Hastings Creatives
This is a Work-in-Progress site, which is great fun. It sort of happened by accident, and then I let it lapse for a while for reasons too boring to go into here. But because it started ranking in it’s niche, people found it, and some asked if it could do this, could do that.
And so it is a directory, (using the Connections plugin, ace), with an events listing, and a classified ads section. All free. Pretty cool huh?
If you want a listing, please, just use the contact form.
http://hastingscreative.co.uk/
Ultimate Golf Retreat
Just finished a site, Ultimate Golf Retreat, that offers high end golf tuition, golf lessons that suit everyone. The Photography was provided and is …luscious, look at those golf courses, amazing. A shame there were no photos of the great driving ranges or short game facilities, but it is a great set of facilities overall. The Golf online teaching software is impressive too.
Have a look www.UltimateGolfRetreat.co.uk
Candle-shack.co.uk
Came across a chap and his lovejob who have just started a candle business, candle-shack.co.uk,and don’t know whether to be pleased or not. They have an extremely nice web site and it’s their first one. No need for c21web them. Pah! Excellent product as well, so I highly recommend getting on over to the site and starting to think of Christmas presents before they all sell out.
British based, made in Britain, ethical, sustainable, …hey! All the good stuff. Candle Shack. Enjoy.
Coaching Excellence in golf
I’m doing a really interesting site for a Golf Pro, Mark Wood. The strap line and USP we have come up with is “Coaching Excellence” which sums Mark’s work up. The phrase isn’t used elsewhere in golf, so it’s nice to have the copyright, but that’s a minor thing in the face of Mark’s “Coaching Excellence”.
Mark provides a great service with his coaching, which is a wonderful mix of being fully up to date with technology, (video swing analysis, computer analysis of your putting etc), and getting outdoors, away from a desk and enjoying life.
He is working on a fully automated booking system, one of only six users in this country, and his dedication and attention to deatil speaks volumes about the quality of his teaching.
Check him out: markwoodgolfacademy.co.uk
Why have a website?
Small businesses do need websites.
OK, not all do, and the sites can be holding pages or very simple 5 page sites, but most small businesses will do better with web sites.
Let’s ignore anything to do with ecommerce and think only about brochure sites, or a cross between a business card and a small brochure site:
Lets customers find your telephone number
Lets customers find your location
Lets customers find your opening hours
Without these people will go to businesses that provide these details, businesses that make life easier for customers.
Thats the business card part, out there 24 hours of every day rather than in a wallet or dispenser on the counter of a closed shop.
Then the site:
Lets customers find get an idea of what you stock
Lets customers find get an idea of your positioning in whatever field or sector you are in.
Thats the brochure part of the site, again out there 24/7, quietly working away.
Now, a small business might not lose much business but it probably will lose some by not having a simple brochure site. And some small businesses don’t want the extra business anyway. I think these small businesses are a small minority and that most want all the custom they can get, and want new customers to replace the inevitable loss of old ones.
So, most small businesses will benefit to some extent by having a small website. Small, functional, good looking and reasonably easy to find; a site that conveys basic information, a site that says “I’m open, I’m here, and I sell this good stuff”
At the very least it is just being polite to your customers.
Music for children in Hastings, Sussex
Nancy Cooley’s Enchanted Lark site, about teaching music to children in the summer holidays, is ringing bells all over the South East. Nancy, who teaches music at schools locally, as well as teaching music individually, has courses for kids to explore and enjoy music during the summer break.
Saddles in Sussex
Saddles in Sussex, Riding in Robertsbridge; they have a sort of ring don’t they? We have just finished learning all about Horse tack, saddles, bridles and all things equestrian while doing a site for Nicola Watson, a soon to be Master Saddler, (tell us when Nicola!), and thought you might like a look at the site: www.nicolawatsonleatherwork.co.uk
Getting Google-ing with c21
We recently did a site for a Barbra Streisand tribute show by the wonderful Carrie Woods. It’s a great looking site and you can hear Carrie sing like an angel, (listen to her hold that note at the end of the first demo track .) But better than that, for a site doing a Streisand Tribute show it is now number one , page one on Google for “Streisand Tribute Show”. The show is called “The Streisand Story”: if you Google that it’s number two, under the official Streisand site, but on top of the Streisand Wikipedia page.
Carrie is pleased.
And we are proud.
C21 Photography, web photo experts
Our Photography web site is now up and running. We specialize in doing photographs for the web: Product photos, portraits, location photographs, you name it we can help take a picture fore you, make it look even better for website use, and enhance your site with powerful visuals. C21photo
Ellie's Cottage, a Holiday cottage in Hastings Old Town
Ellie’s Cottage is one of the cutest holiday lets or rental cottages we have seen, and as it is in the beautiful All Saints Street in Hastings Old Town we had trouble choosing which bits to show: they are all terrific!
So we went the traditional route, which is best for a traditional fisherman’s cottage, although one with all mod cons. That working fireplace is fab, just right for a lovely snuggle in after a bracing seaside walk; in summer the two patios will be the place to be.
Bookings started coming in as soon as the site went live, but they would…it’s just such a nice place, and such a great cottage for a holiday by the sea.
