A new voucher site for Swinton

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on December, 3rd 2010

We are currently in the process of designing a new voucher site for Swinton. Work is in progress for the website design, below is a preview.

Swinton Voucher Site

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UMF Bikes – Brand Homepage Design

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on December, 2nd 2010

We are currently designing and developing a new site for UMF Bikes. UMF are a division of Merrida and at the forefront of BMX and MTB (Mountain Bike) technology. We are working to find a balance between a brand design and a high converting and functional ecommerce website.

Heres the latest Website Design

UMF Bikes | Website Design

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aiCache Website Launch

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on December, 1st 2010

We have been brewing up a great new website design for aiCache for a few months now and are relly proud to launch it today. Aicache specialise in Web Application Acceleration and support massive companies like Amazon with their innovative and leading edge Cache application.

We are particularly interested in exploring an ongoing partnership working with the aiCache application for our high traffic volume Magento client sites. Faster sites = better conversion.

Here is a preview of the newly launched site

aiCache web design

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Graham and Green – new website design

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on November, 23rd 2010

We are really proud to be working with the beautiful interior and furniture Brand Graham and Green. Graham and Green have an established and much loved London retail brand with a distinctive visual, that requires to be handled with care. The objective for the project is to establish the website as best in class in terms of Brand, design, architecture and performance in order to increase sales. We are applying a progressive strategy for the retailer and are aiming to make a positive difference to the business and a huge impression on the industry.

We are working in conjunction with the brand team at Graham and Green to provide a website design that compliments the existing brand direction and marketing material. We will be optimising the conversion rate of the site ongoing, but instead of radically changing a working brand we will be introducing [...]

Image Optimisation Tutorial

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on November, 22nd 2010

Are you using the right file type for your website’s images or banners?

You could produce an amazing looking website only to be let down at the last hurdle when saving your image for use.

JPG 100% Quality
29KBJPG 50% Quality
8KBJPG 0% Quality
3KB

There are three types of image optimisation crimes, under-optimisation, over-optimisation and GIF Banner Pixilisation…
Under Optimisation
Each image on a website takes a certain amount of time to download. The longer a website takes to download the more visitors getting frustrated and leaving before it loads up.

Try clearing all caches and view your website from afresh, if your website takes over 3 seconds to appear then you’ve lost a percentage of impatient web surfers from the very start!

The main culprit [...]

Mammoth Supplements – Protein Supplements Suppliers

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on November, 17th 2010

Juno are proud to present the new website MammothSupplements.co.uk, a whole ecommerce website dedicated to performance enhancing supplements for fitness and bodybuilding.

Mammoth will be selling a range of bodybuilding supplements, including protein supplements and testosterone boosters. The site stems from the highly successful brand Trec Nutrition which sells it’s own brand of nutritional supplements.

Again the e-commerce platform Magento has been used to build the Mammoth store and a WordPress blog has been incorporated into the site to booster on-site SEO.  Having both a Polish and a British version of the site proved a challenge but lessons learned from other multi-language Magento sites have been a sigh of relief for the developers.

Whilst on-site SEO tweaks are still being performed on the site Juno are ensuring that the site’s categories match popular search key-phrases. The site’s Meta information is set to [...]

Web Design and the History of Mankind

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on November, 10th 2010

Despite thousands of years of evolution and great advances in technology Humans haven’t changed that much when it comes to basic instincts.

Things that influenced Human behavior 10,000 years ago still influence us now and evidence of this can be found in modern web design…
Contrast of Colours
Contrasting colours helped historic mankind to pick out fruit, spot raw meat and avoid mouldy parts of perishable food.  The difference in colour stands out and draws your attention, without these distinctions they would be a lot of upset stomachs for our ancient ancestors!  Also Humans historically have always had a fascination with shiny objects such as Gold and Mirrors, they stand out from everything else so they must be special.

Websites nowadays also benefit from contrasting colours; if you really want someone to click on a button then design it with a contrasting colour like orange on a dark blue [...]

Back Working with an old IT friend

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on November, 3rd 2010

At the very beginning of our Search engine experience 4 years ago we worked with our friends Littlefish to position them number one for the search IT Support . We will After our work Littlefish experience great business growth and remained at the number one spot for several years and developed content and search position inhouse. Over the last few months it seems the search market is getting more competitive for the core search so we have been re – enlisted to work alongside them for strategy, search and general marketing. We are targeting a few core phrases to start off with and looking to promote the IT Managed Services department of the business. We will also be looking to adapt and develop the website design , architecture, and technology to not only gain greater traffic but to [...]

Huggle Buddies by Pitch TV – Pillow Buddy

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on October, 8th 2010

Huggle Buddies are a new product for kids on sale only at Pitch.tv the Television Channel. Huggle Buddies are a craze sweeping the nation, and the concept is that the cute pets double as a comfortable pillow. Each Huggle Buddy character has it own unique personality and design and are proving very popular with youngsters across the nation.

To view or buy from the Pitch.TV Genuine Huggle Buddy range click here –> Huggle Buddies

We are working with Pitch to help promote their Huggle buddy range through the search engines and offline marketing Channels. The Website is a great experience for us as we see the volume of online sales generated through successful Television Advertising. We are developing the website to deliver increased sales through search and channel selling across platforms.

Pitch sell Huggle Buddies amongst [...]

Inside Out – Educational Resources Website Design

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on October, 4th 2010

We are proud to launch another website design in a series of educational resources sites we are building for Macmillan Publishers. Inside out is a comprehensive and well established course for adult English Learners.  The site is rich in resources, elessons, downloadable resources and archived information. For this project we have developed a really great WordPress plug-in for video content delivery.

The New Design

Inside Out | New Design

To view the live web design for inside out click here –> English Learners

New Video Functionality

Inside Out | Video Feature

To see the new functionality and check out the new [...]