Lee Maggs welcomes onboard Peter Rees,

We are pleased to appoint Pete to our custom build projects as we have had more requests in this sector over the last few months.

Pete Rees Brings a new skill set of custom database programming. Pete has been writing and programming databases for many clients and has been doing so since 1985 when he worked for Rio Travel and compiled there own state of the art database which was one of the first Travel Agents to use this type of system across their local offices in London.

Previous to this, Pete worked for the MOD and handled stock control.

His skill sets include, Microsoft Access, Network Architehcture, PHP, MYsql, Html, xHTML and Java based applications.

Lee Maggs said 'By having an asset such as pete onboard, we are now able to offer more affordable costing control over custom designed databases that suit small to medium sized business'.

For more information on databases please call 01225 400909

Maggs have chosen Gantry for their main rapid deployment of websites.

Gantry which was created by our friends over at rocketheme bring all the luxurys for creating rich graphical and text CMS (Content management Systems)

the main features Gantry provides:

• 960 Grid System (http://960.gs) for simple consistent layout. 12 and 16 column support
• Per-menu control over all Gantry functionality
• Ability to save/remove custom presets
• Built-in AJAX Support
• RTL language support
• iPhone and iPod Touch mobile autotheme support
• Built-in Gantry RokGZipper to compress and combine Gantry JS and CSS files
• Cleaner more understandable index.php. All the complicated bits are handled for you in the Gantry core.
• Flexibility to configure up to 6 modules in row position.
• 65 base module positions in the Gantry core. These can be easily extended to add more
• 36 possible combinations for the layout of the mainbody/sidebars alone!
• Flexibility to configure different grid-size layouts based on number of published modules. You are not forced to use the same grid layout for every page
• 12 built-in Gantry Features like Logo, font-sizer, to-top smooth slider. Easily create your own to add more functionality with little coding required.
• Ability to force module display and 'blank' module positions for advanced module placement ability.
• Stunning new Admin interface providing better usability and control.
• Unique Layout controls allow you to configure your layout without having to do math or ever create a 'broken' layout.
• Layout controls provide visual representation of your front-end layout for simple and intuitive customization.
• Gantry is XML driven, adding another row of completely flexible module positions is as simple as editing one XML file.
• New flexible parameter system allows loading preset theme attributes and modifying for a custom design. Also support session and cookie level overriding for development.
• All new table-less HTML overrides based on the excellent GNU/GPLv2 overrides from YOOtheme (http://www.yootheme.com)
• New standard typography and Joomla core elements styling
• New advanced caching system makes using Gantry really fast!
• All configuration state is stored in params.ini and cached for speed.
• Optimized codebase with speed, size, and reuse core tenants of the framework design

We would like to thank Rockettheme for making this system available

We are about to place an order with Bath Life Magazine for our 1st in a series of ads, Bath Life is a beautiful magazine with content forcused on Bath and its people.

We have chosen Bath Life as a benchmark for measuring effectiveness of our advert design in their magazine, We have three anaylatic programs embedded to our website to weigh the amount of traffic that will be driven here and also all calls to phone and email will be accounted for.

We aim to advertise in a further 2 publications which aim at local businesses in the next 3 months.

Our results will be published here for a comparable of effective off line marketing.

If you have a crazy picture that would suit our advertising scheme and want to see it in 'Bath Life' or other titled magazines, please send it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , include your name and address and we will send you a complimentory magazine with your picture in it if you are featured!

Not to my suprise but, I have just Googled 'web design in Bath', Get this, I at first thought I was keyword stuffing the Maggs homepage with 4 accounts of the word 'Bath'. I would like to add one of which is in the address and one that is default in the menu..

After trawling through some other web design companies in the 'AREA', I found at least two web design sites with over 20 references to bath on a single page, that’s like a Google amount of references! (I did not consider counting the titles and meta descriptions, I was afraid i would need a calculator).

So from now on I am not going to mention the word B**h again.
Some of the sites that are what I like to call in priority positions i.e. the first page of Google, if you were to read through their main page and took out all the B**h's the page actually makes no sense at all..I wonder how they get away with it.
Even worse, the client was to deduct the B^%h from their own website and read it through... I mean come on web designers!

When we meet a client, we advise them on what they could do and what they should do when creating a web page, especially when the client is about to embark on their own content writing.

We have just been working with a client who is in the construction industry. We have set up their Blog for them and have given them around 20 blog pages to give them direction of how their blog could be written. My instructions were pretty clear, just tell the public about your business and forget SEO that will come naturally. I have found with a few of clients most of which are first page of Google, that good written content will always beat keyword stuffed pages, as long as the fundamentals are within the page.

I will always back pat a web designer if they produce a good site, and I will always flick through the whole site to see what’s the competitive edge they have over their competition, the web game is always fluid and moves from month to month...

What I really dislike is when a page is numero uno, simply because its keyword stuffed... I know all the main search engines...I mean Google... is really pushing its algorithms to change this, of which Maggs for one welcomes this with open arms!
..For those of you who read my previous post, I have broke the rules...:) just for an hour!