Engage Web January 2018 - Engage Web

Experts call for Facebook to pull Messenger Kids app

Posted on January 31, 2018

A number of child development specialists have condemned the new Messenger Kids app introduced by social networking platform Facebook, and (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

Road sign error sends Twitter into a spin

Posted on January 30, 2018

If there’s one thing we expect of road signs, it’s for them to be clear and accurate. If they say ‘no entry’, they should mean no entry, and if they’re directing us somewhere, they should point in the right direction and to the place they specify.

When something as instructional as a road sign is wrong, it (more…)

Posted by John Murray

Facebook pulls question after getting a little too personal

Posted on January 29, 2018

Social networking giant Facebook has been asking its users who or what they usually sleep with, causing a number of them to brand the question creepy and intrusive.

The company started asking users (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

How to write content for Google’s Featured Snippets

Posted on January 26, 2018

It seems almost on a weekly basis that I hear someone tell me that SEO is dead, it’s a waste of time and it doesn’t work anymore. I’m usually being told this by someone who, strangely, doesn’t get any business from the internet and their website does (more…)

Posted by Darren Jamieson

Snapchat now lets users share content outside the app

Posted on January 25, 2018

Popular photo and video messaging platform Snapchat has introduced a new feature that allows users to share content with people who do not use the app.

The company has (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

Now Facebook is trying to change time

Posted on January 24, 2018

Facebook has already changed the way people and businesses communicate, how weddings and other celebrations are organised, the news we read and the opinions we develop, and how we announce new babies being brought into the words. Now, it wants to change the whole way we assess duration – time.

Perhaps that’s an exaggeration, but Facebook has created (more…)

Posted by John Murray

Getting a hang of hex codes

Posted on January 23, 2018

A constant problem web designers have with clients is getting an understanding of colours. Most of us are very unspecific about particular shades, describing them in simple primary colour terms like “blue”, “red” and “yellow”.

The problem is that one “blue” can be very different to another. The sky, water, blueberries, cobalt and Everton’s home kit can all be described as (more…)

Posted by John Murray