Like me you may have stumbled upon the ’tag a cloud‘ website (www.tagacloud.com). It’s a great way to help get traffic to your website. They offer free accounts and once launched exploded into life, quickly gaining many members.

They then launched their ‘point shop‘ feature where the member can buy points (it was bound to happen) to enhance their link/listing.

It’s a cool feature and at about £17 a month it wont break the bank either.

Anyway, up until a month or two ago all was fine, but then I noticed the tag a cloud link on our web design blog was returning an error. I visited their site and also realised their site returned an error every time I tried to use their point shop.

I have sent several emails to their admin reporting the errors but have had no reply. I would love to know if anyone else is having the same problems? Or if any of you Tag A Cloud geeks get round to reading this (or my emails)….. get it sorted!

We are pleased to announce the (re)launch of CompleteHR Ltd!

CompleteHR is a long established HR company based in Haywards Heath who are well known by their clients as providers of excellence.

We have provided them with a fresh, modern, professional website to help create that all important first impression for their clients.

We look forward to working with them in the future.

Pixie

**Now featured on ‘Web Design Gallery‘**

It’s been many, many months in the making, but we are finally able to announce the launch of the Losers Weepers website! It’s been many, many months in the making, but we are finally able to announce the launch of the Losers Weepers website!Losers Weepers is a website dedicated to getting all things lost and found back to their rightful owners!
So if you have lost something? Try looking for it at LosersWeepers.com, one of the fastest growing communities of lost and found items. Check out Losers Weepers today!

Wow, just finished an exciting new project for our friends Audiobunny, music and sound designers based in Brighton, East Sussex.

This has been a fun project, we not only let our usual ‘creative juices’ flow but we incorporated the whole site into Wordpress which means not only can Tim at Audiobunny blog like crazy, he can also enjoy the freedom of updating the website as and when he wants.

We also incorporated a custom FLV player into the site which enables Tim to showcase his audio pieces and movies/short films that he has collaborated on.

Check out the Audiobunny website and more importantly check out his work, it really is something special.

We wish Tim all the best, I know we will look forward to working with him in the future.

UPDATE

We are please to confirm the Audiobunny website has just been featured on ‘TheBestDesign‘ website. Happy days…

Pixie

We are pleased to announce the launch of Weybridge Tennis Academy, the latest web design project from Pixel Design Studio.

Working in partnership with the LTA, Tennis Surrey, Runnymede Borough Council and St George’s College they provide award-winning Tennis Coaching to all levels of children aged from 4-16yrs.

As a leading Performance Centre in the South East, they provide back up for players from local clubs who need high quality training to complement their own club programme.

WTA came to us wanting a website with a bit of fun and plenty colour! After looking at our portfolio they decided to choose Pixel Design Studio to create their website.

As usual we provided a bespoke website which was created to current web standards using a clean, table-less design with pure CSS.

Take a look around! www.weybridgetennisacademy.com

Pixie
 

We are pleased to announce the launch of Go See Kenya, the latest web design project from Pixel Design Studio.

Go See Kenya offers 6 week experiences working in the community of Shimoni, a coastal village 80km south of Mombasa in Kenya. This includes monitoring and tagging the marine life including dolphins, whale sharks and hump-back whales, working on a forestry project focusing on a re-planting scheme and carrying out surveys of the primate and bird species in the local area and working with the local schools to help build new facilities, assist with teaching and implement environmental projects involving the kids.

The bespoke website was created to current web standards using a clean, table-less design with pure CSS.

Check it out and have a look around. 

We wish Go See Kenya much success and look forward to working with them in the future.

Pixie

We are pleased to announce the launch of Brighton Property Search, the latest web design project from Pixel Design Studio.

Brighton Property Search is a property location agent specialising in Brighton & Hove and the surrounding areas. They offer a bespoke, easy to use service where we work closely with our clients to establish their specific requirements, saving time on viewing unsuitable properties and helping negotiate a good price

The website was created to current web standards using a clean, table-less design with pure CSS.

We wish Brighton Property Search all the success in the future and look forward to working with them in the future.

Pixie

We have finally decided it’s time to pull our socks up and get the job finished. We have gone for a clean, clear and simple design and will let our Portfolio do the talking. So keep an eye out for the new site which should appear in a month or so (I hope!)  

Pixie 

Simply put I thought it was brilliant, not so much the website (which is nice in its own right) but the content. Some of the best ideas I have seen in a long time (and some outright crazy ones!).

Take a look for yourself, made me smile .

 Pixie

Companies in the UK must include certain regulatory information on their websites and in their email footers before 1st January 2007 or they will breach the Companies Act and risk a fine.

Every company should list its company registration number, place of registration and registered office address on its website as a result of an update to the legislation of 1985. The information, which must be in legible characters, should also appear on order forms and in emails. Such information is already required on ‘business letters’ but the duty is being extended to websites, order forms and electronic documents.

The change is being made by a Statutory Instrument that is expected to be passed on Thursday to implement a European law, the First Company Law Amendment Directive, into UK law. According to a Department of Trade and Industry spokesperson, the law will take effect on 1st January, one day later than the Directive requires. (The Companies (Registrar, Languages and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2006 has now been passed.)

The information is likely to appear in the footer of every email sent from a company, to avoid having to decide whether each email amounts to a ‘business letter’ or not. Many companies do this already because the term ‘business letters’ was thought likely to include emails even without this new clarification.

For websites, contrary to the fears of some, the specified information does not need to appear on every page. Again, many websites will already list the required information, perhaps on their ‘About us’ or ‘Legal info’ pages.

The E-commerce Regulations, passed in 2002, require that certain information is listed on a website, including, “where the service provider is registered in a trade or similar register available to the public, details of the register in which the service provider is entered and his registration number, or equivalent means of identification in that register”.

That has been understood as including the company registration number and place of registration. The E-commerce Regulations also required a note of “the geographic address at which the service provider is established” – which many have taken to mean the registered office address.

However, the wording in the E-commerce Regulations is ambiguous compared to the new provisions. Further, many organisations’ sites currently omit the information, perhaps making the mistake of thinking that the E-commerce Regulations do not apply to websites that do not sell online (in fact they apply to almost all websites).

Information that must be on your website: an aide memoire
The following is the minimum information that must be on any company’s website (from OUT-LAW’s guide, The UK’s E-commerce Regulations).

• The name, geographic address and email address of the service provider. The name of the organisation with which the customer is contracting must be given. This might differ from the trading name. Any such difference should be explained – e.g. “XYZ.com is the trading name of XYZ Enterprises Limited.” It is not sufficient to include a ‘contact us’ form without also providing an email address and geographic address somewhere easily accessible on the site. A PO Box is unlikely to suffice as a geographic address; but a registered office address would. If the business is a company, the registered office address must be included.
• If a company, the company’s registration number should be given and, under the Companies Act, the place of registration should be stated (e.g. “XYZ Enterprises Limited is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1234567″)
• If the business is a member of a trade or professional association, membership details, including any registration number, should be provided.
• If the business has a VAT number, it should be stated – even if the website is not being used for e-commerce transactions.
• Prices on the website must be clear and unambiguous. Also, state whether prices are inclusive of tax and delivery costs.

Finally, do not forget the Distance Selling Regulations which contain other information requirements for online businesses that sell to consumers (B2C, as opposed to B2B, sales). For details of these requirements, see our guide, The Distance Selling Regulations - An Overview. ]]> http://blog.pixeldesignstudio.co.uk/2007/04/13/good-to-know-is-your-website-legal/feed/