http://www.reeflightinteractive.com/blog The Lightbox is Reef Light Interactive’s blog, talking about the best web design trends, ideas, best practices and general thoughts of our team. Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:30:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the last couple of days Google, Google has opened Google Voice to anyone in the U.S. looking for phone management on the web.  Until now it has only been available to a select few, since Google acquired the excellent Grand Central service back in 2007.  After launching Google Voice ... http://www.reeflightinteractive.com/blog/general-business-practices/google-voice/ Being the world’s most popular blogging tool comes with it a certain amount of responsibility which is why Wordpress’s most recent version, 3.0 (Theolonius), contains a multitude of new features, fixes and functions!  Wordpress 3.0 is the 13th version of the blogging software and while the beta version has been ... http://www.reeflightinteractive.com/blog/web-industry/wordpress-3/ Managing a project from start to finish means we have to deliver on time, on budget and meet the requirements of our clients.  To achieve this we have to be organized, communicate effectively between ourselves and with our clients, deal with issues quickly, monitor our progress and produce a finished ... http://www.reeflightinteractive.com/blog/general-business-practices/basecamp-our-project-management-tool-of-choice/ Clients often ask us about the use of email marketing solutions.  While much has been written about the benefits of adopting email marketing strategies, it can be difficult to navigate the wealth of different solutions available to businesses, large or small. Email marketing can be a great tool for promoting your ... http://www.reeflightinteractive.com/blog/general-business-practices/email-marketing/ Until now, Paypal has held the market share when it comes to financial transactions using online and mobile platforms.  Recently, MasterCard released the Moneysend app that enables iPhone and iPad users to transfer money to other accounts quickly and easily.  Powered in part by Obopay, users can send and request ... http://www.reeflightinteractive.com/blog/web-industry/paypal-beware-of-mastercard/ This week, Magento launched its new mobile commerce platform, Magento Mobile.  For those of you who already run ecommerce websites powered by Magento you will already be aware of how powerful this software is.  Now with the launch of its new mobile app, you can easily create your own branded ... http://www.reeflightinteractive.com/blog/web-industry/magento-mobile-%e2%80%93-1st-native-mobile-storefront/ ExpressionEngine has become a popular choice when it comes to content management systems.  This flexible system is rich in features and can dynamically assemble websites with just a handful of PHP scripts.  While Drupal is our preferred CMS, we do work with ExpressionEngine quite a bit as it is a ... http://www.reeflightinteractive.com/blog/web-design/expressionengine-hosting/ When it comes to content management systems, Drupal is our preferred solution.  This software is released under open source license and provides a great web application framework written in PHP.  Like many other open source programs, there is a growing community of programmers and developers all adding to its features, ... http://www.reeflightinteractive.com/blog/web-design/drupal-our-preferred-cms/ Although it seems like it only launched yesterday, YouTube turned five this week and to celebrate this landmark, the site has announced an additional milestone: a whopping two billion page views per day.  To put this figure into context, YouTube added that this is nearly double the combined prime time ... http://www.reeflightinteractive.com/blog/web-industry/youtube-5-year-birthday-pageviews/ Nearly a year on from Microsoft’s launch of Bing, it’s newly revamped version of Windows Live Search, we look at how the new kid on the block has fared over the last 12 months and whether it has succeeded in tempting us away from the big guns of search engines. Pitched ... http://www.reeflightinteractive.com/blog/web-industry/bings-one-year-anniversary/