Share what you know with millions of people

Focus is the best place to turn what you know into remarkable content

×

Amanda Simmons

Follow Following Unfollow

Web Developer and Graphic Designer , Aztech Media, Brisbane

30 points

Over the past four years, I have nurtured my career as a web developer and graphic designer. I use almost all Adobe tools which include Flex, illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Fireworks. Apart from that, I use over two dozen ...

Over the past four years, I have nurtured my career as a web developer and graphic designer. I use almost all Adobe tools which include Flex, illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Fireworks. Apart from that, I use over two dozen Opensource tools.

Keywords: HTML , CSS, Javascript, Java, JSP, .NET, Java servlets, AJAX, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, ASP, Coldfusion, cross browser, front end, back end, Adobe, Open source tools and more

» read more » read less

Dec. 10, 2011

Amanda Simmons and 4 other people answered this question

Are you using an internet marketing firm for search engine optimization, paid search, or analytics?

Well, it's an outrageously competitive marketplace. I do not see any harm hiring an SEO firm if they do not make tall claims of overnight improvement in traffic. more

Marketing Analytics

Online Marketing

Dec. 10, 2011

Amanda Simmons asked a question

Who are making the best use of Facebook business pages; SMBs or giant organization such as Coca-Cola

Facebook Advertising

Social Media Marketing

Social Network Marketing

Dec. 10, 2011

Amanda Simmons is now following Dave Brock and 14 other people

Dec. 4, 2011

Amanda Simmons and 9 other people answered this question at this roundtable

B2B Marketing: The Year in Review and Predictions for 2012 [12/13 @ 1 pm]

What did b2b marketers learn in 2011?

Thanks Tony!
I really enjoyed reading the points that you put across.
"Social Media began its migration to mainstream and to be thought of as one component of an overall marketing strategy. The post-hype Social Media era will lead to more careful looks on how Social ... more

Content Marketing

Dec. 4, 2011

Amanda Simmons and 4 other people answered this question

Do Facebook really bring consumers to your company?

Facebook pages are a strong source of motivated traffic to your website. However, you can not expect to sell anything and everything through it.
Some people spend too much time and money on design and updates and fail to engage their customers into communication. As ... more

Dec. 4, 2011

Amanda Simmons answered this question

Did Facebook buy Gowalla for its technology or its talent?

I think it is going to be a wise investment for Facebook. The people who could manage to raised $8.4 million in venture funding in 2009 from investors who also backed Foursquare, including Ron Conway and Kevin Rose; they are worth buying.
Facebook's Facebook's Timeline ... more

Mergers and Acquisitions

Social Networking

Nov. 25, 2011

Amanda Simmons and 7 other people answered this question

Wordpress vs Joomla vs Drupal: Discuss the Pros and Cons

I'm sure Focus isn't short of web developers.
Looking forward to a constructive discussion.

Information Technology

Nov. 25, 2011

Amanda Simmons and 1 other person answered this question

Android vs iPhone vs Blackberry: Who's going to be the winner?

Thanks Bob!
It's a battle between open source and closed source. Since they are opposite to each other, they are bound to coexist.
I was expecting other experts to chine in with their opinions... more

Android Pub App

Android Vs iPhone

Nov. 25, 2011

Amanda Simmons and 23 other people answered this question

Is Facebook getting too complicated?

Facebook has every right to experiment with whatever they want...I don't think it is complicated if used for basic purposes ie. photo sharing, messaging etc.
It is still running on the same foundation it was running two years ago. People are supposed to evolve with rapidly ... more

Information Technology

Product Usability

Social Networking

Aug. 11, 2011

Amanda Simmons asked a question

Have the London riots showed us two sides of social networking?

Aug. 11, 2011

Amanda Simmons answered this question

Is focus.com a WOW initiative?

Do you have any reason to doubt that?
I spend more time on Focus than LinkedIn, Plaxo or Xing :-) more

Following 33 Topics

Business Intelligence

Cloud Computing

Customer Service

Enterprise Applications

...

Focus Interactive Summit

Focusmobilityrt

General Management

Information Technology

Marketing Automation

Sales Management

Servers and Storage

Social Networking

Unified Communications

Following 118 People

Followed by 31 People

Knowledgeable in 11 Topics

Human Resources

#666 of 1481

#41 of 53

#30 of 56

#46 of 88

Company Culture

#99 of 151

#128 of 210

#169 of 339

#377 of 480

#1026 of 1429

#1276 of 2156

#2003 of 2984