Project Overview

The Parents Guide To Plymouth web site was set up by Geraldine Lane following the success of her book A Parents Guide to Plymouth which was available in four editions between 1983 and 2006.

The web site hosts a wealth of information for parents in Plymouth including advice on childcare, fostering and adoption, health care, healthy eating, leisure activities, pregnancy and childbirth, schools, shopping and much more.

The original web site was an extremely popular and well received site gaining well over 1000 hits a week. However, over time the information and pages increased to the point where the site became difficult to navigate. This was the driving force behind a new site, to present the same information in a more organised and accessible way. This has been achieved by using a number of techniques to improve layout and accessibility, primarily the layout has changed to a more standard web page format with a header, sidebar and footer. The wp-dtree plugin was installed and has been an invaluable asset, condensing a huge number of menu items into an easy to navigate collapsible menu structure.

With the inclusion of new meta data and an xml sitemap the site should see improved results in the search engines and help generate even more traffic.

Project Overview

uber38 is a brand new unisex hair and beauty salon, conveniently situated on North Hill in Plymouth, walking distance from “just about” anywhere but with the advantage of very close public parking for those wishing to save their footwear.

Hair and beauty is available for men and women of all ages, appointments or walk-ins are welcome at all times, well, preferably during their opening hours.

uber38 can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

WordPress Plugins

The new uber38 web site makes use of a number of plugins including Simple Facebook Connect, All In One SEO Pack, NextGen Gallery and Contact Form 7.

Project Overview

There are so many events that call for a cake – christenings, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries…..and it’s not an occasion without a cake! Whatever you are celebrating Ice and a Slice Cakes can make a unique cake for you.

Check out www.iceandaslicecakes.co.uk or find them on Facebook.

WordPress Plugins

The new Ice and a Slice Cakes web site makes use of a number of plugins including All In One SEO Pack, NextGen Gallery and Contact Form 7.

Project Overview

Over the last couple of months I have been assisting with the development of a Zen Cart e-commerce solution for The Edinburgh Wedding Company. The client, having gone with a large web design company was having difficulties liaising with the team of developers in India to whom the work had been outsourced. I was hired to assist with the final stages of the web site including tidying up the product descriptions, adding attributes for various products and assisting with some minor graphical changes.

The site is now online and can be found at www.edinburghweddingcompany.com. Since the site has gone live I have also assisted with a number of SEO tasks including a Google Adwords campaign and setting up The Edinburgh Wedding Company Facebook and Twitter pages. I have also installed the Google Base (Froogle) Feeder and Ultimate SEO URLs plugins.

Print Media

Over the next few months the following half page and quarter page adverts will be appearing in a range of national wedding magazines. These include the Scottish Wedding Directory and The Best Scottish Wedding Magazine which cover the whole of Scotland. The adverts will also feature in the Belle Bridal Magazine which covers North East England up to the Scottish Borders and Dream Weddings Magazine covering Devon and Cornwall. The magazines are seen by well over 160,000 people.

Client Testimonial

We recently commissioned an e-commerce site to be built by a national web design company. On assignment of our project manager it became apparent that the company’s web designers were based in India. We experienced countless problems with our designers; they did not fully understand our requirements and did not have the necessary skills to complete our e-commerce site. In order to address problems we contacted Paul at Retro Edge Web Design. Paul undertook work amending Zen Cart settings, amending coding problems, resizing images. Paul even produced screenshots with instructions that we sent out to our website project manager in India to resolve website alignment problems. Paul has also assisted us with online marketing and integrating SEO modules.

From the very first phone call Paul has been an absolute pleasure to deal with. He is friendly, approachable and extremely professional. Paul has totally bowled me over with his extensive web design knowledge. I have gained excellent ongoing advice from Paul to overcome major problems we experienced with our original web design company. Paul lives and breathes web design and it’s clear that he loves what he does; this really shows in his work. I can firmly say that it has only been down to Paul’s assistance that we have achieved the completion of our e-commerce website. Paul’s customer service is nothing short of perfection; he is always available via e-mail, on the phone, and in person; he always goes that extra mile. I only wish that I had contacted Paul in first instance. I will certainly be looking to work with Retro Edge Web Design in the near future on future projects. I can not recommend Retro Edge Web Design highly enough.