Taybridge Consulting

The art of designing, building and maintaining websites.: Wow this is huge topic and one that we get asked about all the time. What makes a good website? What do you think of a website? Is our site any good? These are design and usability questions. Then there is the whole area of content. Does my site read well? Does It have enough information, too much information?  Then there are structure and performance questions.  Is it quick to load? How can it edit or mange text and other content? Should I use Flash, how about video content? The list of questions goes on and on.

Our goal is to work with clients to understand the real goals of the website and does it match the goals and objectives of the company. Our skills of design, technology and business allow us to understand the objectives and present solutions that work.

We build using Open Source Content Management Systems such as Wordpress, Joomla and Concrete5.  These clever tools allow clients to edit and manage content themselves. 

Contact Taybridge for more information. Read our tips on good website design and visit our showcase of sites.

The rise in Social Media is astrounding. The use of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and now Googel + is now common place and yet a few years ago hardly anybody knew what Social Media was. Now companies are scrambling to work out not what it is but how to use it in their markeitng strategy. To address this need we have recently established a Social Media Training course. This hands on one day social media training event in Guildford will give you a solid introduction to the use and purpose of Social Media and how to create, adminster and manage accounts with the big four in the UK: FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google +.

Microsoft Office 365 contunues to expand its presence in the SME marketplace.  The price has been reduced slightly from the initail launch prices and reliability continues to be solid.

This is big news as this is a major push for cloud computing and Microsoft does has seriours clout. So what is Office 365. In a nutshell it provides cloud based Exchange hosting and a sharepoint 2010 sites with integrated access to Microsoft's IM product Lync (but not the recently purchased Skype) plus the ability to access and use Web based versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

It is one thing to have a website, but how do you know if it is receiving visitors and what those visitors are looking at.

The answer is to install tracking code on your site and we recommend Google Analytics. This is a free service from Google, that’s easy to install and provides solid and reliable information as to what is happening on your website.

Once installed you can access a page to graphically display visitor numbers per day, where they came from – did they search for your site or type the domain in. You can see where they are located by country and town, within reason.

You can see what pages they looked at and how long they stayed on the site.

Google gives every site a quality ranking from Zero to 10. As a measure of quality the length of time people stay on the site is important as is the bounce rate, or how many people visit and then immediately leave.