We work primarily with small business owners, and most often, with the owner him or herself.

A key part of how we understand the needs of small businesses is that we are one. We understand the time crunch business owners face every day and how sometimes your own marketing efforts can fall by the wayside when you are busy working to meet YOUR clients’ needs.  A good example of how we were able to help one of our clients this week is a phased approach to launching a new website.  They had a basic “contact information” website when we began, and little that represented their high-tech unique manufacturing skills and processes.

Our client didn’t have the time available to write a lot of content and take photos for us to showcase his company’s capabilities but understood that having a nice design, an easy-to-use contact form, and some imagery, was better than leaving the website as it was.   I understand that some bigger web design companies will not do much to help with “content” of a website, or will request separate fees to help on that side.  We take that on to get our clients moving in the right direction.  We took the approved design and fleshed out 4 pages (where just one is a placeholder page) and launched their website, while they continue to spend their time where it is needed.

The phased approach to web design

The FJ Feddersen Gun barrels website (in its phase 1 stage) is pictured above.  Documentopia designed the logo and website design, as well as photography touch up and content editing.  The website mainly links to their “e-commerce” site, which we designed and launched earlier this year, 10/22 Rifle Barrels.

We look forward to fleshing out the rest of the website and extending the reach of the gun barrels manufacturing company.  It’s always worth considering the phased approach if you are pushed for time and need to start by replacing something that is no longer useful to you or your customers.

Look Out Yorkshire – remote Marketing and PR is coming to help you improve your image and Business Performance.

Meet Jane of remote Marketing and PR – after years of running marketing departments and transforming company identities and re-branding companies across the UK, she’s now made herself available to help any company as she launches her new company, remote Marketing and PR.

We are proud to be able to help Jane create her OWN identity as she launches this exciting new company, remote Marketing and PR,  located in the heart of Yorkshire.  We designed her logo and website, working with her marketing insight to create an eye-catching, clean attractive design.

Sometimes you need to work outside the box

I have put up a completely new version of the Stand Alone Active record library (based on CodeIgniter 2.1.0).  What this library allows you to do is use your normal CI-based active record – selects, wheres, etc, without having to use the complete CodeIgniter framework.

I usually use it when I am either writing importers or other utilities that will be thrown away, or when I am retrofitting an existing website with new functionality.   In this case I had to do some importing of records so instead I spent a few hours getting this all ready.   – It is also on Documentopia’s Github Account.

Previous versions of this had several hundred downloads so hopefully it is useful to somebody.

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