01225 436109
01225 436109Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Just a little notice for our swiftpage clients. Their servers will be down on the following times for maintenance. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Pacific (Los Angeles) Sat January 7 9:00AM – 1:00PM
Mountain (Denver) Sat January 7 10:00AM – 2:00PM
Central (Chicago) Sat January 7 11:00AM – 3:70PM
Eastern (New York) Sat January 7 12:00PM – 4:00PM
London Sat January 7 5:00PM – 9:00PM
Western Australia (Perth) Sun January 8 12:00AM – 4:00AM
Northern Territory (Darwin) Sun January 8 1:30AM – 5:30PM
New South Wales (Sydney) Sun January 8 2:00AM – 6:00AM
If you need any help at all with Swiftpage, from your template creation to mailing out and best practice give the Godjira team a call on 01225 436109.
Monday, October 31st, 2011
For our course on the 14th November only. Find out details here
WordPress is used by over 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites.
As they say on their site “WordPress is limited only by your imagination”.
This course will enable you to build a basic WordPress site in a day. From adding pages and images to customizing widgets.
Monday, September 26th, 2011
In today’s busy world many small businesses and sole traders turn to on-line/e-learning or distance training. So why would you choose Classroom training?
E-learning allows you to proceed through a course at your leisure, when it is convenient to you, with the support of tutors, which sounds perfect if you are a small business or sole trader with no lost time away from your business.
Classroom training means taking time out of the business to learn something new. If you have already chosen to undertake further development you will consider the course, the cost financially, the cost in time and the benefits to you and your business.
Classroom training and distance learning are not better than each other and everybody will make their own choice. We believe Classroom training is more beneficial for a number of reasons.
Classroom training takes you away from your place of work to enable you to:
In fact many people learn better in an environment with other people, it allows for discussion and interaction that cannot be achieved with on-line or e-learning. Trainers provide immediate clarification to your questions and you are free to explore other areas of interest in the subject matter with the full support of an expert who is not just on tap, but actually there in the room with you. Distance Learning tutors may not be available at the times you have a question and this may halt your progress through your chosen course.
In a team or workplace environment classroom training is a great morale booster, trainees can also get support from others on the course and not feel isolated, referring back to what they have learnt together in the future.
Often Classroom training courses can be covered in a shorter period of time which will allow the newly learnt skills/information to be put in to good practice sooner. You get a faster turn around on your investment.
We think scheduled classroom training is a really great way to learn. These are some of the reasons Godjira offer scheduled classroom training for their WordPress, Twitter and Social media courses. We also offer e-learning for some of the other things we do like, MailChimp, Swiftpage, ZenCart, OpenCart and using tools like Dreamweaver to update websites.
To find out more about our scheduled classroom training give us a call or browse our events calendar here
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Godjira are delighted to be able to announce that they have teamed up with two other local marketing and design companies to offer businesses a FREE online marketing review.
The FREE no obligation review looks at the current marketing activities of the business and helps in finding out what’s working, what’s not and what to do about it.
John Dickens from Godjira says:
we’ve been looking at the idea of joining forces with a couple of other businesses to present a joint marketing strategy for a while now.
It’s taken some time to come to fruition, but we believe we have found the right people and freemarketingreview.co.uk is just the first part of it.
By combining our resources we are able to offer local businesses the full breadth of design and online and traditional marketing advice and services.
For your FREE marketing review visit www.freemarketingreview.co.uk
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
After a few experiments* with things like Joomla, Drupal and a couple of other Content Management systems, we have pretty much standardised all our managed content websites on the WordPress platform.
* we call this the Dark Ages, about 5 years ago!
The question is why? Why is WordPress so good?Well there are a number of great reasons to use WordPress.
Firstly it’s FREE and Open Source and in constant development. This is really important. The World Wide Web is still a bit like the Wild Wild West out there and you need to make sure whatever software you are using is being properly maintained and protected.
Secondly it is immensely powerful. You can do pretty much anything with it from a simple blog site to a classified advert site with all points in-between. We’ve built shops, directories, and all sorts using WordPress plug-ins. WordPress scales up really well too, sites like Mashable are built on WordPress and we’ve used Amazon Cloudfront to speed sites up by delivering static content from the cloud.
WordPress lends itself to modern designs really well too, some of the premium themes are actually really good indeed too. If you take a look at some of the best design sites out there then about 40% of them are actually being built on WordPress. We can design sites for WordPress and be completely relaxed about being able to do the technical build of the website. (It helps that we are really good at it too).
WordPress can be a cost effective way of getting your own site built. Our £50 blog hosting package gives you a choice of the hundreds of standard themes that come with WordPress. For a few dollars more, you can choose a premium theme and get lots more functionality built in to your site. In fact if you pay us for a few hours of your time, we can help you set it all up and you can have a WordPress site with a premium theme that will look great, you can edit yourself and add unlimited pages, images and news/blog articles. We can also build you a custom design or fit your existing site design if you don’t want a change, but want the extra power.
One of the greatest things about WordPress is that Google loves it and WordPress loves Google back. WordPress is built from the ground up to work really well with Google; plus you can add Search Engine Optimisation plug-ins and things like the Google +1 plug-in to make sure your site plays the game in exactly the way that Google wants it played. Simply, WordPress sites perform well in Google and by adding regular news or blog articles you are doing exactly what Google wants you to do to keep your site fresh and important.
So we love WordPress. We are WordPress experts; we could write you a plug-in, build you a site and scale your site from an iddy biddy one to a great big one running on it’s own server with cloud delivered content. We can even teach you how to use WordPress yourself in our scheduled classroom training.
To find out more about our scheduled classroom training, our £50 blog hosting offer or to get us to help you build a WordPress site……drop us a line
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Godjira are very pleased to announce that they will be giving a free one hour seminar on setting up and using your LinkedIn account at the Wiltshire Business Group exhibition at Melksham Assembly Hall on Wednesday, October 19th
John Dickens from Godjira will be the speaker and this will be a hands on seminar covering:
The Exhibition runs from 11.00am – 4pm and The LinkedIn seminar is scheduled for 2PM. There is also an evening dinner with keynote speaker Eddy Shah.
For more information or to book your place go to the Wiltshire Business Growth website.
Monday, June 13th, 2011
We have just upgraded our Web Hosting and would like you to share in the celebration.
We are offering 1 Years FREE Web Hosting to one lucky winner, this will include WordPress automatically installed. All you have to do is “like” our Facebook page, thats it. Do it between now and Noon on Friday 17th June to be entered into a Draw to win FREE Hosting. We will then randomly draw a new Facebook friend from the virtual hat and post the winner a few minutes after Noon.
Godjira use Heart Internet for all our webhosting
1. Quality hosting
Purpose built web hosting infrastructure is unrivalled in the UK for stability and reliability.
2. Excellent customer service
Support database provides the answers to the majority of web hosting related questions and if you need to get in touch we are on hand to answer any questions you may have.
3. Value for money
All of our hosting technology has been developed by us in-house we don’t have any expensive licensing fees to pass on to our customers. That means we can offer you more for less!
4. Putting you in control
Believe in developing highly automated systems giving customers complete control of their web hosting. Web hosting control panel is one of the most advanced available today.
5. Grow with us
Web hosting that is ideal for a beginner starting their first website through to SME’s demanding their own powerful ecommerce solution.
6. Constant Monitoring and Security Upgrades
Take our customer’s security very seriously and all software is upgraded within 24 hours of new patches being released.
All of you with iPhones can also manage your websites and hosting accounts on the move with the exclusive iPhone control panel which has all the same functionality of the standard control panel.
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
We have been working with Safewell for a number of years now. We ported their site to WordPress, took over the hosting and have been working quietly and effectively on their maintenance and keyword based SEO.
Safewell had a new innovative product to offer via their website; a Retained Health and Safety Service. Such was the power of the WordPress engine driving their website, their new page made it to number one on the Google search pretty much as soon as it had been indexed.
That wasn’t terribly useful however, as a review of the Google keyword search tool showed that in fact next to nobody was searching for “retained health and safety”. They may have been number one in Google but they were number one in a field of one with no-one looking for them!
So how do you get traffic to your website for a new product that doesn’t match any existing searches? Well the answer is of course Google AdWords. We sat down with Safewell and came up with a plan. We wanted to get traffic to their new product landing page based on searches people were already looking for like “health and safety” or “health and safety adviser” or “health and safety consultant” so we set up a ring fenced and targeted AdWords campaign with a fixed monthly budget that presented the advert for their retained health and safety service against those searches.
What we felt was important with this campaign, was to make sure the advert was discrete and targeted towards a particular landing page, so that the traffic could be clearly measured and evaluated to show a return on their investment.
The landing page makes sure that there is an “offer” and a method of capturing information for new potential customers. Safewell have a fixed monthly spend on their advertising that they can measure against business gained and aren’t just pumping money in to blanket advertising where no effect can be measured.
Safewell have gained several new key clients as the result of this campaign and are delighted with the results.
Find out more about Godjira’s maintenance and SEO packages here.
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Just a quick note to let you all know that we have scheduled more dates for our popular Build a WordPress site in a day and Twitter for Business courses.
The dates are as follows, click the link to book on our training provider site Findmeatrainer.co.uk :
Build a WordPress Site in a day
25 Feb 2011, Bristol
Twitter Classroom Training
16 Mar 2011, Chippenham
Build a WordPress Site in a day
25 Mar 2011, Bristol
Build a WordPress Site in a day
22 Apr 2011,Bristol
