Website designers for recruitment, real estate and small business

By Henrik Bjarneskans, Bjarne Grønnevik and Anders Sandberg

Significant Growth in Online Opportunities for Marketing, PR and Media Occupations Helps Push Monster Employment Index UK Higher. Online Job Availability in Northern Ireland Sees Marked Increase during Final Month of 2007

Creating a beautiful website for your business is only half the story. If your customers can't find your website then - no matter how great it is - it is next to useless.

That's why Smart Sites build search engine firendly websites for all our clients and submit to search engines as a matter of course. Over the past 4 years Smart Sites have developed content managed websites with in-built features making it easy for search engines to list them.

We have built long term partnerships with our clients because we have delivered excellent traffic from the search engines. An all singing, all dancing website that is not opimized is like a distant star - it might look wonderful but if there is no one there to see it then it may as well not exist.

Don't leave your search engine marketing to chance, call Smart Sites now on 0207 100 1711.

"At Smart Sites we offer excellent customer services as standard. Our business model is to build a long term relationship with our clients and this comes from delivering excellent web services supported by full telephone and email support.

 If you choose Smart Sites as your web design partner you will be given your own dedicated account manager who you can contact during any working hour. We will not leave you on hold or patch you through to a call centre. You will have a direct line to your account manager who will be familiar with your website and your business

Interested? Take a look at our client portfolio and feel free to contact us on 0207 100 1711"

Functionality and usefulness are far more important to the success of your website than how nice and elegant it looks.

The first time I saw the Grand Canyon was a truly memorable experience. The depth, distance and hazy rainbow of colors were like nothing I had ever seen before. The great Colorado River looked shoe-lace-wide down below.

We spent a day driving along the Grand Canyon and then up into the equally magnificent scenery of Utah. But along with the otherworldly beauty what also struck me was the poverty that surrounded the Canyon.

Public bodies must consider the role of small businesses when putting their services out to tender, according to a lobby group.

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) claims the public sector is failing to take advantage of the services small businesses can provide, denying them a share of potential multi-million pound markets.

The UK public sector spends around £117 billion on products and services, with local authority expenditure at £42 billion.

Google searches more sites more quickly, delivering the most relevant results.
Introduction

Google runs on a unique combination of advanced hardware and software. The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of our search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC's we've networked together to create a superfast search engine.

The heart of our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to play a central role in many of

Over the next 5 years (to 2011), the e-recruitment market will grow significantly both in scale and importance. Indeed, some are predicting that recruitment will be close to travel – the most successful sector in terms of the online business model. A new Market Assessment report, E-Recruitment, from market intelligence providers Key Note, forecasts that by 2011 nearly 2.1 million jobs will be on offer via online recruitment websites, with a monthly average of 32.5 million unique visitors to these sites.

For every industry or organisation, human resource is like a lifeline. Every organisation wants talented and hard-working employees who can generate revenue in a competitive market. But it is hard to get talented workforce.

Uptake of online recruitment by finance and legal professionals and how technology will change how they search in future

Our contributors tell us that online recruitment was used early on by finance and legal professionals and is now widely established. They tell us more about why, the current market and how the new challenges of technology will further change recruitment.

Rebecca Cole, Senior Account Manager at CanaryWharfJobs.com describes the current market for us: “2006 was a strong year for London’s finance sectors, with hiring following a steady upward trend. With the expectation that the economy will remain strong in 2007, a large percentage of the city’s employers are expecting growth in job numbers, as well as an overall increase in hiring activity. The ‘war for talent’ has been an issue which has long burdened many of London’s most prominent employers, and continues to face businesses as they look to source candidates from alternative means. Online recruitment has played an important part in simplifying the recruitment process, providing employers with the means to advertise roles to a wide audience at up to 85% savings on traditional advertising methods. Some niche job boards such as CanaryWharfJobs.com have worked towards creating a highly targeted audience of finance professionals, who are specifically looking for work within London’s financial markets.”

Haven’t heard of MySpace? It’s likely that you will soon. Never mind simply Googling a candidate, you can now type them into an internet social networking site and find yourself invited into their virtual world, where you can browse at your leisure through their likes, dislikes, aspirations, love interests and sometimes even diary entries. With the vast majority of job seekers now using search engines to find relevant job postings, many recruitment agencies and HR departments are turning to search marketing to improve candidate flow, and networking sites like MySpace are becoming a popular target. Employers are no longer limited to CVs and interviews to judge candidates, they can now delve into their personal lives as well - but is it fair?

The Pan European online recruitment market is evolving, and companies are finding which strategies of overcoming the numerous hurdles involved are most successful. As we reported last year, despite the undisputed advantages of the internet, with the problems of language barriers, visas, different recognised qualifications and cultural differences to overcome, it was never going to be plain sailing. We found out more….

Newsflash! Smart Sites now offer IT maintenance services to small business. For only ₤50 per month you can have up to 3 hours IT support via:

Improve your productivity with our monthly small business IT maintenance programme.

Dropping 2.0 on to the end of words seems to be in vogue at the moment, so I thought I’d better jump on the bandwagon and start my commentary on “e-Recruitment 2.0”  - the future of online recruiting.

So what’s in store for e-recruitment in the Web 2.0 era?

.jobs domain names are the latest TLD (.co.uk, .com, .tv) to drive online traffic to your business. The new top level domain .jobs is a domain extension with a difference. .jobs websites can only show vacancies from their own directory of client jobs . The idea is that search engines will know that any website with .jobs extension is all about jobs and will index it more effectively.

This article provides some simple, easy-to-apply tips for the brave people that have decided to write SEO copy themselves.

The world of search engine optimisation is rapidly changing as search technology advances, and the search engines and optimisers continue to play a game of cat and mouse. With this in mind, for professional organisations there is simply no comparison between DIY SEO, where you have a go at it yourself, and getting a professional SEO that works on optimisation day in day out to spend a day or two doing a professional job for you.

However some clients just want to get their copy written fairly well from the start when they write the copy for a new website, so that it is at least slightly search engine-friendly. Others decide (perhaps erroneously!) that they cannot justify the investment in SEO.

Packt Publishing today (14 November) announced Joomla! as the the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award.

With 16,000 votes for more than 70 different Open Source Content Management Systems nominated for the award, Joomla! was judged winner of the final. After eight weeks of voting from visitors to www.PacktPub.com and judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and CMSPros, Joomla! triumphed with the most votes, winning $5,000. 

Joomla! is the youngest CMS of the five finalists having originated by the then Mambo development team in August 2005. Joomla! was chosen due to its ease of installation and use along with the active development and community that supports the project.

Interview - Robert Castley of Mambo Open Source

Mambo Open Source is one of the many hundreds of content management systems (CMSs) that are available to help Website owners manage the content on their sites. Well known systems include Post and PHP Nuke, the upcoming Xaraya, and Drupal. Like other PHP systems, Mambo aims to allow site owners to spend time improving the content of their sites rather than coding the systems that manage that content.

Having just won the Linux User & Developer Award 2004 for 'Best Linux or Open Source Software', and with a new version (4.6) on the horizon, Robert Castley, the Project Manager of the Mambo Project, was pleased to talk to us about the system.

Cash-strapped, and looking for new options, IT managers are warming to open-source content management products. Customizable and free, open-source is becoming serious competition to the "big iron" CMS vendors like Interwoven and Vignette.
The flurry of recent products at Berkeley's OSCOM (open-source Content Management) conference September and new interest from large enterprises indicate that open-source CMS is about to make big gains in acceptance. The tough economic times make open-source CMS look even more appealing, but the ability to customize the code is also a driving force.

Forrester senior analyst Bob Markham says the customization ability and flexibility are distinct advantages of open source content management systems when compared to closed source alternatives.

Open source content management generally takes two different approaches aimed at two different markets, according to Markham. Web content management (WCM) applications, Markham said, are aimed at the small to medium business market, while frameworks are needed to reach the larger players.

Markham said WCM has not been a hot market, and the open source groups who develop for it have been limited to small uptake. "That may change if vendors are able to aim for outsourcing solutions," Markham said. "In WCM, that makes a lot of sense."

The tide may be turning in favor of open source software for content management. Last month Computer Associates (CA) announced it was establishing partnerships with Zope and Plone, two open source content management organizations. CA is also releasing its Ingres database, which will be available as a repository for Zope and Plone, as open source. We asked Zope and Plone what the new partnerships mean for the open source community.

George Johnston was called up on Sept 12th 1940 into the (R.A.(A.A.)) (i.e. Royal Artillery (Anti Aircraft)). (Note in sequel 'Ack' was the British shorthand for 'A', cf. US 'Able', which got introduced as well as the Americans couldn't say the British system).

He did the two month initial training at Oswestry (Sept/Oct 1940) to form a new Battery (the 366th Battery). (George was with this Battery until he managed to escape to become a gunnery instructor. ((Later the 366th Battery arrived in Europe at D day plus 2 hours: the battery had little to do, and their 3.7s were used as Field guns. They had no casualties for a long time, until they started mine clearance activities.)) ) (The weather was very warm: hot weather with no rain, and the earth was like iron.) The first fortnight was basic military discipline, square bashing and the like, though some of that continued every day. The rest of the time they were trained as gunners, to form a new battery. To speed the training they were tested in different abilities: the basic split was between instrument operators and gunners (i.e. between intelligence and the heavy brigade). George went into the instrument section, which divided into rangefinder operators and predictor operators (gun control side). George became a No1 Predictor Operator, so he controlled the Predictor team, which may have had something to do with him being promoted to Lance Bombadier (1 stripe) in the 8th week. The course covered aircraft recognition, a lot of PE, and the theory of gun control. There was some teaching about guns but not much, and how the instruments affected the guns - the predictor was directly connected to it.

Broadcasting is changing. Reach to TV is falling, especially amongst 18 to 24-year-olds. But total consumption of media for this supposedly fickle audience is not: it's just they're getting their entertainment elsewhere - five hours a week on the net in Broadband homes, around the same on Playstations. For broadcasters, to reach them, multiplatform is not a nice to have, it's a necessity.

As any content management practitioner knows, there's a hundred ways to "skin a cat," or, in our case, implement a Web CMS. This can lead to heated -- but healthy -- debates about the best ways to display content on specific pages or areas of a website.