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News or blog: what’s better for your site?

We all know that a corporate website must be more than an electronic brochure talking about the company. If your company wants a site, it must have at least one area where visitors can check the news of the corporation. But, what’s best, a News area or a Blog?
People are used to see the News [...]

Doesn’t matter what software you use

Sometimes ours clients or partners ask us what software we use to build our sites and systems. We’re used to answer politely, but the real fact is that the software that we use does not matter.
What’s the difference for a user if a HTML code was written using Notepad or Adobe Dreamweaver? What’s the difference [...]

Applying the Occam’s razor

Occam’s razor is a principle attributed to the franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory.
We use the Occam’s razor in our web projects. The [...]

Widgets, the next trend

Blogs, Myspace, Youtube, Twitter, what will be the new great web trend? This is a question that we do every single day and something tells me that we are at the stage of transition to a new big wave. The difference is that there will be a completely new service as were the blogs, social [...]

Why do you open links in a new window?

There is a myth that all external links must be opened in a new window. Most developers think that if a link points to another domain, it means that the domain is a competitor. The Webcredible suggests good reasons why you should avoid links in new window:

Unless you warn them, web users are likely to [...]

Presenting The Email Standards Project

Almost all web developers know that’s very difficult to work with E-mail Marketing for one simple reason: there’s no standards for the mailers. A HTML e-mail is totally different on Outlook than it is on Gmail, for example.
But there are good news. A group of developers created The Email Standards Project, a project designed to [...]

WordPress wins the 2007 Open Source CMS Award

The content management system WordPress won the 2007 Open Source CMS Award as the best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System. In a very close category, WordPress came out in front of Elgg and Drupal, who finished joint second.
The CMS Wordpress is used in most of our projects. The Open Source Social Networking [...]

The real importance of findability

In this digital era, we are being overwhelmed by information. To find what really matters sometimes can be very difficult. Companies that help people to find something can be very succeeded, as Google proves.
The importance of findability is not restricted to the search engines. People die because they can’t find a hospital, for example.

Wenetus really cares about content, the king

Everybody knows the famous phrase “content is king”, but how many developers that really cares about content do you know?
If you want to get a site with a good readability, pay attention to some details such as font size, font family, contrast colors and text’s size.

Our experience using Getting Real

At Wenetus, we generaly use the Moebius Methodology to build our sites and systems. This way of work follows four major stages: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Prodution and Proactive Monitoring.
We always get great results using this methodology, but sometimes we have to run a little more. For example, when the team of International Book Bienal of Pernambuco [...]

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