Thursday, 23 December 2010

Simon Winstanley Architects


As I have said before on this blog, it can be a real treat to step out of my normal customer base of Hotels and self catering accommodation to tackle a different business. This time I have updated one of my previous designs to bring it up to date. As technology advances and screen resolutions increase sometimes our older sites start to look narrow. So it makes sense to change the design and widen the vislual to fill a modern screen. However there are so many screen sizes that its harder to work out what size to work on. So I have constantly changed my default size from 800 pixels wide a few years ago to 1100 to 1200 pixels wide now. This example shows how this can be done without completely redesigning from scratch. I have roughly kept the old site, but now have added a right hand column which has benefitted by increasing the width and by comining this with rollover exchange images it has enabled us to display more images by rolling the mouse over the right hand images.
Of course it is important not to overwright the SEO work done previously and this type of alteration enables you to keep the websites prominance with out risk. So its still found for primary search terms including "architects in Scotland"

Sandhead Cottages - refurb


The Auld Schoolhouse website has just had a refurb. Elspeth has now had quite a few years of good booking levels from her holiday house, this has led to her purchasing more cottages, the second was Helensdale and now her 3rd property has been transformed and is now ready to let. I have updated her website to account for this change and I have rebranded the website as Sandhead Holiday Cottages which now shows two cottages for rent. They are very close to each other and so share the same benefit os being close to the beach. So it is good to keep optimising the website for her prime terms of "family friendly beach house" and "beach front holiday scotland" and other similar terms. So good luck Elspeth and I hope your new cottage does as well as your old one.