YOUDS - Web Development & Marketing

Front end development combines a number of skills and YOUDS commonly uses web-friendly graphics, either self generated or on occasion from Stock Imagery sources. The aim is to produce a clean, clear and user-friendly layout with plenty of features and interaction available. Click to see the Web Portfolio

Back end development generally requires a coffee machine and a lot of knowledge about a web-friendly server side language such as PHP. Specialist education is key here and in keeping with the Company Ethos no exceptions have been made.

The owner of the company, Craig Fairhurst, has taken several courses over a satellite link to the USA, Germany and Canada with the most prominent names and authors in the field. This invaluable experience was recorded so that any future employees of the company can be brought up to speed on just exactly how things should be done.

Travel cost expenses   Read more >>
The web site offers the ability to calculate "Travel Cost Expenses" for Photo Panorama to visit their premises. User types in their email address and Post Code and the web site goes and fetches the travel directions from Google Maps in order to determine the driving time and distance between Photo Panorama and the customer. A price is then delivered to the email provided.>Play Demo

Link management system   Read more >>
A Link Management System has been implemented in the form of a Company Portfolio. Links to external sites are offered with a small thumbnail image shown beside the title and description. By simply typing in the URL Photo Panorama wish to add, the web site goes and gathers the internal description and associated keywords then takes a screen shot of the site and resizes the image into various sizes of thumbnails. All images are downloaded once the page has loaded so that slower connections need not wait to see the links. Play Demo

Content management system   Read more >>
The entire structure of the site is controlled through the administration system with 2 template pages and a Site Map System. The two templates are used for the Virtual Tour and Still Photography pages. Both templates are designed to contain up to 9 items on each and each item has their own popup window. The technology behind this is very complex and extremely powerful - but most importantly, unbelievably flexible.
This version of the system can even stitch together an image from the QuickTime virtual tours (.mov), which can then be cropped and used as a thumbnail for the Virtual Tour, all from inside the browser! Play Demo

Plugin script and site monitoring   Read more >>
When a user visits the web site their browser settings are instantly saved to a database, giving the web site access to a wealth of information about the plugins that are installed on the users browser. This enables Photo Panorama to judge what formats their virtual tours should take as they know exactly what the viewing audience has installed. The web site itself offers 3 forms of virtual tour for each room, hence the user always gets to see at least one version. However which version to show them first is a decision Photo Panorama can better make. Click to see the statistics!

Specification was to move the GCNC Ltd web site away from a site builder package & redesign the web site theme. The web site is being used as a marketing tool to generate leads for the company through online advertising .

"UDS have supplied my company with the crucial ingredient of a first class web site to help, and give our company the edge in a competitive market.
Many thanks for the hard work, knowledge researched and interest shown to generate quality leads and help my business grow. I would certainly recommend Choose YOUDS Media for all marketing solutions."
Graham Chapelhow - Director of GCNC Limited

YOUDS has since continued to work with GCNC Ltd, offering search engine submission and sponsored link advertising for their company. This has proved to be extremely successful for GCNC Ltd and they continue to receive a constant flow of leads through the web site.

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