Looking for web design in the West Midlands or Staffordshire? You’ve come to the right place!

Quixotic Media, part of One3rdNerd Media Ltd, is a website design and creative media company based on the West Mids, Staffordshire border. We have a varied portfolio of clientèle from both the UK and abroad. Click to view our Clientèle Map. As much as we enjoy and appreciate working with a variety of people from around the globe, we find that when we work alongside local business’, we form valuable and long lasting links with people from the local business community. The Staffordshire & West Midlands business community is close-knit and we find being able to meet with people face to face when necessary can also be a big advantage. In the current economic climate there are many incentives to work with and help local businesses.

In order to further this campaign we are offering a 15% discount on all our services to any business based in the West Midlands or Staffordshire area, plus free keyword optimisation on up to 10 pages, using our collection of SEO tools and acumen.

What We Do:

Web Design

Our website and blog portfolio cover a broad range of market sectors. From nightclub, events and entertainment industry all the way to real estate and small to medium businesses. We specialise in web design and customizing content management systems like WordPress. To see our portfolio and to find out more Click Web Design.

Identity & Branding

Whether your business is offline or online, identity is an important area of concentration. First impressions count and that’s why we believe there is a lot to a logo no matter how minimal or complex. Once created, branding can be applied to all sorts of mediums in both web and print. Here are examples of our logo design work and the product packaging we often put together for new online learning resources and ebooks. Click Identity.

Social Media Design

Social Networks are the largest growing area of the internet and we appreciate the need to build a brand presence in the public domain. Taking your branding to the social media networks is a great way to engage your potential audience and build a valuable community. For this reason we have introduced a range of social media solutions, from assistance in setting up all the worthwhile accounts to taking your branding and creating you a bespoke design to ensure brand consistency throughout your online presence. Want to know how the Social Media revolution can benefit your business? Click See Design Examples.

Areas covered include:

Staffordshire:

Alton, Branston, Burntwood, Burton upon Trent, Cannock, Chasetown, Cheadle, Hednesford, Lichfield, Newcastle under-Lyme, Norton Canes, Penkridge, Rugeley, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth

West Midlands:

Aldridge, Birmingham, Brownhills, Coventry, Edgbaston, Erdington, Handsworth, Kings Heath, Moseley, Sandwell, Solihull, Stourbridge, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton

We can announce at Quixotic that within the next few weeks we shall be adding Open Graph to the list of services we shall be offering via our Social Media Optimisation page. We have been testing the new usages such as using the new Facebook meta data, adding the Facebook like button, and other social tools such as social activity, recommendations, adding Facebook comments to your site and now even setting up Facebook Insights to track your domain in addition to using it for keeping an eye on your fan page interactions. The possibilities are very exciting indeed and here is a snippet from a very interesting article which goes into more detail about the intentions and purposes of Open Graph and speculates many possible routes it could evolve down.

An article published recently on SEOWizz – Search Engine Optimisation Consultant.

Just over a month ago Mark Zuckerberg & co also known as Facebook dropped a bit of a game changer at their annual F8 conference. The announcement of Open Graph has created a whole new layer to Facebooks existence and functionality as it moves another step closer to becoming the first true semantic search engine. Before I get into that let me break down the contents of Open Graph.

Open Graph API

The API is a piece of web based software which allows the interaction and communication between websites, their pages (objects) and the Facebook database (Open Graph). Its both an attempt to allow webmasters to better inform Facebook of their contents and allow them to build an even more content rich social network. Let’s say you went to watch Strictly Come Dancing on BBC iPlayer or something on 4OD and by doing so automatically allowed the API to access your information on Facebook, it could then recommend alternative shows to watch based on your favourite film and television listings on your public profile and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

We can offer graphic solutions for any aspect of your business whether it be for print or web. We generally design graphics such as website headers, logo’s, favicons, flyers, leaflets, brochures, business cards, website graphics such as buttons and icons and any other promotional materials.

We also have animators and freehand artists within our team that can design any bespoke artwork or animations for the purposes of print and web.

Some of the services we provide:

If there’s any internet buzz word for 2009 it is surely the term “blogging”. Many people at first don’t understand the concept of a blog, and what bloggers do, but those that do will know “its a jungle out there”.

With so many choices to make when starting a blog or improving your blog it can be somewhat overwhelming. We have spent a long time looking at all of the alternative hosting plans, CMS/blogging software, plugins and more to offer our clientele affordable yet very functional blogging sites without any compromise on design and professionalism.

The ingredients for our blogs is simple. We take the number one open source Blogging/CMS software “WordPress” and combine it with the Thesis framework from Chris Pearson to offer you a user friendly web solution, which also happens to be very search engine friendly.

We can offer a vast array of differing functionality to your site with the use of widgets and custom code. With all that said, all thats left is for you to join the blogging revolution “What are you waiting for?”.

A Fundamental decision that needs to be made by anyone in Internet business is branding and building an online brand presence outside of their main domain. One of the primary laws of this is brand consistency.

Quixotic provides social network branding for existing and new clients. We take your logo design, website theme and color arrangement, and use graphics and your social network editor to improve the brand consistency for your users experience.

Our branding packages, depending on the amount of networks you wish to brand yourself on include;

Twitter Backgrounds -

A custom designed Twitter background that resembles your websites color scheme and branding. The use of your profile editor to allow other areas and text to also suit.

YouTube Backgrounds -

A custom designed YouTube background for your company or websites YouTube channel. This also includes the customization of other areas on your channel via the channel editor.

Branding Stock Images -

Due to the vast development in social networks we can also offer custom sets of images including your branding which will be available in multiple sizes, file formats and colors. With this convenience you can use those images as much as you like on anything from StumbleUpon, Digg, Google, OpenID and much much more. If you find out we have missed something our, it is our guarantee that you can come back and request it free of charge.

Digital Signature -

If you provide us a scanned copy of your signature, we will digitally trace it for inclusion with your branding or separately. This can be used for lots of situations. Often this can be an effective way to authenticate your sales squeeze page, opt-in, ebook or pretty much anything where you need to come across to your audience as authoritative. Eight versions are provided as standard. A large copy of your signature in black with a white background, and a transparent background. A large copy of your signature in white, with a black background, and a transparent background. Then small copies of each for use on blog posts, squeeze pages and more. Any other versions can be supplied upon request.

For more information on Quixotic Media’s services feel free to contact us for a no obligations quote and consultation or subscribe to our newsletter at the top, and get all the latest information in Quixotic’s membership room.

Until then, happy branding!

Our online marketing and SEO services can be included as an extra with your website purchase, or additionally at any time if you would like to push your website to the next level and begin achieving higher amounts of traffic and a more profound presence on the web.

There are several services we can provide.

Keyword Report

A keyword report includes a thorough analysis of your websites current keywords, research on your competitors and a new refined set of keywords to use at your liberty. We can additionally implement the keywords on your behalf if you would prefer. A keyword report is priced based on the size of your website and the amount of content and pages.

SEO Implementation (level 1)

This is a beginner SEO package for new websites and existing websites which have never implemented some of the SEO basics. We will build essential backlinks to your page and submit your website to all the recognised search engines in the most relevant category. We will also set up an analytics account, to help you track your website if you are not already doing so and provide you with some resources to help get you started at monitoring your website traffic flow efficiently.

SEO Implementation (level 2)

This second SEO package contains all that is within “Level 1″ with the addition of several things. Firstly, we will strive to obtain a large number of relevant backlinks and provide you with some resources to help you continue building them organically using relative and high page rank backlinks. We will also give you 3 months of SEO updates and consulting to point you in the right direction. At One3rdNerd we are more interested in educating than manipulating, we want our customers to be able to walk way knowing they have taken away lots of new knowledge and resources to help their online business thrive. We will also provide you with a keyword report, the report will be accompanied by an explanation of how we underwent the research to provide you such results. You may then review and update your keywords at your own liberty.

SEO Consulting and Updates

We like to think of our clients, our partners, and our colleagues as a circle of knowledge. Because of that we like to keep on top of all the latest developments, and inform all in our circle of any new developments in the world of web. With the internet developing at unprecedented speed, there is a breakthrough or something to rejoice about each week.

Our consulting and updates package includes more information and more frequently than our other customers. We provide you with updated reports on your website, all the latest SEO news on a “when we know, you will know” basis.

All SEO rates are calculated depending upon your requirements. Please feel free to contact us for a no obligations chat about your needs.

Social Media is a global internet revolution and with hundreds of millions of internet users loitering the social networks on a daily if not hourly basis, it is vital to have a presence on such network for your business, brand or blog.

With so much emphasis on the SEO, SMO often gets over looked, but it is both a useful way to open social traffic streams, build a community on your website and connect in a more direct way with your audience. Put simply SMO similarly to SEO means Social Media Optimization, and is all about the set up, and use of your social network accounts to further engage your visitors and potential customers.

All social media packages are bespoke and therefore quoted on a project basis. For more information and a no obligations chat with one of our team, feel free to get in touch using the contact form on the right.