We’ve just finished a design for the iPhone Application Developers Website. The brief was to design a website that would showcase their development services with a look and feel based on the Apple site.

The guys at iPhone Application Developers build great applications for iPhone, PDA & Windows mobile. Their applications are designed to solve your business problems and generally make your life easier! They can take care of any custom app you might need; taking your initial idea, brain-storming potential ideas before presenting the best options to you. Once the idea has been solidified they’ll set about building the application, performing rigorous testing through to deployment and marketing the finished application.

What kind of applications can they develop?

• Messaging and reminder applications that help you stay in touch with your customers enabling you to schedule appointments, manage orders and log enquiries.
• Job tracking applications for mobile engineers and service staff featuring time sheets for logging time spent on jobs.
• Asset tracking, bar code reading and photo imaging software that enables your engineers to identify customer sites, equipment and parts.
• GPS employee tracking applications to manage engineers out on call, plot the best route for engineers to a particular job and provide reports on a load of different variables including mileage and time spent per job.
• Sales management & stock control applications that are designed to monitor the progress of sales staff. Really useful tools designed to work within these applications include sales management, order summaries, event logs, and stock checks.
• Management information applications that produce summarised reports of key financial data about your business for management and shareholders in a really intuitive format.
• Learning and training applications that provide an easy to use interface and enable students to learn quickly whilst being fun at the same time!

We’ve just finished a bit of spring cleaning for Alpha Digital. The website has been given a complete overhaul including a new design, category structure update and content management system.

Alpha Digital is based in Uxbridge, Middlesex and specialise in supplying new and used networking equipment throughout the whole of the UK. However, due to the introduction of The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) in January 2007 Alpha Digital opened up a new arm of the company to deal with the computer recycling demand from businesses around the UK.

Taking this into account the redesign focuses on the new services on offer including computer recycling and server maintenance and new products including Cisco switches, and Switch parts.

Take a look at the before (left) and after (right) screenshots below:

Have a look at the new website: http://www.alpha-digital.co.uk

As part of a campaign to generate more leads from their website Onlineworx has completed a redesign for Hubys Domestic Appliance Repairs. Take a look at the before (left) and after (right) screenshots below:

Hubys is a Domestic Appliance repair centre based in Hull, servicing the whole of Northwest UK. Specialising in washing machine repair, they employ qualified washing machine repair engineers and service all the major washer brands. They also cover cooker, fridge and dishwasher repairs and supply spare parts for all the appliances they service.

When Hubys approached Onlineworx the website appeared on page 14 of the search results for just one keyword and as you can imagine this rarely generated any solid leads. Three months later and the website is ranking for over 60 keywords; that’s 40+ page 1 Google rankings! This in-turn has meant an increase in leads generated by the website and Hubys now benefits from over 20 website enquiries per week.

Take a look at the new website: http://www.hubys.com

Onlineworx recently completed a redesign for the French wine tours website Vineyard Partners.

The Vineyard Partners website offers wine tours at award winning vineyards in the Languedoc region of Southern France. Holidays offer guests a guide through the wine making process, guided vineyard tours, wine tasting and local accommodation.

David Bailey owner of Vineyard Partners explains:

“Vineyard Partners offers a unique opportunity to increase your knowledge of the wine making process. We have created a range of exciting gift packages, tailored to suit every pocket, to take you on a voyage of adventure and discovery which we hope will appeal to all lovers of fine wines, from the debutant to the expert.”

The new design needed to showcase the different wine tour packages in a way that was immediately visible to customers. This was achieved by using large visual calls-to-action to grab attention, providing a scannable summary of packages directly on the home page.

Below are the before (left) and after (right) screenshots:

Vineyard Partners guides guests through the wine making adventure:  increasing their knowledge of wine and winemaking, taking a guided tour of the vineyards with an English speaking guide, following the story of the wine from the vine to the bottle, enjoying a 3-courseg lunch, taking part in a tutored wine tasting, purchasing wine at a discounted rate (cheaper than the locals in France can buy it!) and even creating their own individually crafted fine wine.

Take a look at the new website: http://www.vineyardpartners.com

Onlineworx design team has been working to a tight schedule with Nottingham based Telemarketing company Action For Business. Completing the site in just two days AFB Telemarketing is now live!

You can find the website at www.afb-telemarketing.co.uk

According to superblog Techcrunch, there are rumours spreading around that Apple will be attempting to create a search engine. This comes at an interesting time, considering Yahoo and MSNs popularity are steadily on the decline…

We mentioned some while back about a new search engine Cuil, made by former Google employees that seemed promising, but somewhat cumbersome. However, to have one of the coolest, most advanced companies in the world attempting such a feat is pretty exciting stuff! I own a number of Apple products myself, and would think that if anyone can re-invent the wheel (ie:Google) then Apple can.

You might have noticed the spooky themed Google landing page today, but did you notice their robots.txt? Thought not !

We are all shaking in our boots! Have a fun halloween and dont eat too many sweets

Onlineworx have been working closely with Manchester based Scrapyard and Aluminium Recycling company Automet. Having recently finished the flash elements of the site, Automet has now gone live !

You can find them at www.automet.co.uk

Ever wondered what it would be like to own a domain like Poker.com? Business.com? Shopping.com? I have.. And although these examples are a tiny bit over the top, it is by no means impossible to grab yourself a fantastic domain name. This of course works wonders for SEO purposes and hopefully your wallet too!

My inspiraiton for this post comes from a recent discussion with a friend, who mentioned the fact that they had just registered a fantastic “keyword rich” domain. The domain is an extremely strong search term for his desired niche market, and if done correctly could be a fantastic success. Within google keywords, the domain name as a search term has more than 500.000 searches a month! Now thats what i call promising… And it was found just through blind luck.

Feeling inspired by his fortunes, i paid a visit to 123-reg.co.uk to try my luck. I plucked the word “t-shirt” out of my head and tested some possible variants of tshirt, t-shirt, t-shirtshop and so forth to no avail. I think its a matter of being at the right place at the right time.

How does this benefit you? Well all i would suggest is to try your dream domain name, but also be flexible and creative with other variants of the word – you may be suprised what is available for registration! Secondly i would suggest reading through Mike Davidsons fantastic post here on the ins and outs of expired domains and the best ways to secure your dream domain. Last but not least, try to secure a .com or .co.uk domain – you’re wasting your time (and money) if you find a keyword and it is only available as www.tshirts.org.net.

Websites will not always function correctly. Webmasters can become lazy with re-registering. For these reasons and many more, there will always be chances to grab an established domain and turn it into something special. Good luck and get domain hunting!

You may have noticed a new look to the Onlineworx website recently. Pete has given our website a re-design, and continued with the slick black and red design theme. Very nice! If you have any comments, let us know!