Digital media works recent examples

Some of our recent scribblings.

Although recent, these are examples that digital media works has been granted permission to show. They are in no particular order, not necessarily the very latest work and by no means a comprehensive list.

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Dancemaster School of Dance

http://www.dancemaster.org.uk

Dancemaster came to us looking for a new 'fun and funky' look, incorporating a member's section with games, music and photo's to encourage their pupils to use the site as much as possible.

Just as importantly, Dancemaster wanted to gain a search engine presence to attract new pupils and publicise their events and shows.

Having analysed the original dancemaster.org.uk site, in particular the optimisation and ranking we agreed the following points.

• With the exception of the forum the site was unused and looking somewhat dated.
• There was absolutely no search engine optimisation and therefore zero indexing of the site.
• Other than a little banter on the forum there was very little for the members to do.

Having agreed an action plan with the key words dancemaster, dance abergavenny and dance lessons abergavenny we set about an SEO campaign and modernising the site, incorporating individual members pages and all the fun and games we could cram in.

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Glory, Honour & Valour

http://www.ghv.clan-gamer.com

An online gaming community wanting their site brought up to date. This proved to be great fun as we given a free reign with all the visuals and styling.

From an image prospective we went for a mix of the battlefield genre with a Band of Brothers influence. Some 'toys' we included in the new site -

• Cookie manipulation for both the background music (only 400kb) and refreshing of the live data feeds.
• XML Data streaming to track members scores and game stats in real time.
• Game and voice server feeds to provide real time views of who is online and where (best viewed of an evening).
• A URL game launcher that lets one member join another on the same online server at a click of a link.

As for the search engines there was only one criteria, anyone within the huge battlefield community would be able to locate their website from the search term ghv clan, no sooner said than done.

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Deans TV Services

http://www.deans-tvs.com

Deans TV Services were looking to give their homemade site a professional, fresh look to more accurately portray their reputation for customer service and value for money. Although the client hasn't yet been able to provide the content in order for us to complete the work, I think the design brief has been achieved.

Some aspects of the brief and how digital media works achieved them -

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