June 2016 - Drive By Websites Ltd.

Mobile Friendly Berkley Owls – What A Treat

21st June 2016 by driveby

As an avid viewer of Springwatch and, of course, Autumnwatch, it came as a nice surprise for the writer of this blog to be asked to build a mobile-friendly website, together with a Facebook newsfeed, on behalf of Lincolnshire-based Berkley Owls. What a treat.

Berkley Owls rescues owls and, over time, has learnt how to care for them after they’ve had treatment at the vets. Injuries as a result of a traffic incident can be more serious than first appears because owls have fragile eyes that can be easily damaged. The Berkley Owl Rescue Centre has all the trained staff and equipment required to assess an injured owl. A lot of the equipment has been bought using donations without which they would be unable to treat the injured owls and would have to turn them away.

Berkley Owls can be booked to attend an event. The display is open to view throughout the opening times of the event and visitors can experience holding an owl for a small fee, and even have a photograph taken as a memento of the experience for an additional fee.

Both Drive By Design and Drive By Websites had an input into the work required on behalf of Berkley Owls. Drive By Design in respect of creating a new logo and, of course, Drive By Websites designing and building the website. For more information, please visit http://www.berkleyowls.co.uk/

Recruitment Website – Early Years & Nannies

21st June 2016 by driveby

Both Drive By Websites & Drive By Design’s expertise was required to carry out the work required by Finnelle Recruitment.

Spalding-based, Finnelle Recruitment supply childcare professionals for nurseries and schools specialising in the recruitment of Nursery Managers, Deputy Managers either permanent or temporary.

For parents, Finnelle recommend nannies that have been personally interviewed and thoroughly screened by an experienced childcare consultant. The recommended nannies will possess the necessary skills and experience.

First of all, Drive By Design was set the task of designing the Finnelle Recruitment logo. Our graphic designer just loves getting creative and we feel that the logo design conveys Finnelle perfectly. We hope you agree.

The Finnelle Recruitment website was then designed with the new logo in mind and, of course, mobile friendliness. We’ve also integrated a Facebook newsfeed. Newsfeeds are an ideal promotional tool providing they are kept up-to-date. We are delighted to report that Finnelle have a good relationship with social media and they regularly update their Facebook page.

During the initial stage of the website design, Drive By Websites will create 4 website designs from which you can choose or mix and match. Once the design has been agreed, we will then implement our technical skills to actually build the website. To view the Finnelle website, please click here

For more information in respect of good graphic design please visit – www.drivebydesign.co.uk

Mobile Websites – The Stats Are Staggering

15th June 2016 by driveby

The future is mobile friendly with the provision of Superfast 4G. Over the past couple of years or so, we have changed the way we shop, bank, communicate and even watch TV. The writer of this blog has recently returned from a weekend break in London which is living proof that Smartphone users take more photos than on any other device. According to the stats provided by www.ofcom.org.uk 60% of adults say that they use their Smartphone most of all to take a pic, rising to 89% of 16-24 year olds. Just over one in five adults (22%) mostly use their digital camera. From August 2013 to August 2014, people in the UK took an estimated 1.2 billion ‘selfies’.

Ofcom reported that in March 2015, two-thirds of people owned a Smartphone using it for almost two Time Spent Online hours every day to browse the internet, access their social media, bank and to shop online. This figure compared with just over an hour spent online using their laptop and PC.

On the 21st April last year, Google announced that if your website doesn’t pass the mobile friendliness test, it will feature less prominently on its search engine results. In a blog, the company stated that “this will have a significant impact in our search results. Consequently, users will find it easier to get relevant, high quality search results that are optimised for their devices”.

At the same time last year, research began to show that visits to retail websites via mobile devices had overtaken desktop traffic for the first time. Mobile commerce now accounts for 36% of the UK e-retail sales, rising to 40% for clothing and apparel websites.

At Drive By Websites HQ, we regularly develop and maintain completely unique responsive websites which re-size and re-proportion according to the browsing devices.

Drive By Websites’ choice of platform to use for mobile friendly websites is WordPress because:

ease of user – you can easily make updates.
sites can be managed from any computer or device
search engines love WordPress sites
there’s no HTML or FTP software required (for the end user)
websites are designed to be future-proofed and grow along with the development of the business.

Drive By Websites securely hosts and manages over 150 mobile friendly websites mainly locally but nationally too.

Drive By Websites offer a fast turnaround, we are affordable and easy to get along with. Please feel free to get in touch by calling us on 01775 761512.