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01225 436109Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Safewell are one of our best and most valued customers. Nick Evans from Safewell has the highest integrity of any business owner we have ever met. We have worked with Safewell converting their old website to WordPress (without leaving a join) and on their search engine performance, Google AdWords, Facebook Page, Mailing List and more.
So when the time came to update their site we were their first point of call and were absolutely delighted to be able to help.
With this being a revamp/upgrade, we had to be very careful not to break the existing site. So we took a backup and worked on a new WordPress theme on a mirror site. The theme needed to have a few things . It needed to be wider to take advantage of larger screen resolutions, it needed to be bolder, it needed to replace the Flash bits and pieces with lighter and more portable JavaScript widgets and it needed to help the viewer identify strong calls to action.
So within the design we built a home page that identified the main calls to action and presented them firstly as a cool JavaScript slider and then other areas of interest as “lozenges” below. Safewell have a clearly defined and strong corporate image and we were able to use the associated imagery throughout the site.
When it was all ready, we got the sign-off from Nick and then switched the themes and hey presto! A new design was online. There was obviously a bit more to the go live than that. There was a new sitemap to submit and Google and Bing websmaster tools to update, but we are good at all that!
We hope the result is a very striking and modern looking site that has clear entry paths and defined calls to action within the WordPress framework that allows Safwell to edit and update their own site as well as publish news to multiple media.
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.
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Sunday, June 12th, 2011
New Chief Sitting Still here. Aka Lucie Dickens
You may have heard of me or even just seen my name in the recent newsletter. I have been working behind the scenes at Godjira for some time, well since the beginning and rarely step forward, but as business grows so here I are am pushed to the fore.
I rarely have the chance to write about the work we have been doing but would like to share with you my author. Well as you can appreciate he is not really “mine” but he was my first.
David Bracher came to me through a mutual friend. He had produced his book: The Way We Were. (Not to be confused with the 1973 film starring Barbra Streisand). This is a Photographic book of student life a Goldsmiths’ College in the late 1960′s.
He wanted a way to promote and sell the book. Unsure of where to start and knowing he needed a website and other marketing goodies he came to Godjira.
The Book, without even opening, had an immediate impact on me. Hair on the back of the neck stuff.
Simple black and white, or white and black depending on your perspective. A coffee table book if you will. Hard backed, white front cover with monochrome picture and black text. The back being black, as David said” It’s a coffee table book so you should not worry about putting your cup on it, so we made the back black to hide the rings.”
We sat down and had a chat. I knew the site had to be simple yet have the same impact on the viewer as the book itself had had on me. Its a photographic book, so we had to use the images with out giving too much away, as after all the purpose is to sell the book. There where lots of concerns about copyright and watermarking images, which we address. Also we made it easy to buy the book as they wanted to distribute it themselves.
Black and White, White and Black. The site had to be monochrome. Simple, well so I thought at the start, but have you had to design a monochrome website that has the same impact as a tangible object? Something classy and not overly simple. We took some time, looked at the requirement and Eureka! 10.30pm 3 days later, the design was born. We needed to showcase some key images and create a call to action. We also created a Facebook page which we would love you to become a fan of.
We like authors and we especially like David Bracher. If you are an author and if you can find us maybe you can hire the Godjira Team.
http://www.davidbracherbooks.co.uk/
Monday, January 31st, 2011
John Dickens from Godjira will be addressing Melksham Chamber of Commerce on the subject of Social Media on Tuesday February 8th.
The seminar will range from Twitter, to LinkedIn to Facebook and others and how you can use these media to promote your business and make more contact with your customers and colleagues.
If you would like to know more or to enquire about attending the seminar, please go to the Wessex Chamber of Commerce website here.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
The Orbit research website came about because of one of John’s past lives as a Project Manager for a medical imaging company. Orbit were part of the team that were responsible for getting medical images from the mobile MRI and CT trucks around Birmingham via satellite to Budapest and then back to Birmingham and Cardiff. Orbit provided the mobile satellite equipment and the satellite infrastructure. John did stuff like crawl around on the back of unfinished MRI trucks with network cables and set up 12 servers in a week as well train Radiologists in Budapest and Birmingham.
Anyway. Orbit wanted a new website and were referred to Godjira from John’s old employer Pukka-j. Gavin at Orbit wanted more than just a website that sat there and was interested in the marketing methodology that goes with a news driven site.
We have provided Orbit with a WordPress driven site that lets them edit and add as much content as they want. We also split their main product offerings down to three target areas presented on the front splash screen with a bit of funky JavaScript driven image swapping.
Being WordPress, the site is Google focussed and does clever stuff like feed an RSS feed out to populate a Facebook fanpage. We also included the LiveZilla live support software, so now if you want to know anything about Satellite Internet solutions, you can chat live with a genuine bona fide expert in Gavin Foster. We also set up a mailing list based on the RSS feed using FeedBurner.
We really liked working with Orbit. Gavin has some great expressions for common computer issues. Such as user error being “Finger Trouble” and VOIP phones being “scramblers”. We hope to continue the relationship and look forward to helping Orbit with their online marketing for years to come.
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Setting up a fan page in Facebook is fairly easy, but keeping it populated and up-to-date can be time consuming. If you are already writing articles in your blog or news page and are using a modern CMS system like WordPress, then you can cross-post using your blogs RSS feed and import that in to Facebook.
The notes application is usually hidden off the end of the tab bar. Facebook keeps changing its UI so, you might have to hunt for it!
Aha! Now here comes the trickery. The”import a blog” link is elusive and doesn’t immediately show up. You need to click the “write a new note” button and then cancel it, then it will appear. Probably writing a new note will do the same thing, but the import button isn’t always there first time.
In WordPress and on most good browsers, the RSS feed is underneath the little orange button in the address bar at the top of your browser. Clicking it will display a formatted version of the feed and also give you the link to the feed. In this case http://www.ngbowen.com/feed
Go back to Facebook. Fill in the box, and tick the box that says you are entitled to use this feed. You are aren’t you? Then click on “Start Importing”.
Click the button. Nuff Said.
Now every time you post a new blog article that will also get fed through to your Facebook Business Page.
If you’ve got more than one blog, you can join the feeds up using Yahoo Pipes, you can also take a look at stats and set up a mailing list using Feedburner. While you are in the RSS feed take a look at Twitterfeed to push your blog out to Twitter as well.
