Website Theft – Pitfalls and Opportunities

Are you concerned that competitors can steal your website?
What are the pitfalls for an offender, what are the legal comebacks and can you turn the situation to your favour?
Maybe, take the real world example below…
A case of website and web copyright theft
MintTwist and N.I.D-lab both create websites. N.I.D-lab stole MintTwist’s website with a cut-and-paste [...]

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New Project: WildDay

WildDay have asked MintTwist to make some important amendments to the existing WildDay website.  These will be both visual front end changes as well as core back end database amendments helping to streamline the business processes.

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New Project: QuickSilverCash

Affiniti Digital Media have hired MintTwist to revamp the exisiting QuickSilverCash website, a tradign style of the parent company.  QuickSilverCash Payday loans or cash advances give you money and peace of mind with instant online decisions.

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Web Marketing – E-Mail Strategies

Don’t neglect e-mail as an important way to bring people to your website. Just don’t spam, that is, don’t send bulk unsolicited e-mails without permission to people with whom you have no relationship. Many countries have anti-spam laws.
Install a “Signature” in your E-Mail Program to help potential customers get in touch [...]

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URL Rewriting – Worth doing or not?

Dynamic websites are becoming more and more common as companies and individuals are realising that the internet is the best way to do business these days, and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is becoming more of a widely used term by people who have joined the internet revolution are looking for ways to get the correct [...]

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New Project: BEAD Architects

MintTwist are delighted to announce that we have been selected to redevelop the BEAD Architects wesbite.  BEAD are a 6leading player in the building industry in Dubai and the UAE.

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Basic SEO Strategies

Perhaps the most important — and inexpensive — strategy is to rank high for your preferred keywords on the main search engines in “organic” or “natural” searches (as opposed to paid ads). Search engines send robot “spiders” to index the content of your webpage, so let’s begin with steps to prepare your web pages for [...]

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Making your website work for you

Times have changed. The information age is fully upon us.  Customers now have the ability to instantly compare prices, services, and products, and shop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 365 days a year. Not to mention the ability carry around a high-speed wireless connection to the entire world in their pocket or purse!
Although [...]

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SEO – Social Media

A new form of website promotion comes from the mushrooming field of social media, in which people are encouraged to interact and respond to each other’s blog postings and comments. You should be aware of four types of social media: (1) blogs, (2) social networking sites, (3) social bookmarking sites, and [...]

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30 Examples of Attractive Navigation

Web designers always have to strike a balance between usability and visual appeal when designing a website. Without this balance, a website might be nice to look at or difficult to navigate. Or, it might be easy to navigate, but not easy on the eyes. With this in mind, balancing attractive navigation with usability does [...]

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“Dragons Den winning company” chooses neighbour to refresh their blinds

London, U.K. — The company, Blinds-In-A-Box, has launched a new website ( http://www.blindsinabox.co.uk ) which sells their product; low cost, temporary and easily installable blinds.
Blinds-In-A-Box’s three partners Simeone Salik, Janice Dalton and Dominic Lawrence joined forces in 2007. After Simeone struggled to find temporary blinds for her new home, she along with her interior [...]

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Branding with web design and the art of online shop-keeping

David Walmsley, head of web selling at John Lewis Direct, discusses how online strategy can deliver a uniquely personalised approach
Online and in-store experiences will always provide different experiences for consumers. Shopping on the web may well be quick and convenient – but it’s a world away from the sights and sounds of the store. However, [...]

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The MintTwist Method : Website Design Checklist

Introduction
This is a checklist. For an overview of how to design the perfect Website see Design the Perfect Website.
While designing the website, it is imperative to keep both the user and the client in mind while maintaining a consistent “look and feel” throughout the site.
Put the User First
When designing, it is important to understand [...]

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The MintTwist-ology : Website Planning Checklist

Introduction
For an overview of how to plan the perfect Website see Plan the Perfect Website. Once you have done this, you can follow the checklist below to ensure that you are ready to start the Design process (see Design the Perfect Website).
What’s the point?
Ensure you understand the website’s objective by defining the following:
·    The [...]

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The Perfect Web Marketing Strategy

Introduction
Once we have the Plannined, Designed (see Design the Perfect Website) and developed the Perfect Website, we are ready to begin developing the Perfect Web Marketing Strategy. The aim of the Web Marketing Stratgey is to increase the total number of sales leads for your business. To do this, the web stratgey will:
1. Maximise [...]

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Dealing With Clients and Overcoming Telephone Anxiety

It was almost a year ago that I started working for MintTwist, a web design company in London. My role when I started was to code up websites that were designed by the lead designer and lend a hand to any design odd-jobs that needed doing.
As the year has progressed I have been entrusted with [...]

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MintTwist sets up exclusive homes website for Turkey

Exclusive Homes in Turkey was set up to serve a very particular sector of the market – high quality, expensive homes in Turkey in spectacular surroundings.
Exclusive Homes asked MintTwist to create the new website in order to generate sales leads, promote the new service and showcase the properties.

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The MintTwist-ology : Develop the Perfect Website

Introduction
Once we have the Planning documents and the Design documents (see Design the Perfect Website), both of which have been understood, agreed and approved by the client, we are ready to begin developing the Perfect Website.
This stage can be considered to be the mechanical and technical phase of the whole process. It is where [...]

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The MintTwist-ology : Design the Perfect Website

Introduction
In order to design the perfect Website, you will need to have your Website Planning document (see Plan the Perfect Website).
With this, your Designer can start the process of Website Design.
Broadly, the Website Design process involves three main deliverables:
• Create a ‘sitemap’
• Create ‘wireframes’ for Homepage and Content page(s)
• Create ‘visuals’ Homepage and Content page(s)
What [...]

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Jewel of the file

MintTwist completes the design, build and implementation of an e-commerce website for Translations Jewellery, a personalised jewellery store based in London.

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The MintTwist-ology : Plan the Perfect Website

Introduction
In order to create the perfect Website, firstly you need to have a Website Planning document. Before you can start the process of Website Planning you need to know two key things:
· What do you want your Website to say?
· Who do you want your Website to say it to?
Once you can answer these questions [...]

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Conflict International’s New Website Launched by MintTwist

MintTwist have launched the brand new website for Conflict International, a London-based private investigations and surveillance company.
The company didn’t have a web site to start with, so much of the creative control was handed to MintTwist with a view to creating a new style for the company’s online presence, away from their other departments’ websites.
Conflict [...]

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MintTwist’s Essential Web Design Tips: Navigation

With designing a web site comes great responsibility!
Okay, I stole that from Spider-Man but there is some truth behind it. Designing a web site is about much more than superficial Photoshop visuals and CSS coding. A web designer must make sure that everything is in its place and that the web site is clean, navigable [...]

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Web Design Vacation

Oh my, this weekend was the craziest I have had yet, and arguably ever. All I have to say is thank God they speak English in Dublin. We got to Dublin at about midnight, and took a cab straight to the hostel which was hidden away not too close to down town. After we finally [...]

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My Feelings on Branding

It’s my second week in London. I love that the temperature here isn’t too hot, but the cloudy sky is getting really depressing. Pittsburgh is known to be cloudy and depressing but this feels much worse! They say it’s supposed to get sunny soon. Can’t wait! Anyway, right now I’m learning a lot about MintTwist, [...]

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