Mobile web users already total one-fifth the size of people using their PC to access the internet and so it is not surprising that it is fast becoming a dominant internet platform. For these reasons more and more companies are looking to develop mobile websites to make the most of this growing audience.

The challenge faced by these companies is finding ways to present their information in a mobile friendly way. Accessing the internet via a mobile device requires an entirely different user experience; we tend to use our phones whilst on the move and so accessing the information quickly and easily is paramount. The screen on a mobile phone is considerably smaller, and typically mobiles tend to have alphanumeric keypads that restrict browsing capabilities.

Label Media have spent much time developing the best mobile website solutions. As a result the conventional graphic and flash animations synonymous with Label Media have been substituted by sites that are predominantly text based and use thumbnail images.

However, a mobile site designed by Label Media can perfectly compliment your existing marketing collateral, providing users with an alternative to easily accessible information. There are so many possibilities, for instance, you can use your mobile site to provide your users with regular news and RSS feeds, even provide simplified catalogues of new products.

For more information and a free consultation do not hesitate to contact us.

We have recently been asked to conduct some research on the preferred methods for accepting payments online by some of our E-Commerce businesses.

By following some simple steps your e commerce shop can be up and running in no time at all.

Setting up your website for accepting payment
Label Media can help you to build a website and set up a shopping cart. Shopfront is aimed at small business and is the ideal entry level E Commerce shop. The system will allow you to add an unlimited number of items to your website, presenting them in a way that will entice your customers to buy.

Choosing how to accept payments
Payment Gateways or Payment Service Providers (PSP) provide a secure link between your website and your merchant bank. The PSP do not handle the money, they just ensure that customers’ personal details are kept secure during the period when they are sent to the bank for authorisation. To use a PSP on your website you will need to obtain a Internet Merchant Account for your card payments to be deposited into. You will be expected to pay a fee for both the use of the PSP and the Merchant account. Both are usually based upon the number and value of transactions and so it is worth shopping around to find the most competitive rates.

Protx and SECPay are our preferred suppliers. Both of these PSP can be seamlessly integrated into your website, and their systems can be branded to look the same.

Mals Ecommerce is a FREE shopping cart solution, that will securely accept your customers details, but will require you to manually enter the information into a PDQ machine.

Sometimes; if you are a start-up business, it can be tricky to obtain an Internet Merchant Account until you have an established credit history and so you may need to consider alternatives. PayPal, PayPoint, Google Checkout all offer a combined payment gateway with Internet merchant accounts to offer a complete card acceptance solutions.

Contact us for free impartial advice on how your can integrate an E Commerce

We’ve launched two showcase property websites for a well know agency in Leeds and London, due to our contract we cannot advertise the work but rest assured our clients are very happy with the results.

Our new office has now been re-decorated and we are in the process of moving into it, hopefully we’ll be in by the end of the month.

The latest from Label Media is…

LABEL HAS RECRUITED.. The main news is we’d like to welcome our newest members to the Label team - Tom and Maddie.

Tom joined us in early March as a Junior Developer and has made a very positive impact within the company. Currently working on the new version of LabelED 3 with Sam and various other projects, Tom’s showing great promise and attention to detail, we are looking forward to producing some great work with him in the future.

Maddie joined us in the middle of March as our New Business Executive looking after new and existing clients. Coming from a established web design company in Bradford she’s brought a wealth of experience with her and added a whole new dimension to the company with her hands on experience in web marketing.

LABEL IS MOVING….A SHORT DISTANCE..

Label Media has acquired new office space which we’ll be moving into in May this year, we’ll be in the same building increasing our office size to 1000 sqft to accommodate the extra staff. We’ll also be renovating a chill out room so we have somewhere to sit and come up with original idea’s or just kick back.

LABEL IS…Currently we are working on a multitude of projects, being large developments websites in Leeds city center, game translations for a well know brand, new identity for Sunderland College, Research & Development project on our own in house software and lots of web design & SEO work.

Please get in touch if you have any feedback or questions,

All the best

Rich

Other news is we’ve secured three new clients so far in Jan, Explosion Promotions, Right Angle PR and Sunderland College, the team is looking forward to working on these new projects and producing some great work. Sunderland College is another fantastic education based client for us along with Kings College London and Aim Higher Yorkshire and Humber.

We are recruiting a new Junior Developer; the job advert will be up on Monster soon, applicants please send your CV’s to jobs@labelmedia.co.uk.

Lastly I’d like to welcome Maddie to the Label Media team. Maddie will be starting in Feb as an account manager; we are all looking forward to working with her and hope she enjoys her time here.

We decided it might be fun to try to maintain a regular journal of life at Label, comments on our ongoing work, interesting articles and comments, design and development tips and tutorials and the like. So please do stay tuned; heck, why not subscribe to our RSS feed while you’re here.

So - who are we?

Well i’m Sam, one of the web developers here at Label. My day to day tasks usually involve making updates and amends to the various websites we run for our clients. In addition to this usual maintenance, I spend my time building the HTML and CSS that makes up the visual appearance of the sites you see, write Javascript for the fancy bits, and program the backend scripts which tie it all together, usually in a language called PHP with a database engine called MySQL which holds the data. I’m also jointly responsible for the work on our proprietary Content Management System, which we call LabelEd.

We do have a demo of that available if you’d like to see, although you will have to contact us for access.

Of course i’m not the only guy here, so i’ll lead on to Rich..

Hi, I’m Rich one of the Directors at Label Media, I look after the design side of things at the company. Design has been my passion for the past 20 years and I’m still learning new techniques and thinking up new idea’s everyday.

Sam and I have been working on updating the Label website with new work, please take a look and let us know what you think.

We’ll get the others to add their updates asap. :-p