Out with the Old in with the New

After our recent trip down south Media City Way are now in the process of redeveloping their own website. That's right its out with the old and new with the new. The new website is aimed at being lightning fast and user friendly on all devices.

Information is going to be readily available on all devices from computers to tablets, laptops to mobile phones and even televisions.

The new website is going to match our much loved branding and user navigation to give visitors a seamless experience around our website on all devices.

We look forward to showing off our new website and our the new skills we've mastered, if there's anything you'd like to see on our website or anything you think a web design website should have on its website, we'd love to hear from you, leave us a comment below or send us a message

We are Investing in your future

The Media City Way team have booked their places and will be heading to London on Monday 23rd March 2015 to attend a course on building faster, more Responsive Websites that are not only lightening fast but also safe and secure.

The course delves into many areas of Web Design and Development and we wanted you to know this is how Media City Way are moving with the times, can your web design team say the same? We also do not want a few selected team members to gain this new knowledge so we are taking the whole team, this way all our team will learn and so you our clients can rest assured you will be dealing with a highly trained professional.

The team at Media City Way will be in London until Friday 27th March 2015 but do not worry as our work on your websites is not going to stop during our time down south.

All emails will be responded to as soon as possible.

Cyber Monday 12:00 Deal Four

20% off Any Web Project this Cyber Monday

What a fantastic CYBER MONDAY deal.

Another great deal this Cyber Monday! Media City Way are dropping their prices by 20% for any new web project.

What can you use this deal on?

1. Any new Website Design and Development
2. Upgrading your website with new functions or features 
3. Adding more pages to your website
4. And any other web project you can think of in between.

This deal is available for everybody, new and current customers and is valid between 5th January 2015 and the 28th February 2015 and can only be once!

All you have to do to claim this deal is 1 of the 2 options below:

1. Get in touch with us Quoting Reference #WEB4 in your message TODAY (01/12/2014)
2. Give us a ring on 0161 669 4633 Quoting Reference #WEB4 TODAY (01/12/2014)

Make sure you check back for our next Cyber Monday Deal which will be on our website at 13:00 today.

Cyber Monday 11:00 Deal Three

50% off Logo Designs this Cyber Monday

Another great CYBER MONDAY deal.

Whether you're looking for a professional new logo or if you need your current logo updating or even making the logo into a vector image so you can make it any size you like without losing any quality then this Cyber Monday deal is for you.

Media City Way will give you a massive 50% discount off any logo design and this deal is open to everyone, new and current customers.

This deal is valid between 5th January 2015 and the 28th February 2015.

All you have to do to claim this deal is 1 of the 2 options below:

1. Get in touch with us Quoting Reference #LOG3 in your message TODAY (01/12/2014)
2. Give us a ring on 0161 669 4633 Quoting Reference #LOG3 TODAY (01/12/2014)

Make sure you check back for our next Cyber Monday Deal which will be on our website at 12:00pm today.

In Business In Bolton Expo

Media City Way took part in their first In Business In Bolton Expo yesterday and sponsored the speed networking part of the event.

There was a 60+ Exhibitors and the event was attended by well over 200 people. Sponsoring this event was a great way for our company to promote the fantastic work we do here. As well as providing the visitors with the vast amount of services we offer, whether it be Web Design, Development, Web Hosting, SEO we we're also proud that we were able to tell the visitors that the deals their current web designers and/or web hosting companies are offering were nowhere near the amount of service and features that we are offering at a better price, in some cases we were offering 10 times the amount for 55% less.

Passing our knowledge to our past, present and future customers is what Media City Way is all about, we cut out all the jargon so even the most un-computer savvy person understands how their website, hosting and optimisation works for them.

Sponsoring the event

Media City Way were in charge of organising and running the speed networking event at the event, this was a great chance not only for ourselves to meet new contacts and potential clients but also to look at new ways of expanding our business to offer customers even more and giving them 1 point of contact rather than multiple.

Over 2000 business cards were exchanged whilst we ran the event which turned out to be a huge success.

Get the best from your Landing Page

We have many clients who have different ideas about what a landing page should look like, there are some conventions you should stick to, but there really is no strict guideline that must be followed at all times.

Take for instance a client whose site is only to send specific people to for information; what’s the point in creating a ‘call to action’ and ‘content to entice’ the reader to read more. He has been led there for whatever reason the site has been developed for. This is totally opposite for a client who needs to generate leads or has something to sell, this client needs content to show that they are the authority in whatever field they are in or needs a punchy strap line to catch the attention of the visitor.

Really what you need is to have somebody who understands what you and your site require and more importantly what your visitors are looking for and the reasons of the visit.

Here are a couple of things to bear in mind when designing your page.

1: Make it easy for the visitor

They may be there just for contact info, specific content, or just visiting for research, unless it is easy to find your visitors will go elsewhere. If the experience is neither instinctive nor intuitive then you have missed your mark and you leave them unsatisfied or frustrated.  

2: Make it eye catching

A visitor can be instantly put off by a hard to read and a visually complicated layout. Old and tired looking sites make the visitor wonder if it is the same for the business. If the page is appealing to the eye and time is spent on the presentation, a better impression about the content will be given.

We know this post is covering the topic with a broad brush and there are many user interface designers who dedicate their time to refining this very interesting and complex issue, but just to bear these two simple ideas in mind can help you analyse what you require for your own landing page. For further reading look at the depths Jakob Nielson goes to, in fact it is a very interesting read and you can gain great insight into how the brain works.

If you wish to contact Media City Way about your landing page and wish to talk about ‘calls to action’, landing page SEO (Search engine optimisation), front page re-designing, or even a chat for some advice, ring 0161 669 4633 any time or send us your URL for a free appraisal.

♥ Happy Valentines Day ♥

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Wishing you all a fantastic Valentines Day,
From your caring web designers

xxx

What is on-site and off-site SEO?

As a Search Engine Optimiser you may have heard the terms on-site and off-site SEO. Search Engine Optimisation should be tailored to the business it is promoting and one size definitely does not fit all.

Search engines have very complex algorithms in calculating where web pages should rank, this is why SEO experts like Media City Way are hired, promoting your web pages by tailoring a concrete on-site and off-site SEO package.

What is on-site SEO?

On-site SEO refers to everything you can manually do to your web pages to achieve a better ranking in search engines. Examples of ways to improve your on-site SEO would include, targeting keywords, writing HTML mark-ups (Meta tags), using alt tags, site structure (how pages link with each other) and internal linking.

What is off-site SEO?

Off-Site SEO refers to other websites that are linking to your website, you have less control of off-site SEO but you can generate a good number of links to your website by providing your URL (www.mediacityway.com) on social media websites. It is a good idea use your targeted keywords when displaying your keywords, for example: Search Engine Optimisation SEO

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Aim to design a fantastic website that people want to link to and provide useful content that will make your users want to keep coming back to your website. Get this right and your off-site SEO will be in place without you having to think about it.