Meon Creative Design Blog | Web Development Diary

Author:	Anna Tarrant	Created:	14/03/2007 09:45
Meon Creative is a hampshire based website design and development company. We specialise in offering fully content managed web design solutions that allow the business to take control of their website without espensive update costs. We also offer free web advice to our customers and visitors with an aim to helping people to make the right, educated choices.

What does your website do for you? Do you have a return on your investment?

By Anna Tarrant on 17/02/2009 22:11

What is your website’s role? Does it earn its keep? Is there even any sign of an ROI?

If you answered no, you are probably part of a large majority of website owners. At Meon Creative, we don’t think that it is OK for a website to just act as an online business card – a business card is only useful in the hands of a potential customer. The question is, what does your website do to make...

Investigating Local Networking - Fruitful or Awful?

By Anna Tarrant on 30/01/2009 10:50

This evening we (Mark and I) attended a networking event in Winchester. We’d been meaning to go for ages but never gotten around to it. When we arrived I was quite surprised by the amount of people there, and they were too! We began the process of mingling with other attendees but quite soon we settled into the process.

After talking with a couple of regulars they explained that this...

Server Based Document Management through your website.

By Anna Tarrant on 29/01/2009 09:02

One of our IT clients has employees scattered all over the globe. We had created a proposal document about six months ago that was going to be used for a number of different clients, which was handled by multiple account managers. Last week, someone sent me an adaptation of the document which had just been sent to a prospect. Yikes. The document was one of the very first versions still complete...

The benefits of using a local marketing and web design agency.

By Anna Tarrant on 28/01/2009 21:55

The economy certainly seems to be making businesses consider their options when it comes to creative industries. I heard the other day that Gartner had reported that 70-something percent of businesses can expect their marketing budget to be cut by around 30%. Yikes –“ that’s potentially 30% off our bottom line” I though! Although this doesn’t seem to be coming to fruition just yet, I shall be monitoring...

Are Web Design Agencies Recession Proof? Is anyone?

By Anna Tarrant on 27/01/2009 21:34

Last week I visited one of our more niche industry clients – a scientific company who sell solutions globally. Their director was explaining to me that his business had proven to be ‘recession proof’ and that the industry as a whole seemed to be immune to the epidemic.