It’s been a pleasure to work with Mike Steenkamp, he’s one of those clients who is super cool. Below you can review some of the stuff we have done, there are some cool features on the site:

Check out the awesome twitter background we did, be sure to follow the guys @mustardmonkey and stay updated on FB.

Funky Media Centre…

A really slick Virtual Home, where you navigate through each room in the house and check out the featured products and retailers.

Nifty flash navigation on the Retail and Service indexs.

Meet the Mustard Monkey – he is the mascot and marketing vehicle. The idea behind him will be key for future marketing and viral activity. We really enjoyed creating this little guy!

Monkey Wisdom is our angle providing the site fan base with funny updates and advice

We have been using illustrations as part of our projects for many years, however we’ve now decided to make this a real focus. The scope of this service can be applied to a lot of different areas such as websites, branding, viral marketing, online comics, diagrammatical aids and much more.

We often sketch our concepts, most of these sketches are never seen and only the final products enjoyed. We plan to showcase some of these sketches and give some insight into how our ideas are planned out and then realised.

We all sketch, but our top illustrator is a talented guy by the name of Anthony Smith – check out the showcase.

This has been a really fun project for us, Jason Bradbury came to us with his idea and our job was simply to bring Punk to life. Punk is the awesome robot hero from Jason’s Dot.Robot books series, he is one cool robot! The second book is now out and is called ‘Atomic Swarm‘, kids are going mad for the books!

Check out the YouTube video, which is currently getting a huge amount of hits! Robot Kitchen Rampage

Here are some of the test images during the making of ‘Robot Kitchen Rampage’.

We’re all well chuffed with the results so decided to share it with you. Feel free to download and use it on your own projects. It’s ready to go in XHTML strict 1.0.

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Screen 1: login

Screen 2: Form elements

Screen 3: Table layout

Screen 4: Text layout

There are a lot of companies out there who like to lead people to believe that reaching the top of Google is a simple and easy process….it’s a lie. It is a long and drawn out process but one that is full of rewards and benefits once you have achieved it. We targeted the 2 most competitive phrases in our industry which are “Web Agency” and “Web Design London”. Both of them yield over 50 million matching page results when searched for.

How much does it cost?

Organic SEO is not a cheap option when it is done properly. However, the increase in traffic and leads is unbelievable. Our business relies purely on word of mouth and leads generated through Google. We do no other outbound marketing, no adverts on the radio or in the press, yet we still have countless enquiries every single day. This is down to us being established and leads coming direct from organic search results from Google.

There are many techniques involved with organic SEO and I will not go into them all right now – that’s for another blog article. However, without doubt the most important ingredients are quality, relevant back links from third party sites.

Other important elements are a combination of good page titles, relevant text, compliant well structured code and online self promotion.

One online promotion was our online video which was well received and publicised, click here to view the video.

Thousands of companies will promise the earth and deliver nothing; your spam inbox is probably full of them!! The good companies out there don’t really shout about it much, they just do it. That’s what we wanted to do.

The Results?

We decided it was time to demonstrate what could be achieved with a well thought out strategy and a lot of hard work. We started our climb in January of last year. For the first 3 months not much happened and we didn’t climb up very high but the more we persevered, the higher we got. We had a few stumbles along the way, as others were noticing our presence and tried to fight us off but by the time June had come we were at the top. We had made it!

Search for ‘Web Design London’ and ‘Web Agency’ at www.google.com and see who comes out on top.

Enquiries – we probably get on average three to six qualified enquiries a day from Google, along with a barrage of time wasters!

Should you wish to enquire about Organic SEO and have a realistic budget to achieve this, then please do not hesitate to contact us by our enquiry form or by giving us a call on 0208 948 5808 (UK), +44 208 948 5808 (International).

If you want to do battle with me my username is: Aftereden

The objective is simply build up your strength, weapons and skill level; these 3 items are what make the game very addictive. At first the iPhone controls seems strange but after playing the Bots for a couple hours you really get comfortably with the controls as they are, in fact, really intuitive.

Every now and again new game environments are uploaded (called maps). This is another cool element to this game; mastering each map helps you plan your strategies.

To find out more and see new vids go to http://eliminate.ngmoco.com

Power-ups
If you have never played let me be the first to inform you of all the power-ups you can use in your game play strategies.

Here is the official trailer video, I love the whole megacorp angle but I hate the stickmen. Of course this game won’t appeal to every type of person but this FP Shooter is the best iPhone game regardless of your preference of games.

I love the Original Killtest Trailer… brilliant!

Why Sony?
Well, I have always trusted Sony to deliver quality products at reasonable cost and they have always served me very well. I have never had any problems with any of my Sony equipment and I just had that extra bit more confidence in this product than I did with the Kindle.

First Thoughts
Amazing, amazing, amazing! I was so amazed that I threw away many of my books which were cluttering up my bookshelf at home (excluding my Lord of the Rings collection of course). I got the Sony PRS 600 for Christmas and immediately flew to Finland for my holiday. I was there for 2 weeks and the battery survived the whole time on only it’s first initial charge. In this time I read 3 books which, totalled together, had over 1500 pages. Very impressive!

I also like the fact that I can makes notes on the books, this is very good especially for younger readers who may be reading books for their coursework or exams, allowing them to make extensive notes which are easily revised.

One added feature is the ability to draw pictures using your Stylus. For me this came in handy sitting in the airport when our flight was delayed and my 4 year old son needed something to do.

Pros and cons
Well, let’s start with the good things.

Battery Life – The battery life is incredible, with up to 7500 hours of reading per charge which makes this an incredibly sufficient reader when making those long journeys.

Formats – Sony have allowed owners to be able to add books in various different formats including PDF, Word, TXT, RTF as well as the standard EPUB formats which allow you to download books from stores. Allowing the use of PDF and Word files is one of the things which clinched the deal for me. This means that I can convert a lot of my office work into PDF files and take it with me on the go, saving me precious time when on my way to meetings etc.

Readability – Overall, it is very easy to read a book on this. One of my main concerns when purchasing this was how it would feel in comparison to reading a book, I can say now that I definitely prefer handling a Sony reader than a book. No more having to hold the pages down, or dog ear the pages to remember where I was and I won’t even get into issues with Hardbacks!

No wireless – Many people disagree with me here, but I firmly believe that everybody has a right to their own opinion. To me, this is a reader for reading books. I don’t want to be distracted from it by being able to go online with this, I have my IPhone for that!

The Bad Things…
No Backlight – I think this would have been a good thing to have as an option. At present if you are in the dark, the only way you can read is by purchasing one of the covers which includes a light. Although I have purchased one and love it, it is very expensive and not all users will want to spend so much.

Power – One of the things that shocked me is that Sony only provides you with a USB cable with which to charge the reader with. I believe that they should have also supplied a power cable with this, but it can be purchased, but again, at an extra cost.

Cost – Expensive! Although for me I feel that it is worth the space that I have saved and will save in the future I think that unless the cost of these starts to go down, they will not be as successful as they have the potential to be.

Accessories
Not a wide range of accessories are available yet but I believe that will change as more people start to use them. The two main categories of accessories come down to covers and power. For power you have two options – a car charger or a power cable. For covers there are a range of various covers and my favourite one is this one here but at a cost of anywhere between £35 and £50, it is a lot to ask after forking out for the reader itself. However , the reader does come with a slip cover included.

Conclusion
Overall I am very pleased with my Sony Reader. It’s just what I wanted, and it’s just a shame that I didn’t get around to buying it sooner. Even now that the iPad has been launched, I am happy. The iPad is not a reader it just has a reader function and I feel that it is not quite enough for what I want. I would highly recommend this to any serious reader, as well as the first book that I read on it which was Eye of the World by Robert Jordan!



We hope the following showcase will convince you to commission Internet Dreams as your ecommerce web design agency of choice.

www.coxandcoxhome.com
Cox and Cox is an interior design company established in 1985. Recently Easy Living Magazine said, “Cox & Cox Interiors one of Britain’s 50 most stylish shops”.

www.fashionhire.co.uk
Fashion Hire allows you to rent designer handbags such as Gucci, Chloe, Louis Vuitton, Fendi and many more at affordable prices. The web site features a real time ecommerce booking engine that allows members to hire bags or add themselves to a waiting list for those bags already rented.

www.kiddikicks.co.uk
Kiddikicks allows parents to sign up their children for football coaching lessons throughout London. It contains a fully featured reservation booking engine.

www.trotman.co.uk
Trotman Publishing offers an indispensable guide to the best and most up-to-date education and careers resources available. We have also recently launched their sister site.

www.thinqfitness.com
This online video fitness portal allows members to see hundreds of different fitness videos from a multitude of trainers. The ecommerce engine allows users to purchase a monthly membership or pay as you go service.

www.flutteroo.co.uk
Flutteroo is a national real time auction site that allows users to win great prizes by playing three different online games. The site has recently been expanded, providing its auction engine to the Daily Star and Daily Express.

www.perfumepoint.co.uk
Perfume Point required a new ecommerce web site to promote the sale of designer fragrances at unbelievably low prices.

www.thefragranceshop.co.uk
The Fragrance Shop wanted a complete ecommerce web site redesign to complement their national chain of over 100 high street shops.

If you are keen to know exactly what Magic Loans do, they provide their clients with the very best choice of financial solutions in the market place. Their Services and Products include: Unsecured Loans, Secured Loans, Debt management and IVA’s, Financial Claims and Mortgages. As a creative, that goes right over my non-financial brain, but you might know what it means LOL.

If I was to sum up this site, the logo, colours and illustrations just give the site a world class presentation.