Lapigems Gem Company specialises in Tanzanite, Tsavorite, and all East African fine gemstones.

They have a comprehensive online store featuring hundreds of gems. This website is packed with stunning images, and a range of e-commerce features allowing for an enjoyable and secure online shopping experience.

Slideshare is a fast growing social media network allowing users to upload PowerPoint presentations into online slideshows available to the global online audience.

Naishi House itself has 3 luxurious bedrooms. Each one has an en-suite bathroom, a wonderfully oversized double bed and an exceptional view of the sea. Air conditioning is available in all bedrooms and generator backup will turn on when power cuts happen.

The infinity plunge pool is the heart of the home and the surrounding veranda areas are perfect for relaxing, sunbathing and sipping a G and T as the waves break on the shore ahead of you. For a more adventurous experience, the roof top terrace is a wonderful space for sleeping under the stars if the weather permits (December to March).

Swiftly following on from our previous blog post on the rapid development of web technology and media, a prime example illustrating our point of how we cannot ever really be in control and fully understand the resources and opportunities the internet offers.

The backfiring of the #QantasLuxury pajama competition gives us an insight as to how it can all go horribly wrong.

A fascinating interactive infographic - The Evolution Of The Web - is a great illustration of how fast the web develops, and gives an insight into the challenges of keeping up to date with the latest technlogies and media trends.

No technology in history has developed at such a speed, or continues to accelerate as the internet is currently doing.

Total-Hvar is a new travel website containing a wide range of information and news related to Hvar Island off Croatia's Dalmatian coastline which went live in October 2011.

British journalist and Hvar Island resident, Paul Bradbury who partnered up with Web-Duka in November 2010 is spearheading the project with the aim of developing the most comprehensive source of information about Hvar Island for both locals and visitors.

It only takes a few days to have an online store setup and running on the internet. If you're thinking about an e-commerce site, or a simple online shopping cart to sell your products, Web-Duka can help you have your online business live on the web within days.

Web-Duka Shopping Cart is a user friendly e-commerce solution packed with features to help you with your store front and product management, manage customers, manage sales and shipping, view analytics and much more.

No doubt we'll all be seeing a lot more of the Google +1 button on search results and web pages in the coming months.

Learn more about it in this video, or read more about Google +1 here.

The button is currently only appearing in Google Search Results - however, it will soon be released to other web pages, allowing site visitors to add their seal of approval to a web page they like. In turn - friends, through their association via their Google Account - can see what is popular among people they know.

LinkedIn has recently rolled out a news feed service called LinkedIn Today. It is currently in Beta development mode, but available through your LinkedIn account from the menu bar under More > News.

The feature aggregates news articles from across the internet, and displays what LinkedIn deems to be of most interest to each particular user based on their profile, and stories that have proved to be popular amongst each users connnections.

Google Places allow you to create a Google Map or 'My Map', complete with images, video, text info, reviews, contacts, routes and more. The maps are interactive and searchable. You can keep them private or have them open for anyone to find on the internet.

Signing up on Google Places is easy, especailly if you already have a gmail account.

If you're thinking about setting your business up with a presence on Facebook, you might find a series of artciles linked to below will help you through the setup process, and give you some useful tips on how to manage and anaylse your facebook campaign.

It doesn't take long to setup a business facebook presence - and you may be surprised at how much content you already have at your fingertips to gave an informative and impressive page in no time. Take advantage of the many articles out on the web, and through some useful advice - avoid common mistakes, and potential headaches.

Katie Cahill recently launched her blog - katiecahill.com, and has quickly taken to the user friendly Joomla blogging platform setup on her own domain by Web-Duka.

A few basic tips and training videos and Katie has taken to blogging like a duck to water.

Some really interesting posts on fitness, as well as her new online recipe book provides for some interesting reading.

With Google's search formula a closely guarded secret, there are thousands of companies offering search optimisation services, claiming that they can establish a client's website on the coveted first page of Google.

While they may enjoy some short-term success with various tweaking methods, Google is constantly updating and changing its search parameters, with only one thing remaining constant - quality content.  As this illuminating video, released by Google, shows, there are only two long-term solutions for high rankings - both of which Wed-Duka can help you with - advertising and quality content.

Webduka is delighted to announce a partnership with a British journalist with years of experience in East Africa (aid work in Kenya, Somalia and Rwanda), who is able to provide excellent keyword-targetted articles for your businesses at reasonable cost.  As an example of the type of success his writing can bring to your business, this article on safari companies in the wake of the royal engagement bought two hundred unique visits within 48 hours with Google placements of the prime keywords and keyphrases.

Services offered included blogging (package of blogs per month), website content writing for the search engines and other promotional literature.

Effective Airconditioning Services is a Gold Coast based diverse engineering contracting company focused on the design, installation and maintenance of building services for the commercial and industrial building sector.

A small brochure style website was launched in November. Web-Duka brochure websites are low cost, interactive sites built on a user friendly Content Management System.

How to Subsbsribe to Blog article feeds using a feed 'Reader'

If you have found a blog you find interesting and would like to automatically receive future articles then subscribing using a feed reader is a simple and effective method of reading and managing blogs of interest to you.

RSS and ATOM feeds
A feed is basically a list of recent articles in a computer readable format. A program known as feed reader or feed aggregator visits the blog and collects the updates on your behalf. The article content is then presented in a user friendly layout.