“The most fun you can have sober” is how one friend described the Canyons experience. Having now done it ourselves, we’re in no position to argue.Continue reading
Why Joomla?
Our platform of choice for most medium-sized websites is Joomla, and every now and again our clients ask us why. Why Joomla, and not, say, something from Microsoft or a built-to-order system coded from scratch? With so many options out there to choose from, why did we choose this one? In this post I reveal the answers to these questions… and MORE!Continue reading
Social Media for B2B SMEs?
This afternoon I attended a presentation at the American Chamber of Commerce. It was the latest installment of the monthly Brown Bag Briefings on Internet tech and social media, and focused on community building and content creation/management. Based on the …Continue reading
October Newsletter Now Online
The flagship edition of our email newsletter is now online. In it you’ll find information about some of the things we’ve been up to lately, as well as articles about what’s happening on the web, in social media, and with …Continue reading
Review: Smartsheet
As a busy Tokyo web agency we manage a lot of projects, and at any given time can have 4-5 in progress at once. Tracking and managing these presents some difficulty, obviously, and over the years we’ve looked at a …Continue reading
Registration Forms in Japanese E-Commerce
Here are some annotated examples of what some of the larger and better-known Japanese e-commerce sites do with the registration forms. They illustrate common practice in terms of field choice, layout and naming of elements. Amazon keeps things short and …Continue reading
Outsourcing Disaster : QubeSys Technologies
A quick word of advice for anyone thinking of working with India-based QubeSys Technologies: don’t. Our experience with them was dismal at best. The designs we sent for coding were largely ignored, with changes to the layout, fonts and colors …Continue reading
Netwise Launches New Website for the NCCJ
Last month we launched a new website for the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
6 Reasons to Dump Your All-Flash Website
A client with an all-Flash website (yes, they DO exist) asked us to summarize the reasons why they should redevelop it in HTML/CSS. Here are the reasons we gave them: Not supported on many devices (tablets and iPhones). The website …Continue reading
Netwise now offers comprehensive lineup of services for the wine trade
Netwise offers a wide variety of services for importers, retailers and organizations involved in the wine trade in Japan.Continue reading