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Michael — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:26:54 +0000

The Virtual Arts Academy

Michael — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:04:55 +0000

Castle Croft Kennels

Michael — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:29:46 +0000

Dungarees Online

Michael — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:02:26 +0000

This is a business run by Paul and Claire over at TheBigMuscle, they’ve been running for a good few years now and after competing a few projects together they decided to let me loose on their eCommerce site which until now was running from static HTML they were having to update by hand every time a sale was made!So, in I step, the concept design was done via a graphic artist they know and work closely with, I tweaked it to suit my new best friend Magento. Using Magento allowed us to do all sorts of detailed work with the site without managing lots of different areas, one such area is the advanced multi-store features Magento offers. Essentially we are running each of their sites (at time of writing UK, Ireland, France and Germany to follow in a few days time) through the one installation, using the same product catalogue, the same payment gateways and the same delivery options (where we want to of course) to ensure minimum content reproduction. Using Magento we can give a single product several different names depending on the store you are visiting – the obvious use here is for language changes.

Frankly I could talk all day about the many different areas covered on this project, the short run down is a feature rich Magento installation, some heavy on-site search engine optimisation including country specific domains and full re-working of their Google Adwords campaign. We’re not leaving any stone unturned on this one so expect a Wordpress blog accompanying Magento in the new year.

As ever with the eCommerce sites, be careful you’re on a live store here…

http://uk.dungarees-online.com

http://ie.dungarees-online.com

http://fr.salopettes-online.com

Janice Walton

Michael — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:29:00 +0000

Bowser Supply

Michael — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:31:56 +0000

UrbanSoul Design

Michael — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:38:28 +0000

JH Trousseau

Michael — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:28:20 +0000

No More Graffiti

Michael — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:45:29 +0000

I’ve started working with a great couple in Altricham via their business TheBigMuscle. My part in this project didn’t quite go through them but they put us both in touch with each other. The brief was simple, do as good a job with on-page SEO as I can with what we had to work with.

There were a few problems, mainly the hosting is via BT Internet and doesn’t allow for the normal domain hosting we’re all used to, so other than the homepage links were masked with the horrible BT domain, not great for search engine optimisation, but hey we managed.

The main aim was to try to cover some of the local areas for the main Graffiti removal terms that Google users search for. Whilst the terms didn’t seem overly compeitive I’m quite happy with the results given the small amount of work done, here are a couple of examples for the more competitive of the terms featuring our home city Manchester…

graffiti removal manchester

graffiti removal services manchester

anti graffiti paint manchester

As of writing we’re sat around the top couple of entrys for these terms so it’s pretty much happy days. Check out the full NoMoreGraffiti website below.

http://www.nomoregraffiti.biz

Walk Right Podiatry

Michael — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:48:32 +0000

Walk Right Podiatry is one of my first and best clients (I have to say that because it’s my fiance’s business!). This is the second incarnation of the website and forms part of the recent re-branding we performed on the business, focusing on private practice quality. For me it forms part of the leap in design standards I’ve started to achieve to compliment the high standard of code.

Underneath the site is based on Wordpress for the first time, as the initial website was using Website Baker and the transition to Wordpress has been flawless. Design wise we needed to portray the high standard of her clinic and generally bring the website (and hence business) up to date, whilst the site is accessible and taken the older visitor into account it is very much positioned towards younger affluent audiences looking for high quality private podiatry. I’m particuarly happy with the Services page which has benefited from some attention to detail in terms of typography and content layout.

As of writing the site isn’t 100% complete, there’s some extensive search engine optimisation work to perform over the next couple of weeks including a re-write of all the content, a custom appointment form to be dropped in featuring jQuery validation and submission and the blog side of the template to finish where I’m going to force her to reap the benefits of social media marketing.

http://www.walk-right.co.uk