Web Design Company, Hampshire UK

Hi all,

I cant believe how fast the last 6 months have flown by. I have simply not had the time to keep the blog up to date but I thought I would pop by and let you know of the bits and bobs I have achieved over the last few months.

In the past, we (boxChilli – Web Design Hampshire) used pass our search engine marketing work out to third parties. This went ok for some time until about 6 months down the line, when we were notified that very little progress had been made with regards to positive movements of our clients websites on the search engine rankings. It was at this point that we realised that many of the techniques that we utilised on a day to day basis were in-fact very effective SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) tools. We then expanded upon this basis through researching into how SEO was changing in today’s online environment.

The next step was to find a specialist who could strengthen the Click brand. This person came in the form of an SEO specialist with over 10 years experience. He is an industry leader and has worked successfully at a couple of large online businesses.

I then created the site. To do this we decided to use a static site (html) and then use a bolted on WordPress blog. Myself and Jonathan shared in the content writing.

At this point, we were ready to launch. Here is the site:

Click Digital Marketing – SEO in Hampshire

Hope you like it!

If you or anyone you know requires advice on how to be found more on search engines then please let us know. We offer an ongoing 10% commission on referrals and are happy to build blogs, create and publish articles and many other services.

I have been thinking recently about how to improve the home page of this website. I decided that including my latest tweets would be a nice way of getting into custom wordpress designing. Simple I know but also effective.

The next task was to consider how this could be accomplished and I think that this is where experience really counts. I knew that wordpress allows you easy access to plugins and widgets but these (as far as I know) cannot be added to pages without using php. Something that I have to improve upon before trying this. So I started to look for means of adding tweets to the body of pages without using the widget system.

I stumbled upon this:

http://www.instantshift.com/2009/05/25/10-twitter-hacks-for-your-wordpress-blog/

and this:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/04/15-useful-twitter-plugins-and-hacks-for-wordpress/

I then installed this:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/

After installing this extension, the user is able to type php more or less anywhere within wordpress but try as I might, I was unable to get any of the hacks to work. Maybe this is because of the theme that I am using or for some other reason… No Idea.

So I kept looking and through this post:

http://leebaillie.com/display-tweets-on-your-wordpress-blog-without-plugins-or-widgets/

I found these:

https://twitter.com/badges

And here is the finished product:

http://www.meonvalleywebdesign.co.uk/

So basicallly I had come full circle. Why reinvent the wheel? I am now able to style the code using css myself so that it blends in with the rest of the site. Installing the Twitter html code took about 5 minutes and has really improved the look and feel of the homepage.