Good morning and hello!
Greetings webusers of the world!
Allow me to introduce myself, I am Jonathan Eaton, New Business Account Executive at Quba. You’re probably wondering who I am and what I do-so here’s a bit of background, some witty banter and a window into my enthusiasm for all that’s fine online.
Born in mid 1980’s Wales to a Canadian [...]
How Bike E-Retailers are Failing the Hunter?
In e-commerce profiling “the hunter” is the user who has an idea of what they want but needs help choosing. They are compared to “the tracker” who knows exactly what they want and needs help finding and buying. They can be summarised by focussing on their end goal and mind-set:
The Hunter – I want a [...]
How To Measure E-commerce Profitability?
Utah based software company, Omniture, recently reported that online marketers are having to make their decisions based on superficial data. Their survey showed that 43% of businesses cannot measure profit per customer and order. Quba thinks that this is quite a shocking statistic and that with the right tools a business should be able to [...]
Productivity Apps That Make Things Much Easier
We’re always on the lookout for new and useful applications that increase productivity and allow us to offer a better service to our customers. The following is a shortlist of some of the popular ones currently being used at Quba. Best of all, they can all be used for free!
Launchy – http://www.launchy.net/
Launchy is a great [...]
Web Video: File Formats, Video Sizes and Compression
Over the last few months I’ve been learning more and more about publishing videos online and in this blog post I’ll share some of the things I’ve learnt along the way.
File Formats
The most common way of showing web video is to use Flash players which come as either two separate files (the player and then [...]
Google Orion Technology – an unfair advantage?
It was announced today by Google that they are rolling out changes to their search results to provide more context and help users find the best results. A company they acquired a few years ago, Orion, was originally behind this technology and in theory, it is a great idea. An example of this working well [...]
Tweety Time: Quba have been Twittering
Firstly if you’re not aware of the social marketing phenomenon that Twitter is then I recommend you watch this short video:
Clear now? I hope so.
Twitter’s been the hot web brand on everybody’s lips – Stephen Fry is a huge Twitterer and recently Tweeted an afternoon he spent stuck in a lift! As well as being [...]
Beauty optional?
Recently I’ve been looking at the excellent mySociety.org network of websites in some detail, and I was struck by this sentence on their “about us” page:
Often people use the word ‘minimalism’ when describing our interfaces, and that’s not something we’d deny.
I interpret this as an admission that the mySociey.org team considers visual design to be [...]
While having my massage today I thought about ….
Today we had our monthly visit from the company masseuse. It’s great not only for the body but the mind as well, with half an hour to relax and think about what’s going on. This time it got me thinking about a comment made in the office by one of our account managers about user [...]
The Many Faces of Google
Love it or hate it, Google is evolving fast. On their quest to making the worlds information “accessible and useful” they are constantly trying new ways of displaying information to their visitors for day to day searches. The most common approach is to show snippets of searches from other areas of their index such as [...]
