Website Design Aberystwyth, Wales

Pixelwave Web Design have just finished producing a Welsh version of a local artists website.

Clare Maynard, a landscape and abstract artist for whom Pixelwave Web Design have carried out various website maintenance task recently apporached me asking if I could produce a Welsh version of her website. She popped into my office on Monday with the necessary translations.

In the past, updates to her website took longer than they should as various bits of code that were common to each of her 100+ web-pages were repeated on each page rather than being in a separate file that was shared (via a SSI) adding another 100+ Welsh language pages would have exasperated this situation, so before building the Welsh pages I restructured her website to make future updates less time consuming and therefore less costly.

This restructuring also made the building of the Welsh pages much quicker, so they are already uploaded and live on her website.

Pixelwave Web Design has just started work on setting up a website for a Northampton based Wine Appreciation Group (WAGS).
 
They have been going for 40 years and consist of 12 active members which change annually. They meet on the third Friday of every month at a members house where they taste and rate various wines… And no doubt get a little tipsy!
 
Their new website will be based on a WordPress installation giving them full control of the content of the website. This will allow them to enter the results from their meetings each month and add any photos or images they may wish to publish. Eventually, the site may incorporate a database of the wines they have tasted along with their reviews and scores for each wine.
 
WAGS is non-profit making so their budget for this website is limited. I am therefore keeping things simple to start with.
 
I hope to have a working version of the website up and running by the new year.

I’m currently working on some Search Engine Optimisation and website promotion for Erozone, a Shropshire based adult exotic lingerie and sex toys shop. I shall be making a few minor changes on their website to improve the keyword density based on the results of a keyword analysis and will also be working on generating inbound links from other related but non-competing websites.

I’m also about to start similar work for a local company offering information about and the ability to buy investment properties in Bulgaria.

The modern internet environment is highly competitive and the basics of a well designed website with regularly updated relevant content are often not enough to compete for high search engine rankings within the major search engines. A certain amount of offsite promotion is also needed. This can be achieved in many ways. As part of my work for these clients I shall be explaining these techniques to my clients and encouraging them to do them. I can of course do much of it for them, but my clients know their particular businesses better than I do so I always encourage them to get involved as much as they can. By working together we will increase traffic to their websites and give them a greater understanding of the working os search engines allowing them to optimise any new content they add to their sites.