Make Hay Ethical E-Media

We are very happy to launch today the brand new Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust website.

Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust is part of the national Wildlife Trusts network and the leading conservation charity in the area. For a long time they had been using FrontPage to update their old website, which had grown organically and become cumbersome and difficult to maintain.

We worked with NWT staff to re-organise their website content and create a usable structure and navigation system for their new site, allowing for future growth and development. NWT have a massive amount to communicate about their work so it was important to make sure all of their information can be found easily.

We consulted with them on their branding guidelines and discussed a fresh new approach to their visual design and colour scheme. They also have a huge library of beautiful photographs of local wildlife which we incorporated into the layout and content.

NWT staff now manage their website pages without having to struggle with web design software or knowing any code. We spent a morning training them how to use the content management system - built using Expression Engine - and giving them guidance on how to write copy and prepare images for the web. We’re sure they’re going to do a brilliant job keeping the site up to date with news and information about NWTs many events and activities.

The website is also run by our wind powered Green Hosting

Visit the site at www.nottinghamshirewildlife.org.uk

Organic t-shirt company, Albert & I, and fair trade jewellery shop, Jungle Berry, are two of our newest Make Mail clients.

They’re using the stylish newsletter system to spread the word about their beautiful clothes and accessories.

There are many good reasons for using Make Mail to handle your e-mail marketing. Here are just a few:

• Your newsletter template can be designed to match your existing marketing materials or website
• Write and manage your own content and send at a time that suits you
• There are no monthly fees, you only pay when you send
• Find out how successful your campaign is by using the slick reporting tools
• The Make Mail system has been approved by many of the major ISPs so your newsletter has a lower chance of getting ‘junked’ by your recipients’ inbox

Check it out: www.makemail.co.uk

My Global Garden is one of our recently re-vamped and re-published sites, providing resources and information on gardening in a changing climate.

We originally built the My Global Garden blog back in 2007 and as founder Debbie Anderson has built up the Global Gardening movement her online requirements have developed too. The new blog includes an extensive plant list called the ‘Global Gardening Collection‘, videos on climate change gardening and lots and lots of information and resources from veggie growing to lawn care and nursery reviews.

Visit the new site at www.myglobalgarden.com

What wonderful news it was to hear from our web design client Laura Burgess, owner of green travel directory and resource ecoescape, that the site has been listed in The Independent’s 50 best travel websites!

Laura has done a brilliant job of building up a huge list of sustainable and eco-friendly places to stay in the UK and Ireland as well as the ecoescape tours and green travel accessories.

The site was described by The Independent as “Nicely designed and easy to use” - why thank you very much!

Visit ecoescape at www.ecoescape.org

One of our lovely Make Hay web design and Green Hosting clients Unscene Production Company have lots of exciting things going on for them at the moment. Not only have we just re-vamped their website, they have also just released the trailer for their very first movie!

Unscene is a growing company, building up its reputation in Scotland for supporting creative people and artists of various genres. They needed a simple website but one that they could update easily by themselves to add latest news and picture galleries of their events. Of course they have uploaded the video trailer for their short film so go and check it out! www.unsceneproductioncompany.co.uk