Category: Work/Technical

  • Vehicle Conversions by Source

    We’ve worked with Source for years, and apart from an original website i made for them YEARS ago – they’ve never had a website that truly showed them off in the spotlight they deserve to be under.

    When Paul @ Source rang me saying he wanted to talk about some new websites for both Source Sounds, and Source Conversions i was over the moon!

    Vehicle Conversions, SheffieldOver the last few weeks we have been working on the new website – and its finally live! the website is for a new venture from source, and its called Source Conversions. The company in fact specialises in something source have been doing for years – bespoke vehicle conversions, however now they also specialise in police car conversions, campervan conversions and utility vehicle conversions – to name a few.

    Due to the differences in the services Source Conversions offer, we have built the site so that people are directed straight to the part that is relevant to them – and then contact Source from that very page.

    We’ve used the same wonderful software we always do, and Adam has done a storming job with the layout – all in all i think the new Source Conversions site should help them promote what they do, successfully, to the entire world!

    For more info, please visit the Source Conversions website or call Source on 0114 257 1550.

  • Horsing around with Local Business Listings?

    Haha.. i love a good old play on words!

    Over our business life we have met many people, some of them have been great – and some of them have been naaaasssttyyy. We have recently had the pleasure of making a website for the Villa Mar Riding School, Chesterfield. Its a family run operation, and for 18 years have gained a list of satisfied customers longer than both your arms put together – yet for some reason they have been a target of some kind of malicious attack via Google Local Business Listings.

    For those that don’t know, GLBL (Nope, thats just what i call it!) is a way of being found on the internet, for free, in your local area. You sign up, the post you a postcard to ensure you actually live there and if someone types in Riding School Chesterfield in, you get a local business entry smack bang at the top of google!

    SIMPLES!

    GLBL is a fantastic way of promoting yourself – but, it can also be used against you as it has in this case. According to sources, there are a lot of riding schools in the area, and they are all very competitive. And due to the success of Villa Mar they have taken it upon themselves to add nasty reviews on GLBL about the riding school, meaning anyone looking to go there would instantly be put off.

    What do you do if this has happened to you?

    Well in a lot of cases when it comes to internet marketing and promotion – fight fire with fire i say! But as GLBL is so public and is kinda out of anyone’s (apart from the mighty G of course) control – I’d say don’t use fire, but just try and highlight the good things and the positive comments so the bad/spam ones are buried.

    Get all your existing and previous satisfied customers to visit the GLBL review page and add a nice comment and rate it accordingly, and the more good listings you get the higher your overall rating will be, until its back up to its rightful spot near the 5/5 mark 🙂

    You can of course flag the reviews as inappropriate, but I’m afraid if they sound like they could be true then i doubt very much Google will do anything about them as for all they know they could be true – and I’m sure they don’t wish to be responsible for advising someone to go somewhere and them having a terrible experience as a result of it.

    For anyone thinking of trying it on a competitor, don’t bother. There are many ways to overcome your competitors on the internet, do it properly and you will always come out on top.

  • Disaster Girl FTW

    Hahahahaha, i saw this on some site a few days ago – i couldn’t stop laughing. to cut a long story short, its a transparent PNG file of a girl looking very mischievous!

    Your supposed to drop her head on photos of disasters and it rate looks like she is responsible.. eg;

    disaster-girl-ftw

    It fits so well! Hahaha.. I wonder what the original pic was, i bet she’d just pushed her brother in a puddle or something – the little bastard.

    Anyway, if you wanna play then all you have to do is save this file and your away!

    Have fun! And please share with me your chops! 🙂

    EDIT – original from here, cant take the credit myself!

    EDIT2 – Added another!

    disaster-girl-ftw2

    Added a blurr to this one so it looks a bit more like a photo thats been taken 🙂 Hahaha

  • WordPress and my Blackberry

    I have been toying with various applications for the blackberry curve 8900 that we got a few months ago, most without much success!

    It seems that most applications give me a tunnel error or some other kind of connection error that stops them from working. This seems to be the case with all twitter blackberry apps except twitterberry – which is a bit poo anyway.

    I installed the wordpress application as I thought it would help me make better use of my days as I would be able to blog from anywhere I could get a phone signal. Alas, this was not the case.

    I was just getting errors about connections and shit again – so the wordpress for blackberry app was left gathering dust on my phone.

    This morning I decided to have a play with it again, as soon as I opened it, it informed me of an update – downloaded that and bingo!

    I am writing this on my blackberry as I’m sat on the toilet haha 🙂

    There’s no stopping me now!