Launch myBookingWizard From Anywhere
We have taken the next step in offering flexibility in how our clients can launch their MBW. Previously our clients could only launch MBW from the buttons that we provided. Now we provide links that can be used anywhere on their site. Try it; click here You could even use it on an image! Click [...]
myBookingWizard Now Uses Google Calendar
MyBookingWizard has just been through a bloody large pivot… allow me to explain: MyBookingWizard is NOT a diary management system, we never set out to build a diary management system, and we have been constantly vigilant in avoiding diary managing activities. What we wanted to build was a marketing tool. Visitors to a website will [...]
Browser support changes
From January 1st 2012 Connected will no longer support or test browser compatibility on the following supported browsers; Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3.5 and Safari 3. Ongoing efforts by the major browser providers has seen the population of those old browsers decline sharply in the last year. These older browsers greatly restrict functionality, specifically HTML5, [...]
myBookingWizard.com arrives
Our latest project, myBookingWizard.com was officially announced today with a launch date of May Day. In development since Summer 2010 it is new cloud-based offering that provides an easy-to-deploy online booking system for the SME marketplace. The first version is now available so talk to sales to discuss your needs in more depth. Prices start [...]
Online booking due in Summer
We’ve been quietly beavering away since last summer creating an exciting new Online Booking application that simply drops into your existing web-site, a few lines of code and you’re away. Named myBookingWizard.com it’s been out on private alpha since the start of this year but on July 1st this year we’re opening it up as [...]
Look at my graph, my graph is amazing
Competition, competition, competition. I think I have been naughty. I have completed the creation of the Big.TOE spec ready for formal sign-off… and I did it before looking in detail at the competition. Hmm, naughty indeed. “But, but, but, I was really busy and everything was…” SHUT UP! Leave the excuses and move on. As [...]
I’ve Started So I’ll Finish… I Promise
So week 1 of my first project and the pressure is on. Proper on. As in ‘ring spasm-ingly on’. But thats cool, I can handle that. Gulp. How the hell can you ‘Project Manage’ a vague idea into a product? How do you start?… Well here is the thought process we (I got some help [...]
Getting my hands dirty
I have been at Connected for over 16 months. Throughout this time I have heard the term Big.TOE mentioned several times and never understood it. When I first got here I didn’t understand anything, and when I would request explanations on this interestingly named… thing, I would be told it means “Business Intelligence Group Theory [...]
Landing Zone : Dealing with PPC Traffic
How Landing Pages have transformed PPC traffic Since the original specification for the world-wide web was drawn up in the 90′s by Tim Berners-Lee there is, remarkably, a ghost still haunting the Internet. It’s called the “HOME” page; we’ve all heard of it, we naturally assume that the page we land on when we click [...]
End of the “one-size fits all” web
Since the web came of age in the early noughties really bright-spark and innovative companies such as Amazon, Google, Ebay and Apple have been breaking away from the “one-size fits all” approach and creating personalised web assets. These early adopters ploughed their own development furrow, investing hundred’s of millions of dollars into bespoke-built personalisation/profile/testing platforms. [...]
