We have frequent opportunities for people with website design and/or Internet Marketing skills. A good level of English is essential, but we also have opportunities for other languages, for example Arabic, Chinese, Russian, French, Spanish, Dutch or German.

We offer very flexible working times and hours. As nearly all our work is Internet based, location is not an issue. Most of our staff work the majority of the time from home based offices, meeting once or twice per week in Canterbury for collaborative working and team training.

Recruiting now for web Developer – early 2016

We are looking for another developer to join our team.

Essential skills requied include ability to program within PHP/MySql and Ajax/Javascript and HTML/CSS

We would also expect familiarity with several of the following:

* Magento ecommerce stores

* MVC framework (Zend/Symfony/Laravel)

* MongoDB/Express/js/Angular.JS/Node.js

* Git/SVN experience

* API development

Initially this work will be based at our Canterbury office, with an option to work from home 2-3 days per week.

To apply send a CV to Web Designer Vip.

Recruiting now for Account and Marketing Managers to start in Summer 2016

We are looking to further expand our marketing team with 1-2 account managers, starting Spring/Summer 2016. Essential skills are excellent English, good communication skills and a high level of organization. Design ability an advantage.

The role will include full training in online marketing.

Although we expect these roles to be filled by recent graduates we will also consider applications from more experienced account managers or marketing managers.

More details at:

• Graduate account manager job 
• Senior digital account manager job
• Technical SEO manager job

To apply please send a CV  to Rachel Cornish at rachel.cornish@Web Designer Vip.co.uk

Graduate Marketing Jobs

We expect to recruit 2-3 graduates in 2015 to join our expanding marketing team.

We provide full training on all aspects of the marketing work. Initially this work will be based at our Canterbury office, with an option to work from home 2-3 days per week.

Essential skills are excellent English (or another language)*, good communication skills, good analysis skills and strong interest in business or marketing. You will enjoy this role if you like new challenges, are ambitious, like problem solving, good with Excel and producing charts and analysing data and are happy writing  articles and reports.

* we provide multilingual marketing work and applicants fluent in another language (such as Arabic, Chinese,  French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish) are also sought.

Website Design & Development Jobs

We expect to recruit 1-2 graduates in 2015 to join our development team.

We will be looking for a designer who can also code websites; the essential attribute here is a natural flair for design. We will provide training on most of the website coding work.

We will also be looking for a junior developer – an ability to code and program in at least one web development language is needed. Training and on-the job learning will be provided.

Initially this work will be based at our Canterbury office, with an option to work from home 2-3 days per week.

To apply send a CV along with a portfolio of your work to Web Designer Vip.

Freelance Copy Writing

We often have opportunities for part time freelance copy writers, particularly those able to write high quality content on technical subjects.

If you think you have the required skills, please send a CV and accompanying letter or use ourcontact form. Please ensure that you state your existing level of expertise, giving reference web sites where applicable, and give some indication of the type and level of work you are looking for.

All of the above roles require people able to work independently and accurately, with good English skills. We currently undertake some work in other languages, so please state if you understand and read in other languages as we see this as an advantage.

Potential Job Specifications

We sometimes have vacancies available for the following positions – speculative applications from high quality candidates are invited to submit details.

Sales & Project Managers

Motivated individuals needed to help deal with our sales enquiries and project manage some of the simpler website design and build projects. This will involve working extensively with our online CRM and project management tools. Essential skills are excellent English, good communication skills and a high level of organization.

Client Managers

Motivated client managers needed to interface with clients and our project staff. The role will include project managing design projects from startup to completion and project managing and reporting on our SEO contracts. The role will require the ability to write copy for web sites and articles on a huge variety of topics. Essential skills are excellent English, good communication skills and a high level of organization.

Website Developer / Programmer

We have sometimes have vacancies for web site programmers. For this we would expect a good level of knowledge of PHP / MySQL, plus some knowledge of other languages such as JavaScript, Perl or ASP. The ability to hand-code in html to the latest web standards is also required. A working knowledge of Magento, Joomla and other widely used systems and frameworks is an advantage.

Marketing Managers

This role includes SEO Manager, PPC Managers and Social Media Managers

We usually train from within the company for these. However there may be opportunities for applicants fluent in another spoken language. Other skills required are the ability to generate reports, to handle a lot of data, to understand HTML code and to be good at writing articles and analysing information. Please note that we do not employ people to simply acquire links or stuff keywords into web copy as this is not part of our sustainable, ethical SEO techniques.

To apply

Please send a CV along with a portfolio of your work.

 

About Web Designer Vip

Web Designer Vip is a large, well established digital marketing and design agency with offices across the south of the KSA . We work in over 20 languages to provide multilingual marketing, consultancy and design services for a wide range of businesses across many sectors.

• Our core skills are in both marketing and design – a combination which lets us produce highly effective websites which drive business goals
• We have extensive experience in multilingual website development and marketing including SEO and PPC in a range of languages such as Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic and Russian
• We are one of very few marketing and design agencies with a defined quality standards policy and are ISO 9001 certified under certificate 10/2692
• All work is carried out by in house staff – we do not outsource to cheap suppliers abroad and do not act as a skills “broker” like many digital agencies

Core Agency Skills

Our core Internet marketing skills base includes:

• QualifiedGoogle Partners
• Qualified Analytics professionals
• PPC providers such as Google AdWords, Yandex (Russian), Baidu (China), LinkedIn Ads and Facebook advertising
• Over 10 years of experience in search engine optimisation
• Academic & latest research based information on international marketing
• Social media marketing based on best ROI for businesses
• Specialist ecommerce marketing including SEO, PPC and social strategy

Our core website / IT skills base includes:

• Website design languages such as HTML, HTML5, XHTML, CSS
• Interactive webpage development languages such as JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery
• Dynamic website page languages such as ASP, PHP, Perl, CGI, JavaScript, ASP.net
• Database programming with databases such as MySQL or SQL
• Graphic design skills including PhotoShop and Flash
• Accessible website design, W3C compliant websites
• Online content management applications including bespoke development, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Sitefinity and many others
• Natural search engine optimisation at code and design as well as content level
• Multi-lingual work including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and many others
• ecommerce platform development including bespoke applications and a focus on high speed, easy to market Magento shops

 

The Problem

There were several issues with the BeSafe website redesign.

• The original branding colours were overwhelming for customers and needing toning down.
• The site was very cluttered and didn’t have a clear user journey, which often confused the user leading to a high bounce rate.
• The checkout system was broken which was losing be safe direct many customers
• The site was not mobile accessible meaning they were losing out on all visitors from mobile and tablet users.

All these factors combined to result in an underwhelming volume of conversions. Be safe wanted a fresh design to maximise the sales potential of the site and increase the volume of leads and sales.

Home page before redesign

The Solution

We worked closely with Be Safe Direct, looking into the current user experience, website data and statistics and honing in where the main ‘leaks’ of the current site were and how we could amend this. We focussed on the user journey, constructing a customer focussed plan of action to maximise the potential of the website.

• Gather the branding requirements for the site, colour schemes and new logos
• Analyse the current site data, trends and traffic identifying important factors for conversion
• Creating well thought out designs starting from mobile first, based on UX, best practice and analytics insights
• Seamless transition between new site and old site, implementing the necessary 404s to retain search engine value
• Tested the site vigourously across all devices

The Results

View the website here: www.besafedirect.co.uk 

Web Designer Vip produced an extremely eye catching design, whilst maintaining the existing branding and colour scheme.

Some statistics below:

• Average monthlyincrease of around 35% in total revenue when compared to previous year with the old website
• Average monthly search increase of around30% of traffic year on year

 

 

Looking to add an online shop to your website? See how Web Designer Vip added a simple online shop for Downton Brewery that opened up a whole market for them in selling to the general public.

Downton Brewery is a craft brewer of real ales based on the edge of Wiltshire in the historic and beautiful village of Downton, close to the New Forest.

As well as their popular regular beers the brewery also produce seasonal special ales and limited edition bespoke beers supplying pubs, hotels, wholesalers, event organisers and the general public.

The Challenge

Downton Brewery has grown in popularity in recent years due to ever expanding range of diverse real ales. This has led to an increase in demand from the general public wanting to purchase beer directly from the brewery.

The brewery needed to identify the best beers and available formats (case, mini pin and poly pins) for sale to the general public. Plus develop a way to make it much easier for people to buy direct from the brewery and have their beer delivered directly to their door.

The Solution

Having originally built the Downton Brewery website Web Designer Vip was happy to help find the perfect solution and suggested adding an online shop to the existing website.

As the website was already hosted on our content management system we planned to add our ecommerce module to enable easy selling online.

We worked with the brewery to identify the right beers and set formats for selling online and helped agree the best delivery charges that would ensure great value for their customers.

In addition we identified and implemented some areas where custom options would be required to make managing the shop much easier for the brewery as they expand in the future.

PayPal was identified as the breweries preferred payment provider and we helped them set-up and customise their account for online sales.

The Result

The online shop launched in May and the brewery were thrilled with how easy the shop is to use both for customers purchasing beer, but also for the brewery to keep up-to-date.

They were particularly struck with how simple it was for customers to find and purchase their beer of choice.

The online shop is already generating sales and proving to be a popular addition to the website.

 

You may have heard of Prestashop creating quite a stir in the eCommerce community. This promising up and coming platform is a free open source framework which has produced some awesome, dynamic websites!

With a variety of features and a great user experience, Prestashop stores can be just the platform you need to sell your awesome products and put your competition to shame.

Whether you need to start your store from scratch or maintain your current store, we will make sure your needs are met and beyond.

We are passionate about helping others to achieve their online goals starting with a stunning and well managed Prestashop stores. For more information give us a call on 01227 68 68 98, or fill out an online contact form. 

So what are the advantages of a prestashop store?

• Rapid development– We can produce great ecommerce websites to make sure you get your products on the market as soon as possible
• Be seen in search engines– Your store may look breath-taking but this is of no use if nobody can find it. Our stores are very search engine friendly so your customers can easily find you
• Designed to convert visitors into buyers –we focus on designing and building awesome Prestashop websites designed to make sure visitors have no choice but to buy
• High speed ecommerce server hosting –ask about our specialised ecommerce hosting that will supercharge your website

If you’re looking for a custom ecommerce design, our in house design team can create a visually compelling design that converts website visitors to customers that keep coming back for more.

Prestashop or Magento

Choosing between these two giants of the eCommerce game can be difficult but who finished on top in a head to head clash?

Magento is said to be the leader of eCommerce pack with the larger business preferring to use this platform. However, if you are running a smaller business, you will see that ecommerce start-ups prefer a Prestashop store. This is because it’s actually easier to install, has arguable better search capabilities and is smaller in size.

However, Magento has the merchandising and promotion aspect as well as the out-of-the-box features, has a vast support community, a vast array of themes, awesome SEO features and no compatibility issues. If you’re not sure about which platform to go for?

 

API integration is used by organisations in their business websites or web applications allowing others take advantage of difficult complex software systems in a smooth and connected way.

Put simply, API’s allow you to open up a site to public or private users to get your information without giving them direct access to what happens in your site.

So you need to connect your website using an API but you don’t have the resources necessary to do this? Extra Digital have great experience with integrating API’s with websites or database software.

Our team of experienced developers relish the challenge to integrate your website with an API smoothly and effectively.

What are the benefits of API integration?

API application integration has great benefits helping to streamline the business processes, help in providing better customer services and thus assist in enhancing the growth of your business.

What types of integration can we offer?

• Need custom API integration? We specialise in integrating custom API applications for your business website or web app.
• Whatever your needs, we can produce and develop custom APIs
• Are you yet to make a decision about which API you need? We can point out services providing API’s to which can be connected to your website or application to enhance your services.
• We also support API development, twitter API integration, API application programming interface, REST API integration, application integration services, social media developer API, CMS API, Saas API Integration services at competitive rates.

 

CS Cart is a very powerful feature-rich ecommerce platform and could be the perfect option to sell your awesome products. No matter the size of your store, our tailorable CS development and design services can help you to achieve your dream products, getting you started with a profitable online shop that grows as your business does.

To find out more about getting your ecommerce marketing off the ground to set yourself on the path to an effective and profitable online shop, get in touch with Web Designer Vip today on +44 (0) 1227 68 68 98.

Our CS Cart Services Include:

• Speedy development – From design to complete build in just under 4 months. Less depending on the size of the store.
• Get your shop visible – fast! – there’s no point in having a great looking store if no-one can find it. We build our websites to be search engine friendly.
• Designed to convert visitors into buyers – we focus on designing and building a great CS Cart websites that will give you the best possible return on investment
• High speed ecommerce server hosting – ask about our specialised ecommerce hosting that will run your store at light speed

If you’re looking for a custom ecommerce design, our in house design team can create a visually compelling design that converts website visitors to customers that keep coming back for more.

No matter what you’re selling, we’ll help you reach your goals. Why not check out oureCommerce website portfolio to see some of our breath-taking design work.

Our CS Cart Experience

We offer:

• CS-Cart websites in multiple languages (for example French, Spanish, German, Russian)
• CS-Cart websites for a  large number of products
• CS-Cart websites in B2B markets as well as the more traditional consumer markets.

If you are a designer looking for a CS Cart developer then we offer complete flexibility to give you the creative freedom to bring your client’s business to life. We don’t make use of pre-existing templates or themes – all our CS Cart stores are coded straight from the ground up which gives you total and absolute freedom.

Is your website in several languages? No problem. We have awesome expertise in developing multilingual eCommerce sites on CS Cart so you can sell to customers in several languages using native speakers for accurate translation, regardless of what you are selling.

What our customers say

 “The website is doing very well under your leadership and you are always on the phone when I need you, very helpful.”

Peter Grove, Occasion Photo Frames

“I wanted to say what an awesome job you guys did on the Readicut website. From our point of view we are really pleased with the way it’s been brought to life. To find someone like yourselves who we’ve found to be so easy to work with has been fantastic. It goes without saying that if were to have the opportunity to work on a similar type of project that we would come to you to work with again. Fingers crossed there are more juicy jobs out there soon!”

Readicut Crafts Website: Design Team

As well as offering comprehensive CS-Cart development services based around completely bespoke design work (we never use templates), we offer in-house, UK based CS-Cart  development which builds a search engine optimised, user-friendly online store that is easy to market in order to grow your revenue and your business.

 

Magento Ecommerce Solutions

No matter how large or small your store is, our Magento ecommerce design and development services can bring your products to life and get you started with a profitable online shop that can easily grow as your business does.

• Effective and rapid Magento ecommerce development – we can get you from design to completed build in under four months
• Highly search engine optimised – like all our websites, we build our Magento stores to be search engine friendly
• Designed to convert visitors into buyers – we focus on building a website that will give you the best possible return on investment
• High speed Magento server hosting – ask about our specialised Magento ecommerce hosting that will run your store at light speed

Magento Design & Development

As well as offering comprehensive ecommerce website design services based around completely bespoke designs (we never use templates), we offer in-house, UK based Magento ecommerce development which builds a search engine optimised, user-friendly online store that is easy to market in order to grow your revenue and your business.

 

Our mobile development services include:

• Mobile website design
• Mobile web applications
• Android Applications

We have created the following types of mobile website:

• Simple brochure website with phone now
• Booking mobile site for searching for and reserving holiday accommodation
• Questionnaire or assessment from mobile phones

Mobile development delivers an optimised view of your existing website and brand to maximise the browsing experience of your visitors. By detecting the device being used, we present a mobile layout design with condensed content in a format which is more legible and will load faster on mobile network connections.

When undertaking mobile development there are key design considerations to make a mobile site and app effective. As the screen size is smaller, less information can be given.

• Navigation needs to be simple and activated over a wide area on a touch screen.
• Forms must be clear and simple with minimum typing and as much use of sectors as possible.
• Calls to actions are easy with a ‘dial now’ being very effective.

Your existing website can remain unchanged and a mobile website design or other mobile development is a very cost effective way to improve your online marketing activity.

With the growing trend for mobile browsing, particularly in international markets, isn’t it time you discovered how to improve your web presence? Get in touch and we can give you the guidance you need on expanding your reach to your customers using mobile development.

 

Keep Your Website Up & Running

Keeping your website up and running can often be one of the biggest challenges you face, which is where our web maintenance services come in.

Whether you need support for your content management system, security or accessibility updates or just having professional help on hand to guide you through the everyday housekeeping tasks of web maintenance, our expert, UK-based support team can provide all the support you need.

Website Maintenance Services

We offer a wide range of web maintenance services at a variety of a platforms to suit your needs and budget.

• Security updates and security auditing
• Backups and redundancy to minimise downtime
• SEO updates and SEO auditing – also take a look at our complete SEO services
• Content management system updates and support
• Copywriting and content assistance to make your website an effective marketing tool
• Multilingual services including translation and content localisation taking into account both cultural and lingual differences
• eCommerce management including online shop help, payment integration and genera management
• Web application support including usability, training and mobile or social applications
• …and much more!

Our in-house staff have a wide range of skills which means we can provide an enormous range of web maintenance services. We can handle everything for you from complex backup and redundancy to training and support – or you can just have us on standby as someone to call to handle the technical bits so your staff don’t have to!

 

A good website design in any language goes much further than appearances – your website is a key selling tool which has huge potential to generate sales and leads ad increase the volume of your target audience that you can serve. ExtraDigital are experts in French web design and can help you to understand the French market to give you that edge over your competitors.

Experts in French Web Design

As industry experts in French digital web solutions, ExtraDigital can produce a high quality user-centred design for your organisation in multiple languages. If you are looking to expand into the French market, we can ensure that your target audience is at the centre of anything we create.

Our French web design experience

Over the past decade, we have been involved in some great projects, helping our clients to tap into the potential customers of the French market. We have developed microsites for Concorde International as well as our own website in French. Our experience ranges from B2B websites to French Ecommerce websites such as CProdirect.

Why Choose ExtraDigital?

The value of our service extends beyond just a site build – we work closely with our clients to understand the exact requirements of what you are trying to achieve. Our website design process is led by you and we welcome any design considerations.

We have over a decade of experience of web design; we create compelling websites for your organisation. Our design process is highly consultative, allowing us to tailor the design of your website to best suit your industry and marketplace; our project managers work closely with our front end developers and vice versa to make sure that both teams work together to create the best French web design.

The Project

Multilingual PPC management on Facebook for English school. Management of various multilingual campaigns on Facebook, including, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Japanese. Two separate campaigns, one which focused on the summer courses and another which focused on University courses.

Target

To achieve clicks through to the website and increase leads by targeting the correct type of people.

Approach

We spoke to client about the type of people they want to target eg age, interests and specific locations. We then constructed a generic advertisement that was then translated into the different languages. The image was also quite important as this is what grabs people’s attention initially. We decided to go with a Union Jack picture that would instantly mean people know what the advertisement is about, England!

The two campaigns were then launched across all languages and monitored on a constant basis. It is important to monitor the campaign so you can edit things specifically. For example, the wordings on specific advertisements were changed in order to attract more people to click.

Result

We achieved great results through both campaigns with a relatively small budget.

• Significant increase in site traffic during the campaign, increase of 80%
• Very significant increase in enquiries, so lower cost per enquiry.
• Client extremely happy with result and continuing with Facebook advertising.

 

The Project:

PPC Management for a website supplying high value and high quality products to customers.

Target:

To improve the phone calls and queries from the website. Promotion of seasonal campaigns.

Summary:

We restructured the Google AdWords account, creating extra campaigns for different types of product. We made significant use of image ads which work well with a visual product. New ads were introduced for seasonal campaigns.

 

Approach:

• Detailed market and keyword research
• Competitor research
• Customer profiling to determine best sectors to target for highest returns
• AdWords account restructuring
• PPC account optimisation on a regular basis, with account monitored at least every few days
• Account optimisation at the keyword level to give best performance

Seasonal Campaigns

Website copy changed for seasonal (Christmas) promotions, and the advertising copy and images altered to match. The total advertising investment remained the same.

Results:

• Very significant (180%) increases in site traffic during the seasonal campaigns, yet no increase in advertising cost.
• Very significant increase in enquiries, so lower cost per enquiry.

The above case study is one example of many where Web Designer Vip have been managing the account to generate increased enquiries or sales. For many businesses the month of December can be a good time to get increased traffic onto the website as the conversion rates on the website can be higher, In this example the traffic nearly doubled, mainly from adjusting the PPCadvertising to a seasonal focus.

Web Designer Vip are Google Partners and have many Google Qualified PPC managers.

 

Creating an Arabic website that is effective can be a very difficult skill. It’s all too easy to throw together a basic website but to produce something that is ergonomically effective for the Arabic marketing, as well as being aesthetically pleasing, requires careful consideration straight from the whistle.

Extra Digital have studied the many factors needed to create great Arabic websites and have produced some stunning and award winning work for our Arabic clients.

 

Why is Arabic Web design so difficult?

There are many factors at play when producing an Arabic website. As with all of our websites, we produce our Arabic sites to the highest, responsive and search engine optimised standard, but what are the other considerations at play:

• Arabic website design is a specialist skillset as Arabic is written from right to left (rather than left to right as in English).
• This means that special consideration must be taken in terms of wireframe, calls to action and menu design in order to make a website useful to the Arabic audience.
• Additional cultural factors also need to be taken into account in order to ensure that the final website design is suitable for the intended Arabic audience in terms of imagery, copywriting and general look and feel.

Our Arabic Web Design Experience

Web Designer Vip have designed, translated and localised Arabic websites for clients such as the British Museum and Concorde International language school. All work is carried out in house by native Arabic speakers and UK based web designers and developers so you can be sure of a final Arabic website design that is built to be top quality and highly accessible to search engines in Arabic.