Strawberrysoup Blog

As you know, we love our food (Strawberry based recipes especially) and the brief for Kennel Cottage was simple - create a website that looked visually appealing and that would allow the owners to update it themselves.

We chose to use a wordpress blogging backend rather than our own CMS due to the out of the box potential that an OS blog has, and the whole site was built in a few days, from design to live.

The aim of the website is to upload and share recipes - starters, mains, desserts - you name it - the plan is to have many different types of recipe on the site over time. There is the functionality for end users to give feedback on certain recipes as well as bookmark pages via their social bookmarking tools. The owners also wanted to be able to sell cooking related books online, so we used Amazon and an XML widget to feed in their recommended literature! Very clever stuff…

What a way to start 2008! We have just launched our most recent website for Portland based wire guide manufacturer, Eurotubes UK Ltd. Eurotubes UK Ltd is the worlds leading provider of wire guide tubes and engineering solutions for the Coil Winding industry.

We were chosen by Eurotubes as they had seen some similar content managed websites that we had done for recent clients and found that the solution fitted in perfectly.

We designed and created a professional, yet approachable website that showed that Eurotubes is both an exciting and professional business to work with.

Our latest content managed website has just gone live - Rawleigh Property Group is a Chichester based business that specialises in both residential and commercial property development.

Established in 1994, Rawleigh Property Group is now made up of a group of companies specialising in many different sectors in the property industry.

Their new website is aimed at promoting the group and their relevant services to both businesses and individuals who are interested or already work in the property sector. The website is fully content managed allowing Rawleigh Property Group to update the site themselves from anywhere in the world!

When we began Strawberrysoup back in June 2005, we knew we were entering a very competitive market. Web design has reasonably low overheads coupled with the fact that you only need a PC/Mac to start with - so it was perfect for us.

We have spent the last 3 years increasing our exposure on the Internet for Strawberrysoup by using the latest proven search engine optimisation (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) techniques and are now pleased to say that it has worked!

We are getting consistent high search engine rankings for a variety of web design related keywords on Google, Yahoo and MSN - something that we are really proud of due to the level of national and international competition online.

An few examples of our key phases and their results are below (correct at 6th December 2007):

GOOGLE
web design - 123,000,000 other sites - ranked 23rd (google.com)
web design - 10,300,000 other sites - ranked 21st (google.co.uk)
web designers - 7,840,000 other sites - ranked 12th (google.com)
web design bournemouth - 1,400,000 other sites - ranked 16th (google.com)
web design chichester - 272,000 other sites - ranked 1st (google.com)

YAHOO
web design bournemouth - 2,750,000 other sites - ranked 5th (yahoo.com)
web design chichester - 2,120,000 other sites - ranked 6th (yahoo.com)
website design bournemouth - 1,100,000 other sites - ranked 3rd (yahoo.com)
website design chichester - 637,000 other sites - ranked 6th (yahoo.com)

MSN
web design bournemouth - 1,460,000 other sites - ranked 3rd (msn.com)
website design bournemouth - 1,290,000 other sites - ranked 1st (msn.com)
web design chichester - 437,000 other sites - ranked 7th (msn.com)

As you can see from the above, Strawberrysoup seem to be well regarded in the eyes of the most popular search engines, and we hope that this continues to improve - and prove the our own search engine methodology works!

If you would like us to help your business get the search engine rankings that it deserves, why not contact us and we can help you formulate an online strategy?

Have you ever wanted to relax or meditate but didn’t know what to do? We are working with leading meditation website Download Meditations to help end users use their chakra and follow a range of downloadable meditations.

The website is used as an online resource by many people who are interested in meditation, but don’t know what to do or where to find more information. You can download professionally recorded, guided meditations for use as your personal pyschic school.

Winter is renowned for colds and flu and believe it or not, your website is no exception - we are now offering a FREE (yes free) website health check to all website owners who feel that they are being let down by their website.

The website health check aims to point out all the areas that a website is falling behind and is very detailed. It includes the following areas:

1. Accessibility Summary
2. Quality Summary
3. Search Summary
4. Overall Summary

The reports are written in plain English meaning that hopefully anyone can understand them and make changes to their sites in order to get the most out of them. For more information on our free website health check service, why not contact Strawberrysoup directly?

We would like to give a warm welcome to our 2 newest team members - Jaime and Gavin.

Jaime is based in our Chichester office and will be focusing on backend website development and integrating new modules into our CMS. He has great project experience and has worked on a wide range of large web projects.

Gavin is based in Bournemouth and joins us like Jaime as one of our experienced PHP developers. He has worked with large agencies before including agency.com and will be a great asset to our team.

We look forward to working with them both!

You may have noticed that our website has changed slightly - the design is pretty similar, but the site itself, the code it uses and its ease of navigation has improved dramatically.

The site also features new areas including some website testimonials, web design articles and pages specifically for each of our offices. We have now added more recent sites to our portfolio too (which has also been redesigned.) - keep your eyes peeled for new sites that are still to be added as we have been quite busy!

We would like to say very well done to Sarah, Ruth, Lianne and Stef who ran the Race for Life in aid of cancer research on Sunday. The weather couldn’t have been much worse, but this didn’t dampen their spirits for the run which measures at just over 5km.

The girls did fantastically and ran the distance in about 28 minutes and raised over £400 for cancer research - a charity close to our hearts. Over 3000 women attended the run (or walk) for life and the atmosphere was great - well done to everyone that got stuck in!

Yes that’s right - we have teamed up with Coconut Creatives to setup a new marketing website offering SME’s the chance for some very exciting marketing advice.

For a limited period, we are offering potential clients the chance to have a free marketing healthcheck. This healthcheck will consist of a full review of current and future online marketing and offline marketing, plus some handy hints and tips along the way.

For more information on Fruit & Nut Marketing, check out its own website - http://www.fruitandnutmarketing.co.uk.