Website design and Development

Don’t bother to optimise your website, optimise your company…

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:49:17 +0000

I’ve just had another email exchange regarding missing meta tags such as keywords, and having to explain that it will help putting these things right, but they’re still not going to get a top 20 listing.

Although you could probably say that the majority of websites don’t contain the right page content keywords, descriptions, header etc. etc. that would still leave a minority which would still leave a few million!

So, with the majority out of the way and you’re only (sarcasm) left with a few million competitors you’ll stand very little chance of hitting that top 20 natural listing (anywhere before page 3), so just forget it and try and concentrate on optimising the company.

Time to tell the world how successfully you were this month, how many exports you generated, maybe there is a new member of staff this month, or it could be you’ve just decorated your hotel room. You need to join the network of news or social media, there are people around the world who want to know about your company, so spread the word by creating interesting articles, create a company Facebook account, get Linkedin and get tweeting.

A cheap budget website is false economy, just don’t bother…

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:07:24 +0000

I’ve just spent half a day (around 4 hours), making sure a fairly large website has the correct keywords, descriptions and relevant page content so that hopefully our customer will beneifit from search engine optimisation. The new website replaces an old website which is already established in Google and other search engines, so I also recreated a function called a RewriteRule which tells Google for example that the old page is no longer there but to send people to the new page. That way current search results still appear to be valid.

Spending half a day just on the background development of a website areas not seen by the public is just a small part of what some companies don’t bother with, that’s why we are sorry to say that we can’t create budget websites, we like to create websites that will hopefully work for our customers thus giving them a return of investment, rather than just throwing money away find a company that will help you get the most from your site, getting a return on your investment is the key to success and when it pays for itself it doesn’t get much cheaper than that.

Care agency website - Sunshine Care Plymouth

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:48:24 +0000

We’ve just completed the Sunshine Care Website for Plymouth care agency.

The website aims to showcase their large range of care services, the site is content management by them so they are able to keep the site up to date.

About Sunshine Care

Sunshine Care is a family-owned business that provides the best possible specialist 24 hour care service for those who live in their own home in the UK counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Avon, Dorset and Wiltshire. Our english speaking carers, who are qualified and trained professionals, support the needs of our clients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, allowing them the best quality of life possible. We are members of the United Kingdom Home Care Association, (UK HCA). The costs to you can be as little as £64 per day for a self-employed Companion Housekeeper on our Live-in Care Gold service; and from £73 per day for a Personal Assistant (PA) providing personal care, (including agency charges).

For more information please visit the following links:

Sunshine Care website
Live in care 24 hour
Domiciliary Home Care

Want to spy on your website visitors!

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:18:06 +0000

Web stats are useful, you can see who’s visiting you, what web pages they’ve looked at etc. etc. but now you can actually record them! With Usefly, you can actually capture their screen movement and mouse clicks and play it back at a later date. It’s free to for 10 screen captures, so if you want to know what your visitors are up to now you can watch!

For more information: http://www.userfly.com/

Free Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) test software helps reduce the pain…

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:22:47 +0000

If like me you want to make sure that the those people who still insist on using Internet Explorer 6 (and there are still lots of them out there) get to view your website as it should be seen then download this fantastic piece of free software that allows you to test your website on all Internet Explorer versions…

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) why should I upgrade?

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:58:59 +0000

Leave your house keys in your door and someone will probably do the decent thing and knock on your door and tell you, but there of course annoying worms out there who would probably steal them only to return once you’re out. Yet when it comes to security the Internet police still can’t get through to people about security, one of the most popular stupid things is people not updating their computer.

It’s still popular, the old website browser called Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), I know it’s difficult to keep up to date with software versions but when it comes to security (for one thing) then there isn’t any excuse for being lapse about upgrading. I know it looks like it works, you check your bank account online, order stuff from Amazon yet the fact are that it isn’t very secure, it’s not supported anymore by Microsoft so you will not get essential updates, I could rant on.

Updating your browser is free, new versions are there for a reason, they improve security, stop spyware and adware, new versions are released to help protect your personal information from being stolen! So stop using this browser, be sensible upgrade, it only takes about 5 mins.

Next time you check your bank statement and find someone else is using it to buy stuff ask yourself, I wonder if it’s because I use Internet Explorer 6?

New website and new luxury food range

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:22:36 +0000

We have just completed the new website for the Carved Angel Luxury Food Company. The new website has been designed to coincide with their new product range include luxury chutneys, jams and a range of luxury puddings including the famous luxury Christmas pudding that sells out each year so get your order in soon.

For more information visit the Carved Angel website click here.

Golf cottages - St Mellion Cornwall

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:58:33 +0000

We have just launched a new website to target the golf market, at Rowse Farm Golf Cottages you can try at one of their fantastic holiday cottages Cornwall and play for free at the nearby St Mellion Championship Golf Course, for more information visit one of the following links:

Golf break Cornwall
Holiday cottage Cornwall
St Mellion

Outside catering service in Devon

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:45:27 +0000

Our latest website is designed to showcase the outside catering service in Devon for Master Chef Peter Gorton. The site details some of the outside catering services that are available as well as a gallery of images to show the standard you can expect to receive.

For more information click the link:

Outside catering in Devon

Outside catering gallery

NowCornwall.com self catering for all!

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:09:57 +0000

A new website which aims to bring together all the self catering holidays from the Club Domaine group has just been launched. NowCornwall.com really does show that whether you are a family, a couple or a group there is something for you. You can relax in one of their spas or play around of golf, or walk to the local beach. All three resorts are local in fantasic location and offer a huge range of activities to choose from the majority of which are all included. So if you’re looking for a self catering holiday visit NowCornwall.Com.