Our last website to be released in 2009 is for a company that is used to digging deep into the earth to carry out Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental investigations.

Replacing our clients original website, the new site, designed by Roodee, features a cleanly coded structure, brand new concept, and Google search engine optimisation and a full blog, that can be updated as and when required.

The second phase of the website is due for release in late January 2010.

Visit the website by clicking here. Get a quote for a website like this one by clicking here. Alternatively, call us on 01244 566286.

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Hitting number one on Google for it’s primary target search term, and steadily rising for the secondary terms, is our latest website design for a country house hotel in Cornwall.

The website is a complete redesign of an established website. It features an updateable content management system (CMS), simplified navigation, and search engine friendly coding. Thereare lots of bright, fresh photos, engaging videos and a link to a booking system provided by an external system.

Visit the website or contact us if you would like to discuss a website redesign.

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Testing of our secret project is very nearly completed. For more details of our rather big announcement, keep an eye on our Twitter feed or revisit our blog in the first week of January 2010.

For information of our web design holiday opening hours, please click here. If you want to talk to us about web design and marketing over the holiday, we are open as usual. Click here to contact us.

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We are often asked to redesign or ’sort out’ underperforming websites. Sometimes it’s because a competitor has taken delivery of a better website, but often it’s because an established website has started to look dated or isn’t performing as it should.

If you’re considering a website redesign, here’s some helpful advice from Roodee Web Design:

Have  A Clear Goal

Whether it’s an online shop, a lead generating site, an online brochure or an information website, establish what your goal is. For example, if you have an ecommerce website, the goal is get a click on the submit button on the payment page. Consider how you are going to take your site’s visitors from the point they entered the site to the goal. 

Our advice: make reaching the goal as easy as possible and strip out any obstacles that get in the way.

Look Current

What looked great a few years ago can quickly look tired, so new visuals are often top of the list when we’re asked to rework a website. Styling a concept begins on paper. See what else is out there; inspiration doesn’t just have to come from other websites.

Our advice: Get your pens out. We do this before we think of firing up Photoshop.

Ditch Splash Intro Pages

These were very fashionable in the 90’s. The majority were animated company logos that whizzed in or jiggled about a bit. They were supposed to give websites a professional and expensive ‘feel’. The truth is they got in the way for users, and they didn’t do well with search engines either.

Our advice: Whip out  the splash and ditch any pointless Flash.

Switch From Table Based Layouts

For a long time websites were built using tables to hold everything in place. These days websites use something else called DIV’s to place elements on pages and are styled with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS not only gives us far more freedom to come up with visually exciting designs that work in modern browsers, but it means the websites work better with search engines too.

Our advice: Ditch the table layout.

Keep Your Site Up To Date

What’s the point in presenting old, out of date information? It used to be very complicated making websites updateable (and expensive). These days it’s not. Visitors like current content, and search engines do too.

Our advice: Opt for a Content Management System.

See examples of our website redesigns or contact us for a quotation.

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Just in case you are stuck this Christmas…

We are here for emergency web design, web redesign, email newsletter campaigns.

We are having a well deserved rest on Christmas Day and New Years Day, but like many of our clients, we are open for business throughout the holiday period as normal. If you need anything, just call or email as usual.

Call us on 01244 566286 or contact us here.

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Dave Clarke is a radio personality for Heart 100.7 in Birmingham. When he asked us to update the website for his live entertainment business, with a focus on wedding disco’s and corporate events, we relished the challenge.

The new website is optimised for search engines, features Flash, Twitter and Facebook, and a fully featured blog. There’s also a free audio download (podcast) and Dave will be able to add video quickly and easily.

Visit the website by clicking here.

Contact us for a small business website quotation.

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Proprietor Harry Keyzor says of his new website, ‘We’re delighted and the feedback we’ve had from everyone is excellent. A universal thumbs up.’

The site is W3C compliant, is optimised for Google, features a brochure request form and a downloadable Inspection Report. From concept drawings to sign-off, this website was developed in two weeks. Communicaton was key to this quick turnaround. Although we prefer face to face meetings, our client was able to follow progress of the site by logging in to our system.

Want a website like this one? Contact us for a quotation.

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