Northern Beaches WebMan

MediaSpark produced a non commercial video showcasing the insights into Surfing Australia, in and around Manly Beach. Although the video was primarily targeted to 18 – 35 year olds who are internet savy and want to be entertained… with the hopeful aim to encourage this tourism market to the area for holidays or just for day visits. To target this selective audience, MediaSpark deliberately chose a up beat, fast music, quick transitions, special effects writing, sun bursts and last but not least – interesting shot selections. Perfect for the younger internet savvy community.

The end result is an engaging generation Y – X video which entertains the audience and show cases the Manly Beach, Northern Beaches scene. But it’s not just about Surfing Australia that matters, the audience doesn’t just want to see surfing, surfing and more surfing. They want to see the lifestyle and imagery around the video, to entice a boarder but still younger audience.

YouTube is now the second most popular search engine in the world and through this video, it hopes to get a higher ranking in youtube, just think about it, when you are searching on the internet for surfing Australia Manly, what you rather click on:

• an article on surfing Australia?
• a video of surfing Australia?

Check out the Surfing Australia Video…

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   Typical Browser Statistics on Website

One negativity about website development is the lack of control of website presentations and functionality. Although it is quite typical of smaller budget/small business websites not to function correctly, surprisingly it is big business with big budgets too! It is very important that your business website works for everyone. Statistics show that people use a variety of ‘web browsers’ to access the www (world wide web).

I was recently viewing the popular Sydney to Hobart race to see who was winning when the website did not display properly. Surely Rolex the sponsor who prides itself on quality watches could have developed a better functioning website?

On further development and in the picture you see here, it works fine in Intenet Explorer & FireFox but NOT the Chrome Browser or Safari. Judging on the statistic above, the website will not function correctly for over  26% (9.50% Safari + 17.36% chrome) for people that use those browsers! This is really not acceptable for a large and popular website. View this badly developed website for yourselves at http://www.rolexsydneyhobart.com

Here is a List of websites that have been poorly developed within the Northern Beaches Area:

• Manly Australia – www.manlyaustralia.com.au – Viewed in Chrome, the text on the bottom of top navigation is cut off
• Northern Beaches Choir: www.northernbeacheschorus.com.au – viewed in Chrome, the white background does not display correctly.
• Northern Beaches celebrant: www.northernbeachescelebrant.com – viewed in Safari, the green text does not scroll like it does in Internet Explorer & FireFox browsers

Although these are marginal errors in these websites, it can potentially turn off visitors to your website. 

WebMan’s website tip: “make sure your website works in all website browsers”

If you find your website is not working on all the different web browsers, tell you web developer to fix it!

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