At eckhoCreative, we see your website from all of the right angles. From your view as the business, the technical views, and perhaps most importantly – from your view. We carry out a full design consultation with all of our clients so that you get the best service, and just the website you want to help take your business forward.

Our web design and development team will tackle any web design projects that they are presented with. Over the years we have carefully selected our team based on their strong knowledge of development and design skills and through this we guarantee aesthetically pleasing and functional websites within the agreed time and created to the highest of standards.

The web is becoming more demanding so we are here to provide cutting edge designs to make your business stand out and be remembered, this is a must as your competitors are just a click away.

A successful and well designed website is the essential business marketing tool, and will only achieve your goals, if it is designed and programmed to a high standard. A standard that we can offer, please contact us today on our contact us page and let us have some information about your project.

View our portfolio of website design work or read some of the testimonials our clients had to say about us.

Visit the Avocado Life website here.

View the eckhoBristol website here.

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View the Landmark Linen website here.

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Rodney Goodbody director at Linenfields had this to say “We want to thank eckhoCreative for being the most efficient and helpful company that we have encountered in rectifying issues left behind by another website design company & for making our website function much improved and making crucial design amendments to give it the professional look everyone wants to see. Before discovering them we were having the most difficult time with another company and had almost given up on the site ever being workable but as soon as they were working with us things began to happen, almost overnight and our hope returned ! We now have an excellent site to be proud of and polite considerate people with whom to work with. So much so that we intend to put another project with them in the very near future. Thanks again to Simon and the team at eckhoCreative.”

View the Linenfields website by clicking here.

“For over three quarters of a century the name Vitavox has stood for the finest quality in sound reproduction; a reputation built on a dedication to excellence in design and engineering that has remained undiminished. Today, Vitavox continues to build on this illustrious history; hand crafting components to power some of the world’s finest loudspeaker systems.”

View the Vitavox Hi-Fi website by clicking here.

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To compliment the companies second birthday we have proudly launched a new improved website, but what has changed I hear you ask!

Starting with the homepage we have integrated social media into the website more by including icons at the header and footer of the website to give viewers easier access to our social media profiles. As well as this our latest tweets, live and up to the minute are now displayed for everyone to see without being hidden on another website. Over the past year the types of services we provide has increased and expanded and so we have now listed these clearly on the site.

Our company information is crucial to be displayed and shows visitors, current clients, prospective clients, business partners and agencies more insight into eckhoCreative, what we do, how we do it and why. We now have a more detailed and in depth About Us section, our client testimonials have been updated to include the nice words our clients have said about us, our media page has been updated to include the various ways we have been mentioned in the media and how our work has been displayed in the media. There is now a new partners page to display the types of companies we now work closely with and have been officially partnered with, this is one of our brand new pages and one we are proud of and hope to build and expand in the future.

As always with any design agency our clients are the most important to our business like any other business, so we decided to create a page showing a selection of our clients that we have worked with and continue to work with.

Lastly to bring our portfolio bang up to date we have given this a facelift and added some new technology elements to the page to further enhance our work and show relevant information in a more professional manner.

We are still working on some extra features and pages and these will be launched very soon, take a look at the new site and we would love to hear your comments and feedback.

Managing director Simon Fewkes said “For a small company like eckhoCreative reaching two years of successful operations is a real milestone, from this I have no doubts that we will see another two years of operations and expand into an even bigger company than we have become, I think in the current economic climate focusing on service and support has stood us in good stead and will continue to into the future, I would like to thank my dedicated team of staff both in front and behind the scenes for their encouragement and support.”

“Over the past year we have started to become recognised by other leading agencies and larger companies and this will help to not only promote us but deliver more work and drive us further forward, there will be new exciting times ahead”

Simon Fewkes added “We are not about to sit around and slow down the pace, our plans for the future are to continue to provide first class service to our current and new customers and to further raise the profile of the company to attract new business and ensure that the wider business community is aware of us and the work that we can do.”

To celebrate and mark the day a special eckhoCreative cake was designed and made thanks to the staff at a Bristol based cake company, below are some photos taken of the cake.

We set about creating a gallery site that was totally bespoke and created from scratch using object orientated PHP and MySQL database backend, the client now has the ability to create as many albums as is required and upload up to 1000 images per album which are displayed in a professional layout, another requirement was the ability to sell images as products through the site and add an ecommerce element to the web presence.

There are loads of features and functionality created and added to the gallery site that would make this post quite long going into detail with! Our client is very happy with the end result and the best way to experience this site is to follow the link below.

gallery.ftpictures.co.uk

Powered by the popular WordPress software this website has also been integrated with Facebook and Twitter so followers can keep up to date and have the latest properties direct to their computer or mobile device, any post on the website is automatically added to Bristol Rentals Facebook and Twitter pages quickly and easily, just as the client wanted! Follow the link below to view the website.

www.bristol-rentals.com

Using some new web technologies and web 2.0 features we have delivered the website that the client needed, as part of the website creation process we also provided search engine optimisation and marketing of the website, one of our favourite phrases is that its no good having a great website if no-one can find it!

As with all companies that are improving or starting in the web world integration with social media is required to further market the business and spread the word to as many people as possible through the Facebook like button, our client now has a social media presence that will increase and build over time. Follow the link below to view the site.

www.jpkplumbingbristol.com

www.jsmillerifp.co.uk

The following updates and fixes have been carried out:

• All invoices will now show the date paid as well as the date issued for both your records and our records
• Website tracking reports now allows you to view previous year’s results, currently data goes back to January 2009. These tracking reports are real-time and are produced by Google Analytics
• There was a problem with the logout button a few customers have mentioned, this has now been fixed and customers are able to logout the CRM after they have finished
• The invoice template has been updated to include the new company name eckhoMedia and relevant bank details updated
• On the login screen there is now a forgotten password function, if you have forgotten your password you may now reset it using a few simple steps, this allows you to manage your password and gain access whenever

Thank you for reading and again if you have any problems, questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact one of the team.

eckhoCreative CRM

Bristol Pride has been busy making plans ready for Pride Bristol 2011, following the massive success of last years event where they had over 200 volunteers to drive the event forward, there have been lots of useful help and support going on behind the scenes and we are proud to be part of it and help in any way we can.

Bristol Pride 2011 is going to be bigger and better than last year, more volunteers, more visitors, more sponsors and to help with this we will be providing website maintenance, newsletter development and social media management to do all we can to help.

If you want to find out more about Pride Bristol please visit their website here. More information and news on our help and support will be posted later this year.

So why the need to change our name you may be asking? The old name was put together about two years ago and as we have expanded and grown felt that the name didn’t fit in with our place in the market, our new name and branding is a lot more professional sounding and will take us well into the future, we wanted to retain the eckho part of the name and a new ending was felt the best option.

Our clients will not experience any change of service or any interruption of service that we provide to them, the rest of the changes will happen behind the scenes and we will do our best to update as and when possible. For the latest news be sure to keep up with our Twitter and Facebook pages.

Next year is already beginning to look busy for us and we have guaranteed work booked in right up until Easter 2011 which is great news for us and for our clients. We also have some new features and ventures that we are going to be launching next year on our website so stay tuned to this blog to stay up to date.

From all the team at eckhoCreative we would like to take this opportunity to wish all our clients, new and old, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2011 and we look forward to working with you into next year.

Whilst talking about social media this is a great time to talk more about social media and how it can help your business, so what is social media exactly? Social media is gaining popular attention across the world through sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube, but does it actually work? The answer to this is you need to decide how you want social media to work for you, there are many things it can be used for including: fun, raise personal profile, expand business visibility, attract an audience, customer service and market research.

Social media marketing is one of the many ways you can target your audience and spread the word about your business, and that’s what we have been doing by updating our blog with our latest Twitter tweets and Facebook like buttons, just another way to make it easier for social media to work. To discuss integrating these methods into your website get in touch with us and we can help you.

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These links have been replaced with a simple “main site” link to take you to the main eckhoCreative website. Also a twitter latest tweets box has been implemented into the sidebar menu to remind visitors we use twitter and to display the tweets without leaving our site, as well as this to capture more followers and people that like us we have implemented a Facebook like button into the top header area of the blog.

And lastly when you are reading blog posts or informational pages there is now the addition of a like button at the bottom of each post, if you like what we have written you can like it and post to your facebook profile. All we need to do now is update with plenty of informational posts!

• View your personal account details we have on file about you, allowing you to inform us of any changes that we need to be made aware of
• View and print invoices we have sent you and view the status of any outstanding invoices
• View your web hosting account and the date of which it expires
• View your Google Analytics details, this allows you to see how many visitors your site has received day-to-day, where visitors have come from, how they have found you, and view the statistics for the current year
• Create, view and update support tickets, for problems with your site, job requests and help we now request that you create a support ticket, this allows us to manage your request more promptly, organised and in a manageable way, you can then see the progress and any updates to the job rather than a lengthy strings of email messages.

To login to the CRM please go to www.eckhocreative.com/crm and enter your login credentials as specified in email correspondence, we would be very greatful for any comments, suggestions and feedback on this new service that is totally free to use and included in your hosting package. If you have any problems with any of this please let us know.

Lead developer on the project had this to say “We are extremely pleased with how this website has turned out and we know that the client is really pleased with the end result, this will help take the clients business to the next level and open up new prospects and avenues in the future, using the latest technologies we have delivered a beautiful website that has far exceeded the clients dreams.”

eckhoCreative worked closely with the head of Research and Marketing to improve the site and deliver the required results, Social Cohesion had this to say “We asked eckhoCreative to redesign parts parts of our company website. They listened to all our suggestions and responded exceptionally quickly to all our requests. We were delighted with the work that they did.”

Be sure to have a look at the new website and let us know what you think!

This website is also extremely unique for this company as JessiesLittleAngels were the lucky winner of a competition to “Win A Website” that was run during January and February 2010, from hundreds of entrants there could only be one winner and this was JessiesLittleAngels.

CEO of Jessies Little Angels Jessica Hunt had this to say:

“I was struggling with my previous web designer when I stumbled across Eckhosystems, my sales were down to zero and I was losing my business completely, I was on the brink of giving up!”

“Eckhosystems designed a totally new website for me making it look much fresher and modern, I loved it! I think the guys there are fantastic with a professional approach guiding me and giving me much needed help and advice, I have been so impressed with their service that I have given them all my printing work now too!”

“They designed my logo, website, leaflets and business cards They are so friendly that they are even my friends on facebook now! The service I have recieved is second to none and I feel much more confident that my business will go from strength to strength in the future and if I have any problems I know I can always go back to them and it will be dealt with quickly.”

The new website features information about the service through the use of a bespoke interactive diagram, key features and functions of the device can be seen by hovering over the key points as detailed on the concise features page, also provided to the user is a concise library of relevant websites such as NHS Direct, BBC, Bristol City Council, Marks and Spencers, Boots to name but a few. These websites can be accessed within a controlled zone known as the Nexus TV gateway and are specific to each individual’s needs. The service it provides offers independence, support, care, monitoring and security to individuals that want to remain in their own home.

Recently nominated for the highly acclaimed “Songlines Music Award” Daniel Harper had this to say “‘I found eckhoCreative to be very useful when re-designing our website for an album launch date. They are very friendly, professional and efficient. They helped us to meet a deadline and were very supportive when it came to website design offering many useful layouts and ideas. Our website now looks far more professional and also is easier to edit and link to our emailing systems.”

Why create a CMS when there are so many available we hear you say, well the answer to this is we can provide UK based support via telephone and email, develop our own themes and modules and tailor the system to suit any customer as we know the code inside out and back to front.

Our new CMS system is currently in the Beta testing stage with a few customers to trial and develop it further, our aim for the system is simplicity, expandability, ease of management and a stylish slick design. The CMS system has been branded “glueCMS” as we hope it will be the glue for many websites to come, more news will be posted on this new venture soon.

http://www.gluecms.com

As like all of our customers we provide them with the complete design package; website design, logo design, stationary design, website hosting, search engine optimisation and our professional online web presence guidance.

We have a busy few months ahead planned that include many new and exciting developments for us and our customers, as and when these become public and available we will blog about them here!

In this article I’m going to show you 10 basic SEO tips that you should keep in mind when writing a new article or developing a new website to make sure your blog ranks high in the search engines.

1. Place Your Keywords In the Title Tag

The title tag is one of the most important things for ranking high for particular keywords. That’s why it’s very important to think of a title that contains important keywords and grabs the attention of people. Because when people search on search engines like Google, the title of your page will be displayed in the results and people will click on links that are the most attractive to them first. Remember that it’s also very important and rewarding to have a unique title, so before you use the title, Google it and see if the title already appears in the top 10 results.

Please keep in mind that Google only displays the first 70 characters(about 8 words) of your page’s title. Google does not even index the keywords in your page’s title after the 12th or so word. Yahoo and MSN don’t even index pages that have a page title that’s too long. Source: Google – How Many Words In A Page Title Tag?

Note: WordPress users should use the All in One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress. This plugin gives you the ability to easily place the title of your post in the beginning of your

2. Optimize Your Robots.txt

Having an optimized robots.txt is important because this file can control which pages of your websites get crawled by the search engine spiders. For those of you who use WordPress, I recommend preventing search engine spiders from crawling wp-admin and plugin folders.

Take a look at my my Robots.txt to get an idea of how it works. Its code is pretty much self explanatory but if you want a better understand of it take a look a the links mentioned below.

3. Proper Use of the ALT Attribute

The attribute should be used to describe an image, not to spammed with keywords that have nothing to do with the image.

Why? Because while it’s true that search engine spiders cannot read images, they can however read the attribute, and having it spammed with keywords that are totally irrelevant to the image will make Google aware of what to derank you for.

4. Anchor Text of Links

The anchor text is the text inside your a tags that links to other pages. Wether they’re incoming or outgoing links, it’s important for the anchor text to contain a description of where the link is taking the visitor. This is even more important for search engines because it tells its crawlers where the link is going.
So avoid using words like “Click Here” as an anchor text as it can hurt both your website and the website you’re linking to. One more thing to keep in mind is to keep the characters in your anchor text under 55.

5. Quality of Inbound and Outbound Links

While most web developers know that having many web sites link to your can boost your rankings, a lot of them don’t know that the quality of the websites linking to your websites plays a vital role in your website’s page rank. Getting links for random dofollow blogs has a way smaller impact than if a website with a high pagerank links to your website in an article.

Who you link to matters, as Google warned webmasters that they can be penalized if they link to spam websites. Linking to really bad websites (malware injecting websites etc.) can easily get your site removed from Google’s search engine results pages(SERPs). One thing to keep in mind is that Google’s spiders might not follow all of your links if you have over 100 unique outbound links on a single page.

6. Proper Use of Header Tags
< h1 >,< /h1 >
< h2 >tags etc. should be used when appropriate. Don’t be using< /h2 >
< h2 >tags as a paragraph or using< /h2 >
< div >class=”title”< /div >
to display the title of your page or something.

Here’s a few things to keep in mind when using header tags:

only use one< /h2 >
< h1 >tag per page
you can use as many< /h1 >
< h2 >-< /h2 >
< h6 >tags as you like in your pages< /h6 >
search engine crawlers only read basic html

7. Importance of the First Paragraph

Your first paragraph is the most important paragraph in your page. This is because it’s the first paragraph search engines scan and they assume that it’s somewhat of a summary of the page/article. That’s why it’s essential to have the most important keywords of your page in the first sentence or two.

If you’re using the All in One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress, the plugin will automatically take the content from your first paragraph and place it in the meta description, which is the text that search engines display under the title of your page.

8. Ensure Your Site is Accessible

An accessible website should ensure that its content can be successfully delivered as often as possible. The functionality of pages, the uptime of the server, validity of HTML elements are all parts of site accessibility. If these points are either ignored or faulty, both your visitors and search engines will select other websites to visit.

9. Use SEO Friendly URLs

The URL of a page should be descriptive so both the users and search engines have an idea what the page they’re being linked to consists of. SEO Friendly URLs also have the benefit of serving as their own anchor text when copy pasted to forums etc. due to URL having the keywords of the page in its URL. These type of URLs usually rank higher in search engines than pages with a URL like example.com/p=981489894.
Furthermore, when using Dynamic URLs try to keep your dynamic parameters under 2 or else the chance is high than it might not get crawled by search engine spiders unless they’re perceived as very important(ie. have a large amount of inbound links).

10. Site Usability

If your website is cluttered with ads and has a terrible layout, accessibility, navigation and low quality of content, chances are that you’ll get less people linking back to your site than one that has better usability than yours, thus resulting in lower page ranking.

If your website was designed in the 90s you seriously need consider hiring a web designer to redesign your website.

We have also added some new buttons that link to our social networking pages on Facebook and Twitter along with a new collection of links that we love, over time this will build up to a useful collection of links that are useful for everyone.

“I’m confident that the updated web site will be a useful resource for new and current customers alike, as well as showcasing what we can do for customers and start-up businesses.” explained Director Simon Fewkes.

We are pleased to provide another service and another update to our CRM software.

We are now offering a complete website design start-up package for customers anywhere in the UK, we can take care of logo design, website design, business card and letterhead design through to domain registration and email setup, not only do we handle all your professional branding and design needs we will also handle your website requirements all in one unique tailored package, to ensure you get your business off on the right foot.

Our business start-up package includes the following:

• Domain name registration
• Email address setup
• Logo design and branding
• Business card and letterhead design
• Website design and construction
• Website analytics

Your website is often the first impression visitors have of your business, so our start-up package is ideal to make sure the impression is a good one!

If you are interested in hosting packages with us please Contact Us today and we can arrange a monthly quote for you or your business.

Eventually all useful information will be easily accessible online by using our CRM so our valued customers have access to the data and information they need when they need it, plus being a lot more greener and not printing off letters and other letters which all can now be done electronically, this is our small way of doing our bit for the environment!

Keyword Research & Analysis

The process of determining the targeted searched keyword phrases that users are searching to find your niche market is one of the primary and most important steps in SEO strategies is to skillfully select keyword phrases that are relevant to your business.

On-page Optimization

The search engine optimization strategy of implementing the chosen keyword phrases from our keyword research into the title tag, meta description and keyword tags while skillfully writing the web page content utilizing keywords, anchor text links and alt tags within a search engine friendly site design.

Website Positioning, Architecture & Navigation

The process of designing a website’s architecture, positioning (where certain things are positioned on the site page) and navigation for the best search engine friendly design.

It is important to keep in mind that SEO is, first and foremost, the practice of constructing a search engine friendly web site. During the strategic developing process, you may overlook website positioning, architecture and navigation as one of the important search engine optimization strategies. SEO is successfully delivered when finding the delicate balance of all the SEO strategies combined. A website’s architecture, positioning and navigation can directly effect the on-page optimization of a site page, as well as the page’s conversion rates.

Search Engine Marketing

The search engine optimization strategy of search engine marketing makes up the true essence of SEO. Often called SEM, search engine marketing is an ongoing process – ideally for the life of a website – that involves SEO strategies like: external link development, pay per click, article submissions, directory submissions and any other reputable, relevant paid inbound linking. Ongoing search engine marketing will significantly aid in higher rankings.

Source: http://www.seo-web-consulting.com

We will also be designing and implementing a brand new blog for her, so this gives us the chance to show off our creative flair and give Frances Taylor the blog she desperately needs.

Currently our CRM allows customers to view their invoices and details we hold on file about them, like contact details and suchlike, the future will hold many exciting new features including support tickets and projects so customers can keep track of their projects and view the status of them, customers can also view status of support tickets for problems with hosting, emails and website issues.

A CRM is a customer relationship manager, we want to improve the way we interact and work with you our valued customers and so will be soon launching our CRM. The first version of the system allows you to view, print and download invoices for any work we have completed for you. What we want you to do once you have received your login credentials is login, have a browse and let us know what you think.

At the moment the system is still in its Beta stage. When the system is 100% complete you will be able to see projects and any work requested and the status of that work, view and add support tickets for problems, updates or issues with your website or service. All our customers will soon be receiving more information.