We have recently been contracted to create a new website for Cardiff YMCA, which is now live. The YMCA are keen to promote their room and theatre hire facilities in the centre of Cardiff along with all their work with organisations in the community. They are proud to promote the Cardiff YMCA Youth and Community Department and how this responds creatively to the needs of young people in Cardiff. They have an ongoing partnership with Cardiff Young Carers, YMCA Players, YMCA Chess, Lisvane Cricket Club, Martynell Dancers, Y Care International and Lord Mayor's Matinee.

We recommend you take a look especially if you are considering room hire in Cardiff or if you are from Cardiff and have an interest in local community. Take a look at their website.. Cardiff YMCA

We have just launched a new website for a solicitor company which specialises in work place accidents. The website is a simple brochure type site and contains basic SEO for keywords relating to work place accidents.

The website can be viewed here: Work Place Accidents Solicitor

We were approached by iola who are a leading suppliers of beautiful and functional indoor and outdoor rattan furniture. They came to us with the requirement of designing a professional website to represent their rattan furniture business. The website was to look good and perform well in the search engines for searches related to rattan furniture across the United Kingdom.

Iola’s all weather rattan furniture creations are exclusively from Australia and New Zealand and are hand crafted by their team of master weavers, originating from Cebu in the Philippines, and produced in their state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, with exacting standards for quality.

So if you are looking for a piece of rattan furniture for your conservatory or garden then you simply will not find better quality or designs and a more professional service. We are certain you will be impressed.

The website is located here.. iola rattan furniture

We have just today launched an ecommerce website for Baby Sign company Bamba. The artwork for the website was designed by FauvelKhan based in Cardiff and we were brought in to develop the site and ecommerce functionality, and then to optimise the site for the search engines. the website itself is pretty funky we think and sells some very cute baby sign toys, which are effectively a baby to parent communication aid.

We have even purchased some of these sets of toys for our own families, as they make a fantastic Christmas gift for babies. In fact the monkey is so cool and fluffy that we have ordered one for the office?!?! apparently one of our developers has a thing for cuddly toys!

Anyway take a look at the site and if you have a baby on the way or a baby in the family then this would be the ideal Christmas gift, take a look here.. Bamba Sign

We have just designed and developed a new website for South Wales UPVC Ltd. The company based in Taffs Well, South Wales had commissioned us to create a new optimised website for their upvc windows and doors business. The website, as you would guess, contains lots of information on upvc windows and doors, as well as information about the company themselves. The company supply and fit a wide range of upvc products, including windows, doors, conservatories, orangeries, roofline products and commercial fittings.

During the development of this website some of us at Designer Websites used South Wales UPVC to supply and fit windows and doors on our homes, and I must say the cost was MUCH lower than any other company we spoke to and the jobs themselves were done quickly and easily, with no fuss and no mess. I would highly recommend these guys for windows and doors, not only because they are a client but because the jobs they completed for us were very professional and outstanding quality.

Anyway take a look at the website and see what they do.. UPVC Windows and Doors Company

Lovingly Managed offer a unique service, which offers a range of services which help people plan/manage their or a loved one’s end of life. We have recently launched their brochure site with a content managed system within the site which easily allows the site to be updated with news and announcements relating to Lovingly Managed. The informative site gives in-depth information of various ways in which the business can help ease the burden at an emotional time.

Visit the website to find out how Lovingly Managed could help you.

We have just launched a new website for Aidan Sweeney in the Brecon. Aidan is a well know traditional menswear specialist with a very high profile in Wales. The made to measure service offered by Aidan Sweeney is second to none, it is outstanding quality and value for money, so if you are looking for a traditional mens outfitter or a made to measure suit then look no further than Aidan Sweeney!

Take a look at the wide range of menswear services here: made to measure menswear.

We have just launched a new website for Amarillis, a Cyprus property specialist based in the UK. Amarillis have a fractional ownership scheme, source holiday homes in Cyprus, provide golfing holidays in Cyprus and much more.

We have launched another promotional product website for a client. These guys specialise in promotional pens, promotional mugs, promotional USB Memory sticks and so much more..

Take a look here.. Promotional Products

Barry are to get a new high quality nursery based next to a massive play centre called Coconuts Play Centre. The nursery is a pourpose build building and has been designed by an already well known nursery provider in Cardiff. Daisy Nurseries are a well known provider of high quality care for toddlers and already have a website for their Cardiff based nursery (Daisy - Cardiff Nursery)

We have now built another website for the nursery in Barry, if you want to find out more about this nursery please visit Nursery in Barry

Perhaps one of the most interesting observations about website  design is the way in which they have evolved over the years. Rather than being a linear progression, the changes in website design have varied and even come full-circle. Starting off by presenting text for the most part, they then went on to host images and animations as well as - or, in some cases, instead of - text. However in recent years, traditional text-based websites have made a comeback.

Of course, there’s a very good reason for this evolution, which looks somewhat unusual on the surface. When the World Wide Web made its debut in the 90s, Internet connection speeds were much slower than they are today and so websites were developed to contain mostly text: anything more and there could be long loading times. As things went on, Internet connections grew faster and could handle larger files, such as images and eventually animations. When animations entered the fold, multimedia platforms such as Flash encouraged companies and their designers to develop their websites to look pretty, eye-catching and - forgive the pun - “flashy”.

With the birth of Broadband Internet access, online browsing speed is even faster these days, yet many companies have dropped their animated-based sites in favour of more text-based websites. Why? Three words: Search Engine Optimisation.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of increasing traffic to a website via the search engines. There are many factors influencing how this can be obtained and therefore many different techniques can be implemented, but one of the most important factors is that search engines crawl text, so a text-based website will fair far better in the search engine results over those that focus heavily on animations.

SEO is on its way to becoming a standard practice for every business website - even for the big brands, who are scared of losing customers to higher-ranking competitors. Those who implement SEO into their website last will inevitably be left behind.

Even though many website designers prefer to create websites with animations instead of text it is foolish to do so at the cost of online enquiries. The key to perfect website design is a good-looking site that also performs well in the search engine, not placing too much emphasis on one and sacrificing the other.