Website Design Aberystwyth, Wales

Pixelwave Web Design is just about to start work on a project for a new client based in West Wales.

The business offers specialist “journeys of a lifetime discovering the beauty and mystery of ancient sacred sites of the Celtic lands!”.

They already have a website but it has been updated and edited by themselves over the past few years and lots of errors have crept into it. The markup and coding behind the website is also very old-fashioned, not well optimised for search engines and not very accessible. The site itself also has some inconsistencies from page to page and is having display issues on some modern browsers.

Pixelwave Web Design is going to rebuild the site from scratch using modern markup so that it conforms to modern standards and accessibility recommendations. Most of the content and the overall feel of the site will be maintained but the new site should be easier to use, consistent from page to page and easier to update.

I’ll post the results here once it is ready.

Pixelwave Web Design is pleased to announce the release of a brand new website for Vertigo Clinic Wales.

Vertigo Clinic Wales is a comprehensive multi-specialty medical service in mid Wales. It offers dizziness clinics, ear nose and throat emergencies, sports and exercise medicine and rehabilitation and medical legal reporting.
Designed and built by Pixelwave Web Design the website introduces the clinic and the services it offers. It also provides lots of background information on dizziness and sports related injuries.

Pixelwave Web Design was involved in the website planning and implementation from the start. I offered consultation on the information architecture and copy-writing for the website and worked in close collaboration with Vertigo Clinic Wales during the planning stages. The website is an easy to use, accessible, search engine friendly brochure style website. Although there is no complex functionality, it was still important to get the balance between information and promotion right so as to build a website that was useful to its visitors.

I’m pleased with results, as is Vertigo Clinic Wales.

Website Design for Vertigo Clinic Wales

It may be a while off yet, but now is the time to start thinking about getting your website ready for Christmas. For those of you who want to get really festive then a Chistmas Website Template may be just what you need. We have lots to offer and can customise your existing website for the Xmas period.

Adding some Christmas cheer to your website not only puts people in a festive mood, but it shows that you care about your website and therefore care about your customers.

If going completely ‘Christmassy’ with your website is a little too much for you, then maybe just putting up the odd stocking will do. In which case a Christmas Iconset may be just the ticket.

As a freelance website designer I much prefer it if I can meet my clients face-to-face, which can mean quite a bit of travelling. Today I’m driving south to meet a potential client, hopefully the meeting will go well and I’ll soon be working on a new project, but if for some reason we aren’t a ‘good fit’ then it will have been a wasted journey. There isn’t much I can do about this; living miles from anywhere means there aren’t many clients locally so I have to travel – or force them to travel – in order to meet face-to-face.

It isn’t completely necessary to meet face-to-face and I have worked on projects, even large projects, for people I have never met, but if at all possible I like to meet my clients in person.

There are a number of reasons for this. First, a face-to-face meeting is so much more productive than numerous e-mails being sent back and forth. A meeting, even a short one allows me to cover so much more and get a real feeling for the project and the people involved. I really enjoy building websites that my clients love, and getting to know my clients and the intended audience of their website is the first step to achieving this. They can tell me what their requirements and what they want their website to achieve and I can offer various solutions and show them examples. Often my face-to- face conversations with clients go off on tangents and we end up talking about other things of interest outside of work and the web, but it is these insights into the people that really make the difference and allows me to offer a personal service.

Just as important though is the fact that it gives my clients chance to get to know me. Hopefully they find someone that they can easily communicate with and want to have working on their website. I aim to offer a professional service and pride my self on my friendly, helpful nature. However, I may not be for everyone. I’m a freelancer working on my own, not a big expensive agency, so there are times that I can’t offer the services some larger corporate businesses may want. It is much easier to judge these things for both me and my clients at a face-to-face meeting.

Meeting and developing a relationship with my clients is important for me and for them. It makes the whole process of building and maintaining a website so much more enjoyable.

Meeting face-to-face also gives me a chance to have a chat over a coffee and make friends. When you live in the middle of nowhere this is always something to look forward to, although it isn’t always a good thing as it is difficult to charge full-price to friends!

If you’ve come here looking for the photos taken by Pixelwave Design at the recent Aberystwyth Twin Peaks multi terrain race race, please click here:

Aberystwyth Twin Peaks 2009 Photos ».

Pixelwave Web Design is currently working on a new promotional website for a clinic in Wales.

Vertigo Clinic Wales is a private practice run by a local doctor. The practice offers special clinics including dizziness clinic, ear nose and throat emergencies, sports and exercise medicine and rehabilitation and medical legal reporting.

The website is a simple, brochure style website that introduces the clinics and provides contact information.

Vertigo Clinic Website Comp

If you’ve come here looking for the photos taken by Pixelwave Design at the recent Forest of Dean Enduro MTB race, please click here:

Forest of Dean Enduro 2009 Photos ».

The nights are drawing in, autumn is on its way and it will soon be time for the ghosts and ghouls to emerge.

If you want to give your website visitors a scare you may be interested in one of our Halloween Website Templates.



Get in there early and get your website or weblog ready for Halloween, your visitors will love it.

If you’ve come here looking for the photos taken by Pixelwave Design at the recent Lake Vyrnwy Half Marathon, please click here:

Lake Vyrnwy Half Marathon Photos ».

Pixelwave Web Design is pleased to announce the launch of a new eCommerce website for Essential Tea.

The company approached me earlier this year with a website that they already had but wanted to move it away from their current web developer. They also wanted various improvements made to the interface of the website. Unfortunately the system they were using was a proprietary one so no one else could use it or work on it. The only option was to build a completely new eCommerce solution based on open source software which provided more flexibility and meant that Essential Tea weren’t tied to one particular web developer.

Obviously they wanted to keep the look and feel of the site as close as possible to the original in order to maintain their company identity and branding. I’ve managed to do that whilst also improving on the usability of the site so that it is easier for visitors to find their way around and complete tasks on the site.

The new website selling essential accessories and ethical fashion products is now live and ready for all to see.