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JCT DESIGNS
______________________________________________________________________Complete internet content management for serious businesses
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Swansea Waterbed Centre - Gorseinon |
http://swanseawaterbeds.co.uk |
When South Wales
Waterbeds took over their main competitor in South Wales, they turned to
us for advice on how the internet could be used to co-ordinate and run
two businesses 60 miles apart.
In order to keep slight differences in corporate image, we retained the
Logos and colour schemes for Swansea Waterbeds, but use the same layout and content for both sites, making them easier to manage. As the
customer base for Swansea was over a larger geographic area of West
Wales, we have added a small e-commerce shop to allow customers to order
waterbed accessories rather than having to travel 50 miles for a £10
bottle of water conditioner.
In addition, we have set up several internet based systems to allow both
offices to run a centralised engineer booking diary, ordering systems
and delivery systems. We are often running on-line
advertising campaigns to promote the waterbeds and Mediflow pillows. As an added bonus, as
the Swansea Showroom is in an Area 1 location, 35% of the development
costs were available from
Opportunity Wales. |
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Cozifleece
- UK Wide |
http://www.cozifleece.com |
A lovely new site just for a
specific new product - The Cozifleece a "Washable Sheepskins for Your Baby". Cozifleece are sheepskins for babies. They come in Pink or Blue and are suitable for pushchairs and car seats where slits allow 5 point harnesses to be used, or they can be laid flat in prams or just on a bed for baby to lie upon. Also working in baby pink and baby blue was a different colour challenge for us.
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Bathsrus - Cardiff |
http://www.bathsrus.com |
Nearly a year building this large on-line bathroom retail shop is our largest on-going project. With 1500 products and 5000+ variations of those bathroom products in the Actinic software shopping cart, it is a continuous maintenance task with price changes and product additions/alterations. Launched live in August 2008 a big challenge was the decision to have no pay-per-click advertising meaning that every product has to be cleverly search engine optimised for maximum impact and frequently pushed to comparison sites and
Froogle. The timing for this site with its highly competitive low end price tag products along with its heavily discounted top end products was good and it is thriving, a clear step ahead of its competition, in this recession hit climate. |
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Centre
for Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy - Newport |
http://www.drjplowman.co.uk |
Dr. Plowman is a well
established proponent of using hypnosis to help people to control their
drinking, stop smoking or reach their true potential in the sport that
they pursue, professionally or otherwise. He required a simple site, and,
more importantly, excellent search engine placement so that anyone
searching for Hypnotherapy in Newport or Psychotherapy in Newport, would
always see his web site first. |
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Homestore - Gorseinon |
http://www.homestorewales.com |
Homestore is a
major furniture outlet on the main A4240 near Gorseinon. Initially,
for 2005, Homestore required a large brochure site to promote their store and an
'item of the month' for each department. A major part of the initial 12
month contract, was training staff in each department, to allow
them to update the site for monthly special items.
Opportunity Wales grant received. |
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Aqua Bathroom Centre Ltd -
Newport |
http://www.aquabathroomcentre.co.uk |
Aqua Bathroom Centre
is a leading independent Bathroom furniture supplier and fitter. From a
simple shower nozzle to a full luxury fitted bathroom, Aqua Bathrooms can
supply and fit it all. During 2005, they had a new web site
designed and built by JCT Designs as both a promotional tool and
e-commerce shopping site with over 1000 products. Due to the high level of competition in
this area, a major challenge is the Search Engine optimisation and
running of effective on-line advertising campaigns. Newport City Council ICT Grant received. |
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South Wales Waterbeds
Ltd. - Newport |
http://www.southwaleswaterbeds.com |
South Wales
Waterbeds Ltd. are the largest supplier of AKVA Waterbeds and accessories in
the Principality, with a very high level of customer care, which like JCT Designs, requires face-to-face contact. They asked us to
produce a brochure
web site which was easy for customers to use, explained about waterbeds
and showed a selection of the waterbeds available. The main purpose of
the site, was as advertising to attract customers into the showroom in
Newport, so that Search Engine placement and a well run but inexpensive Adwords type campaign, was vital to achieving this. |
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Thermotech Floor Preparation -
UK wide |
http://www.floor-preparation.co.uk |
A pure brochure site to promote
all the different flooring options Thermotech offer its clients and a
site to showcase some of the previous flooring systems Thermotech has
installed. The nice thing was when the customer said they liked the
simplicity and colour scheme of the JCTDesign site and wanted something
similar. |
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The Window Centre -
Swansea |
http://www.the-windowcentre.co.uk |
The manager of The Window Centre
in Swansea had an existing web site which just wasn't getting them any
business and he asked JCT Designs to have a look and advise on the best
course of action. Whilst the overall content and style was OK the
fundamental flaw in the existing web site was it was totally search
engine unfriendly and no one knew it existed. JCT Designs were then
given the task of revamping the existing site with an emphasis on
letting customers see the products with lots of pictures yet having
enough text to make Google happy. |
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Celtic Designs Ltd -
Newport |
http://www.celticdesignwales.co.uk |
Celtic Designs are the
leading soft furnishing specialists in SE Wales and Managing Director
and interior design guru Stefan Spokes appointed JCT Designs to
manage their on-line business. The site tries to represent, the main
retail part of the business, the contract furnishing arm (show homes and
hotels) and gives a feel for Stefans interior design philosophy. With a
lot of the appeal of soft furnishing such as curtains being in both the
colours and textures of the materials this was an interesting
project. Newport City Council ICT Grant received. |
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S.J.Frederick & Son - Essex |
http://www.labelanglais.co.uk |
The website
here is nothing to do with JCT Designs, as they are perfectly happy with
their existing web site. What they did ask us to build for them, was a
complete Label Anglais chicken ordering and delivery database.
You have never tasted chickens like these, even Gordon Ramsey only swears
by them not at them, and now the ordering process is nice and easy for
them. |
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Nissan Rally Raid Team
- Paris |
http://www.nissan-dakar.com |
No longer a client,
but this site is what the original JCT Designs (Netherlands) was set up
to build and maintain. After 5 years designing and managing all of
Nissans' European intranet sites, (including an internal Nissan Rally
Raid site), Julian Tandy was asked to design and build an internet site
for the first participation of the official Nissan Rally Raid Works team
on the legendary Paris-Dakar Rally. This contact was for 12 months to
iron out all the problems of getting information live from the middle of
the Sahara desert, and to build and run a multi language site covering
all aspects of Nissans' Rally Raid Team. We also had to run everything from
competitions to a fan zone an e-zine and we even had to write
the text for a book, (with glorious rally images), about Nissans' first
official attempt at the Dakar Rally. At the end of 12 months, the site
was a great success with well over a million hits and was, as planned,
taken 'in-house' and is currently maintained by Nissan in Japan. |
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Internet Directory Reciprocal Links Page |
Links Page |
This page has links to some
excellent internet directories and we have reciprocal links in place
with most of them. If you would like to see these sites please pay a visit to their
pages. |
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