Having spoken to a number of craft and craftsman sites, it looked to me that they could all do with recognition and a platform to blow their own trumpet. With this in mind we built craftsmade.co.uk as that platform.
The site will provide a searchable database using names, craft type and areas of the UK. While yet to be officially launched full listings and ads will be free. You can register using the form in the site to get a listing.
News about crafts and design are also planned. We’re also looking for craft articles. These will be published on the site and allow links and full author accreditation, so please get those coming in.
If you have a craft based website and you want to improve it’s visibility and your search engine ranking then get your application in now.
We took over this Mother of the bride site recently to give it a spring clean, re-design and re-organise the pages and linking.
Initially we looked at the search results and have made a significant difference to the ranking for their key terms. Over the past couple of weeks we have been adding the new seasons fashions from the leading designers, giving a page to each to show the newest wedding outfits. There are many stunning images like my favourite one shown here from Condici.
The new pages are doing well, achieving page one listings and climbing.
What on earth is this about? Is this the end of Google or the end of ethical SEO?
Personalised search has arrived whether you are logged into the big G or not.
Up until now all you’ve had to do is log out of and run your search. Those a little more savvy have the excellent firefox plug-in from yoast that still give you a non-personalised search, meaning you should be able to see the listings for a search that everyone else will get.
Not any more!
Take a look at this screenshot – Continue reading →
I’m really proud of this online fashion shop. It has taken a while to get there but finally launched last week. Get over there and buy, buy buy! Good luck Amanda.
We launched a new website yesterday for a charming couple, John and Carole, who breed alpacas at their farm in Siston in Bristol. The site is not yet completed, changes are still ongoing and more content is coming in. We are all hoping that given the impetus of a new site we can speed up the development and get some ideas as to where it should now be going.
The site aims to showcase the hard work John and Carole have put in during the last 5 years or so and has information about them, their alpacas and the alpacas for sale.
Once again, it’s been our pleasure to work with this client and we wish them the greatest success with the site, and our continuing partnership to improve it still more.
When I wrote my list of Counties in the UK post I had no idea about the number of hits it would have. Continue reading →
Since I seem to have dropped quietly down to page 2 of google I’ve been doing a lot of research to try and catch up on what’s not working anymore and what I should be doing to get to the first page again.
Coming upon a well written and concise post from Tad Chef at SEOptimise that addresses my concerns, I thought it’s a post well worth investing some time in and sharing here. It does mean that my way of thinking needs changing and methods need updating.
Enjoy
When I design a new site that has a content management system (cms), the owners seem to have most trouble with images. The problems they have are:
- The images are straight from their camera so are too big to fit the desired format and/or eat away at their bandwidth.
- The image needs cropping.
- The image needs some other changes.
What is needed is a quick and easy way of making the desired changes without having to go to the extent of buying some software to do the job just for their website. If it’s just a few images I don’t mind making the changes, but often the owner wants to do it themselves straight away.
So what do I do, recommend they use an online free editor. Continue reading →
For a recent web design project I was looking for a list of UK counties. No problem, I thought, the internet is a wonderful place, bound to find something.
How wrong can you be? Lots of lists, but none of them complete and most out of date. Spent far too long looking and eventually had to make my own. I think it’s pretty complete, though, as ever, you probably know better.
I’ve added a text file with just each County name that you can use as you like.
Please let me know what you think or if there are any missing by adding a comment. I promise I’ll be grateful and will add any missing counties.
Finally if you make use of the list, feel free to link back to this page http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/list-of-uk-counties/
Astonishingly easy and painless!
For such a major upgrade, giving a totally new look admin, it was much easier that previous releases (2.6) and gave no problems at all.
