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02 July 2010 at 16:17
It's always good to see clients creeping up the search engine rankings, but also to see them appear in the local and national newspapers as well. Proof in the pudding that it's not always just about having a website you also need to generate some positive PR and involve some alternative forms of marketing.
Henry Birtles Associates are a sports media consultancy specialising in sports rights for television, international betting management and sports marketing innovation. Henry, found of HBA, came up with the idea of The Advantage, which will revolutionise the way major tournament football matches are handled in the event of a tie-break. If the teams are drawn at the end of full-time play, penalties will be carried out before extra time takes place. Therefore one team will go into extra time with The Advantage and extra time is carried out without stalemate and without two teams playing defensively hoping to win the game in penalties.
To view the full article: The Advantage (PDF)
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Tags: PR | National Press | Local Paper
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29 June 2010 at 11:58
We are very proud to be sponsoring Scott Redding in his challenge for a Moto2 title in 2010. We have also recently launched a new website for Scott which can be found at http://www.scott-redding45.co.uk .
In light of Scott's recent success at Silverstone and eventually finishing 4th, Scott was recognised in The Stroud News & Journal's Sports section:
Or to view the full article: ...
Tags: MotoGP | Motorsport | Website Design | PR
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09 June 2010 at 12:14
A new site for Henry Birtles Associates has launched. The new site is a great improvement over the previous version and does a much better job of conveying the media roots of HBAs business.
The existing content has been incorporated into a new design while keeping the existing brand.
The site will soon feature streaming video to further promote the services and ideas of the Company. ...
Tags: website | gloucestershire | design | streaming video
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15 May 2010 at 18:00
We've finally got round to updating out Twitter background from a very simple and slightly meaningless image to what we would now consider more useful to all of our followers through this fantastic form of social media.
Twitter Background - Before
Twitter Background - After
Granted the changes are quite subtle, however the new background has meant that the whitespace around ...
Tags: Twitter | Social Media | Marketing
Posted in General Web Advice | Social Media | No Comments
02 February 2010 at 12:54
When we look at sites which we haven't developed it's quite common for us to delve deeper into the source code and check out how the website we're looking at is designed and built.
Looking at the CSS, Design and Build Quality of other people's websites helps us hone our development techniques. Sometimes we spot other coder's quirks and it makes us chuckle a little.
I was taking a quick ...
Tags: Internet Explorer | Source Code | CSS | Design | Layout
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23 October 2009 at 09:19
Now this is funny, take a look at the following screenshot that we found whilst browsing the web this week. It shows a problem you might encounter if you include a live feed on your website without proper scrutiny.
Seeing this caused us to laugh out loud but we soon realised that this is a classic example of the potential problem with incorrectly managed social media in ...
Tags: twitter | marketing | social media
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08 April 2009 at 15:17
Ahead of schedule and a site which we feel far exceeded even our own expectations; Cirencester Arena went fully live in the last week.
The website required a full re-design and some general tidying up. The resulting site is now much more search engine friendly and better represents the 5-a-side football arena's branding and ethos.
View the site in our web design portfolio or view ...
Tags: 5-a-Side Football | Cirencester | Gloucestershire | Web Design
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23 February 2009 at 12:17
When approached by clients who are looking to have a website designed for their business, one of the first questions they ask is, "So, how does this work then?" If you prepare a good website brief for your web designer, then we can give you a very good indication of the costs and timescales involved in building your new website:
Do you have a logo and branding in place? If you have then it ...
Tags: Gloucestershire | Stroud | Web Design
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26 January 2009 at 14:46
There are frequent times when a full file path is extracted from a database or passed to your function and you need the file name. This handy Classic ASP one liner can be used to pull out the filename part of the path in a single hit.
sFilePath = “C:/websites/mywebsite/images/my-logo.jpg” sFileName = Right(sFilePath, Len(sFilePath) - InStrRev(sFilePath,"/"))
Remember that ...
Tags: asp | code | filepath | filename
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14 January 2009 at 10:20
It’s a hot topic at the moment and everyone is talking about how the looming recession has hit businesses across the country. But how has it affected a small web design company in rural Stroud, Gloucestershire?
HostPipe has been going for nearly five years now and we have reached a certain amount of stability within the web design marketplace. What has become apparent is companies (and ...
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