Team Valley Web Design Newcastle & Gateshead

Logo Design – Online Sweet Store

tvwblog — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:12:05 +0000

We are excited to be working on a new e-commerce website for the online sweet shop, that will soon be selling great value Retro, American and Halal Sweets . We’ve just finished the first stages of the development and a logo design for them and just had to share it on our blog.

If you are interested in having a logo designed and would like to discuss your requirements please call us on 0191 491 1525 or use our online contact form.

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Google’s New Easter Egg

tvwblog — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:27:50 +0000

The latest Easter Egg from Google lets you play a game where you have to defend your search results from the Google Os. The game simply involves double clicking on the Os to defeat them before they destroy all the search results on the page.

To play this amusing little Easter egg type ‘Zerg Rush‘ into google (or click here).

Why not show off your score by posting your result in our comments section. Here is what one of our web designers managed to score:

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Restoring the first ever website

tvwblog — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:29:18 +0000

Today (30/04/2013) marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of the document that made web technology free for everyone to use and to celebrate CERN has started a project to restore the first ever website.

The website was hosted on Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer and described the basic features of the web, how to access other people’s documents and how to set up your own server.

The project requires rebuilding the site pretty much from scratch and ultimately the team hopes to preserve as many of the original assets of the site as possible by restoring the NeXT computer with the same hardware and even with the same IP addresses.

Screenshot of the original NeXT web browser in 1993

The research team hope that by preserving this technology and website that future generations will have somewhere to learn about how the web began. On their website they say “… we want to make http://info.cern.ch – the first web address – a destination that reflects the story of the beginnings of the web for the benefit of future generations.”

Learn more and keep up to date with their progress by visiting http://first-website.web.cern.ch/

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CMS Website – Divine Departures

tvwblog — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:36:01 +0000

Divine Departures are a funeral planning service that help their customer organise their funeral the way they want it. They felt that their website didn’t give the right first impression and approached us to redesign the site to better reflect their company philosophy.

Using their existing branding we created a website that better reflected their company and also changed the page structure so that it would be a lot easier for visitors to navigate and get to the information that they needed.

It was also important that they were able to update their own content, so once the structure and design was approved we built the site on a content management system. This gave them full control to be able to easily and quickly update all the information on their website.

Visit Website: http://divinedepartures.co.uk

If you are interested in having a website designed and would like to discuss your requirements please call us on 0191 491 1525 or use our online contact form.

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Age guessing game

tvwblog — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:41:25 +0000

Harvard University has developed a clever little test that guesses your age by getting you to click on a few red circles. at the moment it is just in the development stages and is looking for people to take part so they can develop a game that will be able to perfectly guess your age

Take the test here and see if it guesses your age correctly : http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/ag

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Email Newsletter Design – Cherubs Jewellery

tvwblog — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:28:58 +0000

Cherubs Jewellery is an e-commerce website that specialise in jewellery to suit every budget.

We were asked to design some email newsletter templates that would allow Cherubs to keep their customers up to date with their latest news, new jewellery ranges, special offers and promotions that they offer throughout the year.

Here are a couple of examples of the email newsletter designs we have created for cherubs Jewellery:

Email newsletters and e-shots are a very powerful and cost effective method of targeting customers and keeping them up to date with your latest news and offers. The software that we use can also help you measure your results by providing a lot of useful statistics that can help you improve future campaigns.

If you are interested in having an e-shot or an email newsletter designed and would like to discuss your requirements please call us on 0191 491 1525 or use our online contact form.

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One Page Website for Hair Extensions

tvwblog — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:28:03 +0000

Having worked with Lox Hair Design on the website design of their main site, they asked us to create a one page information website about their newest service, hair extensions.

They wanted the one page site to be similar to their main website, only in pink instead of red and along with information on the different hair extensions they offer they also wanted a gallery that would showcase before and after shots of their clients.

Visit the website : www.hairextensionsleicester.com

If you are interested in a one page website design that can target one of your services and would like to discuss your requirements please call us on 0191 491 1525 or use our online contact form.

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Lease99 – Content Managed Design

tvwblog — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:55:01 +0000

Lease 99 is a new contract hire and car leasing company based in the north east. We were approached by them to design their branding, print & website ready for their opening.

Due to the nature of their business they wanted a content managed website designed, so they would be able to quickly and effectively manage the cars that they lease.

Visit the website : www.lease99.co.uk

If you are interested in a website and would like to discuss your requirements please call us on 0191 491 1525 or use our online contact form.

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Introducing our new Front-end Developer

tvwblog — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:26:15 +0000

We’re excited to announce the newest member of Team Valley Web, Caroline Murphy in the role of Front-end Web Developer.

We have seen incredible organic growth over the past 12 months and in order to maintain the great service we provide to our clients it was clear that we needed the support of another devoted developer.

Caroline’s background started in Graphic Design which later evolved in to web design, where she specialises in responsive web development, email campaigns, WordPress-driven websites and e-Commerce online stores.

We are very excited about the future here at Team Valley Web and with the continued support from our clients and dedicated team we look forward to continued growth in 2013.

Welcome to the team Caroline!
- Andrew Auton – Director

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How Search Works

tvwblog — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:31:28 +0000

Last Friday (1st March) Google released a new live infographic called “How Search Works”. The infographic reveals some of the factors that go into how their search engine works, from crawling & indexing to their algorithms and spam fighting.

Alongside the inforgraphic is a small video by Matt Cutts, the head of webspam at Google which also informs on how a search works.

But maybe a little more interesting is their page about their battle to fight spam, which includes a live spam updates that shows examples and screenshot of recently removed websites from their search engine. It also goes into detail on the types of things Google considers spam such as, cloaking and/or sneaky redirects, hidden text, keyword stuffing, unnatural links to a site and thin content with no value.

Click here to see the Google’s new site

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