Chigwell Golf Club – One of our first Content Managed Websites

(This was posted 7 months, 1 week, 6 days, 6 hours, 48 minutes's ago.)

Chigwell Golf Club, in Chigwell Essex is a beautiful course. The management team respect and uphold the history of a course that has been open since 1925.

The main reason for the new website back in 2008 was to ensure that the members could access all the information they would need. There is a strong emphasis on the members section of the website, providing Chigwell Golf Club members with course information, upcoming events, news and different blogs.

For me the website conveys the spirit of the club. The images taken by a member of staff capture the course, really showing it off in its full spender.

Chigwell Golf Course is respected throughout Essex as a top golfing venue; click below to find out more about:

• Corporate and Society Golf Days
• The Chigwell Golf Club Opens
• Their Pro Shop
• Course Info

Or to just find our more about Chigwell Golf Club click here.

Belmont Laundry are doing well on Google

(This was posted 7 months, 1 week, 6 days, 7 hours's ago.)

Belmont Laundry have been providing a great linen hire service to London and the home counties since 1984.

The website that we built for them was designed to win them searches such as ‘hotel linen hire essex’ as this is their primary business.

The Belmont Laundry site is a simple design that we feel really works well with their existing branding.

We’d like to thank the Team at Belmont Laundry and wish the all the best of luck at their new premises.

A Lovely Restaurant - The Baytree, Melbourne, Derby

(This was posted 7 months, 1 week, 6 days, 7 hours, 12 minutes's ago.)

The Baytree Restaurant, Melbourne, Derby

The Baytree is a lovely restaurant in Melbourne, Derbyshire. The owners and staff are passionate about everything they do; and it really shows.

Some time ago we were asked to look at a website for them by Baseline Creative. Baseline had come up with an exquisite design and had arranged some delightful photography; all that was needed was the development.

The site is fully content managed and benefits from a really nice slideshow on the home page.

If you are ever in the area and want somewhere friendly and good to eat – get yourself to the Baytree.

Is a Website Enough in 2010?

(This was posted 7 months, 2 weeks, 9 hours, 2 minutes's ago.)

Is a Website Enough? To be honest a website is simply not enough anymore.

I’ve worked with companies and organisations website for some time now and the simple fact of the matter is that as technology gets more and more integrated into the psyche of society the more of a potential disadvantage you are if you are not seem to be everywhere.

Understand the Mindset

100 years ago you would have possibly read a paper, some years later cinemas presented the news, a little later still and the news was brought into the home through the TV – on the 5th Feb 1989 Sky News started broadcasting 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Today, through you mobile phone you can be fed news...

Why do I say understand the mindset? It’s simple really, what is important to know is that we have unprecedented access to information; the net result being we can do more in less time.

Do more in less time is the standard, forget multi-tasking; think hypertasking!

Hypertasking

Think about it, how many times have you read a text, whilst watching TV, doing the ironing, helping with the kids homework and drinking a cup of tea?

In the workplace how many times are you reading several emails, speaking to colleagues, thinking about what needs to be done for the rest of the day and possibly on the phone?

Does all this apply to Me?

Possibly, probably: almost definitely.

I think it’s more than fair to say that most people will see this as a business issue but in reality it is a human condition as it seems to be at the core of our Mindset. Most people will say they don’t have a website or have a blog. I’d ask them if they have a Facebook account or a twitter account, if they have I’d ask if they have ever updated their status; if they have then they have a website and a blog.

Clearly business has the most to gain from extending the reach of their online or new media activates but social networking for the purpose of keeping in contact with friends, contacts and loved ones can be extremely fulfilling.

What Should You Do?

It’s hard to say, you don’t have to do anything.

If you are a domestic service orientated business try integrating Facebook into your marketing mix; invite customers to provide feedback via Facebook Pages.

If you are a product driven organisation can you send product updates and offers via Twitter?

If your commodity is your knowledge or opinion think about your blog – how can you connect with people that value your thoughts; how can you syndicate this information?

A final thought...

There are many experts out there, I would consider myself reasonably knowledgeable but as I have already said there is so much information out there that I would be a fool to consider myself as an expert.

My recommendation is to look at all options, look at how others employ new media tools and above all else remember just 100 years ago the new media was the tabloid paper (over the broadsheets), 50 years ago it was the Televison, 25 years ago it was the internet, a little over 5 years ago Facebook came on the scene.

Don’t assume you know, don’t put all your eggs in one basket; try to think ‘what’s coming next’.

PS: I’ll let you into a secret; I think the next thing to look at is Video, but I’ll speak more about this another time.

How does you site look in firefox and chrome?

(This was posted 7 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, 6 hours, 21 minutes's ago.)

After Microsoft IE became the most popular browser to use taking around 95% of the market share is its time finally up and is it going to fall and burn like the Roman Empire?

In recent times IE has dropped to around 62% which is taking into account IE6, IE7 and IE8 and within the last 6 months alone it has dropped in use by around 5% while its main rival FireFox has just pass the 25% milestone and seems to be going from strength to strength.  

But the browser to watch seems to be Googles Chrome which was released just 16 months ago and is now the third most used browser in the world taking over from safari (some may ask safari? Whats safari? To answer It is Apples attempt at a web browser) with 4.63% over the market share.

So is now the time to ask yourself as a website owner, how does my site look in browsers other than Microsoft IE? As believe me there can be a drastic difference. If you like many others would like to make sure your site still functions currently check out browsershots which will allow you to take a screenshot from as many different web browsers as you would like.