We have recently introduced 2 new features on our website to improve the customer experience:
1) Visitors can skype us straight from the website using the ‘Call Me’ button. This enables anyone with skype to talk to us immediately for free with a simple click of the mouse.
2) For those without skype or who prefer a chat window, we now have a Live Chat facility on the site. Visitors can type in their questions and get a response in real time from a repesentative. No more hanging around waiting for email replies – get your questions answered immediately by Webeffects.
We think these 2 additions will greatly enable customer engagement and the feedback we’ve received so far has been very positive. We look forward to helping you with any enquiry you may have.
An exaggeration you say? Quite possibly not. Someone we do business with remarked to me recently that we provide “the best website deal in the world”.
We already know that’s true. So we thought we’d follow it up with a new compelling offering in the world of internet video – an area which is poised to take off big time in 2010 and 2011 and certainly also in Ireland now that broadband has come of age.
We’ve launched our new video production service with an all-inclusive package that combines 1-2 minute television quality video, on-site video and stills photography, consultation, storyboarding and script creation as well as a wide selection of truly great music tracks – all for the incredible launch price of €295!
That also includes a high definition DVD of your ad and a web ready mpeg copy.
Truly the art of video marketing has arrived and true to form we’re making it accessible to all businesses big and small as well as to individuals for an incredibly affordable price.
Check out our demos on the video production page.
Grace Bermingham is an Irish soprano singer with a vast experience as a soloist and church singer. She required a website with a graphic appeal that suited the beauty of her singing and the setting it takes place in. We were happy to oblige, especially after listening to her astonishing and powerful rendition of ‘Panis Angelicus’ as well as a number of other hymns and classical pieces.
Grace Bermingham Soprano Singer
From the point of view of the user experience it was important to embed samples of Grace’s singing in a way that could be played straight from the page with the click of a mouse – waiting to download media files before playing them can be off-putting for the user and hence counter-productive for the site owner. We achieved this by embedding the mp3 files into a flash audio player which can be played immediately. We also did keyword research and SEO optimised the site filenames and page titles, keywords and descriptions to best reflect the terms that we knew people were actually using when searching the web.
The site was launched in August 2010 and we invite you to visit it at www.gracebermingham.com where you can check out Grace’s singing. We are sure you will find it as impressive as we do and will consider it a few minutes well spent.
Naomi Gardiner Solicitors have just launched a new website outlining their legal services which they provide to Greystones, Wicklow and the Greater Dublin area.
The website was built according to client specifications for colour and incorporates a wordpress blog. It also incorporates a number of on-site SEO techniques for better indexing by google. The site was launched on July 28th 2010 and one week later is already indexed on page 2 of google for ‘legal services wicklow’ and on page 1 for ‘legal services greystones’ as well as ranking for a host of other keywords.
This is an excellent start and we look forward to rolling out an SEO strategy over the coming 3 months to build upon this solid foundation. Our aims will be to a) continue up the rankings for the terms that are already ranking well; b) add more keywords through additional articles and blogging over the coming months and c) target more general keywords to tap more broadly into this competitive market.
The website is easy to navigate and outlines the most important areas of work that they undertake while also providing a list with accompanying explanation of their other practice areas. This list is SEO optimised and linked to from the front page.
Naomi Gardiner Solicitors were a pleasure to work with and we look forward to continuing our relationship with them as they build up their online presence.
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Welcome to the Webeffects web design and SEO blog. We hope to showcase some of the latest news from google, bing and other search engines as well as bring our readers up to speed on the most effective contemporary techniques for search engine optimisation.
Website design is also about attractive layout, usability and ‘visitor conversions’. Visitor conversions can mean many things – an online sale, a signup for a newsletter or just a phone call upon visiting your site. It is imperative when designers talk to their clients that they get a very good idea of who the site is aimed at and what the client wants to achieve with the website. Very often it is up to the web designer to use their experience and knowledge of the net to guide the client in this process since a lot of clients are not initially too clear themselves on what they can achieve online. A good web designer with a thorough knowledge of visitor behaviour, trends, design possibilities and search engine optimisation can be an invaluable partner for a business in setting out and achieving realistic aims which add to their bottom line.
The same goes for any online endeavour not just businesses; whatever you want to achieve or whatever your reason for going online – artistic, educational, political, commercial etc. – a knowledgeable professional with experience of the web can be invaluable.
This blog is here to bring some of that support and education and hopefully to create discussions that will help us all to utilise this amazing technology – the web – to the very best of its potential.
David Mullan
Webeffects
