Web design blog by Caged Fish

Caged Fish web design Market Harborough ran their second “First steps in SEO” seminar last Friday.

The seminar was attended by Paul and Abdul from Walters Archtects, Peter from Chips Away and Paul from MP Accountants
Subjects covered were.

• Analysis
• Keyword research
• Meta Tags
• Google Analytics
• Pay Per Click (PPC)
• Using Blogs and social networking

If this sounds of interest to you and would like to be included on our next course email Steve Hawkins on steve@cagedfish.co.uk

We have just launched a new CMS site for Stockwood Consulting. Stockwood Consulting provide training and support services to residential and domestic care companies, Primary Care and other health related organisations. The site was custom built within the Word Press platform and offers control of the whole content of the site by Stockwood Consulting who have been using the CMS for just over a week now and already have tripled the number of pages in their site.

Caged Fish web site designers leicester launch a brand new CMS site for Virtual HR company Black and white HR

Our latest Actinic ecommerce site belongs to www.birdsnbees.co.uk

The guys there are selling a fantastic range of sexy items with an ethical twist

Do you have an existing Actinic Store?
Are you looking to upgrade to the newest version of actinic, Actinic v10?

If so give Caged Fish a call on 01858 469988.

Caged Fish will take your existing Actinic Store and upgrade it to the current version, Actinic version 10 implementing all of the new features such as Realtime Stock, Recently Viewed Items, The Streamlined Checkout and Customer Feedback.

Also worth noting is the speed of Actinic is quicker. On a Test Site (80Mb) approx 300 products, Caged Fish found that Actinic 10 was 1/3rd faster to do a full refresh  than Actinic 9. (10 minutes as opposed to 15 minutes). Also the time to Snapshot was quicker.

If you are interested in upgrading, or even having an ecommerce site built within Actinic v10 then give Caged Fish a call on 01858 469988 or email us at steve@cagedfish.co.uk

Actinic 10 was released today, and with it comes 4 distinct new features over the last version. 

1. Realtime Stock Control
2. Recently Viewed Items
3. A Streamlined Checkout Procedure
4. Customer Feedback

1: Realtime Stock Control 

With Realtime Stock Control, the stock figures you set will decrease online when some one buys a product from you, and will instantly hide a product when its stock hits 0. 

In previous Actinic’s Stock Control was handled on the download and upload of the site, therefore you could be out of stock of a product but the website would not know that. 

If you work with Actinic and especially deal with stock, 10 is for you. 

2: Recently Viewed Items

Hot off the heals of the Also Bought Items, Best Selling Items and Related Items (introduced in Actinic ,  Now comes Recently Viewed Items. 

Anyone who has visited Amazon, Play, most modern eccomerce sites will be familiar with a box that lists the items you just looked at. It is a quick and easy way to navigate back to products you have previosly looked at. 

Also a welcome addition to Actinic. 

3: The Streamlined Checkout

Actinic’s checkout procedure prior to Actinic 10 involved a slightly confusing checkout which required you to place your shipping details on multiple pages, for example the first step would be to choose your country then on the next page place your address details. 

The Streamlined Checkout in Actinic 10 has reduced actincs side of the checkout procedure to 4 distinct steps 

The 4 checkout are : Address, Shipping and Tax, Confirmation and Tax ,Reciept and Email 

With the Streamlined Checkout, Customers should be able to order easier from your site and not get confused within the checkout process. 

4: Customer Feedback

Actinic 10 has built in compatablility with FeeFo. Feefo is a online site that gathers feedback from your customers. 

According to feefo, their system is similar to the Feedback system as seen at online sites such as Ebay. 

The Feefo system however is not free. See FeeFo for more details.

We will be developing new Actinic sites within Actinic 10 and if you are an existing Actinic User we can also upgrade your site to the latest version. 

Call Caged Fish on 01858 469988 to discuss Actinic with us.

Caged Fish web design have just launched a new site for Leicester Commercial and domestic insurance broker Andrew Bourne & Co.

Andrew Bourne insurance brokers Set up in 1985, Andrew Bourne & Co have been providing a professional, independent insurance service to people from Wigston, Oadby, Leicester and towns across the East Midlands.

Market Harborough Restaurant Ascoughs chose Caged Fish web design to build them a new site for their Bistro in Market Harborough. The site was built utilising full CMS. Visit www.ascoughsbistro.co.uk

Caged Fish web design have just launched their latest e commerce store, Pop up Gazebo and Instant shelter supplier Gazebo Shop chose Caged Fish to build their new store

Tennis net supplier Sportsequip chose Caged Fish web design to redesign their existing Actinic store. The site was redesigned using Actinic V9