Archive for August, 2009

Our promise to update the blog more this week failed.

We were going to honest but the week has passed us by at such a pace we were surprised to find us at this holiday weekend so soon.

Next week a number of websites will be released into the wild, so keep your eyes peeled for them.

Apologies from all at Zedoary for the lack of blog updates this week – but we’ve been working on so many exciting projects we have no had time to update it!

We’ll do better next week, we promise.

So, what have we been working on? Well we can’t reveal all the details but there are online shops, WordPress and brochure site galore.

In addition the latest update for the Jubilee Sailing Trust was emailed to the branches.

So, in a nutshell it’s busy, but it’s good.

Just a short blog post to let you know about some of the exciting events of the last week.

Custom WordPress Themes

As reported earlier in the week we delivered a custom WordPress Theme for Alto Marketing earlier in the week.  We are also currently working on a few other custom WordPress Themes and will let you know as soon as they are launched.

Court Information Solutions

We also updated the website we are developing for Court Information Solutions.  This site is technically still in pre-launch as there are a few corners to tidy, but it’s presentable enough to show to the world!

New Projects

Along with our existing projects a couple of new ones were started this week.  A website for a glamour model and another for a recruitment specialist amongst them.

Facebook

And we’ve been banging on about this all week, but our Facebook page has been re-invented.  Please sign up as a fan, there is also a special competition running for the first 100 fans!

We are very happy to announce the latest project we have been working on has gone live – a custom WordPress theme for Alto Marketing.

This is also however a story of how Twitter can help your business as it was through this we were brought together. Indeed Chris Hatch from Zedoary had already met Alice Dickinson (Marketing Communications Executive for Alto Marketing) at the Tueday Tweetup, a twitter users bash in Southampton.

Then one day whilst working hard reading the tweets we saw a cry for help as they were looking for a Southampton Web Development company to turn their flat design for their new website into a custom WordPress Theme.

We were delighted to be able to help and the completed theme went live yesterday.  So go to their shiny new website to check out the latest information about marketing communications in science.

Yes, if you sign up as a fan on our new Facebook group you could win £10,000.

Once we get to 100 fans we will choose 5 people at random.  Those 5 people will receive a National Lottery scratchcard and who knows, they could win £10,000.

If you want to be in with a shot of winning the sign up to the Southampton Website Design and Development group today!

From time to time we like to tell you about services on the web we recommend – one we use, and love, is Dropbox.

What exactly is Dropbox?

Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online.

Works like you do

No complicated interface to learn. Dropbox runs in the background on your desktop.

Worry-free syncing

Sync your files automatically to your computers and the web.

It’s everywhere you are

Sign in and access your files from any browser or mobile device.

Easy sharing

Sharing files with your friends and family is just two clicks away.

Photos

View your photos in a gallery and share them easily with anyone.

Really there are 2 things here:

1. Just below is our first demo podcast created by this Southampton Website Design and Development company and it tells you about our special offer for the 10th Free WordPress Theme.

2. If you don’t want to listen to the podcast then basically we’re offering the chance to choose the features of the next theme.  Just fill in this form…

We would like to take this moment to recommend Freshbooks – an online invoicing solution that just rocks.

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional – Fortune 500 professional. FreshBooks is easy to use and is recommended by Zedoary.

Features of FreshBooks

• Easily create, send and manage invoices.
• Track time (for you and your staff).
• Send invoices by email or US post.
• Accept payment with PayPal, Authorize.Net and more.
• Automatically send invoices and late payment notices.
• Create robust reports and import/export your data.

Benefits of FreshBooks

• Save time billing. Serious time.
• Get paid faster.
• Easy, easy, easy to use.
• Customize it and look professional.
• Quick set up.
• Free account or 30 day money back guarantee.

Zedoary have been proud to be a part of 4Networking, the UK’s largest joined up networking organisation, since the launch of our local group, Southampton, in June of 2008.

One of the features of the 4Networking website is the ability to have a profile, you can see ours here.  Some people however have rather dull profiles, just a few lines of text – so Zedoary, Southampton Website Design and Development company, offers a solution.

A 4Networking profile re-design service.  We will take you existing profile, website and any other info you may have and merge them into a stunning profile.

For full details of this offer – click >>here<<.

We have updated this website with further details of our PSD slicing service.

In a nutshell if you have a image of what you want your website to look like either a PSD, AI, PDF, PNG or another type of file we will convert it into a web page for you.  The page will be valid XHTML with a CSS and the source will be ordered, commentated and just really, really nice code.

This service is ideal for front end website designers who desire high quality code to go with their high quality design.  In addition we can keep quiet about it and will sign a NDA so your clients will never need to know that we wrote the code.

If this is a service that you think would interest you then drop us a line.