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Daily internet use has doubled in just four years!By Gareth
14th October, 2010 at 17:33

A recent Survey carried out by the ‘Office for National Statistics’ showed that in 2010, 30.1 million adults in the UK (60 per cent) accessed the Internet every day or almost every day. This is nearly double the estimate in 2006 of 16.5 million.

New image compression to aid web design with faster loadingBy Gareth
1st October, 2010 at 10:04

Google has recently gone public with a new image compression format known as WebP which claims to cut the current size of images by up to 40 percent.

How important is the internet?By Gareth
7th September, 2010 at 08:36

A Sky News Survey found that more people would opt to cut back on food rather than give up their broadband connection if money became. This gives an indication as to exactly how important the internet has become and shows that for many it has now necessity rather than a luxury.

Lots of new websitesBy Gareth
6th August, 2010 at 16:39

Here at Advanced Web Designs we have been very busy over the last few months developing some interesting websites for Hertfordshire based customers. The culmination of all our hard work has meant that we have recently launched a number of new websites and are just finishing a few more which will be going live very soon.

Japan gets ultra high speed web accessBy Gareth
8th July, 2010 at 09:57

The higher speed access home users have means that web designers can make more graphic or media rich websites. Whether you’re on a home computer or a mobile phone, speed is extremely important. Japan has just announced that their networks will soon be able to take advantage of 42Mbps HSPA data directly to their phone.