Website Design Aberystwyth, Wales

Pixelwave Web Design has just started work on a brand new website for a local Farm and Caravan Park. Based in Mid Wales, just half a mile from the world famous Devil’s Bridge waterfalls in the picturesque Cambrian Mountains, the small, family-run park and camping site is ideally located for exploring the Pumlumon area and the Cardiganshire coast.  The area is ideal for mountain biking, walking and bird-watching with the beach only 20mins away – the famous red kite can often be spotted in the woods at the bottom of the park too!

Their new website will be a promotional tool for the Caravan Park. In addition to providing information on the facilities available at it will also highlight places to visit and activities to do in the area and of course provide important contact information. The site will also contain a “news and events” section that will be updated regularly and a guestbook for visitors to sign. The website will be based around an easy-to-use Content Management System allowing the park owners to update the site and the news and events whenever they wish.

An overall look has already been agreed upon and I have just started work on producing the website itself so it should be live later this summer.

With summer here and the longer days it seems as though there has been a flurry of activity and everyone wants their websites updated all of a sudden. Great news for me of course, as it means business is booming, but I would like to get out and enjoy the summer now and then too!

I’m working on a couple of brand new websites and have a couple more in the pipeline. I’ve been working on various functional updates for Babyfeet, along with the usual daily updates for Fairiesworld and Fantasy Artists. Pantyfod Garden website has had a few minor tweaks and I’ve also been doing lots of work on my personal weblog ‘A Simple Life of Luxury‘ and have been adding social media features to Forces-of-Nature.

I’ve been playing around embedding Twitter comments into some sites and providing people with the ability to post ‘tweets’ on each article if they wish. I’ve also been adding ‘share this’ features for a whole host of social media and social bookmarking services. Much of this has been done in an experimental way to see just how much extra traffic it can generate. Some of the results are amazing and not only does it bring in extra traffic, but if done correctly can bring in quality traffic from visitors who actually want to read the content on your site. It is all about getting the word out there and putting your content in places where people can see it.

If you haven’t explored the marketing opportunities provided by social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook, then now is the time to do so. With a little bit of effort you can get your message out to a huge group of people, many of whom will be potential customers. Not only can it be useful rom a marketing perspective, but it is good fun and you will probably make some new friends in the process.

If you would like help or advice on such topics then Pixelwave Web Design can help wth all your social media marketing needs. I can provide one to one advice and tuition to help you get your head around all of these new technologies and services. I can provide information on the best techniques to employ and the ettiquette expected at such sites, and I can implement various features to help connect your website to social media services so that you and your sites visitors can take advantage of all they have to offer. Contact me now to see how these social media technologies can help your business.

Pixelwave Web Design has recently started work on a new eCommerce website for a Wales based, responsible, clothing, home and garden company.

The company already had a website that had been built by another developer but was built using proprietary software and they hadn’t been receiving the support they had hoped for. In addition, the site had various usability issues and users were finding it difficult to achieve tasks on the site.

Initially Pixelwave Web Design was asked to move the site to a new server and work some magic on it to improve usability, but the proprietary nature of the software meant that this wasn’t an option due to the licensing agreements. The only option was to build a new website from scratch, this time using software that is freely and widely available and that any web developer will be able to work with.

The new eCommerce system will also allow us to address the usability issues and at the same time streamline some processes and therefore save some money on operating costs for the company.

If all goes to plan the new site should be launched sometime in July