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 [...]

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.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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

We were approached by Country Connect who are a UK based international tourist directory. We were responsible for branding the company, designing the logo, & re-designing the website to give it a fresh, modern look. We had weeks of fun re-organising the enormous amount of information on the [...]

The WDI has suffered much bad press on account of the discrediting behaviour that abounds among the disreputable. I am grateful to one of my peers in the industry for bringing yet another item to my attention, that being; the issue of awards and related practices. One of the most astounding cases, involves a company [...]

Despite the consistant urging of friends, Facebook didn’t really catch my interest, and when I heard about Twitter I was equally indifferent. After all, who has the time? However, I did begin to realise that Twitter was a phenomenon of some decription and decided to look deeper, especially when I noticed that credible businesses were [...]

Creative Hat are pleased to announce that we have won the competition to design Motley Health’s Brand. Part of the prize was a valuable back link from Webologist for life (or the life of Webologist), which will help us with our SEO. This is the kind of prize that [...]

It was recently brought to my attention that there is a trend among some people in the WDI (Web Design Industry) to claim an inflated personal affiliation with Google. It seems, that in an attempt to impress potential (and existing) clients they are making certain remarkable statements (via insinuation), with regard to their relationship to [...]