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New website in development for CBI Security

Posted: 30 March 2010

We are pleased to announce that CBI Security Ltd have entered into an agreement with us for the development of a new website.

CBI are locally based in Stoke on Trent. Their business is based around fast response to their clients and this is one of the reasons they chose us as their web development company of choice. We were local to them, meaning it was easy for them to arrange meetings and get advice from us whenever they needed it.

The new website is currently being developed and will provide information on all of the different security services offered by CBI. The inclusion of a web based enquiry form will allow CBI to interact with their clients and potential new customers via the web, something they've not been able to do before.

In addition to developing their site we've arranged web hosting, domain name registration and full email facilities for the staff.

The new site will launch in the spring. In the meantime we've set up a holding page which can be viewed here at http://www.cbisecurityltd.co.uk

Midlands Power Networks - New website in development

Posted: 25 February 2010

Midlands Power Networks, based in Stoke on Trent, have commissioned us to design and build them a new website to promote the range of electrical high voltage services they can provide to clients.

The new website is currently in development and will launch in the spring of this year. It will reflect the company's corporate branding and provide a contemporary, professional on-line presence for their site users.

Midlands Power Networks have been needing a website for a while now, but couldn't find the right company who could provide the professional design they were looking for at the right price, until they called us that is.

We're very pleased to be working on this project and look forward to displaying the site in our web design portfolio once development is completed.

We've updated our terms and conditions

Posted: 16 February 2010

Today we've updated our Terms and Conditions. We've made them a little easier to read and have defined terms that are used throughout the document more clearly.

The new Terms and Conditions are effective immediately and replace all others issued previously. Also, we've simplified the agreement process for clients. Now, rather than having to sign and date multiple documents when entering into a contract with us, you'll simply need to sign only the invoice we provide. This will serve as both your acceptance of the project and our terms and conditions.

You'll also find a printer-friendly version of the document at the bottom of the web page the terms are specified on.

IE6 support dropped from our site

Posted: 15 February 2010

You may have noticed that we've updated the site navigation a little and made it easier for users to find out about our different web design packages by including a drop-down menu under the main web design heading.

The result of this is that the new menu bar does not work properly in Internet Explorer 6. We officially stopped supporting the old outdated (and very insecure) browser last year for clients. Now, we feel that the benefits offered by the new menu system outweigh the need to support IE 6 on our site.

If you visit the site using IE6 you will see a new status message appear at the top of your browser window advising you to upgrate to the latest version of Internet Explorer or (better yet) get the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Both browser updates are completely free and we highly recommend you update now.

Mobile phones predicted to be most popular way to go online by 2013

Posted: 19 January 2010

Analysts are predicting that in the near future (2013 they reckon), mobile phones will be the number 1 way people access the web.

We use mobile phones and other mobile devices to access content online frequently at Yellow Circle and we would agree with the analysts to some degree. Over the past year or so we've been using these mobile devices more and more for web content as they offer straightforward and easy ways to get the information you need quickly. However, they do have limitations, the main one being the screen size. Filling out online forms is not as easy to do on a small screen as it is on a laptop or desktop pc. Each mobile device has differing capabilities and they can render the web pages in slightly different ways, or sometimes are even unable to render them at all (Flash on iPhone we're looking at you).

Still, who knows what the future holds, after all, we're now only 5 years away from the year Back to the future 2 was set in...scary!

If you want to read the full article about this you can do so on Softpedia

Free web tips fact sheet

Posted: 13 January 2010

You may notice a little addition to our site home page. We've created a free fact sheet available for anyone to download that provides hints and tips on designing your website, choosing a domain name, setting up hosting and keeping your website up-to-date.

You'll also find some good advice for staying safe and secure online. We hope you find the information to be helpful and useful.

Christmas Opening Times 2009

Posted: 15 December 2009

We would like to wish all of our clients a very happy Christmas and thank each of them for choosing us for their website design and development projects. We look forward to serving you all throughout the new year and beyond.

Our offices will be close from 23rd December 2009 until 4th January 2010 over the festive season. We will have email auto-responders set up and will answer any correspondence upon our return to the normal working schedule

Happy holidays to you all.

New website for a software company in development

Posted: 02 December 2009

Humboldt Systems, developers of commerical software applications have commissioned us to design and develop their new website.

The main goal of the site is to promote their main software application ServSys. The site will provide information on the benefits an organisation can gain from using ServSys and provide technical details on the software in the form of a free downloadable PDF guide.

The site will be launching in 2009/early 2010.

New SEO Service launching soon

Posted: 20 November 2009

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new SEO service for websites is coming very soon. We've been working hard on making this service available to our clients and believe it will really help drive business through your website.

We will only ever use white hat SEO techniques, nothing that will get your site penalised or banned from the search engines. Keyword research and restructuring of your website pages together with our great SEO software tools will help ensure your site is seen near the top of search results in the most popular search engines such as Google.

More details will be presented on the site in the coming weeks (we're stil developing the pages). In the meantime, if you want to find out more or need some advice about SEO and how it can help your site please contact us.

We have a page 1 natural lisitng in Google

Posted: 23 October 2009

Following a lot of hard work and research and many, many page optimisations we're proud to annouce that we've achieved a page 1 listing in Google through natural listings.

Type in the phrase "Web design Stoke" and you will see that we're the 4th link listed naturally on page 1 of Google's search results.

We're extremely pleased with this result and will continue to build on and improve this search engine listing.

If your website isn't perfoming as it should and you're not getting the hits you want contact us. We can help. The proof is in the pudding as they say. If we've done it for ourselves we can do it for you.

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