Who is this bog-snorkelling woman?!

10th June 201910th June 2019Leave a comment

When we launched this new website at the Llanwrtyd Wells Arts and Heritage Centre last Thursday night, everyone was stunned by this woman now emblazoned on the front page. Henceforth she’ll be the face of this lovely rural Welsh town!

This smiling bog-snorkelling woman… nobody knew who she is. She’s going to be famous! So if anybody out there can identify her, please get in touch!

Launch of the Llanwrtyd.com website at the Arts and Heritage Centre

Launch of the website at Llanwrtyd Arts and Heritage Centre – we made their website too!

This profusely illustrated website contains dozens and dozens of images of this overlooked corner of the country

This quirky town is now best known as the home of the World Alternative Games, bog snorkelling and the Man vs. Horse race. You can see an action picture of a champ breaking the world stone skimming record!

The website is also partially bilingual and contains videos showcasing the area. At the launch, the website was extremely well received by the community!

If you want a website like this, get in touch!

“The biggest solar installation in Welsh history”

10th June 2019Leave a comment

Cyberium is very happy to have completely revamped the website for egni.coop in readiness for its brand-new community solar share issue.

As they say: “Egni Co-op develops rooftop solar energy in Wales. Through our co-op share offer, we also give people the chance to invest their money towards in a more sustainable future and get a fair rate of return.

“We’re offering interest projected @ 4%/year and capital to be repaid over 20 years. We’re aiming to install 5MW – the biggest rollout of solar power in Welsh history.”

The website is fully bilingual and runs on the latest version of WordPress, with the opportunity to invest via the website.

It’s been a very exciting project to be part of. We’ve been involved with Egni and with its sister, community wind power co-op Awel, for many years.

Eye-popping video-focussed site for salmon fishing

29th September 2018Leave a comment

We are pleased to announce a new website for a long-standing client who specialises in training in fly fishing techniques all over the world. This fully responsive website incorporates several videos with separately recorded soundtracks, and several picture galleries. It is well worth a look: https://sewincaster.co.uk/. Call for a quote if you want something similar!

New video with animation, music and drone footage

4th April 20184th April 2018Leave a comment

This new campaign video, which we scripted and directed, uses animation, drone footage, studio-recorded voice-over and a specially recorded musical soundtrack. Budget: £5000.

If you’re interested in a video campaign or feature to professional standard, get in touch.

Merchandise design

18th October 201718th October 2017Leave a comment

We design merchandise too! Here’s some new mugs for our client SSW:

We took a series of photographs, designed several versions, and the client picked and refined the one they liked best. We arranged printing and delivery within the stringent budget criteria.

Find a tune named after a place!

19th May 201719th May 2017Leave a comment

One of Cyberium’s programmers has built an amazing website that uses a map to find tunes named after places.

Conceived by musician Helen Adam, Tunelines lets visitors search, using a map interface as well as a drop-down menu, for places and, if there is a tune with the name of the place in the title, to download a PDf of the sheet music.

Programmer Sam Adam-Day built the site and database, hacking and incorporating the API of Google Maps.

Cyberium was able to register the domain name, tunelines.com, despite the fact that the related word, ‘songlines’, is well known. Songlines are an Australian Aboriginal concept documented by the writer Bruce Chatwin.

The website is developing, and more tunes will be added over time.

The tunes are free to download but visitors are encouraged to make a PayPal donation to pay Helen, who is researching arranging the music and providing the sheet music.

Only traditional folk tunes are included.

Presently, only Welsh tunes are listed, but eventually it is hoped anyone will be able to suggest a tune from anywhere in the world.

If you have a brilliant idea for a website you’d like us to make, get in touch!

Banner and leaflets for community organisation

9th May 20179th May 2017Leave a comment

We’re rather proud of some branding materials we recently designed for a community organisation. They include bilingual leaflets and pull-up banners. Click on each image for a closer look.

If you want any branding or similar promotional materials for your company or organisation, do get in touch. They’ll be cheaper than you might think!

Tips for improving search engine ranking

5th May 2017Leave a comment

Here are some tips from our technicians to help you improve the ranking of your website in search engines like Google and Bing. In brief:

Update the website frequently
Use keywords (that people would use in a search to find your website) liberally throughout your website but particularly in:
1. page titles;
2. page headings and sub-headings;
3. the first paragraphs on pages;
4. filenames, such as of images and other uploads;
5. alt tags for images.
Get people to link to your website and link to their website in return;
Use social media to post updates and news and link back to your site.

More information

Selecting keywords

First brainstorm what keywords people might use to search for your website if they did not know anything about it but wanted the services that you provide. Then try to narrow it down to less than 10.

Bear in mind that the people abroad might use different search terms, e.g. ‘vacation ‘ for ‘holiday’.

How to Add alt tags

Alt tags are used by search engines when people are searching for pictures. They were originally introduced (and are still used) to give an indication of what is in a picture for the visually impaired who use screen readers to read web pages for them. But conveniently they can also be used to include relevant keywords to drive traffic to your site.

Here is how to add them (in WordPress, which is what we use for our websites):

Log into WordPress;
Click on ‘Media’ – you will see the media library with thumbnails for every image;
Click on the first image;
On the right-hand side are some fields, one of which is alt tags;
Add a description of the photograph using relevant keywords.
You can put shortened version in the title field.
Repeat this for every image.

Using social media

The main social media are: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Instagram, and Pinterest.

There are two ways in which social media are used in connection with your website and business: for people to share your webpages with their friends and for you to post news and items of interest so people can follow you and comment.

For the first instance, incorporate a plug-in on your website that lets people share pages.
For the second, set up social media accounts and add links to them to your website so that people can follow you.

You don’t need to use all of these services. Facebook is the most important for some businesses, Twitter for others.

For Facebook, post regularly on a page you have set up given the same name as your company and including a link from that page to your website.

Back on your website, using a plug-in, have a feed appearing that shows your Facebook posts.

A further plug-in allows you to let people follow you on your social media accounts once you have input their URLs.

Instagram and Pinterest are good for posting pictures.
Google+ and LinkedIn are good for blog posts, special offers and news. Asking questions is a good way to generate conversations.
Post reviews on your website, Google, and Facebook and invite feedback.

Arts and History Centre gets new website

3rd May 20173rd May 2017Leave a comment

Cyberium has made a website in Welsh and English for the arts, history and cultural centre of Llanwrtyd.

It incorporates video and picture galleries to bring alive this valuable cultural asset, recently opened following the refurbishment of an old chapel in the centre of the town.

The town was once a major tourist attraction because it was a spa town.

The domain history-arts-wales.org.uk was chosen for the website because it uses keywords people might use when searching for the subjects represented by the centre.

This is a good tip to use when choosing a domain when the actual name of a company or organisation is not well known or hard to spell.

For example, for another of our clients, a guest house in Snowdonia, we were able to secure the domain name guesthouse-wales.co.uk – bound to drive traffic for people searching for guesthouses in Wales!

The website uses the latest theme from WordPress to be fully responsive, and a free version of the WordPress MultiLingual site plug-in to generate the Welsh version of the site.

Revive the Heart of Wales

25th April 2017Leave a comment

We’ve just made an exciting new bilingual website to help sustainably revive rural Wales and the town where we live! http://revive-heart-of.wales.

This is a fully responsive design that works on any platform. This means it will gracefully adjust its content to fit any size or shape of window, whether on a mobile device, tablet or laptop or desktop display.

It uses a WordPress theme and various plug-ins to customise it for security. A site like this would cost you around £400, or £300 for a monolingual site.

Tel. 01550 721156 Email: info@cyberium.co.uk

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