We passed the one year since launch anniversary at the end of March 2013, and, as we were so busy with our clients’ projects, we didn’t mark the occasion. However, to celebrate Silicon Dales’ 1st birthday, we have now created a new website (right here, at SiliconDales.com) and logo to take us into year 2 [...]
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on May 10, 2013in Blogtags: Digital Agency, Silicon Dales, Web Design, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Daleswith No Comments
Silicon Dale
on May 7, 2013in Blogtags: Application Design, Silicon Dale, Silicone Dale, Silicone Dales, Web Design, Web Development, Yorkshire Daleswith No Comments
Our business is called Silicon Dales, and has been since we launched this web design, web development and app development brand in March 2012, but, often our new business comes to us from referrals – and this can sometimes take the form of good old fashioned word-of-mouth. But it is 2013 now, and word of [...]
Read More →E-Commerce Web Design, North Yorkshire
on March 20, 2013in Newstags: e-commerce, North Yorkshire, Web Designwith No Comments
If you are looking to make sales online, and you’re settled on having your own website, then you might well be looking for a company to design and manage your web presence. Silicon Dales, based right in the heart of North Yorkshire, are fast gaining a reputation for developing and managing websites which sell. By [...]
Read More →Web Content Tip: When Pictures Won’t (or Don’t) Exist… Use Icons!
on February 7, 2013in Blogtags: Facebook, facebook insights, Google, google Analytics, icons, Images, insights, pictures, thumbnail, Twitter, Web Design, web designer, webmasterwith No Comments
Images are important. Whatever system of measurement we use online, be it Google Analytics or Facebook’s “Insights” we’ll notice that content with compelling images – or a thumbnail rather than just a link – will get more “clicks” and “opens” and, generally, engagement. Put simply, pictures work, for most people. The reasons why are less [...]
Read More →Livius Conferencing – Yorkshire Meeting Space & Conference Venue
on January 18, 2013in Portfoliotags: Amazon, Conference Venue, EC2, Email, Livius, Livius Events Ltd, Ripon, Ripon Racecourse, Web Design, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Conference Venuewith No Comments
Silicon Dales have recently completed the complete design, installation and infrastructure setup on the Livius Conferencing website for Livius Events Ltd – the Ripon Racecourse Conferencing & Hospitality provider. Livius Conferencing is perhaps the biggest and best known “face” of Livius Events Ltd, through which businesses across the UK and Europe are able to book [...]
Read More →Retail Web Design, North Yorkshire
on November 25, 2012in Blogtags: Leyburn, North Yorkshire, Retail, Web Designwith No Comments
One of the main things the businesses which come to us at Silicon Dales for advice about their website would like to do is to sell online. Whether you are a retailer, a food producer, a manufacturer or an artist, there’s often plenty to be gained by offering your products and services direct to businesses [...]
Read More →Darlington & Stockton Times Advertisement – Competition: Get a Free Directory Listing
on August 17, 2012in Blogtags: Advertising, Darlington & Stockton Times, Directory, Web Design, Yorkshire Dales, Yorkshire Dales Directorywith 1 Comment
This morning was the first day that our advertisement went live in the Darlington & Stockton Times and, to mark the event, we are running a small competition for local people to get some free benefit from the team at Silicon Dales. We’ve decided to run a Facebook competition based around our local advertising! Take [...]
Read More →Web Design Portfolio
on August 15, 2012in Blogtags: portfolio, Web Designwith No Comments
Our portfolio of websites we have designed is constantly evolving, as we sign off on websites for our valued customers across Yorkshire, the rest of the UK, and around the world. Most of the websites we finish, we add to our web design portfolio section, which lists the websites we have finished, with the most [...]
Read More →Website Design Prices
on August 14, 2012in Blogtags: Maintenance, Prices, Pricing, Strategy, Web Design, Website, Website Designwith No Comments
Because we’re quite good at SEO, and because Silicon Dales is highly relevant for online searches relating to Website Design and related search terms, we get a lot of people coming to this website looking for things relating to the search phrase “Website design prices“. For those people, we have a great pricing table, over [...]
Read More →What’s in a Font?
on August 10, 2012in Blogtags: Design, Fonts, Style, Web Design, Websiteswith No Comments
When dealing with clients new and old, in web design, our client, and the people who visit their websites, can usually fall into one of two categories: 1) those who have a favourite font (or fonts) they like in websites; and 2) those who don’t notice fonts… or don’t think they do. When we ask [...]
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