Since launching the print, we have been amazed at the response from Swansea city fans who are devoted to their club and proud of their well earned success. Swansfootball.com recently donated several prints to a charity event organised by Nigel Davies, editor of Swans fanzine ‘A Touch Far Vetched’, which was held at the Tomos Watkin Brewery on Friday August 5th.

The entertainment kicked off with Swansea star Kevin Johns warming up the crowd with his usual brand of razor wit and biting sarcasm. Then it was straight into a five song set from The Final Warning, a group of talented youngsters with a big future ahead of them.

Next up was balloon twisting magician, Matt Steele, who found a use for some black and white balloons of his own, then a Q&A session featuring Swansea City legends, Nigel ‘Speedy’ Stevenson and Alan Curtis. The auction and raffle raised £1,100 for Marie Carie cancer charity. Steve Sax and the Git provided fantastic musical entertainment, and comedian Phil Evans ensured that laughter, as well as beer, was flowing.

We would like to thank everyone behind the scenes and all those who bought tickets. The night was a sell out success, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Our Swans Commemorative print raised £90, thanks go to Nigel and Alan for adding their signatures.

Thanks also go to Legend in waiting, Joe Allen, who kindly signed and presented one of our commemorative prints to a lucky auction winner, at the Copper Beech pub in Abercrave on Saturday 6th August. Over £2000 was raised this weekend alone – great result!

Anyone interested in purchasing their own piece of Swansea city history, please go to www.swansfootball.com.

Swans Football Print Huge Success

Swansea Solar

In this high speed age of technological advance, it’s vital to ensure the user is able to access required information as quickly and easily as possible. We live in an age of increasingly demanding consumers with short attention spans, who simply don’t have the time or the inclination to trawl through masses of irrelevant data, and why should they? If your website is user focused and organised, you’ll be able to grab their attention immediately and hold their interest while they search and browse your site.

Creating the right visual impact should not be underestimated. The best websites have been designed and built to look attractive as well as being functional and informative. Your home page needs to draw the user in, they will see the beauty before the function. Our Swansea based design team love getting their teeth into new projects, especially the challenging and constantly evolving medium of web design. Understanding your target market, your company goals and objectives, your desires for the future, your approach to your customers, are all imperative in designing the perfect website.

It’s all about communication. What are you trying to say? What is your business all about? We understand the value of your brand image, the importance of protecting and enhancing your credibility through good design. We work incredibly hard to promote the reputation you work so hard to build. A great website will serve as proof of your professionalism, it says your business can be trusted.

Websites take on a life of their own, they are constantly evolving to keep up with technological advances, demands of consumers, threat of competition, legislation, and of course changes within your own business. The best websites will not walk before they can crawl, but will certainly keep pace with the world around them. Our Content Managed Systems (CMS) allow clients to update their own websites, making it easy to edit and add new data, images, news articles and other posts.

Some will see Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) as a necessary evil, a technological minefield. And they’re not altogether wrong! It certainly poses challenges to website designers with clients desperate to reach number one spots with Google and other major players. Of course, there is no magic wand and can cost a fortune to achieve quick results, but there are several ways to improve your ratings without remortgaging your house. We ensure all our websites contain suitable key words, tags, links etc. and we register all new sites once completed. We’ll advise all we can to start you in the right direction and find the best promotion tool for your website. But, basically, it comes down to love and attention. If you regularly spend a little time on your website, posting unique and informative articles, you’ll be surprised how responsive search engines can be.

So, in summary, a great website must be:

• Attractive and engaging

• Interesting, informative and relevant

• User focused and simple to navigate

• Able to move with the times

• Easy to find on the web

What makes a great website?

Urban Cyclery

Accent has worked with Beaufort Conveyors for many years since they first established themselves in Swansea, so they had a good working knowledge of what was needed. The distinctive black and yellow branding was used across a variety of items such as brochures, postcards, stationery and, of course, website. The Easikit brand has gone from strength to strength in the last 12 months and is proving to be one of the leaders in the conveyor market.

Design made Easi!

The bilingual, CD–sized booklet is aimed at a younger audience hence the fresh, urban approach taken with the overall design. The booklet reinforces the style that Accent introduced with the previous Right Track Pack and Housemate publications.

Leaving Care and Moving On. Shelter Cymru

It was also a great opportunity to show off the beautiful Gower and south west Wales area using some of our own photography. The redesign proved a successful one as they are already planning next year’s brochure.

Your home from home

World Graphic Design Day

It has cruise news, ask the expert features and has cruises on offer for all the major cruise operators The mailer is distributed to 100,000 households in the UK and is now available from your Thomson and First Choice shops.

Get the best CruiseDeals

The brochure has always been a hit with tourists, visitors and local people within the Swansea area, as a valuable resource for events and attractions. Working with John at Sketty Publications is always a pleasure and we are confident this year we will see the guide get even better.

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