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Rosette Love’s her custom Facebook page

David Miller — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:30:28 +0000

This week we had the unique opportunity to create a custom Facebook page design using Pholiofy for Rosette Luve. Rosette is a Canadian pop, R&B, house singer, songwriter, actor and dancer who recently worked with House DJ Ian Carey and …

Website checklist 2012 – Let’s take a few steps back…

Rami Mikhail — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:26:36 +0000

If you are planning on improving your existing website or launching your first, here’s a quick checklist of things to consider before moving forward. 1) Target Audience: Who is your website intended for and have their needs changed since you …

Happy Holidays from the SplitMango team!

David Miller — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:41:33 +0000

To all our clients, friends & family – Happy Holidays from the SplitMango team! Just a reminder that our office will be closed December 26, 2011 until January 3rd, 2012. During this time should you need to reach us, our …

Congratulations RE/MAX Hills & Country

David Miller — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:11:32 +0000

We are all very honoured to hear that our client RE/MAX Hills & Country in South Australia won the website of the year at the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Real Estate. Congrats Louise, James, John and the rest of …

Custom Facebook Business Pages – we’re on fire!

Lisa Wills — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:20:59 +0000

In the last few days, we have launched a number of custom Facebook pages. Our designers and developers have been hard at work and we are really pleased to highlight their work as well as showcase our customers products and services.

Sneaky Way to Make Groupon Work for You

Lisa Wills — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:13:43 +0000

Yesterday I read an article about how Groupon is actually hurting businesses. The general feeling was a company sells a ton of coupons, then have a hard time delivering the service, the customer experience goes into the toilet and people start posting bad reviews all over the web (or just on Yelp but you get the meaning).

Google has a store?

Lisa Wills — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:14:55 +0000

I am a huge proponent of Google. You have to love the company who gave us Stalkview...errr Streetview for FREE. So I was zooming around to get to one of their blogs and they had a link to their store with one of the items they are selling is lava lamps.

Giving back in Vancouver – it’s all about Qmunity!

Lisa Wills — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:52:06 +0000

At SplitMango, we like getting involved with the community and that usual happens through pro bono use of our design and development services, so we like it when we see one of our clients doing the same thing.

“Vancouver” Search – Who Has the Most Google Juice?

Lisa Wills — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:43:44 +0000

Type the word Vancouver into Google.ca and the top 9 results are what you'd expect - sort of. Although Google changes their algorithm, we know that "authoritative links in" are usually the major predictor for rank. The more sites linking to you, the higher the rank.

Tips for Your Email Marketing and Newsletters

Jennifer Ku — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:50:40 +0000

Email marketing is one of the strongest tools for businesses (big and small) to communicate their messages and campaigns. Some of the more prestigious companies still like to send out printed flyers or invitations, but we know that digital is the way to go.

Pholiofy Facebook publishing and hosting SaaS app coming soon

Lisa Wills — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:08:21 +0000

Those of you who manage design, marketing and PR for companies and brands, know that in February Facebook did away with their FMBL application for new Pages. So if you wanted to have something more glamourous than a Wall, you could now create a Page in HTML, host it externally and publish it into Facebook through an app.

Image searching – some tips and tricks

Lisa Wills — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:20:18 +0000

When we start our web design process, we ask the clients to supply us with some inspirations sites or logos so we can get a visual idea of what they are looking for.

Bing versus Google – a very biased look

Lisa Wills — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:53:38 +0000

My Firefox browser defaults to Google.ca. I do a lot of research and I need my best weapon available at the click of a button - Google. Or is it the best weapon? Does it really have the pull and reach we think it does?

We’ve gone video crazy!

Lisa Wills — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:13:46 +0000

There is so much interesting stuff going on in Vancouver this summer, that we set ourselves the task to do more event video production.

We love Google Web Font

Jennifer Ku — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:05:14 +0000

As a Vancouver Web Design company, we are always looking for cool inventions to make our jobs work smoother and our clients happy. Thanks to Google once again, for making the lives of designers and developers easier.

Our Latest Custom Facebook Page and Fan Gate

Lisa Wills — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:38:32 +0000

Victor Harbor Hardware from South Australia asked us to create custom Facebook pages for their brick and mortar store so that they could capture offline sales through a coffee coupon giveaway via Facebook.

Bassano and Pride 2011 video – wooOOOOoo

Rami Mikhail — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:44:38 +0000

Vancouver just got that much hotter - The Bassano Hard Soda ambassadors are hitting the streets with there skin tight outfits to spread the word about there new and delicious coolers...and to give-out some free stuff of course. Because we all know, free stuff is always appreciated.

Claiming Your Name on Your Facebook Page

Lisa Wills — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:52:21 +0000

Did you know that if you have over 25 fans or Likers, that you can claim a name and then it will look like this: http://www.facebook.com/splitmango - gone is the word pages and that string of numbers. Now at SplitMango, we were lucky as it is such and odd name, it had not already been claimed. The shortest or easiest to remember version of your businesses name may already be gone.

Vancouver Conferences – Aug to Oct 2011 – Social, HR, Agile and Business

Lisa Wills — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:26:27 +0000

There are a bunch of interesting conferences coming to Vancouver - should you be attending them?

New Web 2.0 Jobs and the Death of Pre Web Jobs

Lisa Wills — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:17:12 +0000

Social Media Manager, Strategist, Research & Analytics, Ad Operations Specialist, Mobile Application Developer, Smart Phone Support. These jobs did not exist 5 years ago (or certainly were not ubiquitous).