What is a Chromebook?

When I first heard about the Chromebook last December, it seemed like Google was talking about a beta laptop. But now the company has launched its service and no its not just a laptop it’s the Chrome OS.

According to Google’s website: “Chromebooks are built and optimized for the web, where you already spend most of your computing time. So you get a faster, simpler and more secure experience without all the headaches of ordinary computers.”

It’s amazing how technologies advance. I was in high school when I first encountered web. At that time I didn’t realize that I would be making a career out of it, with it just budding up from non-existence. It only seems like yesterday when I was amazed by the sight of Dark Camelot on the PC, struggling to play it with an IBM machine connected to a 56K modem.
It’s been a few years from then and the differences are really mind boggling. But I have also realized that internet and web as it is today is only in its teenage version with a lot of maturity awaiting its veins of growth. Which also makes me wonder what websites will look like in another 7 or 10 years time.

Yahoo Today / 4 Years Ago / 8 Years Ago / 12 Years Ago

Social media networks are fields of dreams for branding and marketing. A recent study, “The State of Small Business Report,” sponsored by Network Solutions, LLC and the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, points to economic struggles as the catalyst for social media’s rapid popularity.

The study results show that social media usage by small business owners increased from 12% to 24% in just the last year, and almost 1 out of 5 actively uses social media as part of his or her strategy.

It’s quite evident these numbers are bound to increase with the rise of interactivity levels of users via mobile devices such as PDAs and iPads. Have a look at the statistics below of three social media giants Youtube, Twitter and Facebook.

Number 10 – Wine.com

As the name suggests, this site gives details on wine and teach people how to buy and deal with it. This domain was sold to Virtual Vineyard for $2.9 million in 1999.

Number 9 – AltaVista.com
Registered in 1994 and commanded a cool $3.3 million four years later, it was purchased by Compaq to host the now defunct altavista search engine.

Think twice on the design of your website. Your website is an open doorway to contacts you have never met or imagined meeting. Now more than ever, people in millions have access to your website, your web page, your online portfolio about your company. Whether you like it or not, they will immediately judge you upon the design of your site.

Emarkerter quotes Ad-lology survey which found that almost 50 per cent of small business does not have websites and a presence online DESPITE the fact that 90 per cent of prospective customers search and buy using the internet.

A separate study states that only half of the business that is already online spends time and money on actually marketing their web presence.

Glory treadmills had its web presence already when they approached Weblook, however it was felt that the website was not performing too well and to add to that due to some frailties they had also lost access to their domain name. In this background they approached Weblook with the hope of designing and developing a brand new website that would work as a marketing tool that would gear up sales.

Challenges
o Lousy web presence that did not complement the powerful treadmill brand
o Out-dated design
o Low rankings on search engine
o Competitive physical environment

Client’s Objectives
o Create an informative website accelerating direct marketing opportunities
o Boost online presence by complementing offline marketing activities
o Obtain high rankings on Search Engines
o Outdo competition via exposure on the web

Weblook’s Web Solutions

Although the situation seemed challenging it was not an impossible one. All that was required was a powerful design, exclusive appearance, a good SEO strategy and offline marketing activities to complement it.

A powerful theme for the design - we wanted the web users to feel the power of the A powerful theme for the design Glory Treadmill in every click in the website. To aid this, Weblook’s designers’ created a website with a vibrant appearance, using strong colours. Flash was used for the main banner to animate high quality images while the text navigation was given to all important areas.

Product portfolio – A product area was incorporated to the website that displayed Product portfolio Glory treadmill’s wide range of treadmills (commercial treadmills, high-end treadmills, middle -range domestic treadmills and low range domestic treadmills). The easy navigations placed on the home page and on the main menu gave users quick access to the type of treadmills they were looking for. Since the target market included bother B2B and B2C segments it was important to give them access points to their area of interest at once, if not neither would stay in the website for more than 10 seconds.

SEO solutions - the search engine optimization was just picture perfect, the correct SEO solutions combination of images and text on the website, the link structure, the copy writing, link building all summed up in ranking the website on number in both Google and Yahoo within a short period of time.

Success Outcome
o Attractive web design that was commended by many
o Significantincrease in brand awareness both online and offline
o Successful lead generation activities
o Increase in web traffic leading to high percentage of sales conversions. (see Increase in web traffic illustration below)

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this year so far has been going great! in all sence, the team has got bigger, better operational office and design lab and most importantly awesome projects

the designers and developers have been busy working on some of the most interesting projects of late lets start with creative ones like Euro Asia

www.euroasiatea.com had a website anyway, that too was designed by the weblook designers, however taking to mind their dynamic market that consists of the European Tea lovers the need for new website was identified and probably because of the satisfactory service we provided them last time they selected us once again.

well, dont be too surpriced the website is done to the Tea theme, all green and tee-ish , that is what they wanted and we must give a thumbs up to our designers for having come up with a unique design to convey the ancient tea concept. such a beauty that website is – atleast most of us think so. it is been designed using Java Scripts

the new feature that was added to the website was the dynamic products panel. the designers did give the developers a little hard time trying to give a compatible CMS for their fancy design, but nevertheless Weblook developers took up the challenge and gave a good CMS (Content Management System) giving Euro Asia the ability to update their products by themselves at anytime from anywhere.

EuroAsia being a leading tea exporter in Sri Lanka that has the tendency to frequently introduce to the market novel products, it is important that they their website too exhibit that same dynamism.

yet another premium web solution by Weblook International indeed! visit www.weblook.com to see more projects

Hey guys… yes great to be writing after about a century.. ok not a century but after a long time…

all those visited weblook.com lately might have seen the change of design.. yes we have all gone white… the secret behind this..hmm well white is nice..clean..and its smooth… we are already receiving many comments from our clients who think the face lift looks good… thanks to the talented designing crew of course..

so folks spare a minute to browse around the all new www.weblook.com and do give us your feedback… so we are all going white this season…how about you…??

CAUTION: our designers have the tenancy of changing designs pretty often.. so you better have a look at this before its too late…

Hi everyone…

We have just launched our newest Blog..this is done for two main reasons among other common reasons

1. We want to have a closer one to one contact with our clients, enabling us to have a continuous feed back system about our products etc.

2. To keep you updated about the latest trends/technologies/softwares used by Weblook and to obtain your feedback about the same

So this is an open invitation to all our clients to be an active part of Weblook’s activities. We will try to update the blog on a daily basis unless the entire team is crammed up on a last minute project (which is a frequent scenario ) So keep in touch with us…please place your comments we are more than glad to accommodate them.

Warm Regards

Team Weblook