Web Design for Local Tradesmen
covering Hertfordshire (Herts) and Bedfordshire (Beds)

New Website Design For Cross Pest Control, Braughing, Ware, Hertfordshire

www.crosspestcontrol.co.uk Cross Pest Control is a family company providing domestic and commercial pest and vermin control including wasps, rats, mice, moles, cluster flies and pigeons in the Hertfordshire and Cambridge area.

Dean Cross had a website but it was not helping his business as it was practically invisible to google. Dean wanted a new search engine friendly website and a Wordpress blog where he could post stories, photos and videos about interesting events in his working life - this is a great way to get your site noticed in the search engines.

"Just checked the website this morning and its looking very nice. Thanks for all your efforts and for putting the video on there. "
Dean Cross

Cross Pest Control, Braughing, Ware, Hertfordshire

Wordpress Website For C.A.S. Electrical, Hertford

www.cas-electrical.co.uk CAS Electrical are a family run Electrical Contracting Company with over 25 years experience in various industrial and commercial electrical contracting projects. These include: supply and installation of electrical power schemes, supply and installation of lighting schemes, data cabling, inspection and testing, periodic testing and PAT testing. They have specialist expertise in electrical installations in schools and colleges.

This is now the second version of this site I have created for Eamonn and Tracey Cassidy's company. The site has been converted to Wordpress to allow Eamonn and Tracey to do regular updates themselves as this has become far more important now to continue to rank well in the search engines.

"Michael made the process of developing a website for our company easy. He is a wealth of information on search engine optimization and website development and is always willing to give advice and help. We would definitely recommend Michael without hesitation to anyone who is looking beyond just a website and wants the site to rise in the search engine rankings. We look forward to working with Michael for many years to come for on going developments to the website."
Tracey Cassidy - C.A.S. Electrical Ltd

C.A.S. Electrical Ltd Electrical Contractors, Hertford, Hertfordshire

Search Engine Optimisation For The Carpet Cleaner, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

www.thecarpetcleaneruk.com Alan Cross cleans carpets and upholstery but the difference betwwen Alan and most carpet cleaners is that he uses a state of the art truck mounted cleaning machine that is so much more effective than the usual portable machines commonly used.

His site design has been refreshed a little and optimised, much of the content has been revised, problems with slide shows not working have been sorted out and new images added, text testimonials have been added (including a scroller on the home page).

"Site looks great, well pleased with the work you have done so far"
Alan Cross

The Carpet Cleaner, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

New Website For Earth and Stone, Watford, Herts

www.earth-and-stone.com "Undertake Garden Design and Construction (Landscape Gardening) in all styles including Cottage, Courtyard, Mediterranean, Contemporary/Minimalist, Gravel Gardens, Sub-tropical, Water Gardens, Low Maintenance and Japanese."

Lee Amphlett runs a small Landscape Gardening company and had a Mr Site DIY website but wanted to upgrade to something that looked rather more professional with lots of big photos of his projects and that got noticed in the search engines. "In 2.5 years of having a website I haven't had a single enquiry from someone entering keywords into a search engine. I want a new website done right from the start...it's been submitted to all the major search engines and it's listed on about 45 internet directories it's achieved nothing."

Lee had a clear idea of exactly how he wanted the site to look - he came to me with hand drawn versions of each page - what you see is basically his designs turned into optimised web pages.

Earth and Stone, Watford, Herts

Web Design For Geoffrey Rowe North Mymms, Hertfordshire

www.geoffreyrowe.co.uk. Geoffrey Rowe is a furniture maker, he designs and builds one-off pieces of furniture by commission, using a combination of modern and traditional furniture and cabinet making techniques. His bespoke creations range from cutting edge and contemporary to traditional and period, depending on a client's brief.

Geoffrey came to me with an old website that needed some work: there were issues with the Flash Navigation which took an age to work, pages were out of date and were not showing up in the search engines. We decided that the best way forward was a rebuild from scratch and Geoffery took the opportunity to have the design refreshed as well. Geoffrey supplied hundreds of new photos of his beautiful furniture creations for the new site and had very clear ideas on how the site should look and how the furniture galleries should work. The site is now showing up in the search engines as well - try "furniture maker hertfordshire" or "cabinet making tuition" or "cabinet maker herts" for example.

"It now looks exactly how I envisaged it"
Geoffrey Rowe

Geoffrey Rowe North Mymms, Herts

New Website Design For Hiremee, Royston, Hertfordshire

www.hiremee.co.uk supply a wide range of contractors plant machinery (including Mini Diggers, Dumpers, Rollers and Access Platforms) and tools for hire on short or long term in the Royston and Ware areas.

Charlie Perry, the new owner, wanted to scrap the existing site and just have a straight-forward search engine friendly site along the lines he had for his other ventures. The design you see is the result. A Wordpress blog has also been added as a news publishing feature.

Hiremee, Royston, Hertfordshire

Web Design For Taylor Stapleton Welwyn, Hertfordshire

www.taylor-stapleton.co.uk. Taylor and Stapleton Engineering Ltd was established in 1973 to provide a high quality commissioning of (HVAC) heating, ventilation and air conditioning services within the building construction industry.

Jonathan Stapleton is an old acquaintance and he asked me to help them design a proper website for the business as he was rather ashamed of their old site. They wanted a nice clean modern site that is search engine friendly, with some nice photos and that reflected the 2 sides of their business. This project progressed very slowly as they are very busy people but we got there in the end.

Taylor Stapleton Welwyn, Hertfordshire

Web site design for Alan's Locksmiths Stevenage, Hertfordshire

www.alanslocksmiths.com - Alan's locksmiths are a local independent family run business in Stevenage. They are a local locksmiths with 16 years experience offering a very friendly and trust worthy service and a fast response.

Stuart and Sharon Naylor are Alan's Locksmiths and they wanted to have a properly optimised website that would allow them to reduce annual marketing costs after years of having sites that didn't seem to help. I spent sometime explaining to Stuart and Sharon how the search engines work and what it usually takes to get good rankings and a good conversions. I designed the new website which is now ranking well in the local searches - try "Locksmith Stevenage" or similar in Google and you will see Alan's Locksmiths featuring prominantly in the natural listings. I also helped sort out a Local Business entry for Alan's Locksmiths for Google Places so they come up in the Local Business or Maps searches.

"Thank you so much for all your time and all the information you have given us... The web site looks fantastic, many thanks"
Sharon Naylor

Alan's Locksmith, Stevenage, Herts

Web Shop Optimisation For Promain Hitchin, Herts

www.promain.co.uk "Promain distribute Industrial Paints and Surface Coatings. Promain are approved distributors for many of the world's leading paint and coatings manufacturers such as Ameron PPG, Sika, Coo-Var, Rustoleum Mathys, Tor Coatings, Classidur, Hempel, Osmo, Anglo, Glixtone, Bollom Intumescent, Marley, Teamac and Akzo Nobel."

A couple of years back Mark French at Promain had just had his new website delivered after a long wait but was a bit concerned about search engine optimisation. He had been told his new site automatically did all the search engine optimisation but he had doubts so he asked me to have a look. The thing about search engine optimisation is that it is mainly about the words on a website and partly about the html code around the words - so automatic search engine optimisation is largely ineffectual unless you know how to use it effectively. I provided guidance to Mark and Carol on how to make the web shop work for them and we made a number of amendments to the way their web site was coded to be more focussed on search engine optimisation. Over the last couple of years they have made a great success of their shop and grown their brand significantly.

Then recently Mark contacted me again and asked me to look at his new online shop - it's a big improvement on the last one but again there is room for optimisation and clearer presentation of products.

"We are really busy now, the phones haven't stopped ringing"
Carol Barry, Promain

Promain, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Website Design For Home Heating Luton, Bedfordshire

www.4homeheating.co.uk Home Heating are Central heating engineers and plumbers covering Hertfordshire (Herts), Bedfordshire (Beds) and Buckinghamshire (Bucks). They install domestic condensing gas boilers and central heating.

They custom design and install central heating systems with a five year guarantee. They specialise in central heating systems designed to achieve maximum fuel efficiency and minimum fuel bills, which is great for the environment and for their customers' wallets.

Les Dicker approached me to take over the regular maintenance of their website and improve its search engine ranking some years ago now. Recently I have redesigned the site - the brand new look is intended to allow visitors instant recognition of the services on offer but retains the text required for good search engine ranking.

The site has ranked well in the search engines now for a number of years for a wide selection of target keyword phrases. Try "central heating engineers hertfordshire" or " central heating engineers herts" or "... bedfordshire" or "... beds" or "... buckinghamshire" or "... bucks" or some others such as "installing condensing gas boilers" or "central heating plumbers herts".

"The site looks good, you have done all that was asked. The internet is now our major source for heating enquires. What can I say but thank you."
Les Dicker - Home Heating

Home Heating - Luton, Bedfordshire

Web Design For The Chevronics Centre, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

www.chevronics.co.uk are independent Citroen and Peugeot Servicing and Restoration Specialists based in Hitchin. They not only service vehicles but also supply hard to source Citroen GSA and GS spares and car parts. They have the largest stock of Citroen GSA parts in the world and are regularly increasing production of new lines of classic parts that have not been available from Citroen for years.

Rob Moss the owner of the Chevronic garage had a home grown website done by one of his mechanics for many years but it never helped his business - Rob services my car and has done for years so we got talking about his site and how search engines worked. So I gave it a re-design but retained the banner image he was proud of and rewrote most of the copy to be appealing to people and search engines. To my surprise this made no difference to his search engining ranking so on further investigation I found that his hosting had been set up to block search engine access to his site - so all the years that the site should have been accumulating colateral in Google it wasn't. This problem was corrected and now the site now ranks well as it should and is contributing towards the business. Try "citroen servicing herts" or "citroen servicing hitchin" or "citroen garage hitchin".

"Thanks for looking into this. I had also checked over the Chrismas period and it has got much better.
Thanks for your help with the site."
Rob Moss

The Chevronics Centre, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Content Managed Website Design For 3 Counties Heating, Harpenden, Hertfordshire

www.3countiesheating.co.uk 3 Counties Heating are a family run business of plumbers and central heating engineers operating in the Herts, Beds and Bucks area. Barbara Dicker wanted a brand new website that was based on a Content Management System that will perform well in the search engines. She had a clear vision of a particular design she was after - always a challenge with a CMS based website but the DRUPAL CMS was up for it! The end result was a pleasing design so it was well worth the effort. Drupal is also one of the best CMS systems for search engine optimisation so we are looking forward to some good search engine rankings over the coming months.

"The general feedback I am getting for our site has been very good and we have had a few good leads from it and a number of other enquires too. Everyone I've spoken to is impressed with the site and has said how professional it looks. Some even asked if it was expensive. What we wanted was to stand out from the crowd and be able to compete with the bigger companies like British Gas and Northern Gas Heating. I think we have certainly achieved this with the design. The SEO of course we will have to wait and see. Thank you for all the hard work you put into this site."
Barbara Dicker, 3 Counties Plumbers and Heating Engineers

3 Counties Heating, Harpenden, Hertfordshire

Website Design For Mars Building Contractors Knebworth, Hertfordshire

www.marsbuild.co.uk. MARS Builders are a family firm provide Building, Groundwork and Demolition Services. The building work they cover includes large domestic Extensions, Loft Conversions, Drives and New House Build or Property Development projects. They are proud of being reliable - "We know that once your house and life have been disrupted by the start of building work, the last thing you want is for nothing to happen for days or even weeks on end. With Mars Builders this does not happen. We only take on building projects which we are sure we can cope with, which ensures that we can achieve full continuity of work on all our contracts."

Mark Feldman of Mars Builders had a website but it wasn't doing anything helpful, they already had a logos they wanted to use and wanted to feature strong images of building work in progress in their branding. There are a lot of builders so this is a very competitive market and good search engine rankings are hard to come by - try "building contractors herts" or "builders knebworth" for example in google.

"The web site seems to be coming up well on some of the searches ie grab lorries, piling and digger hire. ... Thanks I am very impressed so far"
Mark Feldman

"The best builders website I have ever seen"
This was a comment from a local Estate Agent

Mars Builders and Building Contractors, Knebworth, Hertfordshire

Web site design for Bespoke Renovation Harlow, Essex

www.bespokerenovation.co.uk provide Loft Conversions, Building Extensions and Renovations within the areas of Hertfordshire (Herts), Essex, N, E and SW London. Nathan Ryan is the Managing Director at Bespoke Renovation. He has 12 years experience of managing a significant number of projects involving loft conversions, building extensions and renovations. After working for other loft conversion and building companies, Nathan wanted to branch out on his own.

Nathan Ryan commissioned Joseph Tirelli of JTMarketing Services to look at marketing for his new company and to organise a web designer. The requirement was for a professional looking and search engine optimised website and this is the result.

Bespoke Renovation, Harlow, Essex

Website Designed For Peter Hamilton Kitchens Bishops Stortford, Herts

www.peterhamiltonkitchens.co.uk "Peter Hamilton comes into his own working on a one to one basis with home owners designing with them their ideal new kitchen. As he says "your kitchen, designed with us, by you". After all you know what you want from your new kitchen it is up to him to put these ideas (and ours) into a practical plan on time and on budget."

Peter had a website already but it was not making any impact on the search engines so he came to me to see what could be done. I explained the problems with his site - while it looked nice it was not coded to be search engine friendly and the website lacked text content - so we drafted more text between us and I redesigned the site while retaining some of its original look.

"WOW!!! There needs to be some minor alterations of course, and I have taken on board your comments... but once again WOW!!!"
Peter Hamilton

"seeing as the compliments are being handed out I thought it only right you got your share"...Hi Peter, Just had a look at you website which is fantastic. One of the best I've seen. Michael Knaggs

Peter Hamilton Kitchens, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire

Website Designed For REN Solutions Knebworth, Herts

www.rensolutions.co.uk provide building and dwelling thermal imaging. This was a new one on me as I had not heard or thought of such a service before but it is just such a great idea. Basically you can have your house checked for heat loss and damp problems by using an infrared camera. So problems can be found without pulling anything apart - brilliant. To quote from the website:

"Infrared imaging offers a fast, non-invasive means of monitoring and diagnosing the condition of buildings. There are many applications, and recent restrictions on working at height and ever increasing demands for carbon foot print reduction has increased the demand for this service".

The website has been designed to be search engine friendly and Nick was particularly keen to ensure the site complied with Disability Accessibility legislation requirements. Nick provided lots of interesting phopographs that illustrate nicely the benefits of the service his company is providing. The website is making reasonable progress in the search engines achieving page 1 rankings in google for some target keyword phrases - try "building thermal imaging"

"...... quickly understood what we required and produce the site with a minimum of fuss. Michael's flexible approach and prompt feedback made the whole process straightforward. A pleasure to work with."
Nick Reilly

REN Solutions - building and dwelling thermal imaging, Knebworth, Hertfordshire

Website Designed For Craftsman Ltd London

www.craftsmanltd.co.uk. Craftsman Limited provide and install Granite Worktops for Kitchens, Bathrooms, Pubs etc. Tadas Bukys (Tom) - Sales Manager of Craftsman limited approached me as they had a web site but it was invisible in the search engines and they were paying a lot out regularly on Google Adwords. They were hoping to reduce their adwords budget by getting some natural search engine results. Their website used a content management system.

I re-wrote most of the existing website content and created new copy for the site. However this did no good in the search engines as the content management system was preventing the web site from getting search engine rankings it deserved. So it was decided that the content management system should be removed. All, the pages were restructured and redesigned to be search engine friendly and the site has just been relaunched but good search engine rankings are hard to comeby in this very competitive area. However some good rankings have been achieved - try "Granite Worktop Care and Maintenance" or "How should I clean my granite worktop" in google.

Craftsman Ltd, Granite Worktops, London