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London Business Conferences Launch New Ecommerce Website

Back in June we announced that London Business Conferences has selected Dusza to create their new ecommerce website and six months later we are happy to say that the site is now live - on time and on budget.

In addition to the London Business Conferences Ecommerce Website originally commissioned Dusza also created Ecommerce websites for LBC's trans-atlantic sister companies American Business Conferences and Canadian Business Conferences.

Finally LBC has contracted Dusza to create two Content Managed Satellite sites for their conferences each month and to continue with our branding contract too.

So what's the next step for London Business Conferences - well we're meeting with them in the Spring of 2011 to discuss an online business management system, so we'll keep you posted!

Business Travel Website Goes Live

Hotel and Travel Solutions are a business travel company. They deal with all aspects of business travel including flights accommodation and venues for conferences and events. They offer a 100% reliable, professional service and needed a website to reflect this.

Dusza created a contemporary, friendly brand and used it as the basis for a clean, professional web design. The CMS which powers the website means HTS can easily keep all their information up to date, including.

The site even incorporates an online booking tool, utilising Dusza's CRM system, which means HTS can continue to be quick, cost effective and reliable.

If you are looking for a business travel solution or just want to check out another fantastic Dusza website, visit Hotel and Travel Solutions

Dusza win Web Design Pitch for Luxury Local Furniture Company

In the summer of 2009 local luxury furniture company Dream Design approached Dusza regarding an overhaul of their web design and programming. Following consultation and discussion we are happy to announce that Dream Design have chosen Dusza to provide a new website to support their business.

Dream Design was established in 1984 in Hinton in the New Forest. Over 25 years later they are still creating and supplying beautiful furniture for Kitchens, Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Living and Dining Rooms. Dream Design work with industry leading manufacturers to ensure their service is second to none.

The website will need to be image and information focused showcasing their luxury products whilst also highlighting their bespoke service. The website must be content managed allowing Dream Design to update website content in-house.

We will be creating a bespoke website design and utilising our hand-coded Content Management System to give Dream Design a website which matches their company's offering.

We'll let you know when the new site is live.

East Close Country House Hotel Website Launches

Today has seen the launch of the new website for the East Close Country House Hotel. This stunning destination hotel, situated in the beautiful New Forest has long been in need of a website that lives up to the hotel's glamorous and contemporary look - Dusza are the Web Agency to give it to them.

The website which has all the information users could need about the hotel and it's restaurant; The Conqueror, features beautiful photography in a stunning carousel on every page. It also has an online booking function for both rooms in the hotel and tables in the restaurant.

Take a look at the stunning website for this beautiful Hampshire hotel.

If you are looking for a website for your Hotel or Restaurant get in touch today to see what Dusza can do for you.

Blues & Soul Launch Image Archive Ecommerce

Blues & Soul's online magazine has seen huge success in the last few years, increasing unique monthly visitors by over 10,000 from January 2009 to January 2010. The site's popularity stems from the editorial team's knowledge, experience and passion for urban music and this has led to a new branch of the Blues & Soul family tree - The Blues & Soul Image Archive.

Launched today the Ecommerce website has a massive range of previously unreleased vintage music imagery. As well as commercial licences B&S Image Archive will also be retailing posters, canvasses, tee shirts and mugs.

B&S have chosen the Dusza Ecommerce System, which includes:

• Home Page Product Feature Management

• Banner Advertising Management

• Secure Payments

• Customer and Order Management

• Cross Product Upselling

Take a look at the Image Archive.

Your Meal Ticket Expands

Your Meal Ticket, the restaurant voucher website, has seen massive success in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch, tripling it's visitor numbers in the last two months alone! This triumph has led to the launch of Your Meal Ticket Southampton & New Forest.

The website which features all of the functionality of the Bournemouth site, but with many new venues for the Southampton area, went live today. Click here to take a look at the website and maybe even download a few vouchers for Southampton Restaurants.

Some of the great features of the Your Meal Ticket websites include:

• Ability for venues to edit their own profile

• PDF downloads of restaurant menus

• Google maps for every venue

• Offers and Events Listings for every venue

• Featured Restaurants

• News Articles

• Comprehensive search tool

• HTML Emailing with reporting tools

Dusza is also undertaking Search Engine Marketing for Your Meal Ticket Bournemouth and Southampton and the results so far have been very good.

Based on the popularity of their existing sites we are sure that if there isn't a Your Meal Ticket in your area now - there will be one soon!

London Business Conferences Select Dusza

Dusza has been working with London Business Conferences and it's cross-Atlantic sister company; American Business Conference since December 2009, creating effective logos for their innovative worldwide conferences. Now LBC have chosen Dusza to help move their web presence forward, starting with the LBC and ABC websites and moving through some existing and all of the ongoing conference websites.

LBC were looking to develop their web presence both in terms of design and functionality. Offering their delegates more information and interaction with the conferences both before and after the event.

Dusza proposed a solution which was both effective and efficient and work starts any day now, so check back in a few weeks to see the finished results.

Your Meal Ticket Plan Southampton & New Forest Website

Following the success of Your Meal Ticket in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch, the company have decided to expand their Restaurant Voucher website into Southampton & The New Forest.

Dusza has created the website in the same format as the popular Bournemouth site, with a range of functionality including:

Ability for restaurants to edit their profile and upload new vouchers and events whenever they like

A What's On Guide enabling Restaurants to advertise their events and users to find out what is happening at their favourite places or discover new events.

A comprehensive search tool for users

Mailing List to keep users updated with new offers

Ability for restaurants to upload menus, opening times and a range of information like parking and wi-fi availability

The new Southampton website should be online by the end of the month, so check back to get your Restaurant Vouchers for Southampton and the New Forest.

Coming soon to Your Meal Ticket - Party Booking!

Butterfly Bakery Launch Online Ordering

Butterfly Bakery, purveyor of beautiful and more importantly delicious cupcakes for all occasions have today launched their Online Ordering Service.

Rather than create a complicated and expensive ecommerce system, Dusza designed a bespoke form for Butterfly Bakery and hooked it up to their existing PayPal account. This effective online ordering system came in at under £500 and already Butterfly Bakery have seen orders flooding in.

The bespoke form includes:

Option to have different delivery and billing address
Gift message
Seasonal and mini cupcake boxes
A range of 16 cupcake flavours (including links to product pages)
Style options eg. Baby Boy, Womens, Mens
A price matrix to calculate the order total as you go along
A delivery matrix so Butterfly Bakery can remove dates as they become fully booked

If you'd like to see how effective this economic online ordering system is, or order yourself some yummy cupcakes click here

East Close Country House Hotel select Dusza

Effortlessly blending a rich Georgian heritage with cool, contemporary flair, The East Close Country House Hotel offers relaxed, informal comfort in a beautiful 18 acre parkland setting, steeped in history.

East Close were looking for Web Design Agency based in Dorset who could provide a website to accurately represent their offering with an elegant design and modern functionality.

Following a referral from happy client Your Meal Ticket and a quick consultancy with our Creative Director, East Close have decided that Dusza is the agency for them.

Their new website should be online within the month, so pop back and take a look.

Blues & Soul plan new ecommerce

Blues & Soul is a fortnightly online music magazine covering the latest UK and US urban music. First published in 1966 they have representatives from London to New York and LA!

2010 sees Blues & Soul launching an online shop featuring a range of urban music related products. Blues & Soul Online Music Magazine has been a client of Dusza's for many years and we are happy to say that they have decided to utilise our ecommerce system for their online shop.

Blues & Soul will have the following advantages:

slick technology with quick load times
intuitive navigation and a search facility
selling directly off the homepage with minimal clicks to convert
all the major payment methods that a customer expects
value-adding influencers (such as order tracking)
active onsite marketing
total control of product display
full online customer and order management

The Blues & Soul Ecommerce should be online soon, so check back for updates

Securus Escrow Services Launch Website

Following consultation with lawyers, global banks, insurance companies, the UK based financial services authority Securus Escrow Ltd has launched a robust and secure escrow service tailored to the aviation market.

As experts in Aviation Industry design, Securus selected Dusza to provide them with a website to support their offering.

Dusza proposed a simple, classic design reflecting the professional expertise offered by Securus. The project including branding and a fully content managed website incorporating Home, About Us, Services, News and Contact Us pages.

Updates are just the 'meal' ticket

Yourmealticket.co.uk is an online portal where visitors can find, download and print money off and other special offer vouchers for use in local restaurants and venues in and around the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole conurbations.

Originally launched in September 2009, Yourmealticket enlisted the help of Dusza in February this year to help evolve its web site; to add in more exciting new features; and to build a more robust content management system (the Star CMS).

The new site was launched in time for Mothers Day weekend in March. At the same time as re-building the web site code, Dusza also took the opportunity to revise the design (whilst retaining the cleanliness of the original layout), giving the home page a livelier appearance, putting greater emphasis on the downloadable vouchers, and thus making it easier for visitors to the site to find the discounts they need.

Dusza also added an events calendar to enable venues to advertise special days and evenings. Everything from Mothers Day to Murder Mystery nights, as well as more regular events such as live music, dancing, karaoke and quiz evenings are all included in the searchable listings. In fact, the whole of the site's search code was completely re-written to make it more straightforward for users to navigate and quickly find what they need.

Another particularly noteworthy feature of the web site is a completely revised members area that now enables the venues to keep their profiles up-to-date, adding photographs, menu highlights and special features, and to manage their downloadable vouchers and menus. It's effectively like each restaurant having its own content-managed web site within the Yourmealticket.co.uk portal.

Many more new features, and further localised portals are planned for the coming months. Keep up-to-date with the site's progress at www.yourmealticket.co.uk.

Harbourview Website goes live 5 weeks from selecting Dusza!

Dusza are proud to announce the launch of the Harbourview website - going live within 5 weeks from selecting Dusza as their creative agency.

You can visit Harbourview's new website here. It is a great example of a SME website that engages with an audience. Simple, stylish and communicating their message, the new website dramatically sets Harbourview apart from their local competition.

Print and Packaging Solutions Expand their Website Portfolio

Print and Packaging are UK manufacturers and suppliers of Paper Laminate Carrier Bags, Polythene Carrier Bags and Kraft Paper Bags. In 2007 Dusza created a group of websites for them; www.bagprinting.co.uk, www.kraftbagprinting.co.uk, www.paperlaminatebagprinting.co.uk and www.polythenebagprinting.co.uk.

This year Print and Packaging have come back to Dusza for a new addition to their website family; www.cottonbagprinting.co.uk.

Dusza have evolved the 'family' design, bringing up right up to date. The website will still feature all of the Cotton Bag products, as well as testimonials, a quick quote form and banner advertising area. The Cotton Bag Printing website will also have an area for client's to upload their artwork, further streamlining the service Print & Packaging offer.

Check back soon to see the live site.

Harbourview Developments Choose Dusza as Design Agency

Dusza are happy to announce that Harbourview Developments have selected Dusza as their new Design Agency. Dusza will be working with Harbourview to create a new company identity, starting with a logo, stationery and website and following through all their marketing and communications materials.

Harbourview are a Poole based property development company who have been established for several years and have a reputation for high quality design and build, but what sets them apart from their competitors is their focus on customer service.

Dusza have already started on the design and development of Harbourview's new website, which should be going live within the next few weeks. It will feature a classic, modern design, as well as an overview of their services and a portfolio of their developments. Check back to see the finished site in early March.

Think Family Tree Website Goes Live

Think Family Tree are a family run company, specialising in family tree and probate research (think Heir Hunters on BBC 1).

They approached Dusza for a corporate identity and a small website to support their growing business.

Dusza created a fun, friendly, yet professional identity. The logo features an icon which incorporates a 'thought bubble' tree growing from the 'i' in Think. The colour pallete is warm and the fonts are a combination of sans serif on 'Think' and handwriting on 'Family Tree'.

The Think Family Tree website is small, but beautifully formed, it includes a home page and three service pages as well as an enquiry form, linking to an email address. The website design utilises some family tree photography from the owners of Think Family Tree as well as a paper chain to represent the family tree.

Overall both the brand and website support Think Family Tree's values of professional, yet approachable.

To visit the Think Family Tree website click here

Your Meal Ticket Choose Dusza's Star CMS

Your Meal Ticket (YMT) is an online portal that allows subscribed restaurants to display their latest offers to a local audience. Offers are communicated by way of a meal voucher that can be downloaded by the user for free.

Launched in September 2009, Your Meal Ticket has already had great success in the local area and have approached Dusza with regards to evolving the website to help both restaurants and users to get the most from their service.

Initially Dusza transferred Your Meal Ticket to a more robust server, which meant a quicker and more efficient site experience. This will be following by utilising the Dusza Star CMS Framework to improve functionality across the website, including:

Extended User Account control
Extending geographic reach
An Events Calendar
Search Engine Optimisation
Website Design

The redevelopment should be complete in a few weeks time, so check back to see the new Your Meal Ticket.

Ecommerce VAT Change 2009/2010

In December 2008, the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, unveiled in the Pre-Budget Report a 13-month lowering of VAT from 17.5% to 15%. Well the 13-months are almost up and as of 1st January 2010 retailers must revert to charging 17.5%.

How does this change affect ecommerce...

As a non-dusza ecommerce owner this change may have caused a huge drain on resources first time round, changing the VAT rate on each of your taxable products throughout your website. And now, just when you probably want to be concentrating on Christmas and then your New Year sale you have to go back and change them all again.

Is this the last VAT change...

I'm sure that most retailers are certainly hoping it is, but tax experts warn that VAT rates may rise in the future, perhaps as high as 20% (in line with France, Austria, Hungary and Italy). Alistair Darling's legislation which enables a temporary VAT change may lead to a significant increase in the VAT rate after the next election. All these changes lead to high administration costs for retailers, both traditional and ecommerce, and with cash flow already an issue for many businesses, these changes could be damaging in the extreme.

How to change the VAT on your ecommerce...

Make sure you address this in time for the new rate introduction on 1st January 2010 (great timing - right in the middle of your New Year's Eve party).

There are a wide variety of ecommerce websites out there and all systems work differently. Intelligent ecommerces will have the ability to make the VAT change on a system wide scale and for these ecommerces it will be the case of simply changing a configuration file from 15% to 17.5%. Additionally if your products are already configured to include VAT within the sale price the change could be as painless as 30 minutes of programming time.

However if your ecommerce system is not as technically advanced, then the unfortunate outcome could be days if not weeks of human updates to each and every product affected by the new rate of VAT.

DUSZA suggest contacting your website providers immediately to find out how quickly the VAT changes can be made and at what cost, especially as the change will be taking place when a lot of agencies are closed for the Christmas break. Hopefully you will have built up a good relationship with your web design agency and they will take it upon themselves to help you remedy the situation quickly and without fuss.

The story could be significantly different if you have purchased an off the shelf ecommerce solution where support is by email or overseas call centre.

What are DUSZA doing to help their clients with the VAT changes?

Every client that DUSZA have who run an ecommerce business has already been contacted making them aware of the VAT change. Because DUSZA build their ecommerces and do not rely on off the shelf content management systems, DUSZA are able to make the necessary changes to VAT relatively quickly.

Therefore every client of DUSZA's is being offered a FREE VAT update.No charge. No fuss. No headaches.

Are you looking for a truly intelligent and hassle free Ecommerce website solution?

If running your ecommerce is not as painless as you would like, why not contact DUSZA and see how our bespoke systems can improve your business. We have a portfolio of great looking ecommerces with exceptional functionality. Our back end systems are as easy to use as our front end websites. With stock control facilities, automated email responses, online consumer order tracking, comprehensive statistics packages, search engine optimised web pages, 5 click and under check out process, special offer and voucher code discount system, auto tracking shopper basket and the ability to configure trade prices quickly - a DUSZA ecommerce makes great business sense.

The Dyslexia SPLD Trust transfer to Dusza's Star CMS

Dusza is very pleased to announce that another existing client has chosen to transfer to the Star CMS. We have recently begun offering this transfer to our existing clients.

Our new Star CMS Framework gives The Dyslexia SPLD Trust unprecedented control over their website content, including:

Creating an unlimited number of pages
Changing content whenever they need to with our easy to use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor
Adding unlimited videos, images, downloadable PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint slides and Excel files to each page
Ability to access online, with a unique, secure user name and password
PC & Mac compatible

The Star CMS is also a great tool to future proof The Dyslexia SPLD Trust's website. Modules can be bolted on for a relatively low cost. Modules currently available include:

Services
Products
Portfolio
Experience
Calendar
Gallery
News
Recruitment
Frequently Asked Questions
Testimonials
Questionnaires

However in addition to these modules Dusza can build any module that The Dyslexia SPLD Trust could conceivably need in order for their website to fulfill it's purpose and engage with their target audience.

In addition to all the control over what their users will see, Dusza's Star CMS also gives The Dyslexia SPLD Trust a huge amount of information about their visitors. The Statistics Module allows them to track each visitor through the site, detailing pages visited and in what order, how much time they spent on each page and how they found their website. In addition to this Dusza's Star CMS is also integrated into Google Analytics for a broader statistical overview.

The 'new' Dyslexia SPLD Trust website went live this week and although you may not be able to see any difference when you view it, you can be sure that the website administrators are finding it a world apart from their old system.

Star has provided the very latest in existing and emerging technology. Coupled with the ability to create any additional bespoke functionality - it is a powerful and proven tool.

Trasch Choose Dusza for Innovative Website Concept

TRASCH are a green initiative start up with great promise.

Until launch Dusza are unable to disclose too much about this environmentally and ethically conscious company but suffice to say it has a truly unique twist on a traditional online offering.

The client chose Dusza for logo design, web design, bespoke management system build and our honest, transparent advice.

We are genuinely excited to be involved with this ground breaking and environmentally friendly project. The website is planned to go live in mid December, so check it out then (especially if you are involved in the education sector!)

Presentation Media Ecommerce Website

Presentation Media are the latest new client to benefit from Dusza's Star Ecommerce Solution.

Presentation Media, a Dorset based educational technology supplier, were looking for a low budget ecommerce solution that still incorporated a bespoke website design. After a free consultation that touched on topics as Content Management, Search Optimisation, User Interfaces, Consumer Behavioral Trends, Presentation Media and Dusza together re-wrote the brief. By investing a little bit more time and money into the business Presentation Media chose to completely upgrade from their current Actinic solution and instead opted for Dusza's very own Ecommerce Management System - Star.

The Presentation Media Ecommerce Website will:

Sell directly off the homepage (minimal clicks to convert)
Instantly instill confidence (a badly executed Ecommerce will no longer be tolerated by customers)
Load quickly (slick technology does not mean slow web page loads)
Be intuitive to navigate (using common formats of drop down, categories and search)
Offer all the major payment methods that a customer expects (Credit Card, Paypal & Google Checkout)
Promote value-adding influencers (the reasons to buy from your website and not your competition, such as order tracking)
Actively market itself with minimal Admin input
Evolve and enhance (to suit customer trends)

Programming of the site will commence in January with a live date in early February 2009, so come back in the New Year to check out the completed site. From 0 to 60 in 1 month - that's how reactive we are at Dusza.

The Cleaning Services Group CMS Website

Dusza are happy to be working with The Cleaning Services Group once again. In 2008 we completed a re-brand for this successful local company and now they have returned for a new website.

The Cleaning Services Group prides itself on being able to provide an answer to any cleaning requirement; commercial, domestic, construction and all to a high standard.

The Cleaning Services Group require a website that accurately represents and promotes their national cleaning company. The new website will be the key marketing material for business promotion. Great importance must be placed upon search engine friendly programming and design execution because high search engine results position, specifically in Google, will be key to the success of the website.

The website needs to be managed via a content management system for ease of use, updating and maintaining the quality of the code being displayed to Search Engines.

The website will be focused on local keyword targeting and enable CSG to add multiple locations ( ie Towns, Cities) with unique page content in order to achieve high search engine result positions. The core areas that are required are: News, About Us, Services and Locations.

Programming on the new website will be commencing in the next couple of weeks, so check back to see the live site.

Bournemouth Clocks Select Dusza for Web Design and Build

www.bournemouthclocks.co.uk is the online presence for M.C. Taylor (the clock shop on Christchurch Road in Bournemouth) - a leading clock and barometer specialist, with an international reputation to uphold It is essential that the website reflects the company's professional image.

The current website is in need of updating, both in terms of design and functionality to ensure that it takes full advantage of the marketplace. Dusza suggested a complete re-design and re-build of the website utilising our Star CMS Framework. This will make the website functionality easy to use in both the front and back end at a relatively low cost.

For the re-design Dusza suggested keeping the colour scheme of the current site; black and deep red, but refine the design to be more professional. It is important that the style of the site remains traditional and luxurious and reflects the shop as specialists in high quality craftmanship.

In terms of structure Dusza recommended some standard sections such as About Us, Products and Services as well as a Valuation section. Here the users will be able to use a customised form to send Bournemouth Clocks images and a description of their clock and get a valuation back quickly. This will be easy for the customer and also make initial contact with customers who are further afield much more efficient for Bournemouth Clocks.

The Star CMS will allow Bournemouth Clocks to have almost full control over the content of the website, including text, image and document upload all automatically styled in the website design. There is also automatic Search Engine Optimisation built in to help achieve good Search Ranking.

Dusza is happy to announce that Bournemouth Clocks have decided to use Dusza to design and build their new website. Check back in a few weeks to see the results of our hard work!

Griffin Underwriting Website Launches

Griffin Underwriting is a specialist insurer dealing with a select range of insurance products, including Kidnap & Ransom, Marine Hijack and Fine Art. Griffin offer innovative and highly confidential policies with excellent security, and competitive terms.

The old Griffin website was outdated in terms of technology, content and design. The site focused on only one area of insurance they provide, it was essential that the website reflected the diversity of their services and emphasised the fact they are a well-established company.

Based on Dusza's web design experience and following research of the strengths and weaknesses of competitor websites we recommended that the website include; About Us, Insurance Services and Contact Details. We were very pleased that Griffin selected Dusza as their web design agency and we are happy to announce that the site went live today!

The completed site includes a Content Management System, which allows Griffin to add, edit and delete the majority of the content on their site, including the Service pages such as Summary of Cover, FAQs, Security Guidelines and Useful Links. The website also features the Google Translation tool to enable Griffin's customers from around the World to utilise their website.

Indigo Lyon choose Dusza for Website Design and Programming

Indigo Lyon is an International business providing aircraft sales and aviation services, specialising in aircraft sales and aviation services and is also active in spare parts brokerage, consultancy, project & programme planning and execution management. Through it's Australian affiliate the company is also involved in investment in the first Australiansuper car.

Indigo Lyon were referred to Dusza through Emerald Media, a specialist aviation PR company, for whom we created a website in 2008. They were looking for a website which was clean and crisp, informative and having seen our portfolio, thought that we produce the right kind of sites.

After some initial conversations, which enabled us to get a feel for Indigo Lyon's business, Dusza created a proposal for the website. The proposal outlined our thoughts about the website in general and also included a design and full breakdown of the proposed structure. The structure would include a selection of Service and About Us pages which would give users a total overview of Indigo Lyon. The design would be clean and minimalist, but exuding confidence, with a simple colour palette.

Dusza is very happy to announce that Indigo Lyon were happy with our proposal and work is about to start on the website. It should be finished within the next month, so check back to see the finished site.

Head 2 Toe's Online Shop Gets a Re-fit

Head 2 Toe Security (www.head2toesecurity.co.uk) is a one stop shop for the security industry, offering specialist equipment and clothing both to customers local to its shop in Bournemouth, Dorset, and nationwide via its website.

Its new site, which utilises Dusza's comprehensive Star eCommerce, is unveiled today, and features a wealth of improvements over the company's old web presence - for both the customers and the administrators alike!

One key feature of the new site that goes a long way to improve the customer experience is the ability for visitors to set-up an account on the site. They can then log-in and update their own details whenever they like, and use this log-in area to track any existing orders, too.

The Head 2 Toe website features a state-of-the-art eCommerce Content Management System (CMS) behind it, which makes life easier for the site's administrators. With it, they have total control over the product content, thus making maintaining and updating the online shop's range of goods easier and quicker. The new Head 2 Toe website is also capable of taking orders, processing payments, creating picking lists, automatically emailing and issuing invoices, as well as exporting Excel-compatible spreadsheets of sales - tools which are ideal for keeping the accounts in order.

The new site launches today (admidst a wealth of special offers), emblazoned with the Dusza-designed, modernised logo, bringing a whole fresh new look to Head 2 Toe's brand.

Bug Scooter Ecommerce Launch

Bug Scooter.co.uk is an eCommerce website that markets and sells children's Scooters.

With the explosion in the toy scooter market set to breakout over Christmas period it was important that this eCommerce was launched on a very focused time line.

This brand new website is Search Engine Optimised and is set to follow our other websites into google top 10 positions for targeted keywords.

Dusza Launches Nordic Surgical CMS Website

Nordic Surgical distribute a range of technologically advanced surgical and medical products worldwide.

Nordic Surgical had a basic website, but it did not represent their brand values appropriately. They required a website which showcased their products to prospective customers in a professional and easy to understand manner.

Dusza created a website for Nordic Surgical which has a clean, modern, professional design and engaging content available from an intuitive navigation.

Our bespoke Content Management System is simple to use and allows Nordic Surgical to edit areas such as Home Page, Products and Resources quickly and easily. Built in Search Engine Optimisation also means that from day one Nordic Surgical's website will start to be recognised and ranked by Google and other major search engines.

The Nordic Surgical website gives prospective customers comprehensive product and company information, It instills confidence and allows them to get in touch easily.

Get WOW Factor

'The Wow Factor' could easily apply to Dusza website designs, but on this occasion we're talking about a new client. The Wow Factor provide consultancy, training and coaching for a wide range of people from corporate executives to cabinet ministers, athletes to celebrities - helping them give effective presentations.

The Wow Factor came to Dusza looking for an effective website which would reflect their service offering. It was essential that the design had 'the wow factor' and that the website itself was easy to navigate and provided all the information a prospective client might need.

Dusza created a website which was visually engaging without being distracting, the site has a full content management system, which allows the client to update all the text and images on the site, including the home page, about us, services, resources and success stories, meaning that the website will never be out of date.

The site also includes various video examples of good presentation and a newsletter that visitors can sign up to for presentation tips!

If you are interested in a fully content managed website for your business, cutting out the cost of amending your site and keeping it up to date, call the best Bournemouth website agency on 0845 094 6442 or email hello@dusza.co.uk.

Dusza Redesigns School Website

Dusza has been working to develop marketing strategies with Blessed George Napier (BGN), a Catholic Secondary School in Banbury, for many years. 2009 saw the opportunity to re-develop the school's online presence.

BGN gave Dusza a couple of examples of competitor school sites to assess, but were happy to let Dusza propose the best structure and design for the new website.

Dusza proposed the creation of a website which would fit stylistically with the school's prospectus (designed and printed by Dusza in 2008) and would also allow students, parents and the local community to interact more effectively with the school.

The BGN website went live this week. The website features a full content management system which allows teachers and students to keep the site up to date, an events calendar to keep students, parents and the local community informed of up coming dates for their diaries and links to an ePortal and eLearning Platform.

Blessed George Napier are very pleased with their website which puts them at the forefront of website technology in schools.

If you are interested in a website for a school or other educational body, contact the website specialists on 0845 094 6442 or email hello@dusza.co.uk.

DUSZA wins pitch for The Mangrove website

DUSZA are proud to announce that we recently won a pitch against several other agencies to design and build The Mangrove website.

The Mangrove offers a specially designed two-day retreat, filled with practical, value-added and hands-on activities which focus on both personal and professional development.

In order to meet the client's launch deadline and match up with their marketing campaign the deadline which DUSZA will work to for this Content Managed site, from conception to making live, is just two weeks!

The Mangrove want to see their website utilise an 'earthy/natural' colour palette based on their identity with a simple, clean and natural style. The site needs to give detailed retreat information, coaching information and give the ability for users to book online.

Check back for the live site on Monday 3rd March!

Successful rebrand of the Cleaning Services Group

The Cleaning Services Group (previously Sparkle Cleaning) appointed DUSZA to create a new logo for the new franchise company which provides a comprehensive range of cleaning services throughout the UK. CSG were looking for a re-brand to take them forward into franchising with the intention of becoming one of the market leaders.

DUSZA created a selection of new logos for CSG to choose from, which reflect the company as 'clean, fresh and bright'. The selected logo was refined to the final format, which was implemented through the sister brands and a full set of stationery.

The next step will be marketing literature to include a brochure and method statements.

Dusza Wins 3 way pitch for ecommerce website

Dusza has won a pitch against two website agencies from the South West region for the redesign and programming of a website for Winchester based wine merchant; Stone, Vine & Sun.

Having been disappointed by an earlier re-development of their ecommerce website, Stone, Vine and Sun were extremely thorough in their selection of a web agency. The pitch was in three stages, submission of credentials followed by an initial face-to-face consultation with eight agencies taking part, from which Stone, Vine and Sun selected three agencies to pitch.

Dusza's pitch, which included a SWOT analysis, design and full structural breakdown, featured a fully Search Engine Optimisable Content Managed Ecommerce website, which we promised to deliver within 8 weeks.

Work started on the site at the start of May 2009 and the programming was completed 6 weeks later - two weeks ahead of schedule! Stone, Vine & Sun are putting the content into the site as we speak and we expect it to go live any day now. Check back soon to see the full website.

If you are looking for a website agency to pitch for your website get in touch with the ecommerce website specialists on 0845 094 6442 or email hello@dusza.co.uk.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) The Facts

What are Search Engines? How do I get my website found in Search Engines? How do I get to the top of Google? All good questions, which we get asked on a regular basis, but unfortunately not easy to answer and in the case of getting good Search Engine rankings not easy to achieve - if it was everyone would be doing it!

Dusza offers a full Search Engine Marketing service, but as a taster we thought we'd write a quick article giving you some basic information and guidance.

What is a Search Engine?

A Search Engine is a program, which searches websites on the Internet for specified keywords and returns a list of websites where the specified keyword was found. Some examples of Search Engines include Google, Yahoo and Alta Vista, different search engines will use slightly different methods of searching for keywords, but all work in the same basic way.

Search Engines send out 'spiders' which fetch website pages, an 'indexer' then reads through the pages and creates an index of keywords within the website pages. The Search Engine uses an 'algorithm' to return the best results for each search made.

What is the most commonly used Search Engine?

Without doubt it is Google, in fact Google is the most commonly visited website in the World. Although all search engines work slightly differently it is fair to say that if you optimise your website to achieve good ranking in Google it will also do well in all other Search Engines.

Do I have to pay to get on the first page of Google?

Quite simply no! You can pay, but that is not your only option. When you search for a product or service in Google (rather than information) the results returned at the very top (highlighted in yellow) and on the right hand side of the page have paid to appear in these positions. This is called Pay-Per-Click (PPC). These companies have set up PPC campaigns for specific keywords and pay each time someone clicks on their advert (whether or not they actually buy anything). More about PPC campaigns below.

Without paying it is more difficult to get on to the first page of Google, however it is achievable.

How do I get my website on the first page in Search Engines?

There is no simple solution to getting found in Search Engines, the best way to achieve high search engine ranking is to create the best possible website for your clients as the quality of the website and the information it contains is what search engines use to order results. Some of the things you need to bear in mind are:

Accessibility - If a website does not confirm to WC3 web standards for accessibility (read more about accessibility in our web services section it is likely that Search Engines will not be able to index the content of your website properly, in some cases (websites with high flash or image content rather than text) the website may be almost invisible to Search Engines.

Volume of information - it is important that you give your client's a wide range of information about your product or service

Updating of information - it is important that you regularly update the information on your website to give your client's accurate up-to-date information

Keyword research - it is important to think about or even better to research keywords which clients may use to find your website

Keywords use - it is important that the information on your website contains your chosen keywords, but in a balanced way (keyword 'stuffing' can be recognised by Search Engines and will be penalised)

Link building - this is one of the most time consuming and effective ways of achieving high Search Engine ranking. Link building is having a link to your website on someone else's website, it is even better if that link is reciprocal (a link on your site to theirs and on their site to yours). However it is also a very dangerous activity - Search Engines are capable of recognising links to unrelated sites and unrealistic volume of links both of which would be penalised.

These are just some of the ways to help your website do well in Search Engines and just a brief overview of each. If you would like more information about Search Engine Optimisation please contact us for a FREE consultation.

Can you guarantee that my website will get to the top of Google?

No. Any company who claims to be able to guarantee that they can get your website to the top of any search engine is, at the very least, stretching the truth, and at the worst, lying!

It is likely that your website could get to the top of Search Engine Rankings for your company name, as long as it is also the address of your website. If you have been lucky enough to get a website address which is also your product or service eg. www.website-design-services.co.uk, then it is likely that you will also be top for this term. However without further investment, either in terms of time or money, that is likely to be it.

Some SEO companies will use a variety of methods to try and deceive Search Engines, some of these are:

Presenting 'fake' content to Search Engines by using hidden words or links
Using misspellings or other brand names to 'steal' users from competitors
Link schemes, which automatically create a huge number of irrelevant links
Stuffing pages with keywords
Duplicating content on multiple pages, domains or subdomains

All of these methods would be penalised by Search Engines. These are just a few of the Bad Practives, which Google lists as resulting in penalisation and possibly black-listing (not appearing in Search Engine rankings at all - ever!). However Google never reveals all of it's search criteria so the best way to ensure that you stay on the right side of Search Engine law is to ask yourself whether you feel comfortable with the methods you are using to improve your Search Engine ranking. If what you are doing or planning to do will definitely benefit your users (and may also increase Search Engine ranking) then it's ok. If your plans involve any kind of deceit either of Search Engines, users or competitors then it's probably best to steer clear.

If you have any questions about any aspect of Search Engines please get in touch and we will be happy to help and advise you.

Maven Audio Visual Choose Dusza

Maven integrate and install the finest in audio visual technology, including home cinemas, multi room audio, entertainment systems, lighting and heating control. It was essential to Maven that their site reflect the technological nature of their businesses as well as demonstrating their skill in design.

Dusza were very pleased to have been selected by Maven to pitch for their website and are excited about working with such an interesting client. The Maven brand, created by the directors of Maven, was excellent and combined with the photography of the amazing systems Maven had installed it was not difficult to develop a stunning design.

During consultation with Maven, Dusza concluded that it was very important for Maven to be able to showcase their installations and products. Dusza created a proposal for a site which has a large Content Management System allowing Maven to upload and cross reference services, products, showcase and news.

Dusza is very happy to have been chosen by Maven and is looking forward to starting technical development.

Check back to see the live site, which we are sure will be stunning.

Web Design Bournemouth? Dusza can help

Looking for a website design company in Bournemouth, Dorset? Then congratulations, look no further - you really have found the best.

Dusza have all the experience you need to draw upon when considering embarking on a web project, whether it's a revamp of an existing website or a completely new design.

The DUSZA Team have blue chip experience working with the likes of Sebastian Coe, Porsche, Tescos and Ralph Lauren from projects that range from Logo Design through to complete ecommerce websites, stationery or vehicle wraps. We really do have an abundance of creative energy, skill and and experience.

Take a look at our Portfolio whilst you are here to get a feel of our style.

DUSZA even author titles to help better prepare you for your web project, offering advice and solutions to search engine optimisation, marketing and even content writing or image sourcing.

Whether it is a high profile website set for international stardom, a business to business lead generating website or full blown bespoke ecommerce development for millions of products, DUSZA offer you a free consultation to help you make the best possible choice for your web design project.

DUSZA have years of experience in a extensive number of sectors ranging from programming and designing Construction Websites, e commerce Retail Websites, Corporate Websites, Charity Websites, Music Websites... the list is long. The reason why DUSZA have been able to establish themselves in so many sectors is simple, we are great designers not only in the web but in traditional print too. Many of our clients trust DUSZA with all aspects of their marketing be it online or in print.

Below are a selection of websites we have designed and programmed, most of which include bespoke, Search Engine Friendly, DUSZA Content Management Systems:

Skate Sale

This ecommerce web design and programming is completely focussed on maximising return on investment from both organic search engine optimisation and pay per click. The ecommerce is integrated into PROTX and online order tracking through DHL, the bespoke content management system also controls stock levels, advises administration of new orders or refunds.

The Barbus

The Barbus website keeps clients up to date with SMS text messaging, alerting them when the Barbus is in their locality.

Rage Hair

Rage's website validates as 1.0 strict XHTML compliancy to W3C standards.

So if you want to work with the very best website design company in Bournemouth, contact the web specialists on 0845 094 6442 or email hello@dusza.co.uk and find out what working with the best web design company in Bournemouth is like.

Another Aviation Website Recomendation

Dusza were very pleased in September to receive an enquiry from Tekniche who had been recommended by another happy client; Emerald Media.

Tekniche is a specialist recruitment and technology solutions company, providing expert support to secure the best people for the aviation, construction, engineering, IT and rail industries in the UK, Europe and Asia. They approached Dusza to create a new website to support their flourishing business.

Dusza created a proposal for a bespoke website. The proposal included branding and a website design to position Tekniche as modern and professional and also a variety of features (managed by a Content Management System) which would allow Tekniche to keep their website up to date with available positions and new stories as well as adding a variety of information about the services they offer and the client's they work with throughout the world.

Dusza are happy to announce that Tekniche have chosen Dusza to produce their website and we are very excited about delivering a site which will accurately reflect Tekniche as an industry leader. Check back to see the live website in a few months.

Hair Goddess select Dusza for Web Design, Web Development and SEO

Hair Goddess (HG) Professional products are a premium quality range of must have hair styling tools. The HG Professional range gives men and women the ability to create a salon look in their own home at a great price.

HG were looking for an agency to help them create a stunning ecommerce website, which can be quickly and easily rolled out through multiple countries.

Initially HG approached Dusza with regards to website design services. Having found the DUSZA website through search engines, they literally fell in love with our style. HG required a design, which represented them as a luxury boutique, but that also gave users quick and easy access to their products. Dusza created designs for the core pages of the website and HG were ecstatic with the results.

Once the website designs were completed, Dusza had various discussions with HG regarding their website development and particularly Search Engine Marketing, which was a high priority. Further to these discussions HG decided to go with Dusza for the entire website development project.

We will be starting work on the development of the UK e-commerce website within the week, aiming to have the site live by the 20th October 2008. Check back in a couple of weeks to see the live website (and buy your wife/girlfriend/best friend's Christmas present)!

For the slickest ecommerce designs that generate true return on investment get in touch with DUSZA on 0845 094 6442 or email hello@dusza.co.uk.

Happy 3rd Birthday Dusza

Dusza is 3! It seems like yesterday that Steve and I set up a little office in my front room. How far we've come since then. In the style of an Oscar's speech, I'd like to take this opportunity to formally thank a few very important people:

Firstly our clients - without you there would be no Dusza. Happily we have many clients who have been with us since day one and many more who have joined us since then and gone on to become good friends as well as good clients. Obviously we are hoping for many more in the future and it is our aim to maintain our high levels of service and keep extending our service offerings to provide a full range of creative, print, web and consultancy services.

Secondly our staff - over the years we have grown from just 2 to the happy team we have today. Dusza is very fortunate to have a great team who work incredibly hard and who are always keen to get totally involved in all aspects of the company. We hope they enjoy working for Dusza as much as we enjoy working with them.

Thirdly our suppliers - whether it is specialist flash animation, bespoke lithographic printers or our landlord, all of Dusza's suppliers have helped us get to where we are today. Once again some relationships can be traced back to pre-Dusza days whilst others are more recent, but without exception all Dusza's suppliers are the best at what they do and we are lucky to count them as friends.

Fourthly (and finally) I'd like to thank my family (and I'm sure Steve would like to thank his too) for supporting us in these formative years.

Right that's enough sloppy stuff - back to the grindstone!

Efret Launch Content Managed Website

DUSZA are proud to announce the launch of the new look website for Efret - a specialist carrier providing European transportation solutions.

Efret required a web presence that reflected the diversity of their services and employees and emphasizes the fact that they are a well-established company able to rival the big competitors. Above all, Efret required a website that will attract new business, new contacts and encourage interactivity between suppliers and businesses on an International level.

DUSZA's website concept for Efret has a strong emphasis on the quality of service. The completed website is simple and clean to denote Efret's professionalism. Key areas of the new website are content managed so that Efret has full control over content.

Visit the site at www.europeantransportation.com

Skate Sale Launch Ecommerce Website

Today Dusza have launched Skate Sale, an exciting new website offering top quality quad skates, inlines, Heelys and accessories at bargain sale prices.

Development of this project started in February of this year with extensive Website Consultancy, investigating the market as a whole, analysing competitors and looking for opportunities. Following this initial consultancy Dusza developed a proposal for the website and worked with the client to develop a brand name, website design and structure.

Technical work on the website commenced in early May. The website features a wide range of complex features within its bespoke Content Management System:

Product Upload enabling Skate Sale administrators to upload text description, multiple images, variations in colour and size and variations in price
Stock Management enabling administrators to enter stock and alert levels and manage their stock- Supplier Information enabling administrators to enter data about Brands and Suppliers
Order Management enabling administrators to view orders, take payments, dispatch orders and deal with any order queries
Customer Management enabling administrators to view customer information and customers to log in to their account, view of change information and track their orders through an integrated DHL system
Advertising Management enabling Skate Sale managers to create individual advertising campaigns or upload banners from other advertisers
Discount Management enabling managers to create discounts or bundle deals on products
Deals of the Week
A fully configurable home page enabling managers to place selected products on the home page

Full testing was carried out before the site went live to prevent any problems for administrators or users. Skate Sale were happy to report a number of orders in their first weekend of trading and Dusza are confident that this will continue into a very successful future.

The G&H Group Launch Rebrand

On Tuesday 1st April at the Construction Conference at the BIC The G&H Group, formerly George & Harding, unveiled their new company identity, designed and implemented by DUSZA!

DUSZA designed a logo which represents G&H as a strong, solid company with innovative designs and a quality service. We implemented the logo throughout stationery, brochure, folder, CDs, exhibition stand, vehicle liveries, website and html email stationery.

Take a look at our portfolio to see the finished brand.

Launch of Dyslexia Awareness Website

Dusza are pleased to announce the launch of the No To Failure website.

No to Failure (NTF) is a project who's aim is to highlight the link between children failing in school and Specific Learning Disabilities (SpLD) and seek to prove that SpLD training is critical and essential for teachers. No to Failure is supported and funded by the Department for Children, Families & Schools (DCFS).

Dusza has worked with a number of Dyslexia organisations over the past two years so we were well positioned to help NTF achieve an effective and easy to use website.

One of the most important aspects of a Dyslexic friendly website is the use of colours and fonts to make the design easy to read and understand. Dusza created two versions of the NTF website; a black version and a white version. Users can easily switch between designs. Users can also make the text larger.

The website also features a Content Management System - to allow administrators to upload articles about the project, including text and images, and a Dyslexia Questionnaire to help users find out if they might be dyslexic. Dusza completed the website from consultation to going live in under 1 month to fit in with NTF's deadline.

Dusza are very proud to have been involved with this important project and are looking forward to working together in the future and seeing the results of NTF's work to help children.