Hi all,

This is a quick rundown of what we have been doing for the last 2 months.

In mid November we were instructed on a fairly novel project for a national company called Global VAT Recovery. They had an existing website and brand presence using a ‘do it yourself’ web template. They asked us to re-build their site maintaining the look and feel but using correct web standards, XHTML and hosted on the Jellyphish servers. Along with this the site had absolutely no presence on Google.

We have now given it a total ’service’ and you can now check it out at http://www.globalvatrecovery.com or simply type ‘Global VAT Recovery’ into Google to see the search engine optimisation results.

Next we were approached by an up and coming music photographer based in London to develop a photoblog and photo ordering system for her new business ‘Magic Photography’  For the photoblog we decided to go down the Wordpress route and found a great theme developed by Squarefour which you can check out here: http://blog.squarefour.net/2009/05/28/introducing-new-wordpress-photoblog-theme/ 

So Tina from Magic Photography asked us to come up with some suitable graphics and layout solutions to meet her personality and photography style.  We were really chuffed with the results and her password protected ordering system makes it so easy for bands to sign in and order their favorite snaps for their album, check it out here: http://www.magic-photography.co.uk

December has also been a great Month for new website ideas as people are beginning to think about re-brands or start-up businesses for the new year. Early in 2010 we will be delivering some cool looking sites for diverse businesses such as: Shark Photographers, Restaurants, Bars and Fitness instructors along with a few exciting but hush hush projects.

On that note we bid you all a very happy Christmas and a great and fruitful new year.

 DOT approached us to re-build their website with the aim of achieving a high Google rank for keywords such as ‘Bournemouth Architecture’

An article about the Boscombe surf reef has been published on the Bournemouth Echo website written by our very own Dave Oliver.

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4703105._Why_we_should_give_Boscombe_surf_reef_time_to_prove_itself_/

A lot of discussion and debate is going on about this article so feel free to join in and express your opinion

Along with the lovely look and feel we have included some simple ways for the LEAF owners to update their latest news using twitter and keep up to date with the latest goings on using an intuitive Flickr gallery.

The site will soon be live at: www.leafcharity.com but in the mean time here are a few visuals.

We have also been working a new web site for London based photographer Dwikoarie. After we designed and developed his current site he decided to come back to us to come up with a concept to take his business to a new level.

We recommended going down the flash route. This led to the development of a very cool and colourful animated flash photography site, after further discussions we then decided to include an online shopping system to allow users to buy photos at various sizes.

The challenge here was producing a great working e-commerce site without losing the aesthetic appeal of the original flash. We are very happy with the result and expect Dwikoarie to see a real boost in sales,

Again this site is in the testing stage so here are a few visuals to tickle your design buds.

More exciting work coming up, keep posted web fans..

Hi all,

Just a quick note to let you know that our Bournemouth surf report will now appear on Magicseaweed.com at this URL: http://magicseaweed.com/Bournemouth-Boscombe-Surf-Report/12/

This is a great chance fo us to get our report out to the MSW masses.

Good times had by all.

Hello there,

What can we say, our first month has been busy busy busy. Along with developing our web presence and getting the Jellyphish name out there we have been hard at it working on exciting new projects. Our surf report for Bournemouth and Boscombe has started to become pretty popular and we have been asked to provide the daily report for the team at A1 surf.

I guess this came about because we were getting bored of the local shops / surf schools giving out ’misleading’ reports to try and sell their products. Our report is based on the local conditions as and when they happen so if you surf keep posted to www.jellyphish.co.uk/surfreport.html or follow the report on twitter!

 Ok back to the web design stuff:

 Sally Dixey – Personal Trainer goes Live!!! Sally is over the moon with this project, the key to this website is simplicity and layout. Sally was keen to get lots of information on a small number of pages, and we feel that the solution works really well. The other great part about this site is the use of CMS! Ok so it’s not the traditional Content Management System but I guess that’s the beauty of twitter. Using twitter Sally can quickly (and easily) keep clients up to date of her fitness course dates and locations. This then appears on her homepage and works as a real eye catcher due to the cool scrolling of the twitter widget.

 DOT – The Bournemouth based design company DOT have a great looking stylish website. Jellyphish have been instructed to re-build the site (to the same design) to allow for better search engine optimization and CSS architecture. So expect to see DOT up at the top of Google soon.

 Leaf – Leaf is a leukemia charity based in Dorset, Jellyphish and DOT are currently working on a re-brand / design for the charity to create a great looking usable website. This is a really nice project to be involved with. Leaf was founded in a hospital bed back in 2006 by Natasha Jones when she was diagnosed with leukemia. Leaf provides days out and holidays for leukemia sufferers in Dorset. You can check out their holding page at: http:www.leafcharity.com. Leaf is funded by donations and fundraising so if you can why not contact Natasha and help them out:

 tash@leafcharity.co.uk

 Thats all for now folks, for daily updates follow us on twitter here

 tatty bye..

Hi and welcome to the new jellyphish blog, this is where you can keep up-to-date with our latest web work along with things that interest us. We are going to post loads of cool things about web development and the latest web news so keep your eyes pealed.