Nvisage specialise in developing websites and web applications using bespoke databases or integrating with a third party database such as a CRM. Do you need a database? Nvisage specialise in developing websites and web applications using bespoke databases or integrating with a third party database such as a CRM. Examples include Moat Housing Association where we
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WordPress has progressed in such a way that it is quick and intuitive with many plugins available. No matter what your experience is, it is possible to create a new form or edit current forms. We use the formidable plug in on all of our WordPress sites, this form builder has a very visual drag and drop
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If you want to build a successful, intuitive website and give your users a great experience when they navigate it, design it with their needs in mind, not yours! User stories It needs to start with a story, a bit like the opening line of a movie script: “So where are you? You’re in some
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We have recently delivered an Intranet for First Choice Homes Oldham. A new Intranet for FCHO We have recently delivered an Intranet for First Choice Homes Oldham. Our approach has been refreshingly different. Rather than foist a ready-made solution upon the client, laden with features that clutter and won’t be used, we have listened to
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AdWords is an advertising service by Google for businesses wanting to display ads on Google and its advertising network, but what are the benefits of Adwords for your business? There are three networks out there that promote your business in different ways: How does it work? The main part of creating a successful ad is
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As we come to the end of 2015 we are pleased to share that we have just launched the new website for English Rural housing association. English Rural have a new website! It is built upon the WordPress platform and is responsive allowing the site to down-scale to fit devices such as: At Nvisage we take great pride in
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We have been designing and developed Housing Association websites for across England and Wales for ten years and gained a huge amount of experience that we can bring to your project How to design a housing association website We have been designing and developing websites for the Social Housing sector for the last 5 years,
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It is critical for the prototype designer to meet with the focus group of the Housing Association via a workshop in a discovery phase. Focus on the audience It is critical for the prototype designer to meet with the focus group of the Housing Association via a workshop in a discovery phase; this helps to
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The Wakefield District Housing lottery funded Cash Wise WordPress website, has won an award at the BITC Awards at Royal Albert Hall The new Cash Wise website is live! The Wakefield District Housing lottery funded Cash Wise WordPress website, is now live. Cash Wise is for social housing tenants of any age who need help
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Housing association clients Stonewater – large merger between three housing associations. The website was delivered in ten weeks alongside a parallel branding project with another agency. English Rural Housing Association – Family Housing Association Wales – Lincs Rural Housing Association – Selwood Housing – Curo – East Midlands Housing Group – First Choice Homes Oldham
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Does optimising images help SEO? Simple answer yes, and not only SEO, but also for enhanced user engagement and conversions. Within SEO well optimised images will not only help Google to understand the specific focus of your page but will also enable people to find your content who are undertaking an image search. What benefits
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Wireframing is a clickable HTML website prototype, which is an essential part of the UX process. We use them as a part of the testing process, through this we then get feedback from the client/stakeholder. It is important to understand that there is no design involved at the wireframing stage, it is theoretically thought to be a website skeleton. The
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User centered design User centered design is a philosophy for website design rather than an absolute process. Graphical design is not independent of the user and an abstract artistic process but one that facilitates a user’s needs. There are many ways of achieving the goal of a user centric site and we outline here our
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Usability and Heatmapping? Heatmapping is a technique used to understand how your audience is using your website. The user expereince is crucial to the success of your website and understanding how good that process is can dramatically influence the success of your website to your business. If your user experience is poor it will result
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Blogging, we’ve all got to do it right? it’s good for SEO isn’t it? And we’ve all got to become experts and build up a following.. Well maybe. Getting opinions from digital marketeers is a bit like getting opinions from economists; they all have them, they all tell you they’re right, many will disagree with
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Good WordPress development companies are hard to find. It’s a simple statement of truth based upon the double edged nature of WordPress. One of WordPress’s redeeming features is it’s simplicity of use and ease of setting up a new site. Install WordPress, choose a template, point your domain to it and away you go. Unfortunately
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There are any number of individuals and companies out there willing to sell you on-going search engine optimisation and guarantee you positions. So what should you do as an owner of a website to decide who is capable of making your website work harder for you? A good start is to begin gently with an
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Channel shift in the social housing sector Moat is a major housing association operating in the South East of England, and Nvisage have been working with them since 2010 to develop their website into a self-service platform. Key to their channel shift strategy is to focus upon the two areas that will make a difference:
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Channel shift is recognised as being the movement from high cost customer transactions such as face to face and call centres to lower cost automated systems such as self-service on the web, automatic voice recognition systems, SMS on mobile phones and interactive television. Nvisage are specialists in channel shift and have extensive experience of working
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Write down the key phrase you think people will identify with this article if they were to use google to search for it? Write down 2- 3 other related phrases you think people may use to search on this content. Create a title using the main phrase The first paragraph needs to capture the reader’s
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