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Client: Spires HR, Oxfordshire.

Brief: Spires HR required a site that was classy and reflective of their brand, with a human approach.

Results:

NinetyFive Creative created a site that looks clean and is easy to navigate, which also keeps to the overall style of Spires HR as a brand. We ensured that all of the services they offer were clearly represented and also incorporated a contact form for users to send email queries directly through the site.

Suzi Lewis, Director at Spires HR said “NinetyFive Creative has done a great job on my website and setting up my emails”

Take a look at the site here.

Twitter announced last year that they would be releasing brand specific pages. This new layout would allow them to rival Facebook and begin to attract the attention of the bigger, more established companies. Of course, we were quite excited by this so decided to take a look…

Originally, only bigger brands that spent over $2 million on Twitter’s advertising were given the new layout, but it is gradually being rolled out. However, there is a catch. The buy in isn’t cheap for the new pages, with users needing to commit to $25,000 of Twitter advertising in order to get the layout. Twitter advertising includes promoted tweets and trending topics.

This will obviously isolate the smaller companies, quite a few people are criticising Twitter for the decision, stating that the platform is going the same was as Google and concentrating on the big brands, leaving the smaller companies out in the cold.

Some UK companies have already converted to the new layout. Check out the profiles for Sky F1 HD, Cadbury, EA Sports FIFA & Asda.

What do you think of the new brand pages? Are you following any yet? We’d love to know your thoughts!

We’ve just finished building a website for Clifford Farm, a lovely B&B set in the very heart of the Herefordshire countryside!

Clifford Farm wanted the website to show off their idyllic rural setting, while reflecting the high quality service that guests enjoy during their stay. They also wanted to provide potential customers with the facility to book their break online.

Feeling all inspired by the countryside, we put our design skills into action to create a website that would show the very best of Clifford Farm.

As a result, we’re pleased to reveal an easy to navigate website that uses beautiful imagery to show off the B&B. Functionality includes a content management system and an online booking facility that Clifford Farm can use to manage their bookings.

Take a look at the site here!

If you’re looking to take your website to the next level in 2012, come and join us at the next Chamber Of Commerce Powered Growth session on January 19th and enjoy a lively presentation from our Creative Director, Ben Barnes.

The theme for the next session is Exploiting the Internet, and Ben will be leading a session on ‘Why good design is vital for business’. As well as covering the importance of content and relevant keywords, Ben will demonstrate how good design can encourage your web visitors to actually stay on your website and explore the content.

Organised by the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce, The Powered Growth Programme is made up of a series of networking events for businesses that want to move to the next level, with each session providing business owners with the tools and techniques required to achieve sustained growth.

The January session is being held at Worcester County Cricket Club and runs between 9:00am -12:00. Others speakers on the day include:

• Ben Kinnaird, Rather Inventive (Social Media)
• Colin Foxall, Nexus Creative (Web & SEO)
• Simon Thompson, WSI Internet Consulting & Education (Internet Tools)

NinetyFive Creative HW Chamber of Commerce Powered Growth January 2012 Promo from Ninety Five Creative on Vimeo.

We’ve just finished designing a book for Willow Cottage, a lovely group of nurseries in Oxford. We have designed books for Willow Cottage in the past and they came back to us with another idea, this time for a book called ‘On The Beach’.

The Brief for ‘On The Beach’ was much the same as the other books we have done for the series. They are all designed to educate children on healthy eating. All are written in poetry and contain the Willow Cottage character, ‘Mr Willow’.

The end product was a storyline which incorporated the character whilst including images of different aspects of the beach. The poetry involves questions and activities for children to take part in and the recipe at the end relates strongly to the overall theme of the book.

Willow Cottage as a nursery has built up a reputation for quality food. This reputation was to be carried over into the books and provide kids with cookbooks that are a bit different.

‘On The Beach’ is available on Amazon here!

We’ve been shortlisted for the Worcester News Local Business Accelerator competition!

The competition, which is being delivered locally by the Worcester News and The Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce, aims to give an invaluable boost to emerging companies.

We’ve made it on to the shortlist along with 8 other companies, and we now have to wait for the final three to be announced on January 11th. If we make it that far, we’ll receive free advertising in the Worcester News, and an initial free business health check from Harrison Clark.

Regional winners will also go through to select a national winner to receive individual mentoring sessions from the Dragons’ Den star Deborah Meaden!

Find out more, including details of the other companies that we’re up against, in the Worcester News.