Those Mando chaps keep churning out top notch work. I had a good poke around Mando’s latest delivery, the Penketh website,. I was encouraged to read that the client – a Liverpool based office products suppliers worked with the agency over an 18 month design and development process.  This serves as a good reminder to all those client-side, that these sort of large scale sites cannot be ‘knocked up’ quickly. Presumably with a client such …

FACT lanuch new website, more features, easier nav and a shiny new look? For me the site is an improvement but falls short of the ‘great site’ tag. Navigation is quite simple if not too obvious at the start but there’s too much flat content on black, making it a tad boring to browse. Saying all that, it’s an information site and a huge amount complexity to incorporate under one domain. What do you think?

Mando Group has launched a new website for public art project Art for Places www.artforplaces.com. The project, a partnership between NewHeartlands, Liverpool Biennial, Arts Council England, and local authorities and housing associations, will run for the next three years. Mando chief executive Matt Johnson said: “The Liverpool region has much to offer its residents and we’re proud to be helping it build on those assets to ensure future success.”

Liverpool design and brand agency GVC has launched a new online retail venture specialising in a range of exclusive Premier League merchandise.
premiersportsgifts.com retails the UK’s only personalised Official Liverpool Football Club 2010 Calendar – the first in a select range of official club merchandise shortly available on the website.

Creative and digital support agency Northwest Vision and Media has invested more than £130,000 into four Merseyside companies through its Regional Attraction Fund (RAF). Well done to games production company Catalyst Outsourcing, digital art production studio Milky Tea, and games company Dou Yi Dou.

Trainee Social & Search Executive – Mando Group
Liverpool based Mando Group is a nationally renowned web design consultancy, with more than 700 web and online development or campaign projects to date. NorthWest Vision & Media will be partnering with them on the i.studio scheme and are currently taking applications for a Trainee Search & Social Media Executive. This is an ideal opportunity for individuals new to the web industry who want to build a career in …

Liverpool agency Smiling Wolf has produced the latest version of the Philharmonic Hall’s website. It follows the last major re-design of the site in 2007 by Mando Group. Just how well does the new version stand-up to the benchmark set by Mando for one of the city’s leading cultural institutions?

CL5 Search Engine Marketing has recently completed a six month organic promotion contract with Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa. CL5 claims to have dominated local search results across highly competitive leisure sector keywords through a combination of online marketing techniques. The results include No. 1 positions for spa golf, formby spa, formby hall golf club southport, Top 5 pga golf academy, corporate golf north west, golf liverpool, luxury spa liverpool, health spa southport. Top 10 golf resort, luxury spa …

The private sector has had a wake up call on their marketing spend at the same time the national news has been flooding the country with the power, profitability and absolute need of the web for business. This type of great industry promotion also creates insecurity for those businesses that haven’t quite got a proper online strategy. Or simply more businesses are accepting in 5 years their business will be very internet dependant and it works better and cheaper than …

I have been to the site several times as a potential relocation for our business, but until 2007, I was more likely to hit tumbleweed than a potential client. It was always well kitted out but a soulless and sterile atmosphere, not a creative hub of energy and excitement. We moved to Castle Street.

On the 8th December 2003, The Northwest Development Agency (NWDA) unveiled the branding for Liverpool Digital, at the Edge Lane site. The Vision in 2003. Liverpool …

What business club websites are the best to profile on? Who gets the most visitors, which is the best site, Google ranking and so on. Purely based on design then Downtown Liverpool in Business for me is the best. Second place, Liverpool Chambers of Commerce and a long way back is Professional Liverpool; the name becomes an oxymoron when you land on the website.

Liverpool’s business clubs play an important role in helping to promote our businesses. They act as a …

Rippleffect is one of the fastest growing technology companies in Europe in 2009 and confirms for the second year its outstanding performance to be listed in the Deloitte Fast 500. Rippleffect have had recent and well deserved run of award victory’s and accolades including being short listed for Digital Agency of the Year, ‘Best Interactive Agency at the NetImperative Awards’ and ‘Digital Agency of the Year’ in the recent DADI Awards (Drum Awards for Digital Industries)

Where would you look to find out what’s going on in Liverpool’s Digital Sector? ACME and the Design Initiative represent the creative sector as a whole. ICDC law upon to itself and does little to float my boat. When you start have a proper look there’s not a public sector site that I think is well designed, current and helps showcase Liverpool’s digital sector.

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Rising stars Ph Creative have launched the Eco Environments website, July 2009. Eco Environments is a renewable energy specialist in Liverpool and the UK, seen an innovator in the energy field. The design is fresh, great use of flash and HTML. It feels easy and efficient so a perfect fit to its client brand. Some cool use of icons.

Well done Mando Group on winning this year’s big chip design award for the ‘Liverpool Biennial 08’ website. It’s a great achievement by the Liverpool agency beating off a lot of heavy weight contenders. For me it confirms Mando Group’s position as one of the region’s best agencies.

Online PR – Search Engine Marketing. Since the majority of us don’t have Google’s bankroll for huge Pay Per Click camapigns, you are left to find less expensive ways to drive visitors to your websites. Online PR could be part of your answer – sharing your company news and views directly over the Internet.

You can get decent online exposure starting from £60 using a news distributor such as www.prweb.com.

Access to finance has been the big issue for SMEs in the recession, obtaining public sector investment can be a useful alternative.

I started CL5, a digital consultancy specialising in search engine marketing in April 2009. To launch and then grow the business I needed more capital than I could afford to invest personally. I had been kicking at the doors of all the major banks for a good six months asking the questions, with only a set of …

Uniform
200 Vanilla Factory,
39 Fleet Street,
Liverpool, L1 4AR
Tel: 0151 709 9055
Email: info@uniform.net
www.uniform.net

Rippleffect
Liverpool Science Park,
131 Mount Pleasant,
Liverpool, L3 5TF
Tel: 0845 803 8381
Email: enquiries@rippleffect.com
www.rippleffect.com

Ph Creative
12 Rodney Street,
Liverpool,
L1 2TE
Tel: 0151 708 2280
Email: liverpool@ph-creative.com
www.ph-creative.com

New Mind
Suite 101-108
Queens Dock Business Centre, 67-83 Norfolk Street,
Liverpool, L1 0BG
Tel: 0151 287 7791
Email: info@newmind.co.uk
www.newmind.co.uk

Mando Group,
131 Mount Pleasant,
Liverpool,
L3 5TF
Tel: 0845 365 4040
Email: open@mandogroup.com
www.mandogroup.com

Hit Search Limited
Liverpool Innovation Park,
Liverpool Digital, Baird House,
Liverpool, L7 9NG
Tel: 0845 643 9289
Email: info@hitsearch.co.uk
www.hitsearchlimited.com

Glow New Media
712 Gostins Building,
32-36 Hanover Street,
Liverpool, L1 4LN
Tel: 0151 707 9770
Email: info@glow-internet.com
www.glow-internet.com

Creative Liverpool
The Old Bank of England Building,
31 Castle Street,
Liverpool, L2 4GL
Tel: 0151 236 5797
Email: agency@creativeliverpool.co.uk
www.creativeliverpool.co.uk

Cl5 Search Engine Marketing
The Old Bank of England Building,
31 Castle Street,
Liverpool, L2 4GL,
Tel: 0151 236 3322
Email: agency@cl5.co.uk
www.cl5.co.uk

Bizarre Creations
The Studio, Leeward Drive, Estuary Business Park,
Speke, Liverpool, L24 8DA
Tel: 0151 494 4140
Email: NextGenJobs@bizarrecreations.com
www.bizarrecreations.com