Diary for September 2009

25th Wooden Cabbage Website Relaunch

Today we relaunched the new website for Wooden Cabbage, a fabulous Bed and Breakfast in West Dorset. Its lovely hosts and great location are featured on their updated site along with new photography and text that really shows this B&B off to its full potential....

18th Alacrify Launches New TLD Domain Registration Service

Alacrify is now able to register Top Level Domains (.com and .net) as a registrar with Tucows. More details can be found here....

1st ArtWey Open Studios in Weymouth and Portland

Every weekend in September 2009 Weymouth & Portland artists open their studios for the public to visit. It is a rare opportunity to meet visual artists such as painters, sculptors and potters in their natural environment! Visitors can look at their work, talk to the creators and maybe even have a go at it themselves. They can buy or commission artworks and find out about future events such as exhibitions and workshops. The Weymouth Museum at Brewers Quay is hosting an exhibition of work b...

25th Bed and Breakfast Website Rebranding

Today we launched a new incarnation of the website for one of West Dorset's loveliest Bed and Breakfasts - Wooden Cabbage. In order to build on the response rate from visits to the website we proposed a redesign earlier this year and put together a series of visuals to illustrate potential new approaches to the design. Over the summer we have been compiling artwork and text with the owners to create a lovely website, showing off the fabulous B&B to its fullest potential. We have assist...

23rd Submitting Websites to Search Engines

This week we have been making sure we're getting the most exposure for all our clients' websites and have started to resubmit their site information to four of the major search engines: Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask Jeeves. To achieve this we have updated (and in some cases created) new XML sitemaps for the sites which Google, Bing and Ask Jeeves can then use to find all the pages in the site really easily. The format for these sitemaps is really simple; <urlset xmlns="http://w...

18th New Services from Alacrify - Domain Registration

In addition to the recruitment of new staff over the summer, we have been looking to expand Alacrify's portfolio of services too. Foremost among this has been considering whether or not to become Registrars for website domain names. Today we can announce that we are now registrars for Top Level Domains (TLDs) like .com and .net through Tucows. We are also in the process of applying to become registrars of .uk domains through Nominet too. Two things have prompted this decision. Firstly t...

15th Managing Business Growth

The challenges of growing as a company have been occupying my mind over the past few weeks. Since we decided to recruit staff to cope with our expanding portfolio of work and clients I've been spending my time juggling the complex demands of inducting and training Pete and Stefan, planning work schedules, sorting out the extra admin that employment brings, and doing work too. I suspect that this is always the case for businesses in our position. Certainly other friends a...

11th First Week For Our Newest Recruit

This Monday our newest recruit, Stefan Warman, joined the company. Stefan was the successful applicant for the Graduate Web Developer job that we advertised earlier in the Summer. Stefan brings a strong set of programming skills to the company, and an flair for contemporary web design. This blend of abilities and expertise immediately caught our attention as it is a perfect match for the varied kinds of work that we do every day at Alacrify. This week Stefan's been working his way around sever...

9th Alascia Marketing Website Launched

We are proud to announce the launch of the new website for Alascia Marketing today. This new site promotes the work of Marcia Stevenson's new business which builds on her experience as a marketing specialist working with many major companies over recent years. Alascia and Alacrify will be working together over coming months, each drawing on the expertise of the other. We will continue to provide services to Alascia and in turn we will draw on Alascia's knowledge and input to assist our client...

3rd Using our New Micro CMS - Client Recommendations

Meriel Thurstan is a botanical artist who works with the Eden Project and the Lost Gardens at Heligan as a teacher and author. This year we have developed two new websites for her, www.swsba.org.uk and www.merielthurstan.co.uk As part of the development we have provided our new Micro CMS (Content Management System) on several pages on these sites to allow Meriel to maintain the page content herself. This is her story... I came fairly late in life to the idea of a website, and was complet...

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