Solar Hot Water Heating Website

Only 24 hours after the launch of a brand new website to support a new business in Macclesfield that will bring solar hot water heating to consumers up and the down the UK, an audience of millions heard a glowing endorsement of the technology.

When the leaders of the three main political parties were asked what they were personally doing to combat climate change, Prime Minister Gordon Brown revealed he had considered installing a wind turbine at his home in Scotland but had installed solar hot water heating instead, which was constantly providing hot water for the house. He urged others to invest in the technology.

For our client these are welcome words, and they are enjoying the extra traffic to their website the debate has sparked.

Visit the website by clicking here. See our clients testimonial video by clicking here.

Want to talk to us about a website for your business? Call Roodee Web Design Chester on 01244 566286.

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Our latest web design went live today for a company specialising in window repair,  trade supply and solar heating in Macclesfield, a short drive from our Chester offices.

Drawn out as a unique design for our client, and optimised for the search engines, the website’s purpose is to generate leads. It features a slideshow, three distinct sections for each area of the business, an updateable news section and an email newsletter facility.

Satisfied customer

Want to see what our client thinks of our work? Press play on the video below.

There are more examples of our web design work in our portfolio, and plenty more videos from our satisfied customers on our web design testimonials page.

If you would like to discuss a new website for your business or a web design project in the Chester or Macclesfield areas, please call us on 01244 566286.

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Web Design Chester Testimonial

It’s always nice to hear some nice words from our clients, but we are delighted to be able to share this VIDEO testimonial from a client of ours in Chester.

Our thanks to Liz Jack of Northern Ferrari Hire, the supercare hire specialists.

Want to know more about our business video services? Call us on 01244 566286.

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We are proud to announce the launch of our brand new web service for the only News Room in Cheshire!

In times when most media organisations and broadcasters are scaling back and reducing their overheads, two radio stations in Cheshire have opened up a brand new newsroom, and they are using a content management system to deliver the news over the web implemented by Roodee Web Design.

The journalists at Dee 106.3 and Silk 106.9 access the service via a web-based log-in and can update the news as required in seconds.

If you would like to add a similar service to your website, enabling updates as often as you like, give us a call on 01244 566286.

Roodee is a web design company based in Chester with years of real-world marketing experience and the technical ability to create websites that achieve their goal.

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There’s a directory on the web for just about anything you can imagine.

Type a search term into Google and somewhere in the results you are bound to find some directories listed. Click onto them and you often see business entries listed, sometimes with contact information and a link to their respective websites, sometimes it’s just a long list of names.

What are the benefits for your business of being listed on a directory website? In the case of reputable companies such as the excellent ‘The Best Of Chester’ your listing is both an ad that gets seen by lots of local, well targeted visitors who are looking for services, and if you have a weblink it can be a great way to increase your page rank on Google.

But… and this is a big but. Not all directories are the same. This week we took a call from a business owner in Chester who had given £300 to be on a directory believing he would get qualified leads, extra traffic and increased ranking on Google. After the 12 month agreement ended he decided the directory wasn’t for him and didn’t renew, expecting his listing would be deleted and that would be that. But the directory listing is still there, in fact performing even better than when it was being paid for. It is doing so well now it is performing better than his own website on Google when his business name is typed in. But instead of linking potential customers to his website, the directory is now sending them to a direct competitor.

We’ve advised on options, but our best advice is to do your research before becoming involved with directories. Ask other businesses about their experiences before signing up.

We are a web design company based in Chester, but we have helped many business owners and individuals who have had problems connected with internet related business.

Read our advice articles:

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Web Designer Disputes

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There are scores of businesses that we’ve helped to drive sales, bring in footfall, or sell online for years. If you are about to set up your first web site and are wondering what the process is, this is how we do it at Roodee Web Design in Chester.

First of all we need to know exactly what the project involves, so we need to ask some questions to form our Project Brief and Quotation. The Project Brief covers everything from whether we need to register a domain name on your behalf to what the job of the website is going to be.

All Systems Are Go

If you haven’t already got one, we register the domain name on your behalf and get the webhosting ready. It only takes minutes for us to do this, but it can take several days for all of these bits to work together so it’s best to do this job first to prevent delays when you are itching to get your website live.

Next is the design meeting. Over lots of coffee (please note – Jake is white no sugar, Simon is strong black no sugar) we map out the site’s pages and get the pencils out to sketch our designs for you. After the meeting we use Photoshop to draw out your web site concept digitally and upload it to our testing web address so you can see what it will look like to your web site’s visitors. When you agree we’ve ‘nailed it’ we do the coding.

Coding

Just like the visuals, when we code we put together everything your website needs in-house here in Chester. We’ll sometimes use a number of different technologies, depending on your project.

Content

We’ll add the content in next, generate any extra graphics and photos and take care of Search Engine Optimisation.

Testing and Sign Off

We’ll make sure everything works as it should and make last minute adjustments before we get your approval (sign-off) and set your new website live.

Tutorials and support

Most of the websites we design and build can be updated by our clients so we give tutorials in how to make changes, how best to write content, how to carry out Search Engine Optimisation tasks for yourself, and how to measure your website’s performance. Of course if you’d prefer us to take care of ongoing works, we’re more than happy to do this for you.

What to do next

Read client testimonials from Chester businesses we have helped over the years, or see our web design portfolio or ask us for a quote.

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Advice

The weather this Easter is looking really unsettled in and around Chester, so for those clients of ours who are away over the holiday, have a wonderful time.

For everybody else, including those who would like to work with us, we are here after Easter Monday and will be available to help with your web design and marketing projects as normal for the whole of Easter week.

But as the ‘Beerfest’ is taking place down at Chester Racecourse this weekend(over 40 beers in under 4 days), you will be able to catch Simon, Jake, Helen and new boy Matt on Saturday, where it will be a case of Roodee at the Roodee.

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