Chichester Design

Web design and development is our speciality, but we also offer a wide range of complementary services. However, finding the space and time to explain what the likes of web hosting, digital marketing, Google AdWords and social media optimisation are isn’t always easy.

So, that’s why I’ve created the Chichester Design What We Do series. Using our blog, I’m going to describe these services in a bit more detail so that you will be able to better understand how they can benefit your business. First up is social media optimisation.

Social media is no…

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So, it’s here: Microsoft’s Web-based Office programme, aka Office Web Apps, launched this month as part of the brand new Microsoft Office 2010.

Here at the Chichester Design office, we’ve been fed news, views, limited trials and all sorts for what seems like an eternity, so its arrival hasn’t been of the rabbit-out-of-a-magician’s-hat variety, but it’s still really interesting to finally see it in the flesh, so to speak.

And its arrival is important for the company, make no mistake about it. Office Web Apps is a response to Google Docs, a free online word…

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A brand new shell? Well, a brand new website – check it out here. Snappy Crab is a local company that provides embroidered promotional and personalised clothing, and the managing director, Anne Pinder, came to us wanting to overhaul its website and boost its search engine rankings.

One of Anne’s major requirements was being able to easily update the website with images and details of new clothing products as and when she liked. So, a content management system (CMS)-based website was the obvious choice for her.

She also wanted visitors to the new website to be…

Tags: Chichester Design, CMS website, e-commerce, search engine rankings, Snappy Crab, web design |

Social media springs to mind again as I was able to avoid being stuck at Chichester train station and late for a meeting in London this week thanks to a very timely Tweet from a business contact.

Of course, the information you can get from Twitter goes way beyond train schedules – the latest industry news, discussions on practices and projects, information on related industries and topics – it’s a long list.

Clearly, in my opinion at least, social media is fast becoming an essential tool for businesses, whatever their size. So, with this mind and with a…

Tags: business social media, Chichester Design, LinkedIn, social media copywriting, Social Media Optimisation, Twitter |

I’ve just been planning a weekend away in Yorkshire for a family wedding and I’ve been really surprised at the poor standard of websites for the kind of places I want to stay at (a low-key, yet comfortable and modern, stylish if at all possible, guest house or B&B).

Most of the websites I’ve looked at have put me off right away: poor information, hard to navigate, low-quality pictures and a generally uninspiring feel. All of which says to me: don’t stay here!

What makes this particularly surprising (and irritating) is that these are the type of business for whom…

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