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I’m still working on a Welsh translation and a Welsh version of the site, but the English version of the Glanmor Hotel website has now gone live.

As usual it has been good working on a site for such a local business as I have been able to pop down the road and speak to the owner of the hotel whenever I wanted. Pixelwave Web Design designed and built the website, did the photography and advised on the copy-writing and organised the domain name, hosting and is currently organising the translation. Being able to easily meet with the client made the project go smoothly and quickly and as soon as I have the Welsh version from the translator I will start work on the Welsh version of the site.

If you are looking for cheap hotel accommodation in West Wales, then take a look at the Glanmor Hotel.

Happy New Year to everyone, I hope the festive season was kind to you. I had a few days off but now that 2008 is here Pixelwave Web Design is back in full swing and I’m working away on various projects as usual. I’ve just started work on a new project for a hotel not far from here.

Glanmor Hotel is a small, friendly family hotel situated at the northern end of Borth seafront overlooking the beautiful Cardigan Bay. The owners of the hotel have recently commissioned Pixelwave Web Design to build them a bilingual (English / Welsh) website to advertise the hotel. As the hotel owners have no internet experience Pixelwave Web Design will be managing the whole project, including the design and construction of the site, domain name and hosting arrangements, copy-writing, photography and also organising the Welsh translation.

The website itself is a fairly straight forward brochure style site and should be ready to go live early this year.

Just in time for Christmas, Pixelwave Web Design is pleased to announce the release of the new Cymric Cards website.

Pixelwave Web Design started work on the site in mid-November with the aim of completion in the New Year, but thanks to good communication and diligent effort on behalf of Janet Baxter and Pixelwave Design the site is now live.

The brochure style website changes with the seasons and showcases some of the greetings cards and postcards produced by Cymric Cards using photography by Janet Baxter. The cards are available to individuals and wholesale and feature Welsh landscapes, Flowers, Dolphins, Birds, Farm animals, butterflies, boats, planes and much more. For full details and downloadable catalogues and order forms visit Cymric Cards.

I have just added a new category of website templates to the site, allowing you to grab a bargain just before Xmas.

The bargain website templates are available now for purchase at great prices. Grab them while you can.

Merry Xmas!!

Just a quick update from Pixelwave Web Design to let you know that the Watch Obsession Weblog project that I’ve been working on has now gone live and the Webmaster is putting it to good use and updating it regularly.

As anyone who has read any of the web design and Search Engine Optimisation articles on this site will know, ‘Content is King’ when it comes to getting good search engine rankings. A weblog or any other type of Content Management System that allows a webmaster to easily and regularly update and add such content to a website can therefore pay dividends.

Such a system is of course only as good as the content that is added using the system and all too often people don’t use them to their full potential. It is therefore great to see that Watch Obsession are off to an excellent start and have been adding good quality, relevant content on a regular basis. If you want to know what is happening in the world of watches, then check out the Watch Obsession Weblog now.

Pixelwave web Design has recently started work on an eCommerce website for a plant nursery in Wales.

Pantyfod Garden Nursery is open to visitors and has a wide range of habitats as well as views across the surrounding countryside. All plants offered for sale by Pantyfod Gardens are grown in their own gardens and many are rare or unnusual.

Their new website will include information about the gardens and some of the techniques involved in cultivating their plants and will also feature an eCommerce section containing a comprehensive plant catalogue allowing the purchase of the plants by mail order.

I shall be working on the site over the coming weeks with a planned release date early in the new year.

As part of the ongoing development of Watch Obsession Pixelwave Web Design is about to start work on adding a Latest News / Weblog feature to the website.

Their new online watch shop went live recently and now to add interest, content and to keep the site up to date I shall be adding a fully featured weblog system. Such systems can be invaluable for adding interest to a website and increasing traffic. The regularly updated, relevant content found in the articles helps to broaden the appeal of the site to visitors and to search engine robots. Keeping it up to date not only keeps the site fresh and encourages repeat visits but also broadens the footprint of the site and, if the content is good, can also encourage the growth of inbound links.

Hopefully the weblog system will go live soon and I look forward to reading the content entered by the webmaster at WatchObsession.

Here at Pixelwave Web Design I have a few new projects in the pipeline that I shall write about here soon, but recently I’ve been working on minor updates to existing websites, and generally helping people out with their websites.

I recently took over the maintenance of Timberlane Books, a small academic publisher based in America. I have moved their site to a more suitable hosting provider, fixed several issues that had crept in to the existing site, restructured the website and have added some new pages. I didn’t design or code the website and to keep costs down I haven’t touched on this aspect of the site yet. The initial stages were just to get the website operational again and update it with some new content. No doubt as I work on it in the future I will attend to such things when I get the opportunity as working with outdated code isn’t much fun for me.

I have also set up a website for The Nuffield and Leyland Tractor Club using WordPress. The web master, John, was originally going to use one of the WordPress templates that Pixelwave Web Design offer for sale to set up the site himself.

As John had never built a website before and didn’t know anything about web-design I helped him as best I could with the set, but a database driven website was probably a little too ambitious as a first step so in the end they took the plunge and commissioned me to set it up for them. Again, to keep costs down and to allow John to do as much of it as he could himself I simply installed and configured the scripts and set up the database for them and then after a few tips on using the system left John to customise the template and add his own content. I’ve since done a few little updates for him and helped out where necessary but most of the work is down to John himself and the site is up and running and doing well.

In addition to general help and support I’ve also been working hard on the slickactivewear website which will hopefully launch soon and have been making good progress with the all new website for Cymric Cards…. When Christmas comes around I should be just about ready for a few days off!

Yesterday saw the release of a new online shopping facility for Watch Obsession built by Pixelwave Web Design.

I had previously built a simple brochure style website as a temporary measure for Watch Obsession and over the past few weeks have been working on an eCommerce solution for the business. Now they have a website with fully featured online shopping facilities allowing people to purchase their products online. Behind the scenes is of course an administration centre allowing the business staff to add and update their product catalogue, process orders and generally run the online business.

Watch Obsession themselves sell top of the range watches, straps and accessories for people with an ‘obsession for watches’. I spoke to the owners yesterday and they have already had some feedback about their new website, all of it positive, which is great news for them, great news for me and great news for their customers.

I shall be working on some new additions to the site in the near future and wish them all the best for their online watch shop.

Pixelwave Web Design is pleased to announce the release of a new website for Rhayader Dental Practice.

Click here to view more information on this website in my portfolio, or click here to visit the website of the Rhayader Dental Practice.