UKNetWeb Blog

The Internet continually evolves and there are a number of important considerations every business person, marketer and ecommerce manager should be paying attention to this year.

Whether a user is currently travelling, at work, in a meeting, at home, watching TV, or lying in bed will all affect their behaviour, expectation, and current personal objective for using the Internet at a particular time. As Internet users’ behaviour develops the offering to audiences must continue to reflect not only people’s expectations but their browsing environments. Internet connectivity speed, browser device capability and individual situational objectives need to be taken into account if you, the provider of content and utility, are going to achieve your own objective of effective communication and transaction. (more…)

As you will have heard in yesterday’s pre-budget report, VAT will be reduced from the present rate of 17.5% to 15%, from Monday 1st December until the end of next year.

In making this move there will be many website owners, particularly those with ecommerce websites, who may need to have changes made to their website to bring the new VAT rate into action. (more…)

You’ve spent all that time and effort promoting your business online and offline. You’re strategy is spot on and your product or service is great; however, for some reason your site is not converting interest into the levels of business you expected. (more…)

Although web cart abandonment rates are falling year on year, businesses looking to maximise their profits online still need to work hard to ensure that their customers aren’t put off making that all important purchase. In this article, Toby Parkins, Managing Director of web development company, ukneweb, outlines some ways e-commerce owners can reduce cart abandonment and drive increased sales on the web.

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Owning your own network online could never be simpler than through www.ning.com, a white label social networking site that enables individuals to create their own social networks at no cost.

Never one to miss an opportunity to test a new web application, I created a group for members of the network and referral organisation, the BNI, and joined a local business network created by friend, Alan Jones, for business people in the South West (UK).

So will sites such as Ning lead to the creation of ‘nethoods’, a trend prediction from Trend Watchers extraordinaire – Trendwatching.com, where smaller networks are likely to focus on small real life suburbs, villages or even streets as people search to merge life on and offline?

If you have your own social network why not include it in a comment on this blog? I have.
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Hi my name is Aren Grimshaw and I am the Project and Account Manager of Cornish based web development company, uknetweb.

My role within the company is to research emerging technologies, liaise with clients and potential clients, and manage some of the projects coming in.

I have started this blog to share some of our work with the world and help businesses locally or further afield tap into the many new tools emerging on the web. I will post as often as I can with links to great sites, information or tools for those interested in the internet, other emerging technologies or growing their business. (more…)