Plastic Surgeons, Care Agencies and Personal Trainers

It’s been a busy month at Websites Designed. As well as managing many websites for our existing client base, we’ve also built 3 interesting websites that have launched in February 2012.

The first of which is for Personal Trainer, Rob. Rob also organises many running events that support the RNLI. His website acts as a hub to allow thousands of runners to register for his events, as well as support his personal training business. This colourful and inspirational website is designed to make you feel good. www.fitprorob.biz

The second site is for Consultant Plastic Surgeon Jeremy Hurren. Built from a design provided by pB Digital, the site offers a smooth and gentle basis from which Jeremy can promote his work. www.hurren.com

The final site launched this month is for Home Care Agency, Sans Soucie Home Care, based over two offices in Hampshire and Surrey. The website is designed to be a friendly and informative introduction to their business. A classic brochure style website that matches the companies existing offline branding, extending it online. www.sanssouciehomecare.com.

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Recently Designed Websites: January 2012

A couple new websites to show you, built in the last couple of weeks by Websites Designed.

Click on the picture of the website to be taken to view the full, live website.

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Seven Simple Steps to Bring Your Website up to Speed

Cast your memory back to when you last looked through every corner or your website, clicked every link, and read every sentence. If you can’t remember when this was it is probably about time to refresh the look, feel and content of your site to keep it fresh and interesting for your target audience! Continue reading

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Selection of Websites Designed in November 2011

Another month has flown by, and we’ve launched a bunch more websites for our customers. Some interesting websites this month, notably www.vegexchange.com and www.caringforwomen.co.uk

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Recent Websites by Websites Designed (Pictures)

We’ve been so busy recently designing, developing and building websites for others – we’ve accidentally neglected our own website recently! However, what better point to show you some of the fantastic websites we’ve put together for some fantastic clients over the past few months.

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Who’s In The Studio : July 2011

What are we working on this month? It’s been a busy 6 weeks at Websites Designed and the workload doesn’t look like it’s holding up!

In the last few weeks we’ve:

So what have we got to work on?

  • Ongoing SEO for a Portsmouth based Freight Forwarder.
  • Further development of a Worldpay plug-in for Event Espresso.
  • Financial Services lead generation website and PPC campaign for a Portsmouth client.
  • Conversion of a photoshop mockup to a HTML website for a Bournemouth motivation expert.
  • Re-design of a website to allow ‘grown your own’ enthusiasts to swap their excess harvests (a very interesting website!).

A very busy month!

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Top 10 Tips for a Better Website #2 – Freshness

Having lots of content on your website is great. However the content must be fresh to be valuable. If you haven’t updated your website content in 3+ years then your customers may find your content is out of date, or irrelevant. This also impacts on search engine ranking rankings. Search engines track how regularly you update your content. Whilst they understand your content – they can understand that content that hasn’t been updated for 3+ years is far more out of date than a website that was updated last week. The more often your content changes, the better you rank in the freshness category.

So what can you change? Well anything really. Keeping a good blog or adding frequent articles to your website will produce good results. It’s understandable that some parts of your website (such as an about page or a page listing products or services) are not going to be possible to change. Google realises this too. It’s about supplementing this core content with secondary fresh content at frequent intervals. However it’s possible to keep these pages fresh by adding blog, news and social media feeds to these core pages.

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Top 10 Tips for a Better Website

I see many small business owners in my local area of Portsmouth in Hampshire and the surrounding area struggle with the task of managing their website. The following are all key factors in maintaining a successful website. Follow these yourself or get your website designer to follow them for you, and you WILL do better and make more money from your online presence (what it was meant to do, right?). Continue reading

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What your customers NEED to find on your Restaurant, Bar or Pub Website

I went to Bournemouth on Saturday night to meet up with old friends. We were meeting in a restaurant/bar and not really knowing Bournemouth, when I arrived in the town centre I looked up on my phone where I should be going.

I found a website for the venue, although it was just full of pictures of people eating. There was no address, no directions or anything to help me locate the bar. I even wondered if the website I was looking at was even for a restaurant in Bournemouth!

This made me think about what I NEED from a restaurant website, what it should offer me, and why so many don’t and as such, just don’t work. Continue reading

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Who’s In The Studio : June 2011

We thought this month, it would be interesting to start giving visitors an idea of what happens in our studio every month!

This is what we have been working on over the last couple of weeks (and we’re still working on it!):

  • Updates to the website of a Harley Street nutritionist (incorporating new SEO optimised landing pages for targeted Pay Per Click)
  • New website for financial advisors in Portsmouth.
  • Major overhaul and re-design of a website for a New Forest based car dealer.
  • Worldpay payment gateway integration with donation forms and event booking system for a Portsmouth client.
  • Ongoing SEO for a Portsmouth based Freight Forwarder.
  • Updates to the website of a a Cotswold Structural Engineering and Architects Practice.
  • Updates to the website of a Winchester Bridal Boutique.

A very busy month!

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