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Voice Over Artist secured by Website Design

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Voice Over Artist Andy Turvey has had his main website secured by Website Design Cheltenham.

Voice Over Artist Andy Turvey has had his main website secured by Website Design Cheltenham.Website Design in Cheltenham have been helping Andy Turvey with his websites including his main eponymous voiceover site for a number of years.

Having updated his website last year we realised that to maintain his professional status that his side would need to be secured- even though he doesn’t take online books nor maintain personal, sensitive customer data online.

This process also has the added advantage that Google ranks protected and secure websites over unprotected sites as a way of improving overall online reputations.

Then we added a number of other security measures. But what these exactly are are between us and the client.

Cyber security is a growing threat to all businesses- large and small so this area is one where we are increasingly helping our clients.

Large scale cyber security breaches make the headlines but about 70% of organisations are not reporting their worst security incidents- so what is making the news is just a small proportion of the breaches that are actually taking place.

Britain was being targeted by up to 1,000 cyber attacks every hour in 2014. The latest published figures in 2016 don’t even quantify the latest rates- except to say that 24% of ALL businesses they surveyed have had one or more cyber security breaches in the past 12 months.

So, if you want to protect your business’s website and your business processes then please contact us NOW or ring us on now to see how we can help you to make money as well!
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11 Plus Tutor tops Google

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An 11 Plus tutor Hilary Hayward Tuition now tops Google rankings in Charlton Kings, Cheltenham.

An 11 Plus tutor Hilary Hayward Tuition now tops Google rankings in Charlton Kings, Cheltenham.Hilary Hayward approached Website Design in Cheltenham to update and search engine optimise her 11 Plus Tuition website- which we are pleased to report is now recieving a top ranking on Google for her main keyword phrases.

Hilary tutored her 3 children in verbal reasoning and saw the benefits of this process. They have all been successful in gaining places in local grammar schools. She had already gained experience in helping other parents to understand the Eleven Plus process and they have benefited from her experience.

She has seen how preparation carried out in a relaxed way boosts confidence and aids children to cope with the pressures of the actual exam day. Tuition can take place at her home or she can come to a more convenient location for the parent or child. She is based in Cheltenham, having been CRB checked

Having seen at first hand how expert Hilary is we appreciated the opportunity to compliment her educational prowess. But it is not her tutoring skills which are most effective- it is her interpersonal ability to understand her charges before setting off on their tutoring journey.

Her personalised approach is the key to her success- which is much the same as Website Design Cheltenham process.

Whilst the underlying requirements are the same- each and every client has their own individual needs, which we need to satisfy to achieve overall success.

So, if you want to get your website top of Google and increase your online business’s traffic, sales and profits then please contact us NOW or ring us on now to see how we can help you to make money as well!
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WDC at Gloucestershire Safer Cyber Forum

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Website Design Cheltenham attended last week’s Gloucestershire Safer Cyber Forum hosted by Gloucestershire Police.

Website Design Cheltenham attended last week's Gloucestershire Safer Cyber Forum hosted by Gloucestershire Police.One of the key findings was that Gloucestershire businesses should contact the Police as early as possible about cyber crime- even before they are targeted.

“The sooner we can become involved the better,” said Garry Lilburn, detective inspector, cyber crime unit, Metropolitan Police.

Current reporting mechanisms are “clunky” and there plans to replace them, he said, but in the meantime, businesses can make direct contact with the cyber divisions of the National Crime Agency (0370 496 7622) UK-wide or the Met Police for cyber crime in London (0207 230 8129) or 01452 752644 in Gloucestershire.

“Businesses can call us to discuss what is happening and get advice without having to officially report a crime and without fear of it leaking to the media or regulators,” said Lilburn, adding that some of the biggest cyber crime cases his unit has worked on have never been reported in public.

“If businesses contact us about cyber crime in action, we can advise them on how to mitigate the attack, preserve evidence, and how to communicate with cyber extortion gangs and even the media if necessary in the case of high-profile attacks,” he said.

However, Lilburn said businesses should engage with police even before they are targeted by cyber criminals.

“We offer a service of conducting table-top exercises with businesses so they can experience what it is like to work with the police in the event of an attack by cyber criminals and learn what kind of information we will need and the kind of questions we will ask,” he said.

“Businesses should ensure they understand what law enforcement can do for them, what investigators are likely to ask for, and what they can do to help any investigation,” he said, adding that they should get their legal counsel involved because they are going to be one of the first points of contact with the police in the event of a cyber criminal attack.

Cyber crime is almost always international in nature, but that should not put businesses off reporting cyber criminal activities, even if they appear to be coming from overseas or conducted through anonymising proxies, said Lilburn.

“While cyber criminals may be based in countries where we cannot reach them, they also like to go on vacation, and often they go to countries where we do have the ability to make arrests, so businesses should talk to law enforcement about the cyber criminal activities they are seeing,” he said.

“Law enforcement should learn from this and also begin to find ways to collect information about bad actors that can be queried by law enforcement agencies around the world,” he said.

“Just because cyber criminals are located in other countries or appear to be anonymous, businesses should not assume we will not be interested or that we will not be able to take action against those responsible”

Many of these third parties are small and medium enterprises that work as suppliers or partners to larger organisations, but these businesses typically do not have the same level of security awareness or resources as their bigger partners.

Indeed part of the out group is Cyber Security Force who are part of the Gloucestershire Safer Cyber Forum- which is founded and run by the Gloucestershire Constabulary.

So, if you want to protect your business’s survival then please contact us NOW or ring us on now to see how we can help you to make money as well!
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Website Design Cheltenham secures Cyber Security Force

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Website Design in Cheltenham has secured the Cyber Security Force.

Website Design in Cheltenham has secured the Cyber Security Force.Website Design in Cheltenham has been helping a number of organisations with their online security for a number of years so we are very pleased to have secured the Cyber Security Force site.

The first step logically was to protect both the domain’s server and users with a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) which then adds a green padlock to the browser’s view of the URL so that the http bit becomes https.

This process also has the added advantage that Google ranks protected and secure websites over unprotected sites as a way of improving overall online reputations.

Then we added a number of other security measures. But what these exactly are are between us and the client.

Cyber security is a growing threat to all businesses- large and small so this area is one where we are increasingly helping our clients.

Large scale cyber security breaches make the headlines but about 70% of organisations are not reporting their worst security incidents- so what is making the news is just a small proportion of the breaches that are actually taking place. Britain is being targeted by up to 1,000 cyber attacks every hour.

So, if you want to protect your business’s website and your business processes then please contact us NOW or ring us on now to see how we can help you to make money as well!
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Website Design Cheltenham updates Just Value It

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Website Design in Cheltenham has just updated the Just Value It site.

Website Design in Cheltenham has just updated the Just Value It site.A website is not like a printed brochure- it needs constant updating, both for people and the search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.

There’s nothing like old content and old dates to put off your potential new customers visiting a site, so Website Design Cheletenham was asked to update the Just Value It site with new content. We were also asked to make the company’s branding consistent across all of the pages.

And of course we re-search engine optimised all of the pages at the same time.

It was not just an update that took place- we also made the site more sales orientated with more phone numbers prominent and larger Call To Action buttons on every page.

So, if you want to increase your business’s website- and your website’s sales then please contact us NOW or ring us on now to see how we can help you to make money as well!
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Website Design Cheltenham chalks up School Uniform Shop

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Website Design Cheltenham has chalked up the School Uniform Shop site.

Website Design in Cheltenham has chalked up the School Uniform Shop siteWebsite Design in Cheltenham has chalked up the School Uniform Shop UK site.

One of our longstanding clients- Universal Uniforms recently asked us to update their school uniform website.

We built this site for them several years ago and it has been largely dormant ever since- however it still had a first page ranking on Google.

But with Google constantly changing the ways that they rank sites the uniform site needed a revamp to make it responsive and to have it’s search engine optimisation updated.

Plus due to increasing demand for it’s business services the client had moved to larger premises so they also needed the contact details updating.

Accordingly we completely revamped the “look and feel” and set about updating the content to reflect the changing nature of the business. And then updated Google as to the site’s revised content.

The client was so delighted that they paid our invoice within 24 hours- so we are pretty chuffed too!

So, if you want to increase your business’s profile- and your website’s sales then please contact us NOW or ring us on 01242 521967 now to see how we can help you to make money as well!
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New business floods in for Prestbury Bathrooms

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New business floods in for one of our clients- Prestbury Bathrooms.

New business floods in for one of our clients- Prestbury Bathrooms.Website Design Cheltenham were approached by Mark Clay the Managing Director of Prestbury Bathrooms last year to help them rebuild their website and to get more traffic and business as a result.

There are three things that any business needs to do to win new business- whether they are online or offline:

  • Be found;
  • Offer the good and services that people want to buy;
  • Convey the trust that the business will delivery on people’s hard earned money.

We then researched the keywords that potential new customers are using for Prestbury Bathrooms’ services and completely redesigned, made responsive and optimised a whole new website.

Secondly element- the website has to match the new customers’ expectations- which in this case is skilled, great value bathroom design installation services.

Which may sound easy enough until you consider that all of these screens- computer, notepads and smart phones have different dimensions. So all the website’s images have to be resized so that all appear correctly.

Thus when a website depends on it’s images to sell and promote the skills and quality of the business- this becomes a bit of an issue. Thus when a page has nearly two dozen images- and they all need to be resized several times, the process becomes a bit of an organisational task.

The third step is less hard in Prestbury’s case as they are a well established, reputable service with lot of excellent examples and testimonials. They just needed this skilled, professional approach emphasising.

Overall we have managed to promote Prestbury Bathrooms from having three pages listed in Google’s database to having over 40 pages now listed. And we are pleased to say quite a few are now ranked on the first page fo Google for the keyword phrases that Mr Clay wanted.

The business result- Prestbury Bathrooms now have work fully booked for the next four months- as Mark told us today- “Thank you- you must be doing something right we have never been so busy!”

So, if you want help with making money from your website by attracting new customers and new business- please contact us now or ring us on 01242 521967 now to see how we can help you to make money as well!
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Cyber security in Cheltenham

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Cyber security services in Cheltenham

Cyber security services in CheltenhamWebsite Design Cheltenham is pleased to announce that our Managing Director Simon Dye has just completed a Cyber Security Open University course and passed the final assessment with a 94% mark.

This educational attainment epotimises our committment to remain at the cutting edge of technoligal advancements- so you can be sure that we know what we are talking about in helping you.

Large scale cyber security breaches make the headlines but about 70% of organisations are not reporting their worst security incidents- so what is making the news is just a small proportion of the breaches that are actually taking place.

Britain is being targeted by up to 1,000 cyber attacks every hour.

For small organisations the worst breaches cost between £65,000 and £115,000 on average and for large organisations may run to many millions of pounds. These costs can occur as direct financial losses due to fraud or theft; the loss of productivity due to time spent recovering from the effects of a successful attack; or the lost of trust and reputation.

UK small businesses value their reputation as one of their key assets. Yet they are hugely underestimating the likelihood of a cyber breach happening to them and its long term impact:

60% of small businesses surveyed have experienced a cyber breach, but only 29% of those who haven’t experienced a breach cited potential reputational damage as an ‘important’ consideration.

The impact of a cyber breach can be huge and long lasting. 89% of the small businesses surveyed who have experienced a breach said it impacted on their reputation.  Those who experienced a breach said the attack led to:
Brand damage (31%)
Loss of clients (30%)
Ability to win new business (29%)

Cyber prevention is much better than cure

According to one industry report, the number of cyber ransomware attacks increased in 2014 by more than 4,000%, with small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) being the main target due to poor security practices.

The rise in legitimate websites being compromised for the purposes of executing watering hole attacks as a way of delivering malware – including ransomware – means enterprises need to add malware detection to web browsing activities.

Could your business survive a ransomware attack- would your accounts or your customer data be recoverable? Do you know how to safeguard your organisation’s very survival?

So, if you want to increase your ensure your organisation’s continued wellbeing then please contact us NOW or ring us on 01242 521967 now to see how we can help you to make money as well!
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Website Design Cheltenham adds 11+ Tutor

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Website Design in Cheltenham has added 11+ Tutor Hilary Hayward to our list of clients.

Website Design in Cheltenham has added 11+ Tutor Hilary Hayward to our list of clients.Cheltenham 11+ tutoring expert Hilary Hayward has been helping local children prepare for the Gloucestershire Grammer schools entrance exam.

Gloucestershire has some of the highest achieving Grammar schools in the country. As such the Grammar school entry process in Gloucestershire is very competitive, as there is no catchment area. Plus many children apply from outside the county.

Having experienced Hilary’s expert tution process at first hand it was only an act of friendship to offer to help her update her website and optimise it in the process.

Tutoring for the eleven plus based in Cheltenham.

She aims to build children’s faith in themselves, to allow them to perform at their best on the day of the grammar school entrance exam.

The verbal reasoning questions that are used for the eleven plus can seem baffling when you first look at them. Many children will assume they can not do them as they have never come across anything like it before. With help and encouragement they realise that they can answer the questions.

The tutoring process allows them to become familiar with the different types of question that can appear in the papers. Tutoring can also expand their knowledge in key areas which also aids the process of answering questions.

She believes that learning to deal with the pressures on the day is a very important part of any Eleven Plus exam preparation.

In addition she is willing to provide one to one tutoring for children who need a third party influencer or support parents in tutoring techniques, if they wish to minimise the number of formal tutoring sessions. The sessions can be adjusted to meet the individual’s needs.

As a result she is very busy, but nevertheless understands the importance pf having a website that matches her professional competence. Which is where we come in.

So, if you want to increase your professional profile- and your website’s sales then please contact us NOW or ring us on 01242 521967 now to see how we can help you to make money as well!
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Website Design Cheltenham supports Safer Internet Day 2016

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Website Design in Cheltenham supports Safer Internet Day 2016

Website Design in Cheltenham supports Safer Internet Day 2016The UK Safer Internet Centre is coordinated by a partnership of three leading organisations; Childnet International, the South West Grid for Learning and the Internet Watch Foundation. It is co-funded by the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme and is one of the 31 Safer Internet Centres of the Insafe network. The centre has three main functions: an Awareness Centre, a Helpline and a Hotline.

The UK Safer Internet Centre, and its partners, delivers a wide range of activity to promote the safe and responsible use of technology:

  • coordinates Safer Internet Day in the UK, which provided over 69 million opportunities to see or hear the Safer Internet Day message in 2014, with over 650 supporters getting involved, and collectively reaching 25% of UK children, 18% of teens and 10% of parents.
  • develops self-assessment tools for schools and other settings to evaluate their esafety provision, including policy development;
  • delivers education sessions for children, parents, carers and teachers in schools and other settings, reaching thousands every year;
  • hosts the UKCCIS Evidence Group’s Research Highlight series, which summarises key academic publications on children and the internet;
  • shapes policy at school, industry and government level, both in the UK and internationally;
  • facilitates youth panels to give young people a voice on these issues;
  • contributes to and commission academic research into children’s media use;
  • works in partnership with others in the UK and globally – the Centre’s resources are used in many countries worldwide;
  • continues to develop the UK Safer Internet Centre website as a hub for information and advice, to reflect the range of work taking place across the UK.