Big Purple Box - Creative Design

 A good website has the power to turn a small local business into a global brand. Online sales give businesses access to millions of new customers and can transform your small start-up into a competitive thriving company within months. To get this level of success, you need a responsive, attractive website which is designed to be easy to use, quick to find, and great to look at. Professional web designers are experts in knowing what consumers want, understanding the most logical way to navigate the site and making your website look on brand and on point. By choosing a reputable designer you can make sure your website is future-proof and ready to adapt as your business grows. A new website update and design could be the best decision you make for your business, here’s why: Secure Above all e-commerce sites need to be safe and secure for your customers. Web designers can install programmes which make sure any payment or contact inform...

Single page website designs can be an excellent technique for tackling smaller websites, even those that you might not think could ever be done without multiple pages. There are tons of great reasons for using a single page site, from ease of maintenance to reduced bandwidth needs. If you’re tackling a shorter site, one that would normally have a handful of pages, consider using a single page, and see if it will make the project easier and more user friendly. SINGLE PAGE WEBSITE BENEFITS Obviously, single page website design is not ideal for every project. But there are a host of reasons to use them if they’re a possible fit. INFORMATION AT A GLANCE By far the biggest advantage of single page website is that it puts everything the customer needs in one place at their fingertips. A typical one page website has your email address, phone number, a map, a contact form, some information about the company, and some information on your product or service. All in one place. The cust...

The last few months have been busy on the website design and development front. Whether it's been redesigning old websites to make them responsive and mobile friendly or completely new developments built from scratch. These sites have all gone live in the last few weeks. Northumbria World War One Project A community heritage project based on the wartime experiences of the North Tyneside communities. VISIT WEBSITE Photosmith Creative Photo retouching and image repair. VISIT WEBSITE Home Weddings and Portraits Photography workshops for beginners to advanced photographers. VISIT WEBSITE Rowell Removals Whitley Bay based removal company VISIT WEBSITE All four of the above sites were developed in WordPress. WordPress is web software you can use to create websites, blogs, or apps. Whats more it's free to download, this helps Big Purple Box keep pricing low. Get in touch and lets see how I can help get your new website up and running or redevelop ...

Looking to boost your business this Summer? At Big Purple Box we pride ourselves in affordable web design solutions for smaller companies. We design websites, e-commerce sites and can create any graphics needed. We offer affordable hosting packages and social media packages too! Our aim to make it as simple as possible for companies to spread the word about what they offer. We’re not just a website design company, we have a wealth of experience, over 30 years, in designing for print and advertising media. Why not have a look at our portfolio at Big Purple Box or check out our Facebook page for the latest information and news and don’t forget to give us a like! SPECIAL OFFER Redevelopment of any existing website to make it responsive for Googles mobile-friendly update. Pricing starts at £250.00 for a small, 5 page business website. If the project is bigger, just get in touch for a no obligation quote. We've just finished redeveloping the website for Northumbria School o...

Finally completed the process and I am now a registered Provider for NBSL’s North East Business Support Fund helping businesses to improve their competitiveness. Grants of up to £1400 towards a project worth up to £3500 are available, that's 40% of the project costs  - you can use the grant for almost any type of business support that will help your business to grow - from marketing and web design to financial or human resources planning. Applications are simple and straightforward, simply fill in an online application an adviser from NBSL will visit you, you choose your provider – we hope you'll choose Big Purple Box! We'll complete the project and finally you claim your funding and carry out a short review of the project. If you run a North East based business with plans to grow and you haven't received funding from NBSL since 2012, you may be able to access funding from the North East Business Support Fund. So if you're thinking of embarking on a mar...

Okay I'll admit it's not the most exciting site I've put together what was interesting about this one was the timescale. From initial design to site going live was just over a week, eight days to be precise. More importantly it met the clients design brief and was comfortably within budget. For the future, we've got a nice print project on the go for a London Design business as well as a local artists portfolio site coming to completion. Add in a business identity for a Maintenance and Refurbishment business and it's easy to see why social life this month has hit a low!

It's been a busy summer and as well as keeping on top of all our day to day work we've got three website's all going live. Each one very different in content and style. The Perseverance is a well establish village pub and regularly holds music nights and special events such as a Blues and Beer Festival. Select Retail Solutions offer a complete fit out of concession style shopping in a wide range of retail outlets. Looking to create some more space, then get in touch with Outer Space Solutions a specialist loft conversion and extension contractor. Over the summer we've been asked about developing websites for holiday 'to let' properties. We've completed a few now so watch the next instalment of the Big Purple Box blog for a update. Or if you're interested in developing your holiday website or any other design or marketing activity, get in touch on 091 2802023 or email john@bigpurplebox.co.uk .

Sometimes a project comes along that you can really appreciate exactly what the client is trying to achieve. Late last year a potential new client got in touch after finding Big Purple Box via a Google search, a meeting was duly arranged to discuss the new project. David Holland of Northumbrian Tin Soldier arrived and we got down to business discussing a new venture that would require a business identity, corporate/brochure style website and a eCommerce solution. Fairly standard stuff you might be thinking, but this was different because David Holland is a wargame figure manufacturer and painter and our conversation quickly turned to different figures we had both collected, painted and wargamed with. In a previous life I was wargamer! Pretty quickly we were heading out for a drink to continue the conversation which took in a love of live music and classic rock! If it wasn't for the pesky bills we all have to pay I'd have probably done this one for free! Utilising two ...

We've been busy developing packaging for our favourite chilli sauces and have a new website going live! Crazy Fred came to us to develop some packaging and bottle labels for his excellent range of chilli sauces and chutneys. With a number of bottle sizes and labeling requirements we went for a colour coded approach, green labels are mild sauces, red ones hotter and if it's got a skull and crossbones on, then beware! You can buy them online from Freds website or catch the Crazy Man himself at Food Fayres across the region, in fact we're hoping to catch up with him again at Whitley Bays very own Food Festival on the 14th and 15th June. Time for Change : came to us to redevelop their old website and design a new identity for the business. They had originally made use of a 'free' service to develop their website, but like many found that they had outgrown the limitations of the 'free' service. Once we understood what Time for Change were trying to a...

Let’s get back to basics. The most important function of metadata is not the ability to influence rankings, but its ability to encourage your content to make the best first impression possible. The Big 3 social networks all allow marketers the ability to provide metadata specific to the channel and therein lies the opportunity to provide titles, descriptions and pictures that resonate directly with your audience in a given channel.     Adoption of New Metadata The Common Crawl , which is an incredible resource that all SEOs should be at least mindful of, has developed a microsite called the Web Data Commons where they identify trends extracted from the Common Crawl corpus. Schema.org , the new vocabulary that search engines have forced us to learn without providing too much immediate benefit, appeared in 43.05% of the 1,811,471,956 typed entities that appeared in the 3,005,629,093 URLs on the 40,600,000 domains that make up the August 2012 Common Crawl Corpus. As yo...

Well after a difficult week, what with the heating giving up the ghost! It's now replaced and fully working again I'm sure you'll all be pleased to know. We've got some marketing material for a new client ready to hit the press as well as advertising for Robinsons Optometrists and a couple of websites all coming to completion for the end of this month. February will see us starting on some special 'single page' website designs including the launch of Roaring Silence, a website showing our music related projects as well as housing some useful resources for new or even established bands.

Looking for something other than a formulaic template driven website? Then why look over our portfolio of websites , each designed to meet the clients needs and requirements. Our small business start up website package is at the special price of only £240.00 for any projects started during January and February 2014 and offers a professional solution at an affordable price. Our business startup package includes : Custom web design Up to ten web pages A contact form One email address Basic SEO Submission to Google and Bing All graphics Free updates for one month We know there's many offers and incentives on hosting packages and having dealt with pretty much all of the major hosting providers, we have struggled with and mastered all the variations of 'control panels'. Unless you have a preference we now prefer to host new websites on our managed Virtual Private Server, ensuring that we can react quickly if there are any issues. Hosting your website with us...