Web Design and SEO Blog - from tillwilly

Well, it’s now the 10th February 2009 and this is tillwilly’s first blog post of the year! But we’ve been really busy so hopefully our readers will let us off this time!

Speaking of being busy, here’s why! We’ve launched 4 new websites, and you can check that them out below, or on our portfolio:

AWF Consulting

Face the Future (re-design / update & blog design)

Yorkshire Vein Removal Clinic

Face the Future Men

As you can see, a lot of work as gone into our recent work, and all our clients are delighted.

There’s a lot of exciting things happening in the tillwilly camp for 2009, but we’ll have to keep a tight lip on that for now.

Mark
Web Designer

Every year, when it gets to December, you’ll notice lots of sites add a Christmas theme to their website. Sometimes, this looks great, other times it doesn’t! One of our clients, Face the Future, required a Christmas theme for their latest offers to be featured on every page. We did this for them, and it doesn’t look out of place, even on a website for a skin clinic.

I’ve been on loads of sites this December doing all my Christmas shopping online, so I thought I would share with you my personal favourite Christmas Design Themes:

Onlinegolf.co.uk

This is my favourite Christmas design I’ve seen this year. Some might think it’s tacky, but I think it is brilliant. The attention to detail is fantastic, and it doesn’t take anything away from the products they are selling. A lot of work has gone into this Christmas theme.

Firebox.com

This is a pretty subtle theme, with snowflakes behind the logo, but firebox have also done a really slick Christmas email marketing campaing, which is why it’s on my favourites list.

Next.co.uk

Next have used a Christmas style black background, which looks really classy, and done some festive style flash under the navigation. The site design doesn’t have to change, but it still has a Christmas feel to it. I like it!

Game.co.uk

One of my favourite website for purchasing xbox 360 and nintendo wii games (got to love the points card!). I really like this theme, it’s nothing ground breaking, it just works. The character illustrations add a nice feel to the site too.

Facethefuture.co.uk

Finally, it’s the Christmas theme designed by yours truly…

There are websites that can go over the top at Christmas, but the ones above implement the Christmas theme well!

Mark
Web Designer

Here at tillwilly, we have just completed the new website for one of our clients, Sasi Designer Kitchens.

Sasi Designer Kitchens & Designer Bathrooms are a West Yorkshire based company specialising in Kitchens & Bathrooms with the ‘WOW’ factor, at the very best prices. Sasi are available to fit kitchens & bathrooms throughout West Yorkshire. Sasi have kitchen fitters with over 25 years experience, and are the perfect choice for your dream kitchen or bathroom!

Sasi had a previous design done by tillwilly, which they were pleased with, but the company has big plans for 2009 and wanted a new, slick design to go with that plan. The site also has a custom built Content Management System (CMS) to allow Sasi to edit the site when they need to.

The site is valid to all the W3 Standards and has been featured on a number of css galleries.

Along with the new design, after conquering the more local search terms, tillwilly are working on getting Sasi ranked for more general kitchen search terms, such as ‘Designer Kitchens‘ to give them even more web presence.

Please visit SasiKitchens.co.uk to take a look.

Mark
Web Designer

I have never met a designer, who can just go from a blank canvas to a design a masterpiece without any inspiration! Sometimes you may get an idea just off the top of your head, and when you run with it, it turns out great, but other times you’ve got creative block and you need a little bit of inspiration to set you off in the right direction.

If I’m in need of some inspiration or ideas, there’s 4 websites that are the top of my list, to give me a design boost. You may have come across these before, but if not, definitely bookmark these sites:

• CSS Mania
• Design Meltdown
• Smashing Magazine
• For Web Designers

Hope these give you as much inspiration as they give me, and remember don’t just copy someones design, because that’s just wrong!

Mark
Web Designer