Reasons why website designers need project questionnaires

At Manchester graphic design agency Seabrook Associates we always guide our clients through one of our questionnaires when beginning a new project. Whether you’re working on branding, websites design, product design, PR or packaging, conducting a well-planned questionnaire will ensure that you’re not missing any of the project’s vital details and gives you an insight into what type of client / business you are working with.

Five Reasons Why Foursquare Is Great For Digital Marketing

Although foursquare isn’t new news, we thought we’d tell you why the team at Seabrook Associates, Manchester design agency, think that this quirky little app is a great way to elevate your brand and increase traffic through your website.

Four Best Free WordPress Plugins For Website Design

As champions of the WordPress content management system, Seabrook Associates, Manchester graphic design agency, have decided to tell you about the free WordPress plugins we use most on our clients’ websites and why they are our favourites.

Five reasons why site maps improve the design process

A site map is a written representation of how your website is structured. At Manchester design agency Seabrook Associates, we believe that the site map has a key role in the website design process, and here’s why:

Ten benefits of email-marketing

Emails have become the main form of business communication because they are quick, cheap and easily tailored to each individual recipient. That’s why email-marketing software is one tool that every company / entrepreneur needs to use.

Three reasons why well-written content is important for your website

In this guest post for Seabrook Associates’s blog, William Astbury, director of Manchester-based written content agency Tip Tap Press, describes how crucial your website’s copy is to your business’s internet marketing. Written content is one of the most important element’s to be incorporated into your website design and here’s why: 1)  Clarity: This might sound [...]

3 Reasons Why We Love WordPress for Websites

Over the past 6 years, we have used a variety of content management systems for our clients; some open source, some we have developed ourselves. We have also been keeping a keen eye on one particular platform, WordPress, which has evolved spectacularly since its incarnation in 2003. Now, we are not the first agency to [...]

4 Ways PR Supports Good Web Design

In this guest post, James Crawford, Managing Director of Manchester-based PR Agency One, outlines four ways that PR can support good web design. 1. Strategic communication PR skills are becoming central to digital marketing because onsite content is increasingly important and websites are now the focal point for all online conversations about a brand or [...]

Digital Weapons of Choice 1.0

Over the past 5 years we have seen and used many different tools for organising our business, from a standard paperbased filing system, through to the ubiquitous Excel software. However with the explosion of new digital platforms available across a multitude of devices, we have managed to organise ourselves very effectively (and have fun at [...]

Our new approach to design fees

Have you had the feeling that over the past six months that it has been more challenging than ever before to sell your products and services?

Have you thought “if only we could refresh our company’s logo, improve our website or sell our products online; then we would be able to get ourselves out of these difficult times?”.