A huge warm welcome to Catrin James who joined the Gwe Cambrian Web team at the start of June! Catrin has joined us as part of our digital marketing team, and will be working alongside our social media clients. Catrin's main roles will be social media management,...
It doesn’t seem too long ago that we started our business, so it’s quite a shock that it is now 8 years. It’s amazing how far we’ve come, from an idea that formed in a bedroom working off laptops to now having 2 members of staff working for us, and a fantastic office...
We were delighted to work with Aber Heating Engineers Ltd on their new website which recently launched - it is always an absolute pleasure to work with companies local to Aberystwyth. Unfortunately, Aber Heating Engineers had lost access to their old website, so took...
Whenever you spent time, energy or money on your online presence, you should make sure you look at the insights and analytics. Why? So that you know that what you are doing is working, or perhaps that the content you are spending time creating is being digested by...
The new year is a great time to evaluate your online presence and renew the energy you put into your online marketing. You might have a website, but it isn’t getting you any sales? Or perhaps you spend a lot of time posting on your Instagram profile but that isn’t...
Email marketing can sometimes be thought of as a little ‘old fashioned’ by some people, especially with social media and new platforms growing in popularity all of the time. It definitely isn’t going anywhere though, and it’s one of the strongest digital marketing...
Last night, Digital Women announced their shortlist for the Digital Women Awards 2021, and their list of top 40 digital women to watch in 2021 - and we were absolutely delighted to see Kerry make that list this year! A fantastic achievement, and we're really proud to...
We have been working with Curiad since April 2020 on a redesign of her website, and ensuring the 'backend' did the work as it was expected to do - digital downloads, limits on how many per sale and so on. Curiad is a seller of quality sheet music, especially Welsh...
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Ysgol Gyfun Aberaeron Comprehensive School on the launch of their new website - and what a change it is to the old one! The old website was very dated, with bloated content and also hard for the staff to login and edit -...
How long is a piece of string? Prices of websites vary hugely across the UK, and it will come down to a lot of different elements. Let's take a look at the most common ones. The Platform This is the software your website will be built on. Here at Gwe Cambrian Web we...
In December 2020, we launched a brand new, WordPress website for Greyhound Rescue Wales. It was a delight to work with them on their new website, replacing what had become a very cumbersome and clunky website, which didn't have user friendly ideals and wasn't...
Happy New Year! Facebook saw a lot of changes in 2020, and it's not stopped as we head into 2021. This week they have annouced some fairly big changes to the Facebook Business Pages, which they're calling the New Pages Experience. First important point - at the moment...
It's the first week of January and Facebook have annouced some pretty big changes to business pages on the platform - all about creating that new pages experience! The big change everyone is talking about? Removing the LIKE feature! No more will you be able to LIKE a...
We love working with new businesses, and bilingual ones at that! It was a pleasure to work with Meinir and Geraint from Lafan Consulting in Anglesey - a new business focussing around working with brands and businesses to promote them! Lafan Consulting already has a...
Whenever we look at analytics on a website, the bounce rate is always one we analyse - one we always include and remember to look at. This little statistic can tell us so much about the website, or the landing page, and what we want to do, is get the percentage value...
We've taken a look at the world wide web to gather some of the 2021 website trends (we can hardly believe 2020 is already almost over, it seems to have flown by somehow!?). What's popping out then? Well, here's our top list from what we found online, and I must say,...
We LOVE being a part of the Aber First Awards every year, which if you didn't know are community and business awards organised by Menter Aberystwyth. Usually happening around June, the awards were postponed this year while the Menter Aberystwyth team waited to see...
If you have a business (online or bricks & mortar), then making sure you use Google My Business should be an essential part of your online marketing, and it’s one that many people aren’t aware of. Google My Business is a free tool that Google offer, which lets you...
An exciting new project to work on, we were delighted to be asked to create the new website for the Welsh Museums Festival (usually held every October half term) for 2020! With Covid-19, there was a huge element of ensuring that this website would be able to host a...
When it comes to building your website, there are many platforms available, including Squarespace, Joomla, WordPress, Wix… We wanted to talk about why we chose to work with WordPress 7 years ago, and how we now specialise in this platform only for all of our website...
Writing content for your website is crucial if you want it to be successful; however it’s completely different to writing content for print. The style of writing needs to be suited to the web, and it also needs to reflect your brand language well too. But, writing...