March 2010
We have launched a new startup web design package for new businesses. Tidy Design has created a mini brochure site that won't cost you the earth to setup and develop! To find out more please click here
Feb 2010:
Tidy Design will be designing a FREE website for Uganda Hands for Hope Charity to help children of refugees from the Congo, Rwanda...
This month we also aimed to launch phase one of a new site designed to help businessmen and women... The site is located at BusinessNetworkingLink.com and part of mjward UK Ltd. You can follow our progress at twitter.com/businessnetlink
Monday 25th January 2010:
The iPad arrives!! Will Apple kick start the tablet market, allowing other manufacturers to follow?? Earlier this week Apple said its aim was to try to create a third category of product inbetween a laptop and smartphone, which is the traditional interpretation of a tablet computer. During the iPad launch Apple also mentioned that it had recently sold its 250 millionth iPod! Read more
Monday 25th January 2010:
Last working week of Jan 2010! The team at Tidy Design will be working very hard to ensure all targets and deadlines are met!
Saturday 23rd January 2010:
Lots happening today in Portsmouth, Tom has been busy developing a bespoke tenant enquiry database... It is looking very tidy! Lots of website updates keeping me out of trouble! Just had a 5 min chill to read the news and it seems Barack Obama continues to be "troubled" by alleged cyber-attacks originating in China on the internet search giant Google! Read more on the BBC website.
Tuesday 19th January 2010:
Google postpone the launch of two mobile phones following a dispute with the Chinese government. Read more
Monday 18th January 2010:
We have just uploaded a valentines theme to TidyDesign.com! Hope you like it? A busy Monday at our Tidy Design Portsmouth HQ. Two new website enquiries plus several website updates for us to action this week.
Friday 15th January 2010:
A massive thank you to Rosie, Alan and Tom for all your hard work over the last two weeks! Since going back to work on the 4th of Jan the team at Tidy Design are yet to have a day off.... Infact an evening off!!! This weekend we are all hoping to take our foot off the gas, chillout and make our plans for the last two weeks of Jan 2010. Just incase you missed it, please click here to view last weeks news letter.
Sunday 10th January 2010:
After a VERY busy first week back at work! We are now ready to send out 4000+ News Letters!!! Please click here to take a look!
Monday 4th January 2010:
Happy New Year from Tidy Design!!! We are now back in the office and ready to make 2010 our best year yet! Start 2010 with an affordable and modern looking website design from Tidy Design. Quality website designs in London and Portsmouth UK
Monday 14th December 2009:
Our final full week before the festive holidays!!!... Over the Christmas break our office will be closed from the 23rd December to the 4th Jan 2010. If you need to contact us then please email support@tidydesign.com... Happy holidays!
Saturday 28th November 2009:
November has been another record setting month for Tidy Design... We are delighted with our progress this year as a company and we really believe that 2010 is going to be a great year! It has however not been easy and I personally am looking forward to a mini holiday over Christmas to re-boot my body and mind after more 100+ hour working weeks than I can remember! A massive thank you to all involved!
Sunday 1st November 2009:
October was a very busy month for Tidy Design. We have been developing several new websites and working very hard marketing two new companies using our advanced SEO Packages. Over the final two months of 2009 Tidy Design has several new projects in the pipeline which will keep us on our toes until the New Year! I can see a busy few weeks ahead juggling these with our existing website designs, web marketing and client updates!
BREAKING NEWS!! October 2009:
Tidy Design Portsmouth buys Tidy Design .com and merges both websites!! We hope you like our new site? Please note some sections are still under construction. If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.
Friday 2nd October 2009:
The end of yet another week at Tidy Design Portsmouth! A couple of new porjects have already got off the ground in October! One being to develop and install our Hotel Booking Reservation System for a 4star hotel in Cornwall. All very exciting stuff!
Tuesday 29th September 2009:
What a month! Not only was it a record month financially! We also managed to squeeze in a mini last minute camping holiday to the New Forest! All in all this year has been very difficult, alot of late nights and hard work however it seems to be paying off! Lets see what the last quarter of 2009 brings Tidy Design Portsmouth!
Thursday 10th September 2009:
So what is new at Tidy Design Portsmouth?? Well... our new guy Tom has been great! Business very busy and we are very lucky to be working on some exciting new projects! August was not far off a record month for us this year and September is again looking like a record breaker! However it has not all been easy going and working 7am to 11pm is starting to become an every day occurrence! So as you can imagine, a minimal social life and the need for a holiday has never felt so great! :D
Thursday 28th August 2009:
What a week! Lots in the pipeline at the moment, we have finished off a couple of new websites... These include Scaffolding Solutions, Florida Home, La Palmera store... Tom has also built a bespoke database powered reminders system for Back Care Beds which is really cool! And, we have taken on a large project to create a unique property portal and landlord management system for Freedom Residential Lettings!
Thursday 13th August 2009:
Whats all this about .eco domains?? One of the consortiums preparing a bid to control .eco, as it is known, has published a 17-page analysis of a rival group's plan challenging its viability. Dot Eco, a consortium backed by former US vice president Al Gore, describes a plan by its main competitor - Canadian green group Big Room - as "unworkable". Big Room has said:
"We're releasing this open examination because we're tired of Big Room's leaders mischaracterising our efforts and making exaggerations about their own plan, which after careful analysis proves to be unworkable," Fred Krueger, founder of Dot Eco, said in a statement. Both groups are hoping to win the right to sell .eco "top-level domain names", which are similar to .com or .uk. Read more
Monday 10th August 2009:
A good start to the week! Rosie has been busy updating our employer liability insurance and fire/risk assessment forms ready for Tom who is starting work with us tomorrow... Not much else to report! It looks like I will be working this evening on some web design projects! At Tidy Design in Portsmouth we can offer you a professional bespoke design, company branding and logo design plus friendly support here in the UK! contact us
Friday 7th August 2009:
The end of another busy week! Lots of work to get completed over the weekend so it is not over just yet! We have had thumbs up to a few new web projects which is great news! We are now working overtime to get everything completed ahead of schedule! Also, today on the BBC website...
'A "massively co-ordinated" attack on websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter was directed at one individual, it has been confirmed. Facebook told BBC News that the strike was aimed at a pro-Georgian blogger known as Cyxymu. The attack caused a blackout of Twitter for around two hours, while Facebook said its service had been "degraded". Google said it had defended its sites and was now working with the other companies to investigate the attack.'
"[The] attack appears to be directed at an individual who has a presence on a number of sites, rather than the sites themselves," a Facebook spokesman told BBC News. "Specifically, the person is an activist blogger and a botnet was directed to request his pages at such a rate that it impacted service for other users." You can find out more on the BBC website, please click here
Thursday 6th August 2009:
The campaign to kill Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) gathered steam this week when a California site builder led nearly 40 Web start-ups to urge their users to ditch Microsoft's eight-year-old browser. Microsoft acknowledged it's pushing IE6 users to upgrade to the newer IE8, but again promised it would support the creaky browser until April 2014.
Wednesday 5th August 2009:
All systems go here, it has been a busy week since our last news report! Have you been following us on twitter?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8174763.stm Yahoo and Microsoft look set to join forces to compete with their principal competitor Google. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer said the agreement will improve search facilities, will broaden consumer choice, and will produce better value for advertisers. The partnership will result in a market share in the US search ad market of approximately 30%, whilst Google still holds about 60%. What does this ultimately mean for us? Well this means that our sites will be susceptible to more online coverage! Thus broadening the means for people to find your site!
Monday 27th July 2009:
Tidy Design Portsmouth hiring an apprentice!! We received an email two weeks ago from a local guy who sounded very interested in web design and our business. With school almost over and the summer months upon him we have been thinking how both parties could benefit from each others time, experience and enthusiasm! Tomorrow we are meeting him for the first time to discuss the varies options available… Tidy Design hopes this will be the start of a long and profitable working relationship for both parties!
Tuesday 21st July 2009:
Late last night Mike re-vamped one of his old personal websites Global Warming Today. A basic website was designed some months ago and left to climb the search engine result pages... Now it is seeing an increase in website traffic we will be developing the site further! Please stay tuned!
Sunday 19th July 2009:
Just a quick post to let you know we have today started to re-vamp our Tidy Web Design Portfolio... Over the next couple of weeks we will be developing and updating our Tidy website in preparation for our new Yellow Pages advert, flyers and possible radio advert...
Friday 17th July 2009:
The search engine giant Google has reported second quarter earnings of $5.52 billion, representing “an increase of 3% compared to the second quarter of 08.” Googles first quarter of 09 was a massive $5.51 billion, by comparison. So growth was flat quarter over quarter... According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Google’s business has “stabilized” and has seen growth in certain areas in a bad economic climate.
Tuesday 14th July 2009:
Judging by screenshots I have seen today taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears that this massive Google company will soon be phasing out support for the IE6 browser! Twitter is also showing multiple people confirming this news! It would seem that web developers would rather spend time building websites for newer, better browsers than wasting man hours on IE6!... I will keep you posted!
Thursday 9th July 2009:
Mike is very happy today after launching our very own Tidy Design Portsmouth domain and whois look up tool. This database driven web application will allow our clients and people who land on our website the chance to check if a domain is available! We hope this free tool will help people to find the perfect domain name for a business or hobby... Start searching today! :)
Other news... It is Jason's birthday tomorrow (Happy Birthday!) so we are having a small get together this evening to show our thanks for his hard work and support with Tidy Design Portsmouth over the last couple of years... Jason has been out with us at daft o'clock delivering flyers on the coldest night of the year and requested more backlinks than I can remember! Not only a great asset to the company but also a great friend!
Wednesday 1st July 2009:
Yesterday Tidy Design Portsmouth had a behind the scenes tour of Express FM and got to see the DJ’s in actions! Mike has now asked the highly creative James Faulkner to brain storm a unique jingle for our local Website Design, Hosting, SEO and Print based work. We will keep you posted!
Can you believe it? Six months has officially been and gone! Today we will be meeting to reflect on the ups and downs, highs and lows etc... Following this we will be mapping out the next 6 months of 2009!
Monday 29th June 2009:
This morning we finished designing a website for Southampton Language College and emailed a preview across to our client... No long to go now before it is uploaded to the web and a new sitemap.xml is submitted for indexing... We hope this website will see similar results to Portsmouth Language College in terms of search engine rankings and online business... Today we also had thumbs up from the NHS for another order of Posters! All in all a good start to the week as a meeting was confirmed for Thursday RE a new website for another Orlando villa! It looks like July could be a busy month!
Friday 19th June 2009:
Today Rosie is getting stuck into the online marketing (Search Engine Optimisation) of ISO Certification. I on the other hand will be putting the final touches to Southampton Language College webpages and CSS ready for content to be added... Another week almost over and it looks like another weekend in the office for Tidy Design Portsmouth!
Thursday 18th June 2009:
As posted on twitter this morning Tidy Design Portsmouth can not believe we only have 12 days left until the end of June! With this in mind and lots of work to get signed off before the end of 09 second quarter we thought we should post some photos of our trip to South West Wales last weekend.
As you can see above we had great weather and lots of BBQ’s! It was a nice break from the web, computers and business in general however it does feel good to be back and fully re-charged! As Jack Nicolson once said… ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!’ Other news... today we had our Tidy Design Portsmouth advert/link on Yell.com upgraded following an Oscar winning sales pitch from Jennifer at Yell … We even signed up for an advert to be printed in the 2009/10 Yellow Pages Book! With all this doom and gloom across the media we think extra advertising is required!
Thursday 11th June 2009:
This weekend Tidy Design Portsmouth is mixing business with pleasure... Both Rosie and I are driving to South West Wales to meet up with an existing client and then with Swansea Sugar Craft, a company we recently quoted for a website. Work aside we have booked a couple of nights camping and sea kayaking in Pembroke! Lets hope we get back in one piece!
Monday 8th June 2009:
Just a quick message to let everyone know Tidy Design Portsmouth has just joined twitter... We have signed up a couple of our clients to twitter in recent months for seo (Search Engine Optimisation) reasons. So what is twitter? Well, twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users updates known as tweets...
Thursday 21st May 2009:
The Hotel Booking Reservation System website goes live! We have been developing a website to help promote our unique booking engine. This site will also act as a support portal for those who have purchased the booking system offering tutorials, faq's, upgrades and more... Over the next few weeks we will be developing this part of our business by expanding the Hotel Booking Reservation System website and starting our tidy SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) to increase brand awareness. If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us
Thursday 30th April 2009:
Today we received a great website design and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) testimonial, thank you!:
"Tidy Design Portsmouth started working with High & Dry Manufacturing Ltd (Trading as 'Back Care Beds') approximately two years ago. At the time we had no real website to speak of. We thought it was a good website until we saw Mikes design concept and realised it was a different class. We had been fleeced out of a few hundred pounds by telephone sales web site companies that produced template sites that we supplied content for.
Search Engine Optimisation - We paid for pay per click £15 per day for people to browse our website then the money was used up and we were off by breakfast time. Since Tidy Design Portsmouth started to do our search engine optimisation we have been within sniffing distance of page 1 of Google and on page 1 a few times for the keywords 'adjustable bed'... We are however now on the first page of Google for the keywords 'nursing bed(s)' medical bed(s)' 'profiling bed(s)' and more...
We have been continually number 1 spot on MSN, Yahoo etc for the search term 'adjustable bed' without paying 'pay per click', through seo Tidy Design Portsmouth are generating approximately 1300 genuine new visits to our website per month. With the quality of our website and a cool feature 'build-a-bed' we have started selling adjustable beds throughout the UK and making very good money from it.
Thanks Mike - keep it up.
Cheers, John."
Back Care Beds
