cutts.</title><description>Search Engine Optimisation and SEO

At 16 Interactive, we like our clients to understand the basics before we design their websites: Q: What is the point of having a website which doesn't come up on Google (used for c.90% of UK internet searches)?

A: Well unless you are spending an absolute...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/seo-and-cms-advice-from-google-seo-guru-matt-cutts/</link><pubDate>23/07/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>SEO and web designs that work - with us, you really can be number one!</title><description>At 16 Interactive, we get a lot of clients who just need us to SEO their sites. Often however, the reason their site isn't listed on Google is because it's simply not built in an SEO-friendly way. All the sites which use our CMS are made from the ground-up to be SEO friendly, and as CMS's go, out...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/seo-and-web-design/</link><pubDate>21/07/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Frozen Visions | Website Design for Cheltenham Photographer</title><description>We've just completed the design for a local photographer in cheltenham; Frozen Visions. The design proposed by the client for the home page features a large flash gallery to showcase the latest photos, which are easily uploaded and edited within the included content management system. The ease and...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/frozen-visions-website-design-for-cheltenham-photographer/</link><pubDate>15/07/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>USS Cheltenham | Web Design and SEO with a CMS</title><description>USS of Cheltenham provide all kinds of lighting, PA, and event conference solutions, from dry hire of a light, to a complete AV solution for a huge conference. They wanted a new website to showcase their incredible library of photos taken at their events. We came up with a web design to convert to...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/uss-cheltenham-web-design-and-seo-with-a-cms/</link><pubDate>14/07/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Point Blue Process Servers | Web Design and SEO with Content Management</title><description>The Point Blue Network are process servers and document servers, specialising in urgent tracing, serving and legal services. They came to us to provide them with a web presence. Like many of our customers, Point Blue's vision was not just to "have a website", but to have a complete web presence -...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/point-blue-process-servers-web-design-and-seo-with-content-management-system/</link><pubDate>07/07/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Steck Depositors | Web Design, SEO and Content Management</title><description>Steck depositors came to us after reading one of our monthly email newsletters. They had a dated website design which had never been optimised for search engines, and had no way of editing the content on it without contacting the guy who'd made it for them originally.

As is often the case in...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/steck-depositors-web-design-seo-and-content-management/</link><pubDate>07/07/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Class People | Bespoke database and website backend design</title><description>We designed a website platform with a complete back-end system that allows Class People to take enquiries from schools who require supply teachers and select a suitable candidate from their database who matches the requirements.


Candidates are then able to file their timesheets online with...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/class-people-bespoke-database-and-website-backend-design/</link><pubDate>06/07/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Chase Distillery | Flash website converted to HTML with CMS</title><description>Chase Distillery are one of the leading boutique distillers of potato vodka in the UK. Their website was made entirely in flash, which meant it wasn't SEO friendly, and they couldn't edit or add to the content without incurring significant costs.


By porting the flash site to our cms platform,...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/chase-distillery-flash-website-converted-to-html-and-css/</link><pubDate>06/07/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Brit | Commercial Mortgages Bristol &amp; Cardiff - Web Design</title><description>Brit Commercial Mortgages (AKA MSDirect), are commercial mortgages brokers with offices in Bristol and Cardiff. They came to us with a new brand concept and a fresh approach to generating new business enquiries. Our client wanted a clean new web design that was easy to navigate and contained useful...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/brit-commercial-mortgages-bristol-cardiff-web-design/</link><pubDate>02/07/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>PDF's not opening in FireFox (crashing)? </title><description>There seems to be a bug in Firefox at the moment when opening PDFs - one easy way to fix this is to do as follows: 
1. Tools 
2. Options 
3. Applications 
4. Select Drop-down for Adobe Reader as shown below &amp;ndash; This will download the file and open it, rather than display it in Firefox......</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/pdfs-not-opening-in-firefox/</link><pubDate>01/07/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>ASP .Net Developer Jobs in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire</title><description>We've been expanding steadily throughout 2010 and now have a requirement for two further development roles involved with the roll-out of our CMS platform and template construction.

We need versatile people with experience of ASP .Net C# and MSSQL 2008, with an interest in CMS platforms, and a...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/asp-net-developer-jobs-in-cheltenham-gloucestershire/</link><pubDate>21/04/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Alex Clough</author></item><item><title>ASP .Net C#developers wanted, Cheltenham</title><description>16 Interactive has been continuously expanding in recent years.

In the last six months, a new Sales and Marketing manager role has been created, and since filling this role, demand for our products and servcies has further increased to the point where we need two more developers!

If you have...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/asp-net-developers-wanted-cheltenham-gloucestershire/</link><pubDate>16/04/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Alex Clough</author></item><item><title>Web Design Books</title><description>http://speckyboy.com/2009/07/06/40-free-and-essential-web-design-and-development-books-from-google/&amp;nbsp;</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/web-design-books/</link><pubDate>17/03/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Cheltenham Festival commences at 1:30pm today!!</title><description>We're pretty excited about the Cheltenham Festival at Montpellier Interactive. We've all placed some bets on the first horse race of the Cheltenham Festival, and are looking forward to Friday's Gold Cup race!
Bets placed so far by mi team members for the 1:30 race:

Alex - Get Me Out of Here,...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/cheltenham-festival-at-1-30pm-today/</link><pubDate>16/03/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Web Design for SEO with a Content Management System</title><description>At&amp;nbsp;16 Interactive, we do Web Design.

Not the most dazzling statement ever. However our website designs are more effective than most. Why? Our websites are SEO friendly. This means that we design websites from the ground-up that are based around the search engines, as well as using a design...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/web-design-for-seo-with-a-content-management-system/</link><pubDate>15/03/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>The 16i Team</author></item><item><title>Search Engine Optimisation on BBC Radio 2</title><description>Check out the live discussion on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 now:

Listen now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/radio2/

Check it out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r33s2#

If you like the fact that we're #1 for this term, then fill in our SEO form and we'll do a full website appraisal...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/search-engine-optimisation/</link><pubDate>05/03/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>More Web Designs from 16 Interactive - Cheltenham based Web Design and SEO company</title><description>We're chewing through some serious volumes of web design and SEO work this year!

Increasingly clients are requesting SEO or Search Engine Optimisation at the same time as their web design. This is great as we can build their site, from the ground-up to be SEO-friendly. By doing this, when the...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/web-designs-16-interactive-cheltenham-web-design-and-seo-company/</link><pubDate>05/03/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Web Design Gloucester, Gloucestershire</title><description>We've been busily working away on Web Designs in Gloucester recently.

Staverton Building Supplies and Point Blue are both Gloucester Web Design clients with designs that are either already live, or about to go live - check out the pictures below for some of our recent work.

Web Design in...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/web-design-gloucester-gloucestershire/</link><pubDate>22/02/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Web Designs so far in 2010</title><description>2010 is all about web design for 16 Interactive. We've been really busy not only working with our design team, but also getting their "web design flats" skinned over our CMS
 framework to make them easily user-editable.
Some examples of recent web site design
 flats we've been working on are...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/web-design/</link><pubDate>18/02/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Web Design Cheltenham</title><description>At 16 Interactive, we've gone back to basics this year. Our brand new website design went live at the end of last year, and our SEO has really kicked-in, plus with a range of products and services, from email marketing, content management systems, and SEO, we've had a very successful start to...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/web-design-cheltenham/</link><pubDate>09/02/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Email Newsletter Programs for 2010</title><description>Email Newsletters are becoming increasingly important for businesses in 2010 - for those who haven't already caught onto the email marketing trend, it's a great way to keep in touch with your customers, improve your brand, reinforce your message, introduce special offers, and track your recipients...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/email-newsletter-programs/</link><pubDate>11/01/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item><item><title>Google Caffeine - It's started!</title><description>For those of you in the SEO world, you'll have known for some time that Google has been planning some major new changes, and has recently started to implement them. The full-blown Google Caffeine is coming soon, so this is just the start...

However if you are just a regular user of Google with...</description><link>http://www.16i.co.uk/m-blog/view/google-caffeine/</link><pubDate>06/01/2010 00:00:00</pubDate><author>Ed Tallents</author></item></channel></rss>