Thankfully, BigBerries came back online earlier this week. Unfortunately due to the current financial climate in the US our previous host essentially collapsed without warning. Hopefully in the future we can avoid situations like that from being able to take BigBerries offline.

There have been several changes to the site and hopefully users will appreciate the simplicity. I will follow up later with details about the current seasons draft. Please bear with us as there some database issues being worked through and the draft, while stable may still have kinks that have yet been found.

If you spot any errors leave the information in the comments. As the contact form is unavailable.

A large percentage of visitors come to BigBerries from search engines. Users get onto the web, enter queries, scan the results and click the listing that appears to be most relevant to their search.

If the search engine and the website are working in harmony, the user is happy and a successful joint transaction between the user, search engines and website is completed. Continue ►

As soon as word broke on the 16GB iPhone, we snatched up a couple. Shipments were still in back when we called and upon arriving to the Apple Store, one employee was not even sure if the phones were ready. We were not going for that. Continue ►

Today I noticed a few pagination errors on Sweet Deals as well as BigBerries. Both errors were regarding tags and categories. With the modifications we made recently unfortunately, there were still some bugs. I hope that we cleared everything up.

Have you ever searched the web, followed a link through an email or from a website and come to a site thinking you will find what you are looking for, only to see advertisements?

When you come to a site, you want content, I know I do. You do not want to see the title of the article, surrounded by several advertisements and maybe the first sentence of what you are looking for. You want content.

This experience can be frustrating for users. Despite a perceived increase in revenue, long term it may be causing you to lose money. Many above the fold proponents will cry foul, but user experience is core.

During the latest revamp of BigBerries.com, the primary goal was to figure a way to build on our original ideas and navigation while bringing the content that users were looking for higher up the page. Continue ►

Tucked away for quite a while, this will be the place to catch up on the why and what of BigBerries.com. The initial plan never came to light and going back and forth to blogger to post updates and opinions related to BigBerries.com, but not related to what users go there for never became a regular thing to do.