Chichester Business Support – Social Media Seminar Summary

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Matt

On the 25th April 2012, Matthew Milnes from Websites Designed spoke to local businesses in Chichester on how to market their website effectively. See the review from the event below:

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Selection of Recent Work: April 2012

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Matt

Time has yet again flown by and we have another handful of websites we’ve just launched.

Between January and March we designed and developed an online Log Book Loan application website for a company in Norwich. The website allows applicants to enter their details and be told the amount they can borrow against their car (based on age, mileage, etc). We built two sites, www.whichlogbookloan.co.uk and www.v5solutions.co.uk, one local and one one national website, for them to use to promote their service.

We helped Clarity Care Consulting improve their web presence and image with a new website.

We helped Kings Estates promote property specifically for University of Portsmouth International students studying at the ICP centre. The new website allows international students to view and book property online.

We helped Tom Rolfe or Rolfe Interior Finishes get online for the first time. We setup a simple 4 page website for Tom, and setup Google Adwords with a free £100 Adwords Voucher, to help him gain his first new customers.

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Plastic Surgeons, Care Agencies and Personal Trainers

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Matt

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

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Matt

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

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Matt

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

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Matt

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

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

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Recent Websites by Websites Designed (Pictures)

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Matt

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.

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

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Who’s In The Studio : July 2011

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Matt

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

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Matt

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

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Matt

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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