Selling footwear online

admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:29:03 GMT

After the success of the first e-catalogue, Rohan asked us to put together another interactive e-catalogue featuring their new footwear range.

This work coincided with on site development we were doing to improve the customer experience, when...

New Facebook Landing Pages

admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:37:44 GMT

We've recently been working with a few existing clients to add some polish to their social media presence on Facebook. MMA Worldwide a magazine publisher in the US wanted an effective landing page to encourage fans to like their page in order to gain exclusive member benefits. Find the end result on the

Rate My Ride Facebook App

admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:25:25 GMT

Facebook fans of Pedparts can, for the first time rate, share and comment on each others custom bikes/mopeds via a new bespoke app called

New Pedparts launched

admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:03:00 GMT

Pedparts stocks a range of moped parts, spares and accessories via their website and Bristol based store. They felt that their existing website had grown out of their...

New microsite created for Rohan

admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:40:39 GMT

Rohan is a British manufacturer and supplier of outdoor clothing and footwear. We've had the privilege to work with them on various projects over the last year including various core webpage revamps.

So, when we asked to take their existing mail catalogues and bring them online taking full use of the digital format, we jumped at the chance. The end result is a HTML5 based...

We’re moving!

admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:54:17 GMT

For the past two and a half years, our office in Southville has served us well. We've been on the look out for a new office more central Bristol and we now finally have somewhere to call home. Located on Colston Street, just up the road from the Colston Hall.

...

New Website created for glöden

admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:18:10 GMT

glöden is a recent rebrand of 30 tanning and beauty studios in the South West and South Wales. We have had the privilege to design their new website and social media strategy over the last month.

The tone of the website needed to by very simple and show off their new treatments in the best possible way. This is phrase 1 of 2 for the website so expect an update later in the...

November Roundup: Articles & Links

admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:11:37 GMT

What we've been reading this month and interesting links:

Where do ideas come from? via sethgodin
iOS 4.2 improves support for web fonts via
Magazine Subscriptions

admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:28:12 GMT

We’ve been working with the MMA Worldwide team for almost 2 years now, and this month we launched the re-designed subscription section of their website to coincide with the release of their digital magazine. The re-designed pages allow customers to easily view...

Ecommerce website for a Bristol business

admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:11:53 GMT

We’ve been working with a local business in Bristol over the last couple of weeks and have now completed a comprehensive ecommerce website. Scooter Bits sells a massive range of over 4000 parts on their website for every kind of scooter (including my favourite -...
August Roundup: Articles & Links

admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:23:28 GMT

What we've been reading this month and interesting links:
- Nordstrom.com links online inventory to real world website stock.
- Facebook Chat to
  Monthly Roundup: Articles & Links
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:00:29 GMT
  
  What we've been reading this month and interesting links:
  
  Interesting article on using iPad as a device to assist a person with disabilities.
  
  Lens Pimp featured in Digital Photo Magazine
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:22:42 GMT
  
  Back in early January we launched a brand new, professional e-commerce site for a lens hire company called LensPimp. Since then we’ve seen their orders grow month after month and...
  
  Website Redesign for a Mixed Martial Arts Magazine
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:16:55 GMT
  
  MMA Worldwide (Mixed Martial Arts) website has gone live. We’ve built a bunch of nice features into the site including a “Gym Finder”, unique forum for gym owners and a Flash free video player allowing videos to be watched on a variety of devices including the iPhone and iPad. Take a look -
  
  Design Militia Mobile Website
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:57:44 GMT
  
  We finally had time last week to put the final touches to our mobile website. According to mobithinking.com 60% of all mobile handsets shipped in 2009 can browse the mobile Web and this is set to grow to 80% by 2013. With the...
  
  Why and how you should create a Facebook Fan page
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:29:56 GMT
  
  Facebook is not only a platform to express yourself, connect with friends and networks. It’s also another avenue for your business to connect, network and promote your brand. Facebook’s press page claims more than 400 million active users in...
  
  Google dominates the search engine market but by how much?
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:30:10 GMT
  
  We use search engines everyday to search for news, products, services, locations and whatever else is on our mind. Search engines decide how to organise and display websites that match our search queries.
  
  We all know Google has the biggest search engine market share but by how much and how close behind is Bing and Yahoo? As of...
  
  Need to send out an email marketing campaign? Try something simplr
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:30:33 GMT
  
  Sending out emails to your customers has just got a lot simpler thanks to our very easy email marketing application. In fact it so simple we've called it simplr mail. We've built a new website to home
  
  New Website for Bristol Bound
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:30:49 GMT
  
  Last week, we were working with Bristol Bound to design and build their new website. It had been some considerable time since their website was designed, and a new site was well overdue.
  
  For example the
  
  Design Militia Rebranded
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:31:15 GMT
  
  Design Militia is 2 years old in May and since the launch of the company back in 2008, our services and portfolio have outgrown our website. Therefore, we have decided to rebrand the company and relaunch the website to reflect our offerings and our simple, beautiful approach to website design.
  
  Like all websites we produce, SEO, companies are not taking advantage of the power of thinking local. Ofcom (2008) reported that 76% of UK adult Internet users find out about local services online. Since more people search for local businesses online then anywhere else it's crucial to...
  
  Could your website speed affect your page rank?
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:32:04 GMT
  
  According to Google, yes. Your website’s performance could soon be a factor of where your website gets listed in Google’s search results. It is not yet known when this new factor will be introduced, however, we expect in early 2010 to coincide with the release of Google Caffeine (real time search results).
  
  Update: Google have announced that site speed will...
  
  Putting an end to the META keyword debate
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:32:18 GMT
  
  We get the question all the time. META Keywords, will they help my search engine ranking? The Official answer from Google is no - Google do not use the meta tag to determine...
  
  Statistically, 8 out of 10 people will read this headline
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:32:38 GMT
  
  But only 2 out of 10 will read the rest. This is not uncommon - it can be pretty difficult to stir up interest among the masses when it comes to getting them to read what you have to write. You can be a brilliant copy writer but if you can't write a good headline, nobody will ever know. So we’ve put together some quick fire tips to improve the odds of your insightful commentary getting read...
  
  Let’s drag the mobile web into the present!
  
  admin@designmilitia.co.uk (Design Militia) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:33:36 GMT
  
  The latest research from the Nielsen Norman Group shows that the mobile user-experience is years behind today’s standards of usability and what people have come to expect online. The mobile web is neither...

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Selling footwear online

New Facebook Landing Pages

Rate My Ride Facebook App

New Pedparts launched

New microsite created for Rohan

We’re moving!

New Website created for glöden

November Roundup: Articles & Links

Magazine Subscriptions

Ecommerce website for a Bristol business

August Roundup: Articles & Links

Monthly Roundup: Articles & Links

Lens Pimp featured in Digital Photo Magazine

Website Redesign for a Mixed Martial Arts Magazine

Design Militia Mobile Website

Why and how you should create a Facebook Fan page

Google dominates the search engine market but by how much?

Need to send out an email marketing campaign? Try something simplr

New Website for Bristol Bound

Design Militia Rebranded

Could your website speed affect your page rank?

Putting an end to the META keyword debate

Statistically, 8 out of 10 people will read this headline

Let’s drag the mobile web into the present!