web design

We’ve been busy updating our portfolio with a selection of recent and updated web designs. Our own website has also been redesigned and is now responsive, which means it adapts to the device being used. The website is viewable and functional on PCs, Laptops, Tablet PCs, Smartphones and ‘Phablets’ (phones with larger screens, nearing small tablet pc sizes).

Visit our portfolio page now: web design portfolio.

Here’s the link to the presentation by Dinesh Fernando at the FSB Breakfast meeting in Rugby on Friday 25 January 2013.

Using the web to grow your business

This was a short ten minute presentation on the options available for using the web to promote a small to medium sized business.

Our latest web design is for one of Rugby’s most respected independent mortgage advisers Lloyd Richards or LPR Mortgages.

The website has a fresh engaging design with a Word Press content management system so Lloyd can update and edit all the content – visit the website here: http://www.lprmortgages.co.uk/.

As you gear up for Christmas and plan your advertising, we’re delighted to offer you £50 worth of free Google Ad Words advertising. If you want us to help you setup your advertising and show you what to do then our Google Adwords setup package is just £50.

Please get in touch for more information. Call Dinesh on 01788 844014.

We are delighted to report that Web Growth Consulting is now a member of the UK Web Design Association. This demonstrates our commitment to providing our clients with professional, value for money services:

• web design and development
• email marketing
• search engine optimisation
• social media management

View our UK Web Design Association link here:  Web Growth Consulting Ltd

Call us on 01788 844014 or email us to ask us about how we can help your business grow.

The Highbury Guest House in Loughborough is a comfortable bed and breakfast within easy reach of Midlands towns, Nottingham, Leicester and Derby. It has excellent facilities and is highly rated by guests.

Web Growth Consulting have designed and developed their new website to help boost its position in the natural search results, showcase the facilities and provide online booking.

Visit the website here: The Highbury Guest House in Loughborough

We’re delighted to announce live launch of the new website for an amazing charity Trust for Africa’s Orphans. This is an established charity that runs sustainable small projects in Africa helping families set up self-sustaining, small-scale commercial farms that help feed their community and generate income.

We’ll tell you more about this in the near future but have a look round and tell us what you think: Trust for Africa’s Orphans

Please get in touch if you want to discuss web design and development for your projects.

We’re pleased to announce a fantastic offer for new web design clients. With prices starting at £175 we can offer the following:

• Free .co.uk domain and hosting for a year
• £50 of Google AdWords vouchers
• Starter SEO package worth £75 (Keyword research, Tag editing and website submission to Google and Bing)

Possible features include the following:

• Web design and logo / branding design
• Content Management by you using Word Press or Joomla
• Website copywriting
• E-commerce and advice on selling online successfully
• Forums, blogs and galleries
• Bespoke software development
• Email marketing
• Google Analytics for web traffic monitoring
• Contact forms, live chat
• Online booking
• Online Calendars / booking
• Online CRM
• …and much, much more!

Please call us Dinesh 01788 844014 or use our enquiry form to tell us more about what  you need for your business.

Microsoft is celebrating the death of version 6 of its Internet Explorer web browser by baking a cake. As usage levels in the US drop to below 1% and that trend mirrored in UK and Europe, we can finally celebrate the end of what some have rated as the worst technology product of all time.

From the user’s perspective, using IE6 to browse the web leaves a computer vulnerable to viruses and malware that steal personal data etc. From a web developer’s point of view, IE6 often interprets a web page coded to industry  standards differently from other browsers which means a lot of messy additional layout code and extra testing to ensure a web page displays correctly.

The only country bucking this trend is China where usage levels are falling but still around 25%.

Unlike only a few years ago when IE was dominant, there are now three main browsers that your websites should be compatible:

• Internet Explorer (versions 7, 8 and 9)
• FireFox
• Google Chrome

The market is moving to a position where no one browser is dominant, however the good news is that, apart from a few quirks with IE7, they tend to work the same way and no major  adjustments are needed to get proper cross-browser compatibility for a website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16408850

Everyone wants their website to rank higher on Google. By appearing higher up the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS), your website will get more visitors and you will generate more business.

Potentially it’s a massive subject, but we have boiled the process down into the key steps:

1. Research
2. Action
3. Check

Step 1 – Research

We’re not advocating months of exhaustive analysis of market trends and positioning but whatever your business size, you should be able to answer these questions:

1. How many visitors does my website get?
2. How many orders or enquiries does my website generate?
3. What keywords should people use to find my website, are there more popular alternatives?
4. What are my competitors doing regarding their website, social media, email newsletter and other advertising?
5. Where am I looking for new customers, are they local, national, international, do they enquire or look for your services at certain times e.g. office hours, evenings, weekends etc?

Google provides a number of free tools such Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools and Google Keyword selector tool to help analyse your own website. You should also look closely at what your competitors are up to: what they are doing well, how they are ranking for certain key phrases, are they using Google AdWords, other advertising etc.

This vital first step helps you prioritise and identify what to do next – Action!

Step 2 – Action

The Actions you take should be informed and shaped by what you find out in the Research step, but could include the following:

• Revising the website copy, meta tags on your website
• Seeking links back to your website from partners, complementary services, friends, directories etc
• Adding new features to your website to keep the content fresh and growing e.g. blogs, importing social media content, news updates etc
• Generating and submitting an XML sitemap to Google
•  If you sell products online, generate and submit a product list to Google at least every 30 days
• Setting up social media to direct people to your website.

The final choice of Actions will be dependent on your business, your budget and time.

Step 3 – Check

Is what you’ve done working? Check all your available data, website traffic, number of orders, number of enquiries, website position in SERPS etc. Use that information to adjust your actions and research further relevant options for boosting your website.

Get in touch with Dinesh on 01788 844014 or Contact us form to discuss how to boost your website on Google.