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Written By: Ferg on December 11, 2009 Comments
One Stop Motoring

Creative Hat were approached by One Stop Motoring Centre to design and build an e-commerce system to sell their many motoring products online. Part of the brief was to brand the company in keeping with their existing businesses. This system has bespoke custom modules and was [...]

Written By: Ferg on December 11, 2009 Comments
Sorrells Naturally

Creative Hat are working with Sorrells Naturally to give their online shop a more elegant look. We also take care of their online promotion and SEO to make their business of selling anti-ageing products more profitable.

To view the site, click on the image below:

Written By: Ferg on December 10, 2009 Comments
The Cufflink Store

Creative Hat were asked to build an e-commerce site for The Cufflink Store.

The Cufflink Store sells a wide variety of cufflinks, and wanted to offer the biggest choice available online, so we were commissioned to design and build a site that would be both functional and [...]

Written By: Ferg on October 21, 2009 Comments
Entelesyn Goes Live

“The scale of the Global challenges that are confronting humanity in the 21st Century will require individuals, groups, and societies to fully engage their talents and potentials to co-create a sustainable future that benefits all life.” Mick Collins – Entelesyn  View Site

Working from a sketch provided by client, creative Hat came up [...]

Written By: Ferg on August 27, 2009 Comments
Does Validation Affect Ranking?

Does validating your code improve your ranking? The short answer is no. In fact, Google’s website doesn’t even validate.

They don’t care, and in general, it won’t affect rankings, though this depends on the type of error we are talking about. Google’s website (at the time of writing), has 65 Errors & 8 warnings.

There used [...]

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Written By: Ferg on August 20, 2009 Comments
The Mighty PNG

The PNG format has many advantages over the GIF and TIFF image formats for  web designers. If you’ve been using GIF’s rather than PNGs, perhaps this article will be of some help to you.

The gradual phasing out of the GIF format in mainstream development is inevitable, and will ultimately enhance everyone’s web experience, especially with [...]

Written By: Ferg on August 1, 2009 Comments
Electronics Design

Rocolec are European sub-assemblies electronics engineers who needed a re-design around their existing brand and colours. They wanted a real simple, minimalistic feel, and wanted the logo big, so we gave them ‘big’. The 3D CAD modelled graphics were created (and photoshop’d) in house.

Website: www.rocolec.com

Written By: Ferg on August 1, 2009 Comments
Quality Cars SEO results

P&V Quality Cars wanted a content managed website to showcase their cars online. This is an entirely bespoke system, which incorporates a cross referenced search system, and SEO friendly product implementation. Despite having no SEO contract, the website is performing well in the search engines under the desired keywords, which [...]

Written By: Ferg on August 1, 2009 Comments
George Barnsdale SEO

This website was designed and developed to give customers in-depth product information. SEO work produced a high increase in traffic with page 1 rankings in google.co.uk for really generic keywords such as: wood windows & stormproof windows.

Website: www.georgebarnsdale.co.uk

Written By: Ferg on August 1, 2009 Comments
Dreamy Design

We were approached by Musician Ross Langham to build a really unusual and creative website to tight specs. His website incorporates a flash intro, content managed gig list, newspage, MP3 uploader, and a bespoke XML loading flash player. The site also has a secure payment system for selling [...]