Strength2Strength
Welcome to our latest e-News – In summary it has been an extraordinary year so far, and we have seized the opportunity to build, focus and drive everything forward from strength to strength.
The new look Hammer not only brings a new website but a plethora of really useful new services, packages, features, functions and expertise for our clients and prospective clients alike to help drive them into 2010.
Summary
Throughout 2009 we have been continuously honing and rolling out the latest techniques in web usage, improving navigation around websites, launched new promotion and marketing support packages and increased our commitment to the Hammer mission to build the greatest websites ever.
Promotional Offers: Hammer has launched some exciting 6x6 challenges for 2009 running into 2010 including our most exciting offer to date - the Hammer Design e-Awards.
The future: looks good for Hammer… new faces at work, new clients, new exciting projects that push the boundaries of what has been done before and drive us healthily and happily onwards.
Si Homfray.
Hammer Design e-Awards
The Hammer Design e-Award is a unique opportunity for innovators to have their website designed, built and developed with secure matched funding to the value of up to £20,000.
Read more about the Hammer Design e-Awards >
6x6 great website offers
We have six fantastic challenge offers open to anyone looking for web design, development and promotion, especially those companies and organisations who are looking to refresh, rebuild or completely transform their web presence.
Read more about our 6x6 great website offers >
New products and developments
As you would expect of Hammer now, they have written plenty of new software from scratch, behind the scenes committed to the pursuit of excellence, and making sure that everything delivered is to the highest standard. Read more >
New staff
There are two new faces at Hammer for 2009. Anne Marie Gethen and Dan Macdonald who bring some great design, administration and project management skills to the growing team.
Read a little more about us >
STOP PRESS
BMW Motorcycles, Friends of the Peak, Peak District National Park Youth Rangers and a few other websites we are working on at the moment that are soon to be launched.
Read a little more on our latest soon to be launched websites.
Lead stories
Hardwick Hall prestigious win:
Hammer Design specialist visitor experience and interpretation services are awarded the very prestigious contract for The National Trust's Hardwick Hall Stableyard project. Read more >
Found. That loving feeling.:
Who lost that loving feeling? We didn't... The Loving Art website grows on... Hammer relaunches the much acclaimed Living Art website. Go to the Living Art website >
Tasty web bites for Sheffield Hallam University:
Sheffield Hallam University relaunch Hammer Design's Eat Sheffield work to much praise. Clean, clear design tied to a devilishly simple database back end gives a clear user experience. Read more about the Eat Sheffield website >
High profile National Parks website:
High profile National Parks website: The Mosaic National Parks Project website launches to a fanfare of high profile media attention, prime time BBC coverage and personalities singing its praise... Read more about the Mosaic National Parks Project >
World authority on Port Wine revealed:
Hammer are very proud and a little dizzy to have launched Richard Mayson's website. It was a labour of love and not without a few surprises. Photographing some of the world's greatest bottles of Port and Madeira, some dating back to the early 1900's was quite an eye opener... Read more >
Gillian's charity website for Bluebell Wood
Gillian has been an inspiration to Hammer Design since we first met her. Her tireless fundraising for the Bluebell Wood childrens hospice has seen her cover hundreds of miles year after year. Her full story remains untold and we plan to be a part of the telling as we produce her book 'Golden Miles' in the very near future. Read more >
Organising the Fit and the Famous:
Hammer Design are proud to announce the launch of Heason Events new website. Incorporating a vast array of new and 'easy-use' features and developments for the user and the site manager alike. Read more >
The New look Hammer Design website and services
The New Hammer website brings with it NEW help pages and downloadable guides.
For existing customers and prospective customers they can now register and log in to the new website to take advantage of our growing library of ongoing help and support pages.
This up to the minute advice includes a series of mini guides aimed at taking the unecessary jargon out of website management, ownership and marketing.
In addition to the continued development and rollouts of new versions to our CMS systems the launch of new module for existing and new customers to market themselves online - Mail +
We have extended our range of standard services to include:
- New maintenance and support contracts.
- Online marketing packages
- SEO services from evaluation through to implementation
- E-commerce packages for the smaller business
Other recent websites launched
We have launched many websites of all sizes since the last e-Newsletter in Spring - but here are a selected few of the smaller sites:
- Metaphorics Performance http://www.metaphorics.co.uk
- Solva consultancy http://www.solvaconsultancy.co.uk
- Marquis of Granby http://www.marquisofgranbyhotel.co.uk
- Bolder Climbing Walls http://www.bolderclimbingwalls.com
- Symon Donovan Properties http://www.sd-properties.co.uk
- Digital Ninja http://www.digininja.org
The future
The future looks good for Hammer… new faces at work, new clients, new exciting projects that push the boundaries of what has been done before and drive us healthily and happily onwards.
