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Over the past few months, we’ve recommended using Facebook advertising to grow a business or event Facebook page to a number of clients. When we’ve done this, our clients have usually said “How do we achieve this?”. Because it isn’t as intuitive as it perhaps might be, and because Facebook has tinkered a little with [...]

Images are important. Whatever system of measurement we use online, be it Google Analytics or Facebook’s “Insights” we’ll notice that content with compelling images – or a thumbnail rather than just a link – will get more “clicks” and “opens” and, generally, engagement. Put simply, pictures work, for most people. The reasons why are less [...]

I was watching an episode of Russell Howard’s Good News the other day on the BBC iPlayer and noticed that the show’s host, Howard, was shaking hands with his left hand. Which led me to wonder why does he do that? There are very few places where the answer to this question is available online, [...]

Because we’re regularly changing Facebook pages for ourselves and our clients, we regularly need to check the dimensions of various buttons and images to be used within Facebook. While the image sizes to be used for Facebook Apps are readily available in the locations they should be uploaded in the Facebook developer space, the same [...]

In Yorkshire, its an old joke that we’re a little… well… thrifty, but it’s also true that we care about our environment and surroundings, so it’s likely to be a double boon to our fellow Yorkshiremen and women that Yorkshire Water is giving away free water saving packs from their website. The packs, which contain [...]

We’ve added new apps to Facebook and Twitter which allow us to directly post to those two social networks – as well as several others – automatically upon posting a new item to this Silicon Dales website, for example if we add a new website to our portfolio, or post a new instructional article or [...]

A while ago, we posted an item detailing the ways in which it is possible to automatically post by RSS to Twitter and Facebook. A number of users have asked us about this in recent days, and we’ve also received several requests by email and from search engines about this topic – autoposting to Twitter [...]

For business, time is money, so any time saved can equal money in the bank. We know this, at Silicon Dales, so we build websites that work, quickly. We also know that the computer should be doing a lot of the hard work, even when you are trying to communicate your messages to your clients, [...]