Facebook Launches the Subscribe Button

Howdy Facebook Fans! I’m sure you’ve spotted it by now, Facebook’s intriguing new feature called the Subscribe Button. This new feature adds new flexibility to the Facebook news feed while adding important features popularized by Twitter and Google +. The new button adds another layer of complexity to an interface that already bewilders many non-geeks, but the promise of removing unimportant bits of information from their news feed has many Facebook users excited. Or does it?

Subscribing To Other Facebook Users

Facebook rolled out the new Subscribe Button with everyone subscribed to all updates from their friends. If users change nothing, their Facebook experience stays the same as before. However, they can edit the content received by managing their friends. Users can also change the update settings for a friend while visiting their friend’s Facebook page. Choices include life events, status updates, games, photos and important updates. These new choices make taming the Facebook news feed possible. With their news feed bridled, Facebook users may find renewed joy in the Facebook experience. No longer sifting through junk, users will see only updates from their friends that interest them. However, subscription content from non-friends will include all their public updates, with no filter options available. All good so far.

Letting Other Facebook Users Subscribe

Users can now allow non-friends to subscribe to their public status updates. Any posts, photos or other content that they deliberately mark “Public” will appear on subscribers’ walls. Users follow others like they do with Twitter or Google +. To allow Facebook users the option to subscribe to their updates, users must edit their profile and then click the “Subscribers” link under their photo. By clicking the Edit Button, users can turn the new subscriber function on and off. They can also decide whether to allow comments on their public updates.

Benefits Of The Subscribe Button

If you always wanted to get rid of all the junk in your Facebook news feed, than the unveiling of the new Facebook Subscribe Button will make your day. In the past, the only way to stop the endless parade of junk updates was to un-friend the worst offenders. Now users can keep their friends without fear because they can choose to see only the content that interests them. The Subscribe Button also expands opportunities for all Facebook users because they can now share information with the Facebook community without allowing them access to their wall as a Friend. Similarly, the community now benefits from other users’ public information, even when they are not friends.

Analysis

Analysts / Haters will eagerly watch how the social public receives the Facebook Subscribe Button. The extra button and the new Twitter and Google + behavior may be enough to make users abandon those two competing networks to focus only on Facebook. Others may think the added feature layer complicates a software platform that already does enough singing and dancing. People alienated by the Subscribe Button may find refuge in the simpler worlds of Twitter and Google + but, as usual, Facebook holds an ace in its hand that helps guarantee the success of the new button: users must opt in. If they do not choose to use the Subscribe Button, they do nothing and their Facebook world will stay the same. Simple, yet brilliant!

The Williams Lewis & Co new website goes live today..

oneweb are happy to announce the launch of Julian Lewis’s new website. Williams Lewis & Co are a Camden based estate agent and letting agent, they have been at the forefront of letting, selling and buying properties within the Camden area and throughout Greater London since 1997. They have a recognised reputation built upon experience, personal service and integrity. As the tagline on the website says ‘they offer a personal service in an impersonal world’. The site’s technologies are PHP with a MySQL database at the backend and has been very well received by it’s new owners. All the best to Julian and his team at Williams Lewis. The site is hosted by oneweb and is available at williamslewis.com

oneweb is an official Google agency

This week sees oneweb becoming an ‘Official Google Partner’ by signing an agency agreement with the internet giant. Google shapes the way we all surf the web, communicate, search for information and probably use it so it’s quite an honour to be approved as an official Google Agency, only adding to our strength in the search engine optimisation market. As of today, all new clients will receive a free AdWords campaign to get them on their way and all existing clients can claim a credit for their online advertising from us. oneweb already offer clients online marketing, SEO and AdWords management but now you get a chunk of it for free! Contact us today to find out what we do for your online business.

The Tone Zone Fitness Centre website is live

Today sees the launch of the all new Tone Zone Fitness Centre website. Tone Zone is a fitness centre based in Yeovil, Somerset, run by Jon & Jane Carter, both body-building champions. You know that they know their stuff when it comes to personal training. Tone Zone offer a full fitness service including: personal training, exercise classes, tailored fitness plans, nutritional advice, diet plans, weight loss or weight gain, the list goes on .. Jon also runs an online store selling nutritional supplements, fitshopsupplements.co.uk or you can buy from reception at the club. Don’t forget to book a one day free trial at Tone Zone, just fill in the online form. Jon was very specific about what he wanted fromn his new site and branding and we’re glad to say he’s delighted with the results, as are we at oneweb. The site is a dynamic PHP coded site with a content management system and, as always, a super-important blog section for those all important news updates to get the search engines working for you. It seems the team here quite like working on gym websites. The site is available at tonezonefitness.co.uk

The EDL website is launched

We are delighted to announce the launch of the all-new Enterprising Developments Ltd website. EDL are a firm of property developers based in Nottinghamshire and London. They specialise in period property renovation and new build developments. Their website needed to be image intensive to highlight renovations as before and after picture sets, for this we have utilised thumbnails and lightboxes to keep the server load down. It has worked very well and all at oneweb.co are delighted with the results. The site features an image slider running throughout, 3 PHP forms for capturing data of potential clients, several image galleries, a news blog section and my personal favourite, a 3 minute movie highlighting some of their favourite works. The site is fully scalable to add development projects as they come on stream with little touches like movies flowing and panning through rooms to give the viewer a feeling of actually being there. Thanks to EDL and good luck with the new project at Gloucester Place, London. We look forward to seeing the results. The site is available at edl-uk.com

All the team at oneweb.co

The new ‘Starter Package’ is now available.

We have added a new arrow to our quiver in the form of a ‘Starter Package’. Aimed at new businesses the Starter Package is a fixed fee product which includes all the components needed to for a successful start-up. The all-in-one package is designed to relieve the stress of having to worry about the new company’s logo, corporate look, website and even stationery. The Starter Package comes complete with:

• Logo design
• Branding
• Stationery Design
• Domain registration
• Hosting
• A 1-5 page website
• Web Design
• Graphic Design
• Search Engine Optimisation
• WWW Promotion

All the above features of the Starter Package can be added to with our “enhancement” services as required. The basic Starter Package is great value at £495.00. We plan to add further packages very soon. So watch this space!