Company background:

Feelingpeaky is an independent design & marketing agency. We are dedicated to helping clients develop their businesses and we achieve this by creating successful communication through intelligent design.

Feelingpeaky provides a single source of expertise for all your design and communication needs. In short we help support and drive your business strategy by providing services in the following areas: Corporate id and branding, online media, graphic design and print communications, internal communications, and marketing consultancy.

Overall purpose of role:

The Project Manager at Feelingpeaky is a hands-on role, responsible for managing the production of high quality, creative communications projects, within agreed project parameters, to their successful completion.

Critical to the success of this role is excellent team working and client care skills, organisational skills and the ability to use intuition in addition to a broad communications and technical understanding.

Main duties:

Lead and manage Feelingpeaky’s communications projects from creative concepts through to final implementation.

Project leadership:

• Produce written briefs for all communications projects undertaken
• Produce timing plans for all communications projects undertaken
• Produce internal costing and external quotes for all communications projects undertaken
• Liaise closely with the client, internal and external resources at all key project stages to ensure brief, timing plan and cost structure are adhered to
• Communicate with clients, suppliers and internal audiences in an engaging and clear way, ensuring relationships are consolidated and further developed
• Source additional resources/suppliers where required
• Take responsibility for the billing and internal administration for allocated projects/clients
• Hosting and domain name management: set up and manage hosting accounts on behalf of clients. Register new domains, domain name renewals and email management
• Take part in internal project reviews and help to ensure lessons learned are captured and actioned

Basic Requirements:

• Passionate about design and technology
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of client audiences
• Precise and high attention to detail
• Self-starter with the ability to work without supervision
• Motivated and keen to learn
• The ability to converse knowledgably within the landscape of web design, e-commerce, accessibility and usability, SEO/e-marketing, design and branding
• Strong key board skills - fully conversant with standard Microsoft packages – including Outlook, Word, and Excel
• Knowledge of HTML and Dreamweaver a bonus but not essential

Package:

• Salary £25,000 - £35,000 depending on skills and experience
• 24 days holiday per annum + bank holidays

Contact:

Please send us your CV and covering letter to recruitment@feelingpeaky.com.

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The project involved web design, flash animation, development of templates, implementation of comprehensive content management system and a fully bespoke back-end system to manage sales agents and their customer orders of all the various properties that are available. This is probably one of the most stunning South African property invesments available currently. We are proud to have been part of such a prestigious project.

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Fortune Law wanted a site truly reflective of their business - a dynamic commercial and corporate practice. We think their great - mind you they are also Feelingpeaky’s company solicitors. Fortune Law has been supporting Feelingpeaky for many years now with our general commercial needs. We wish them the very best with this new online presence and thank them for their business.

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Essential Skills:

• 4/5 years PHP/MySQL experience covering diverse projects including CMS sites, e-commerce sites and bespoke development solutions & solid understanding of OOPHP
• XHTML
• CSS (styling AND layout and have knowledge of cross browser tricks)
• Accessibility
• Excellent standard of written English and spelling
• DOM compliant JavaScript

Bonus Skills:

• SEO knowledge
• Knowledge of Linux hosting - Plesk
• XML
• Perl
• Understand Macs and PCs

You’ll be able to develop and implement complex, bespoke e-commerce solutions, and have experience of using a number of online payment providers. You’ll be aware of the issues that maximise the performance of an e-commerce store.

You’ll have implemented a number of different content management systems and be in the position to recommend the ideal solution depending on our client’s requirements.

You’ll be experienced at producing tableless layouts from PSDs or PDFs using XHTML and CSS. You will be fully aware of all the technical challenges involved in producing accessible websites and are able to code to AAA standard.

You’ll need to be able to code complex graphical designs to a pixel-perfect standard and be aware of all the standard css tricks (css rollovers and dropdowns, sliding doors etc).

Although design skills are not required you will need to demonstrate attention to detail when coding sites and know your way around Photoshop.

You’ll be able to manage your time and work well with a team of people dedicated to helping make the web work for our clients.

Finally, you’ll have experience of cross-browser and cross platform testing.

Salary negotiable dependent on experience - please provide details on salary expectations.

IMPORTANT: Please send CV’s with at least 5 URLs pointing out exactly what you did on each. Please don’t apply if you can’t demonstrate the necessary skills. Please send to info@feelingpeaky.com.

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Website Testing Check List

The following is a quality checklist for elements to test on a brochure web site.
Code:

• Title tags - spelling, appropriate and sensible, SEO friendly?
• Other Meta data required? Or blank? Appropriate and sensible, SEO friendly?
• Image Alt Tags - correct spelling on Alt tag? Is there any missing Alt Tags?
• Review code of the page to check nothing obviously strange
• All styles, JavaScript in linked in files and not inline.

Layout and Content:

• Layout issues? - Does the completed page match the design layout? Have there been any problems in translation to coded page?
• Non CSS/Text version - check through for spelling mistakes
• Copy and headers? General typos? Proof read the site
• Navigation - functioning as required
• All links go to their appropriate pages/files
• Email links - check code correct mailto:
• Image quality - any pixelation - over optimisation on size? Etc.
• Special Characters - check that special characters have been coded correctly including inverted commas, apostrophes, Currency symbols and copyright symbols etc.
• Missing content?

Specific functionalities:

• Forms - are they working? Ensure you get a response from the intended recipient, test form controls - required fields etc.
• Search facility
• Check printed pages
• Etc.

Cross Platform checks specifically for impact on layout and styling:

• Run checks across IE7, 6, 5, FF, Opera and Safari
• Run checks across PC and Mac

Validation:

• Validate HTML
• Validate CSS
• Is the site Accessible? Check text version
• Colour blind tests

Flexibility:

• Check works in different window sizes
• Check it works with varying text sizes

Does it still work if?

• You switch off JavaScript
• You switch off plug-ins
• You switch off images

Download speed:

• File size including images, linked in files
• Check on dial up
• Is at least some useful content appearing whilst rest of page loads

Resources:

W3C Validator: http://validator.w3.org/
W3C CSS Validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator.html#validate-by-uri
Link Checking: http://valet.webthing.com/link/
Link Checking: http://validator.w3.org/checklink
Web content accessibility guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
Web page Speed Analysis: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
Browser Stats: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Colour blind checks: http://www.vischeck.com/

Feelingpeaky provided the design and layout for the new site as well as the XHTML templates for the project.

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However, the reason we titled this ‘traditional marketing works wanders…’ was the fact that The Athena Network reminded us again of how one of the oldest forms of marketing - networking - can work so well. Vibrant and fast-growing, Athena is the UK’s premier business networking organisation for women and is establishing a significant international presence. Meetings are run extremely professionally and to a tight schedule. Since Chris was presenting at the meeting he was allowed special dispensation to join them. During the meeting everyone had the opportunity to present a “minute to win it/ elevator pitch”. Chris mentioned that an ideal referral for Feelingpeaky would be other marketing agencies without the in-house competence to carry out web design or development projects. A husband of one of the ladies present turned out to be the managing director of just such an agency. One week later we are already in the process of designing and building two web sites for a casino client of his. We spend a lot of our time focusing our energies online, but sometimes it’s a simple bit of networking that makes all the difference.

Special thanks to Liz, the owner of Babye - who specialises in contemporary maternity wear amongst other things for that wonderful introduction.

Feelingpeaky created this e-commerce site for Novelties Galore a couple of years ago and since then the client’s business has gone from strength to strength. Whilst the site would have worked fine as it was I think the key reason why business has grown is the client’s commitment to improvements and marketing over the long term. That’s why we are talking Christmas Crackers in August!

But it’s hot outside…

I know it’s summer and feels way too early to be thinking about Christmas however, Novelties Galore is one of the largest distributors of Christmas crackers in the country and therefore we need to plan ahead to make the most of the season when it arrives. There are a number of keys to good search engine listings - the primary one being good content. With this in mind we prepared some interesting facts about Christmas crackers, some fun Christmas cracker jokes, and introduction to how to make your own Christmas crackers. The next step will be to starting building quality links into this page with the final aim to get it to page 1 in Google by the autumn.  We are already there for our primary keyword phrase of ‘wholesale chistmas crackers‘ but we feel there could be a big boost in sales by improving listings on the more generic term ‘Christmas Crackers‘.

I’ll look to report back on year on year performance later in the year.

Over the past year we have had the pleasure of working with the CREW team on many occasions starting off with the redesign of their logo through to the website, and many printed materials. However, our last project proved just how serious they are about school workshops. They could have potentially presented the workshop notes in a Word document but they wanted something dynamic, colourful and memorable.

Feelingpeaky devised a workshop folder, booklet and child take-home worksheets. The job included all the illustration work - following on from the themes developed previously. The workshop itself was a huge success. CREW are looking forward to taking this format onwards in the new term.

The trouble is her old website wasn’t performing the same phenomenal results - why - well it lacked consistent structure and clear navigation. The site had no obvious goals or outcomes and design was stuck in the 90’s and included the dreaded ‘comic sans’ font.

So what did we do for this London Life Coach?

The first thing we focused on was the communication goals for the site. It turns out that Carole Ann’s business is driven by two things - her offer for an initial free life coaching session and her monthly newsletter - Wit & Wisdom. So this is what we focused on.

In terms of design - Carole Ann wanted a very specific style - retro/americana/bewitched. She wanted to stand out from the run of the mill sites and be seen as something a little more special. Our design involved reworking the logo, developing a caricature and animation and adding a variety of design elements to build up that positioning.

The end result - Within the first few weeks Carole Ann has already seen a massive increase in the take up of her newsletter. Her site has jumped from know where in Google to page 2 for Life Coach London. A key focus of the site - as it was ascertained that clients were looking for a local life coach. It still very early days but we’ll look to take her new site www.realcoachingco.com up to page 1 on Google where she belongs.

Looking for a Life Coach in London? - contact Carole Ann Rice of the Real Coaching Co. Why the links on search phrases? We’ll this is to help tell search engines about the page that they are going to. In turn, this will help Carole Ann be found under her target search phrases and along with the other actions we are implementing help her to build her business online.