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12 Feb 2008

Ecommerce Website Design Case Study

What better way to illustrate to you what we can do for your business than to show you a case study of an ecommerce website that we designed and built for a client recently:
The Client
Chew Valley Trees are a long established nursery who specialise in hardy, native and ornamental trees, shrubs, hedging and fruit trees. [...]

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05 Feb 2008

Champagne online anyone?

Need to order some champagne for a special occasion? Do you want a fabulous online selection of champagne, sparkling wines, fine wines and spirits at competitive prices? Of course you do!

SPA Fine Champagne Ltd, Bath, is a new and dynamic family run company headed by Andy Russell and his two sons Stephen and [...]

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25 Jan 2008

Top SEO tips to get you started: Google Analytics

Top SEO tip No.5 – Google Analytics

Once you have designed and optimised your website, you need to check your stats regularly to see how well it is working for you. You can then make educated adjustments to your web design or page content.
Sign up to Google Analytics (It’s free) and you will be able to [...]

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23 Jan 2008

Top SEO tips to get you started: Title tags

Top SEO tip No.3 – Title tags
Once you have written the relevant content for your website (See yesterday’s blog), it is now very important that your Title tags are written correctly and you are making the best use of them.
Your title tag is the heading of each web page that appears at the top of [...]

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22 Jan 2008

Top SEO tips to get you started: Content and Key phrases

Top SEO tip No.2 – Content and Key phrases
I’m sure no one will disagree with me that Content is still King in Search Engine Optimisation terms. When writing the content or copy for your website you need to keep the focus on your target audience. What are the phrases that your potential customers are using [...]

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21 Jan 2008

Top SEO tips to get you started: Domain name

Over the space of this week I will post a series of blogs containing some top SEO tips that I hope will be of some use to you, particularly if you are just starting out. So here goes with the first one:
Top SEO tip No. 1 – Domain Name
If you are about to choose the [...]

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09 Jan 2008

Blog Makeover

Happy New Year to you all! Hope you all had a fun time.
As always at the start of a new year, it is a time for reflection, taking stock and starting afresh with new ideas. I am hoping that 2008 will bring new exciting challenges and adventures for the Deckchair team. One of the main things on [...]

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19 Dec 2007

Castle School launch fabulous new website

Castle School in Thornbury, Bristol approached the web design team at Deckchair to design and build a new school website. They wanted to have complete control over the content of the website and the ability to change and update the copy on any page. We have given them exactly that; a fully content managed [...]

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18 Dec 2007

Ecommerce delivery problems, what is the solution?

 
According to a BBC report, shoppers in the UK will spend £200m a day on the internet in the run up to Christmas; with the total holiday spend likely to hit £4bn. This Year’s online spend is set to be 50% more than last Christmas.
People are more comfortable now than they have been with the [...]

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04 Dec 2007

Design Deadlines – Do they compromise the quality of your design?

 
The short answer to this question is NO, they certainly shouldn’t! For a web or graphic designer there are always going to be deadlines. They are a part of any brief; a client always has a timescale in mind. The question is whether the client’s idea of a realistic timescale matches the designers and their [...]

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