US web designers template goes global

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on April, 20th 2012

A US web designer was completely shocked and a little out of pocket after he found the Korean Government had used his website template design for their official website.

Robert Westmore, a freelance website designer, creates templates for blog sites and websites. He was over the moon to find that his design had been used on Korea’s official site, which informs users about the country, culture, places to visit and government.

His design was purchased for a measly $15 (£9.30) but he’s rather proud to have his template facing the world, when people want to know more about the incredible eastern area.

Westmore had no idea that his design had been used until a New York student traced the original designer, when working on a project surrounding Korean propaganda. He is excited that his work is being used on such a huge [...]

Pinterest Party

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on April, 2nd 2012

Although the gentlemen in the room might not admit it, the team atJuno Web Design have gone a little Pinterest crazy, why? Because it is the most incredible social site at the moment. Since it’s launch in March 2010, Pinterest has been one of the fastest growing social sites ever and is growing at an astounding rate. Based on visuals and using your own personal “pin boards”, individuals and companies create themed boards around their personal interests, likes, services, clients and general lives. It is a beautiful site to look at and people can literally spend hours looking and re-pinning items to their own boards.

 

Here are some incredible stats about Pinterest:

Pinterest is the new leading traffic referral generator, accounting for 3.6% of referred traffic.

After 2 years, Pinterest has 10.4 Million users which is growing every day.

Over 80% of pins are [...]

Now where did I put that document?

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on February, 10th 2012

Its a common problem in offices throughout the UK, you’ve spent hours working on it, you’ve printed it and presented it, you’ve saved it (somewhere) but now, that very important document has disappeared.

Union Square is a company that specialises in Document Management Software and approached the team at Juno Web Design to request a helping hand. Union Square caters to a range of industries including construction, architecture, consultancy, development and engineering, offering a range of solutions that means misplacing documents is a thing of the past. Their very clever systems, such as Workspace, are completely automated. Workspace creates files and stores complete accounts and projects.

Document management in these particular industries, is key to the smooth execution of a project. From initial ideas and designs, to the signing over of a completed project, important documents need to be [...]

Boom in ‘silver surfer’ e commerce

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on January, 30th 2012

In recent news, Silver Surfers are the biggest group to shop online by a whopping 86%.

Over a third regularly shop on the web. Strangely, those aged 25-34 are least likely to shop online with 13% stating that they never use the Internet to purchase goods. Quite surprising, as this age group tends to be the target for many brands, as they have more disposable income.

Brits tend to shop online for an average of 2.4 hours a week, rather than 1.2 hours on the high street. Despite the increased time spent on the internet, the average spend is a little lower than on the high street. Men seem to be the biggest online spenders. These trends seem to skew the traditional way in which advertisers thought people spent. Traditionally, it would tend to be the females as the decision makers, when it [...]

Taking on a sweet tooth

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on January, 16th 2012

Some of us are incredibly excited in the office, others are worried, because those with a sweet tooth are going to have to remain calm as the team work on our new client- Hancocks.

Hancocks is the UK’s leading wholesaler of confectionery- SWEETS! Hancocks was established back in 1962. Ray Hancock and his wife Liz started wholesaling confectionery from their sweet shop in Shepshed near Loughborough, Leicestershire.  Their aim was to supplier local retailers and profit from purchasing sugary goods in bulk. The business as grown and moved from strength to strength with the introduction of the Internet and selling online. Now with Juno Web Design, we’re taking the next step to make purchasing smoother, optimize the site using product descriptions and SEO.

We plan to tidy things up, re-name pages to [...]

Everything is Straight Forward

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on January, 9th 2012

The team at Juno Web Design have been putting their brains and creative juices to work on a recent project for Macmillan Publishing.

Straightforward is a range of student and teaching supports, which is flexible and simple to understand and follow. The second edition provides updated content which falls in line with the way teaching has changed over the past few years. Straightforward provides interactive word lists with pronunciations and you can opt for bespoke practice straight into your inbox.

Juno Web Design created a resource site for Students and teachers which features the Straightforward range of books and study aides from Macmillan.

Juno chose to use WordPress as the content management system which will allow the client to change any content, upload and manage videos, pictures, PDFs, audio and zip files.

This is a great way to interact with users and provide [...]

Content is king

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on January, 4th 2012

There is a real buzz in the office this week as Juno Copywriting comes to life. We’ve always provided a writing service as part of our Web development and design, but now we have someone taking control of the creative side of the business that provides content and creative ideas.

Juno Copywriting is now an individual in their own right. Still working closely with Juno Web Design and Juno Media providing the complete package to clients, which takes the pressure off trying to find experts to write professional copy, but also providing content and written services to companies that may not require any web development.

The range of written services is vast and includes SEO, Web Content, Blogs, Articles, Radio Copywriting, Copywriting, PR and other content.

It may be the case that you love the look of your site but [...]

Seo Education 101 Part 7 – The Importance of Anchor Text

Posted by David Wiltshire on July, 20th 2010

Whenever you create a link to one of the pages on your website, whether it be from another page on your site, or somewhere else across the internet, you will have the opportunity to use optimized anchor text.

When a search engine spider comes across a link, they depend on the link’s anchor text to tell them what the linked page is about. Using the keywords that you want to rank for in your anchor text is extremely important!

Here is an example of anchor text:

To gain more backlinks be sure to check out my website….

The anchor text used in the example above was “backlinks”.

To learn more about anchor text, I suggest reviewing the Video.

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WordPress SEO Advantages

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on July, 2nd 2010

Juno have recently made it their policy that any site they build or manage from July 2010 onwards must contain a WordPress or Joomla blog.

WordPress is our favourite blogging software as it’s so easy to use, flexible in it’s design, has lots of great plugins and is perfect for SEO.

Anyone can add content (by posting) or edit pages of their website once WordPress has been set up correctly; Juno gives their clients the opportunity to run their own website themselves.  Some web design companies charge extortionate rates for small changes to a site such as updating a menu or a adding in a special offer.

When you create a new post on WordPress Juno ensure that these things occur:

A new page is created which Google can index
The search engines are ‘pinged’ about the new post so [...]

The Advantages of SEO

Posted by David Wiltshire on January, 19th 2009

Before we go any further, I would like to talk a bit about the many advantages of SEO, and why you absolutely need to be applying it to your web design.

Advantages of SEO

TRAFFIC!
Makes your website more friendly and more likeable
Most people don’t do it!
It will increase your profits

As you can see, there are several reasons why you should be doing SEO. To hear me talk a bit more about each of these reasons, be sure to check out the Video.

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