Recently, we were lucky enough to be invited to Young People’s Trust For the Environment’s official website launch in London at the Houses of Parliament. After developing the new site for YPTE they wanted to do an official launch of their new website and invited Tim and Sam along to the event. Other guests at the event included YPTE presidents such as Steve Backshall, Jessica Morden MP and Dan Byles MP.

We’ve zoomed our way to the end of 2014 and it’s that time again for us to step away from our keyboards and unwrap some presents. For emergency purposes emails to support@zion.co.uk will be monitored over the Christmas period.

We have recently developed a new website and property management system for Woodstock Suites. Woodstock Suites wanted not just a website but also a system that customers can go onto, view properties, find available dates, book and pay for their stay.

We have just launched a new website for Young People’s Trust For The Environment (YPTE). YPTE are a charity that aim to encourage young people’s understanding of the environment and the need for sustainability. The YPTE website is a high traffic website used by thousands of people everyday. The site has hundreds of factsheets and learning resources for children, teenagers, teachers and parents, the resources cover everything from animals to environmental issues.

Here at Ziontech we are once again supporting pupils from local schools in completing their work experience with us. During their time with us they will first come up with an idea of a topic for their website. They will then come up with the site content and complete some HTML and CSS tutorials before going on to code their own website.

Here at Ziontech, we have recently been reviewing the traffic and performance of our client’s websites. The most interesting thing we noticed in doing this review was the massive increase we saw in mobile traffic to these websites. Over the past few years the percentage of people using mobile devices as opposed to desktop computers to browse the web has risen by a significant amount and is continuing to rise. This was also reflected in our review, every single website saw an increase in the amount people viewing it on a mobile device some with mobile traffic taking up a large percentage of the website’s overall traffic, with an enormous increase of more than 100% over the past year!

Here at Ziontech, we have just finished producing our first Apple Newsstand App for Token Publishing. Token Publishing are publishers of Coin News, Britain’s best selling coin magazine and Medal News,the world’s only magazine devoted to medals, battles and the history of heroes.

Once again it’s that festive time of year! 2013 is coming to an end and Christmas seems to be approaching quicker and quicker every year with less than a week to go!

As a result of Ziontech becoming Google Partners and attending an advanced AdWords training day, we were made aware of the Google Ad Grants scheme. Google are offering charities $10,000 per month in in-kind AdWords advertising, to promote their missions and initiatives. In order to be eligible for this $120,000 a year of free advertising a charity simply needs to adhere to a few simple requirements such as holding a current and valid charity status and having a functioning website with substantial content.

Google Partners are online marketing companies, trusted by Google. Google have recently restructured the way in which a company achieves this status. There are no longer Google Certified Professionals and the criteria for becoming a Google Partner is a lot stricter. They take a look at the campaigns you currently run for your clients and decide whether you are eligible to become a Google Partner. Only one third of the previous Google Certified Professionals have become Google Partners and we are pleased to announce Ziontech are officially Google Partners!