The Shropshire Business Awards, otherwise known as: "The Oscars of local industry and commerce" took place at The International Centre, Telford, last Friday, June 14th 2013.
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Key 3 Media, social media, copywriting, and marketing specialists, required a brand new website to cope with the various demands increased consumer growth brings.
Verve are thrilled to announce that we have been shortlisted as finalists in the Managing Change category for this year's Shropshire Business Awards!
Verve are delighted to announce that we have launched a brand new website for Complete Home Design!
Minshall Construction, steel and fabrication specialists, required a second website for their business.
Creating Value in your Content
Keyword research can be a gruelling task at times. But, with a few simple steps, you can greatly improve your ranking on Google by being more tactical.
We are excited to announce a brand new content managed website going live!
Is your eCommerce website just another bunch of generic web pages that fall into the trap of being lost on the Internet?
Producing a wonderfully designed, professional website is one thing, having potential customers find it is another.
In today's generation, “tradition” seems to be gradually becoming lost in a spiralling orbit of the latest gizmos and gadgets.
At Verve, our main goal is to improve our client's business through carefully planned web and design structures.
We are delighted to announce another content managed website going live!
Manbat, nationwide battery suppliers, required a brand new, sharp, uncluttered website to reflect their environmentally-friendly and flourishing business.
Whilst at my local Tesco store recently I witnessed a large amount of customer
We would like to formally welcome and congratulate Lewis Rose, our new Junior Copywriter, who joined our creative team over at Verve earlier this week.
Verve, Shropshire based Web and Graphic Design company are excited to announce another website going live! Spring shows no sign of dampening the amount of work flowing through the doors & long may that last!
Our busy 2013 continues with another great content managed website launch.
We are proud to announce the all new 3JC Ltd eCommerce website.
We are delighted to announce that an opportunity has arisen to join our vibrant and creative team of marketing professionals.
Verve's new Technical Director, Mark Hambley, shares some secrets from the world of eCommerce websites...
Know Your Customers
Rolling Homes is a company set up by Mark Cooper, who has over 35 years designing and handcrafting beautiful bespoke kitchens and furniture.
Two successful Shropshire businesses specialising in different areas of website creation are to join together to provide clients with a service set to be second to none.
We are delighted to announce the addition of another great eCommerce Website to our eCommerce web design portfolio.
Shropshire based web and graphic design company Verve, are delighted to announce that their latest website, Bettws Hall, went live earlier this week.
Lumpy Mash is another project I have got to say was one of the great ones we have done, another great site that is completely different to any other website that we have done.
Clare Rowson’s site is definitely one of my favorites to date. Even though this site isn't the biggest we've done, I just love the layout and design of it.
What do these Pinterest trends mean for marketers? You must make your images, especially photographs pinworthy. Here are five tips to help make your content more pinnable.
The Mr David hair & beauty website has just been launched this month providing an online presence to showcase Mr Davids's unique, high quality and above all stylish hair & beauty salon in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
We would love to formally welcome Alex Steer to our wonderful and growing Shrewsbury team. We were lucky to find Alex, having just recently graduated he brings with him in-depth knowledge and experience of a range of graphic design, web desi
We are currently recruiting for the position of Website Developer within our growing team at Verve. If you feel you have the following experience - we would love to hear from you!
Twitter is getting rid of its unmistakeable cartoon-style bird and replacing it with a simplified, blue version of the famous image.
On a recent Facebook Blog, we found some great information regarding the latest Facebook Integration with WordPress.
Jolly Good Car Hire, sister company to Jolly Good Van Hire, are sharing the same Jolly Good spirit but specialise in the hire of cars. They wanted a slimmed down version of their main site focusing on car hire, incorporating a simple online
Bliss of London, saddle makers of distinction. They have a great deal of knowledge of the equestrian world that allows them to design and build some of the world’s most advanced and desirable English riding saddles.
We really do have clients all around the world now, we recently launched a brand new website for Essama Trading who are a wholesaler for home-interior and garden, based in Holland!
Bull & Heifer is a vibrant little country pub in the heart of the village of Bettws Cedewain, near Newtown. They approached us to create their logo and website and they wanted us to combine a traditional yet modern style in the design.
Build It International is a charity based in Shrewsbury and their mission is to provide a practical and sustainable response to the chronic need for basic infrastructure and jobs in sub-Saharan Africa.
The motto of Shingler Homes is, "Building homes you'll be proud to own", and one of their most recent areas they have been developing was The Pines in Harmer Hill, a small village about 6 miles north of Shrewsbury.
A new law has come into effect this weekend which requires all websites to ask for permission from visitors before using 'cookies'. Cookies are used on most websites, and most commonly for Google Analytics, they are tiny data files that reme
Our latest website launched earlier this week was made for our wonderful, friendly and personable client Cara Meehan and her business - Solar Made Easy.
Here at Shrewsbury's Design Agency Verve - we are very proud to announce that we have appointed an incredibly experienced, hard working and knowledgeable Developer who specialises in e-Commerce to join our growing team.
At Verve Graphic Design & Marketing, Shropshire, we pride ourselves in having such a strong, dedicated and talented team, and with many exciting plans for 2012 we are on the hunt to recruit another outstanding Website Developer to complement o
We have found the below 5 steps targeting business owners to boost their social media literacy - and boost their business!
Engagement with your audience is one of the great advantages of social media marketing, but creating meaningful conversations is as much an art as it is a science. Engagement increases brand loyalty and public conversations can serve as
At Verve Graphic Design Shrewsbury we found an interesting statistic that, as per the BBC experts, we see over 500 advertising messages every day.
Julian Smout, our Managing Director here at Shropshire's Verve Graphic Design & Marketing, has highlighted the 5 most common mistakes made when producing a website. Businesses can spend a great deal of time, money and effort on creating
With one little well written phrase on your Twitter account, you can attract the attention of more people than you can even imagine. Whether you are experienced, new or not yet on Twitter this pos
Last week, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer will very soon be offering automatic updates to their web browser. We are very pleased as this will in turn drastically improve security and result in added protection against malicious s
At Shrewsbury’s creative design agency Verve, business is continuing to thrive, and yet again, we have expanded our team!
A recent survey by eCommera found that 42.6% of UK consumers buy something online at least once a week. This figure will only get higher as tablets, smartphones and internet enabled TV's spread in popularity.
There are essentially four key elements that you should be worried about when thinking about an SEO campaign.
Back to the old theme about the way your website looks and the way your potential customers inter-react when they are viewing it. High rankings on search engines will not necessarily gain you conversions into active customers.
We were recently asked the question – What are those funny bar code things that have started to appear in adverts recently? We thought it may be a good idea to throw a little light on them.
Sharing the content of your website on Twitter can be a very powerful platform, to drive traffic and engagement.
We are pleased to announce we have just re-launched the Jolly Good Van Hire website. They currently have two branches one near Wrexham and one in Shrewsbury, with a third due to open in Ely near Cambridge in November.
Black Hat search engine optimisation tools are unethical techniques used by some so called SEO’s, that will have the opposite effect on your ranking than you hope for.
Badly designed sites that include a lack of clear and easy navigation, large load-intensive graphics and unnecessary flash, can cause search engine spiders to be blocked from looking at/crawling over your site and more important if your site users
There are a number of businesses who have had their fingers burnt with Search Engine Optimisation "gurus" making wild claims about what they can achieve.
Google is rolling out a new and more intuitive format for it's sitelinks, features they claim will expand and improve their original sitelinks.
Google have just agreed to buy mobile phone business Motorola Mobility for £7.7 billion in a cash deal - I don't think they actually walk in with suitcases filled to the brim.
We all use the term rather frequently and sometimes we assume everyone understands it, SEO stands for search engine optimisation we offer this as part of our bespoke web design service.
Twenty years ago, on August 6, 1991 – the World Wide Web was born, when Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee launched his placeholder page.
Ofcom has just released a 341 page report on telecommunication trends in 2011, below are some very interesting statistics regarding smartphone usage.
A recent study in the US (by Flurry) has discovered that for the first time ever consumers are using their smart phone apps more than they are surfing the web.
1. Keep it short and concise - Do not make e-mails longer than they need to be. Remember that reading an e-mail is harder than reading printed documents and a long e-mail can be very off putting.
Linking your site to other, preferably complimentary sites, and creating back-links from as many of those sites to your own is only a part of the continuous Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) process.
We have recently been appointed by Complete Tree Care (CTC) for a re-branding exercise. This will include new logos for both parts of the company - the contracting and surveying division and the recruitment agency division.
We have just gone live with our latest client website. As specialists in e-commerce web design, we have created and developed the new site for Welsh Royal Crystal, the only hand-crafted cut crystal glass makers in Wales.
We have recently been awarded the Ripley Website Award for our own website. This award recognises visual and creative excellence and is the second highest award to be won on Website Launchpad.
Content marketing seems to be the focus of attention at the moment for the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) world.
The Shropshire Chamber of Commerce is not only the most dynamic member organisation in the county, but it is one of the most active Chambers of Commerce in the whole of the UK.
The Social Engagement reports allow you to see how people share content on your site via social actions.
We have recently been appointed by MDS in Wrexham, for a re-branding exercise which includes a new logo and website. MDS is a design engineering company and they work across a number of sectors for different types of clients.
In September 2010, it was apparent that the 'over 55' users of Facebook did not really engage with brands.
Reports from the US say that Facebook is likely to go public in the first quarter of 2012, with an estimated IPO valuation of more than $100 billion. It is the most closely watched private companies in the world.
Please take a couple of minutes to have a look at this YouTube video. The statistics about the rise in the use of social media and how it affects the marketing of your products are amazing.
You may have a beautiful design for your website, but if it is not being seen by the right people then you are acheiving nothing.
We have just designed, developed and put live a website for The Bellstone Hotel in Shrewsbury.
We are now offering all our clients a full SEO service and in-house website development as well as website design. We can now apply all of the following to our clients sites and to yours:
We are pleased to announce we have recently been appointed to handle the launch of a new financial services company. Based in it's Shrewsbury Head Office, the company will soon open 6 regional offices throughout the UK.
There are a number of areas that you must consider when thinking about developing a website. Whether you are starting a brand new site or updating an existing one, these areas must be addressed to gain the maximum return on investment.
At present there is no internationally recognised logo for human rights. This new initiative wants to change that and is asking for submissions in this global competition, yes you can win prizes; the winner will receive around £3,000 ($5,000).
New York saw amazing hikes in LinkedIn's share price with yesterday's share offer - at one stage the shares were trading at $122 after they originally opened at $45 each.
We recently invested a whopping £17 in a great piece of software. It is remarkably simple but amazingly useful.
We have been very busy over the last few months so, rather than itemising each job as seperate news pages we thought we would list a few for you that have launched or been printed in the last Month.
We are in the process of recruiting for a new web developer, our website design and development activity has reached a level that we need extra colleagues to help with the new workload – keep it coming!!!
We have recently moved offices within our existing building; our top floor offices are now twice the size, giving us the space to expand our professional graphic designers and web developers.
SEO is a constantly changing discipline. Did you know; that the way users search the internet changes dramatically over time, we no longer type in generic terms, we are now more specific, particularly geo-specific, with our searches.
