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Web & Mobile Design / Development

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Web & Mobile site design

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Small Business Start Package

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Promo Material for Training Organsation Expo

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get mobile

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Make sure you’re mobile ready!

Get in contact today for a free quote on making your existing website mobile friendly, or building a new site that is internet and mobile ready.

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Sources:

Google reported a 400% increase in the number of mobile searches in the last year.
http://www.google.com/events/thinkmobile2011/

The following information has been directly cited from the Google Mobile Ad Blogs

General Smartphone Usage:
Smartphones have become an integral part of users’ daily lives. Consumers use smartphones as an extension of their desktop computers and use it as they multi-task and consume other media.

81% browse the Internet, 77% search, 68% use an app, and 48% watch videos on their smartphone
72% use their smartphones while consuming other media, with a third while watching TV
93% of smartphone owners use their smartphones while at home

Action-Oriented Searchers:
Mobile search is heavily used to find a wide variety of information and to navigate the mobile Internet.

Search engine websites are the most visited websites with 77% of smartphone users citing this, followed by social networking, retail and video sharing websites
Nine out of ten smartphone searches results in an action (purchasing, visiting a business, etc.)
24% recommended a brand or product to others as a result of a smartphone search

Local Information Seekers:
Looking for local information is done by virtually all smartphone users and consumers are ready to act on the information they find.

95% of smartphone users have looked for local information
88% of these users take action within a day, indicating these are immediate information needs
77% have contacted a business, with 61% calling and 59% visiting the local business

Purchase-driven Shoppers:
Smartphones have become an indispensable shopping tool and are used across channels and throughout the research and decision-making process.

79% of smartphone consumers use their phones to help with shopping, from comparing prices, finding more product info to locating a retailer
74% of smartphone shoppers make a purchase, whether online, in-store, or on their phones
70% use their smartphones while in the store, reflecting varied purchase paths that often begin online or on their phones and brings consumers to the store

Reaching Mobile Consumers:
Cross-media exposure influences smartphone user behavior and a majority notice mobile ads which leads to taking action on it.

71% search on their phones because of an ad exposure, whether from traditional media (68%) to online ads (18%) to mobile ads (27%)
82% notice mobile ads, especially mobile display ads and a third notice mobile search ads
Half of those who see a mobile ad take action, with 35% visiting a website and 49% making a purchase

Visit the Google Mobile Ad Blogs: http://googlemobileads.blogspot.com/2011/04/smartphone-user-study-shows-mobile.html

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Finding Balance | Small Business Package

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Rowing Australia | HTML eNewsletter Management System

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Waves on the Beach Restaurant

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Website design and development for Waves on the Beach Restaurant located in Melbourne’s Southern Suburbs.

Web Design

- Concept Development
- Interface Design
- CSS

Web Development
- HTML
- CSS
- WordPress CMS

Photography

mama rye | portfolio of freelance web and print designer, Emma Ray