Status By Design

There are companies around the world that everyone, regardless of nation, race, religion recognise and brand names. People like Coca Cola, Nike, Pepsi, Apple, British Airways have all one thing in common, a stunning Corporate web design.

Protecting your brand in todays visually rich world means having a corporate web design that not only conveys your business message, but also carries the ethos and aspirations of your corporation to your target audience.

As with any business with a Corporate web design, they were not always so. At one point all of these organisations were set up by one or two people, working on a shoe string budget and a million miles away from anything resembling a corporate organisation.

Over time these brand name organisations, worked diligently to promote their products and services, aquire new business and develop year on year. With the advent of the internet, these corporations continued with the mission to maintain their brands with this new media, by creating corporate website designs that work.

Some corporate web design companies like Apple have totally revolutionised the internet with products like iTunes and the iPhone, totally creating a new market that has resulted in literally billions in revenue for the company.

If Apple did not have a Corporate web design then this would go against all the they stand for, ground breaking design, innovation and stunning functionality. Not to mention the income stream which has spurned the music download industry.

The rules are simple with these organisation, the end result must work and work perfectly to maintain the highest standards associated with their brands. These days corporate web design plays a crititcal role in these organisations in helping to portray their message to the world.

Without a corporate web design, their brand equity would soon drop in value. Make sure your website ticks all the boxs by focusing on core messages and seamless funtionality, it will be worth the effort.

In this tough economic climate there have been a number of industries that have been very successful, retail website design is one of those business sectors.

The growth of Retail website design has been astronomic since the birth of online retail. Year on year, retail online has grown at a staggering rate and is predicted to continue to a £56bn a year industry by 2014.

The highest growth area for online retail will be in the area of grocery shopping as the population becomes more familiar with purchasing perishable goods online, via mobile devices. And they also expecting strong online growth are online clothing retail websites as price comparison sites begin to include everyday clothing items in more detail.

The key differentiator amongst retail websites is their design. You can find the same product across several sites but you’re more likely to buy from a site that is easy to navigate, looks professional and follows the ‘general’ aesthetics of the majority of retail websites.

Some of the key things that you should consider when you retail website is being designed, is finding a professional retail website design studio. Unlike a brochure-ware or static entry level site, retail websites involve a buying process, and the site must give the user a sense of confidence that the process will be smooth and hassle free.

Professional retail website design agencies like Sizzle Media, ensure that the site not only looks its best but also follows a logical and familiar buying process. If your website is designed properly and allows your customers to purchase in a familiar environment at a competitive price, you can be rest assured that they will be back for more and recommend your site to the people they trust.

for information on retail website design visit Sizzle Media today.

Turn your unwanted gold in to cash by using  The British Gold Reserve. The highest prices in the money for gold market  can be found at the British Gold reserve. Offering quick, fair gold appraisels and cutting out the middlemen such as pawn brokers and jewellers and dealing direct with the UK smelters. By cutting out the middlemen you the highest cash for gold value directly.

Many companies now offer a postal service where youcan post in your unwanted gold items via a gold pack envelope, and in exchange recieve payment withing 24 hours after valuation. Its a great way for selling gold and avoiding under valuing pawn brokers. If your thinking “how can i get cash for my gold?” then The British Gold reserve is for you, prividing professional valuations when you want to sell unwanted gold items.

As an ethical and trustworthy company, they recomend that your think very carefully before sending in any heirloums that have a high sentimental value because once any payments has been accepted by you, your unwanted gold may be processed the same day.

Selling your Gold has never been quicker or more safer. By simply poping your gold in the insured Rpyal Mail envelopes, you will recieve money for your gold 24 hours after is has been professionally valued. You can use the money recieved for your gold to treat yourself to a nice holiday, or a new car, or even just pop it in the bank for a rainy day.

Get cash for your gold at The British Gold Reserve

Unfortunately, Arkadash don’t sell underpants. But if they did, they’d be the loveliest, most organic, most sweatshop-free underpants this side of the Pennines. But, fortunately, they do sell socks. You can read about their unique fairtrade clothes idea here – it seems like the idea is to sell a range of stylish clothes without the miserable working conditions often associated with discounted trendy items. Their website was developed by the awesome Sizzle Media web design company from Manchester, a regional and perhaps global leader in the push for quality affordable websites. Unfortunately, we can’t guarantee their sites are free from slave labour, though – web designers are a coffee-driven bunch and many a long day is worked by the Sizzle gang trying to ensure that everything comes together nicely, so our clients can sell their fair trade socks online quickly and easily!

The UK’s innovation body NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), will be piloting a world-first programme in Greater Manchester offering small businesses creative support to help them to become more profitable.

‘Creative Credits’ will award SMEs £4,000 worth of external creative input for their own £1,000 investment, helping to develop ideas that can transform their company’s prospects. NESTA recently highlighted the creative industries as one of the UK’s most important growth sectors. It estimates that the creative industries will contribute £85bn to GDP and employ almost 1.3 million people by 2013.

Successful applicants will be able to spend the Credits with a creative business of their choice, as long as the latter are registered on NESTA’s online Gallery and their project meets the programme criteria.

NESTA believes that the creative industries can improve the performance of other businesses for example in the development of new products and services and in devising platforms to help businesses reach new audiences, but many businesses are unaware of these benefits. NESTA’s research has found that UK businesses that invest double the amount the average firm spends on creative services are 25% more likely to introduce product innovations.

NESTA’s Chief Executive, Jonathan Kestenbaum says: “UK firms under-invest in important creative services, such as design, compared to other EU businesses. We have the largest creative sector in the world relative to GDP and as we emerge from a difficult economic climate we want to show that the creative industries can be of even more value to our economy. This programme aims to put businesses on a path to growth”.

NESTA is partnering with NESTA Creative Partner, Manchester City Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Northwest Regional Development Agency and the Arts and Humanities Research Council in investing £600,000 in the pilot. It will award 150 companies with Creative Credits in two waves – the first 75 will be picked in October, and the second next February.

Hasan Bakhshi, Director for Creative Industries in NESTA’s Policy & Research Unit says: “This is a groundbreaking programme which will have a multiplier effect in terms of stimulating Manchester’s economy – both for the benefit of SMEs and creative businesses. As Greater Manchester is one of the UK’s leading creative industry hubs, we felt it was an obvious choice for the pilot. We will be tracking the development of all the businesses taking part so that we can measure conclusively the additional impact this has on stimulating innovation and growth”.

For further information, please go to: NESTA creative credits

Quite possibly the most competitve keyword for any Manchester based web design studio, or any business in the city of Manchester for that matter is, ‘web design Manchester‘.
There are currently over 1000,000 pages indexed for the keyword web design Manchester, and our very own Sizzle Media web design Manchester, has secrured itself position three on google search results.
The truth of the matter is that probably 900,000 of those pages are related to businesses not even in the Manchester web design area. They are simply creating town name based page farms in the vain hope that they may secure a high traffic position. Although this ‘grey hat’ tactic may have worked 24 months ago, Google has cottoned on to this apprach and has been steadily penalising such pages.
Effective search engine optimisation is not about spammy pages of content or volume traffic. It’s about targeted traffic and converting those hits in to sales.
That is why Sizzle Media web design Manchester are so successful as a web design agency. They offer web design services in and around the manchester area, and they are based in the Manchester area, and Google likes that, it’s honest information that is easy to decifer and easy to promote.
2010 should see Sizzle Media web design Manchester, also lead the way for ‘web design Bury‘ and ‘web design Oldham‘ as they expand their web design services to nearby towns for their HQ in Rochdale.

Many people in business find it difficult to identify their business market, and in some instances only use there best guess and ask some friends and family to verify their idea. That’s great if your family has a successful business background, however it’s worth doing your own research.

There are a number of ways to quickly identify if you have a market and one of the easiest FREE online marketing tools is Google Keywords tool.

https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/KeywordToolExternal

Using this very simple business tool, you can very quickly identify how many people are conducting online searches for your product, business and there are many filter to help identify niche markets.

Sizzle Media Web design Bury, can help you to evaluate the validity of market and prepare a targeted strategy to capture as much of your target market as possible.

Rochdale website design agency, sharing our name -  Status by Design have come on the scene and really scooped up some very cool clients in a short space of time. Offering very creative web design services not usually associated with a local agency.

A recent discussion with their Creative Director led to some very interesting email exchanges in regards to how local web design agencies preceive themselves in comparison to their city counterparts. Most web design  studios consider themselves a lower lifeforms to city agencies. This was not the case with Status by Design who have full corporate web design studio backgrounds and have chosen deliberatly not to operate from city centre offices.

Status by Design’s CD said “it’s a total myth that you need to be in the city to make a successful graphic or web design studio. Manchester web design studios face the same problems as studio based in Rochdale, or web design agencies in Bury. Rent, rates, clients, bills, new business, staff – the realities of business are the same. There is no-one in Manchester or London who cannot be knocked off their pirch by a local web design agency. All it takes is preserverance and it doesn’t happen overnight.”

We think that Status By Design will be a force to be reckoned with in the coming months and we will be keeping an eye on their new Rochdale based graphic design studio.

Super yummy curry Indian Ocean Restaurant have done it again. For the third year in a row they have won the very prestigious ‘Best Indian Restaurant in the North West’ at the 2009 British Curry Awards. The Indian Ocean were praised at the event for their high standards of cuisine, service and ever popular brand (thanks to Sizzle Media web design Manchester)

The British Curry Awards created by Enam Ali MBE, is the highest honor available in the spice industry, often referred to as the Oscars of Asian cuisine. The night itself is a collection of the who’s who of the Indian restaurant scene and this year was no exception. The glittering ceremony was held at the Battersea Evolution Centre in London on Tuesday 3rd November and was attended by top industry figures and celebrities including host and main man Sir Trevor McDonald, Conservative party leader David Cameron and TV celebrity Chris Tarrant. David Cameron highlighted the importance of the curry industry in Britain, which is worth £3.5 billion per year.

Sizzle Media web design Manchester have been working alongside the Indian Ocean for several years, developing their brand, sampling their fantastic food and creating highly targeted products and campaigns, such as the award winning Curry and Cobra website which won the eTamside ICT award in 2007. Sizzle Media also developed their current web 2.0 site www.indianoceanonline.co.uk which again won the eTamside award in 2009 after only 3 days of going live.

Fayaz Aslam Indian Oceans Sales and Marketing Director said this about us. “Working with Sizzle Media has been an excellent experience. Finding someone who understands your vision is difficult enough, but to find an organisation who can translate that vision in a reality over a sustained period of time demonstrates the high caliber of our friends at Sizzle Media. Our many successes simply reflect the joint efforts of our partners and the dedication they have shown in helping us to achieve our objectives.”

As one of Greater Manchester’s leading web design agencies, Sizzle would love to help your business achieve success. Call them on freephone 0808 14 333 00 today.

Have no fear if your new to corporate website design, we will attempt to educate you on the do’s and don’ts of modern day corporate website design.

Do’s

Lots of calls to action such as phone numbers and contact details in prominent places.

Clearly describe the nature of your site in the top section of your corporate website.

Keep your website design in-line with your corporate branding, such as printed litrature (you will surprised how often this is not the case)

Observe the three click rule. Your visitor should be able to navigate to any section of your website within 3 mouse clicks.

Make your main or most profitable services prominent on your corporate websites homepage.

The do nots of corporate web design:

Do not sacrifice design over useability.

Do not create an all Flash website if you are relying on generate lots of web traffic to your corporate website.

Do not hide away your contact details.

Do not make yourselves out to be something you are not.

Follow these very simple corporate website design rules and you will have the essential elements that will make your corporate website fulfill your visitors basic expectations, and inspire the spend some of thier valuable time on your site.