PHP Developer Job – Nottingham
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on June, 7th 2011
We are currently looking for a new PHP developer from the Nottingham area to join the expanding, multi-skilled team here at Juno Media.
Juno are at the forefront of Magento ecommerce development in the UK and we work with an impressive list of clients. With our focus on quality, branding and search engine position, our web development team are constantly challenged and are encouraged to learn new skills for further growth.
We operate in a friendly and confident manner dealing with medium to large clients around the UK. Our websites are developed and designed incognito with Juno’s SEO, PR, copywriting and marketing teams, you will experience all aspects of selling online.
The ideal candidate for this PHP developer job will have mid to high-range PHP skills with at least 2 years experience. Magento and WordPress skills are preferable but not ... (Read more)
Read moreDecorating Supermarket Design Concept
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on May, 26th 2011First concepts for the Decorating Supermarket are out there. The new web design is to look robust with strong product display… as you would expect from a supermarket.
Read moreNew Design for Godine Booking Service
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on May, 23rd 2011Godine is a really personal project for us as we have been heavily involved from conception as well as enjoying a long history of friendship with the company. Long have we been discussing a new web design with the team at Godine and recently we have got the go ahead. In honesty the old design is a few years out of date and in some ways has a little too much of the look and feel of the ‘clowns pocket’.
As such we are introducing some new current styles with a lot of thought towards a more on brand look and feel, with a heavy lean towards conversion. We have removed the weight of colour in the site to restructure the heirarchy of information and call to action with a view to increasing business revenue.
Alongside this we have undertaken a wholesale search and internet marketing ... (Read more)
Read moreWeb Design in Nottingham
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on May, 20th 2011
Based in Nottingham, Juno Web Design are proud to be be working alongside many local businesses in the Nottinghamshire area. We focus on mainly eCommerce websites and brochure websites for services and organisations.
Our Web Design Nottingham team have now created over 300 websites; each team member has the skill and experience required to solve unique problems quickly and never shy away from any new challenges.
Juno’s websites are not the cheapest in Nottingham, but they are extremely good value for money when you consider how a cheap website can hold your business back.
We know that slow development times are the most frustrating issue for a client waiting for a new website. The Juno team is split into different groups that can simultaneously build different sections of a new website in parallel; this vastly reduces the development ... (Read more)
Read moreSummer Range and New Targets for Graham and Green
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on May, 10th 2011With the launch of Graham and Green now over a month ago the site is gaining momentum. The big push at the moment is for the new summer range which features stunning shabby chic products for the home. Hot property this season for Graham and Green are the Mirrored Furniture, French Furniture and Bone Inlay ranges… iconic building blocks of the contemporary modern home.
With new graphic banners for the summer ranges the products are now available to buy at the online store.
Summer Furniture
Graham and green are internationally known for presenting the most desirable designer furniture, home accessories, indian inspired furniture and wedding gifts.
We built the graham and Green site ... (Read more)
Read moreSearch Bar Optimisation
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on April, 15th 2011
Many ecommerce websites, either large or small, perform better with a search bar to find specific products. They are a feature that’s installed once and then usually forgotten about completely, let’s look at ways to optimise your search bar to improve conversion rates:
Make the search bar easy to find – If you want your ecommerce website to be accessible to the biggest market possible then you have to make it almost ‘idiot-proof’. Place it right at the top of your website, most people look for search bars in the top-right or top-left corner. The search bar needs a tag next to it saying something simple like “Search: “, “Search Products: ” or “Find Products: “, an empty field will get less uses. Also have a “Go” or “Search Now” button directly right of the search box to perform the actual ... (Read more)
Read moreThings that annoy website users (and quickly lose valuable traffic)
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on April, 6th 2011There are many seemingly ‘cool’ things that you can do to a website which instantly annoy any users. Below are some annoying web design choices that can scare away your valuable traffic:
Auto-Playing Videos or Music
You can play a video or music file as soon as a visitors enters a webpage and buffers the media file enough. Some sales websites will quickly show you a video of their main product perhaps or a pop up person walking along the bottom of the website. Personal or ‘arty’ websites may force their favorite piece of music upon the hapless website browser or have some relaxing background music which repeats forever.
There are many situations when people DON’T want a video or music file automatically playing, a few examples are below:
- They have their speakers on maximum volume after watching a DVD
- They have opened 10+ tabs on their browser at once ... (Read more)
Using Stock Photography in Web Design
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on March, 29th 2011
Stock photography can either be used very well or very badly when it comes to graphically designing a website, so what should you look out for?
How many times have you seen clean-cut, generic, world-friendly images (like the one on the right) appear on websites, magazines and brochures? These common photo stock images usually have an underlying message within the image with a cheesy title such as “man frustrated with laptop”, “woman smiling on a beach” or “corporate business handshake”.
The more specific the stock photo title is, the more likely it will get found using specific searches on websites such as iStockPhoto and DreamsTime. A funny example of ultra-specific stock photography is the “woman laughing alone with salad” list at TheHairPin.com, check it out!
The problem with stock photography is that most images and models have been used ... (Read more)
Read moreGoogle Web Fonts
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on March, 21st 2011
Good news… upcoming ‘Web Fonts’ from Google mean that websites in the future are going to look much, much more interesting and still adhere to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) friendly standards!
CSS design in the past has been hampered by the lack of font support on older computers. Using a “Helvetica” H1 tag for example may show up perfectly well on web designer’s iMac (with lots of fonts installed) but not on an average 6 year old PC with a limit set of default system fonts.
Converting a HTML heading into an image means that search engine spiders cannot read the text within the tag, also the heading cannot be converted into a traditional hover-over link. Turning a whole website into a set of images to keep a certain font has several major disadvantages towards SEO and can hide entire ... (Read more)
Read moreSocial Shopping
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on March, 14th 2011
Here at Juno Media we believe that ecommerce sites shouldn’t have separate work on brand design, web development, marketing and SEO. From the initial concept to the final design, all these aspects of ecommerce need to be considered at the same time and work together in harmony for maximum results.
Social media is now playing a bigger and bigger role in online promotion, there are literally millions of people using social sites such as Twitter and Facebook everyday in the UK alone for example. With social media apps running smoothly on smart-phones and tablets, people can now interact with each other on the move and at any time during the day; social media is definitely here to stay and continue growing for many years.
Usually social media was an after-thought for ecommerce websites, something you would ‘bolt-on’ to the side ... (Read more)
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