Archive for 2009

New company website coming soon…

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Thats right! We are in the middle of revamping our company website into a general site covering all of our services, along with several other targetted sites(this being the first) that define each of our services, and keep you up to date across the board. These will fall into 3 main categories:

Apologies for the delay in posting, have been very busy on completing our clients projects. Will try and keep you all updated as much as we can!

Watch this space!

Getting more for your money…

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Today I will be going through the financial advantages of reviewing your company advertising/marketing budget, large or small, and to make it clear where online marketing comes into play.

When it comes to advertising in any form of the word, both online and offline, companies have to make sure they are making the most of every single last penny they are spending. Large or small you have to make sure your getting maximum return on investment.
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Design vs. Content: Getting the right balance Part 1

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Over the coming weeks we will be writing a series of articles looking at the importance of maintaining a good design/content ratio on your new or exisiting website. Web designers often face the challenge of having to tone down a potential clients vision on how the new website will look, in order to achieve the results expected in the search engines. 9 times out of 10, nearly any look or functionality is achievable, but has to done in the right way to avoid increasing load times, using non standard code, or keeping the focus on good web copy.

A good example of this is when a client wants to use Flash within their website, as content on a flash website has to be scripted in the right way to be indexable by the search engines, and is normally best avoided if targetting a national audience in your SEO campaign.

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A blog a day makes Google pay…

Monday, July 27th, 2009

As you can see in the Wales Web Design blog, we are trying to keep up with one blog a day.

Writing a blog every single day may sound like a dificult task, but in reality it’s not and the benefits far exceed the value of the time taken to write and post it.

When a client elects to write and maintain their own blogs as part of their Search Engine Optimisation campaign, rather than us doing it for them, we often get asked the same question:

What should I write about in my blog?

Drumroll please…

The answer….

is…

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3rd day in and Google loves us!

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

After having Walesdesign.com live for only 3 days(our new domain, check Brainstorm Media for our main company site), we are already first page for the keyword “Wales Design”. This is an incredible result, as this is a highly competitive search phrase.

Moving forwards we are now aiming at more targetted, easier to obtain phrases that will really help people just like you like North Wales Web Design“, find the best on the web(Brainstorm Media if you couldn’t tell!).

We have several successes for our web design and search engine optimisation clients this week, as we see Italian World in Conwy, and Folkestone Printing’s traffic on the rise. With Hallmark Limos in Llangefni, Anglesey, continuing to recieve the lions share of the traffic for “[Local Term] Limo”, we are continuing to prove who you should be spending your money with online.

Check back for ongoing news in the web design world!

10 things you should be asking your web designer

Friday, July 24th, 2009

We often wonder why we don’t get asked these web design related questions more often, and feel there would be far less problems online if they were asked as standard!

When investing your hard earned cash into your new website, you should feel 100% secure that you have chosen the right web developement company.

These are a selection of what you should know before you spend your dough!

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North Wales Web Design 1st Blog

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Welcome to Brainstorm Media’s new blog.

First I’d like to give you a quick run down on who we are and what we do.

We are a company based in the Gwynedd area, serving North Wales and the UK. My name is Katrina and I will be doing a blog once or twice a week to keep you informed of what we are up to and what’s going on in the world of the internet. We specialise in web design, graphic design, web development, and branding and search engine optimisation.

We have several projects being developed at the moment. Kevin our web design and graphic master has been working on developing a social networking script, so we can offer targetted community driven websites to our clients, the first on the list will be RockerFile! A social networking site for the headbangers of the world, to share music, guitar tab, and videos, and check out the latest news on their favourite bands! It’s certainly starting to look the part as well, and includes some great features like integration with Facebook, and photo tagging! He is developing a site for The Owl Box, and Casa Las Brisas, both of which are run on custom designed content management systems(CMS).

Dave our search engine optimisation (SEO) specialist is working on Italian World and Folkestone Printing, ensuring that they stay in the higher ranks of google. He also created a bespoke module for Folkestone Printing allowing their customers to upload their artwork for each product before purchase on their ecommerce website.

Next blog will be a list of do’s and dont’s when approaching a web design company for a quote, with things to look out for!