Hyperlocal Forum

Rob Powell, who owns several hyperlocal sites including his popular Greenwich site, has soft-launched a hyperlocal forum for like-minded publishers. I’ve joined myself this morning (these are our own local sites) so hopefully I’ll be able to share thoughts and ideas with fellow local news site publishers.

There seems to be a growing band of hyperlocal publishers so it’d be good to have a central place to:

• discuss issues
• exchange tips
• suggest potential ways to generate revenue and increase readership
• air content generation ideas
• etc

Hope to see you there

Client News

We’ve been working on a website design project for Hardacres – a family run Liverpool funeral directors – and it’s not too far off completion now. An unusual project in some ways as you feel as though you need to refrain from using an upbeat, salesy approach. Hopefully, between us, we’ve got the general tone of the site about right.

The site has been developed using wordpress – our preferred content management system (CMS). Whilst this gives the option of including a blog, in this case the client will not immediately be publishing one. Much of the content came from a hardcopy brochure that was scanned in using some OCR software and then pasted into the CMS.

If you’d like a similar website designed for your business please feel free to get in touch.

Brimstage Added To Our Local Sites

The latest domain added to our hyperlocal portfolio will cover the small Wirral village of Brimstage. Whilst it may be small (population approx 100) the village houses a popular embroidery / arts and crafts centre and there’s also Wirral’s only brewery that brews a bitter called Trappers Hat !

I’ll be cycling up there to take photos later in the week.