MikeSlater *Seren

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Hello. I'm Mike Slater. I launched this business in 1995 and developed Seren Web in the late 1990's to run business websites.

I have been programming computers since 1982 when my father bought a Dragon 32 home computer with 32kB hard storage - that's not quite enough hard disk storage these days to display this web page. Now I specialise in offering clients the best possible websites for their business or creative project.

Recent Web Projects

During the "2020's Economic Transition", we are working with clients to change their online business to adapt to the new ways of small business SME trading.

For Powys Safety Solutions, we created online courses to allow remote training. The system allows the company to create slide shows, videos and manage questionnaires.
Visit Powys Safety Solutions

Virtual Classrooms

For Purley College London, we helped set up "Virtual classrooms" on new dedicated servers to allow their teachers to continue to offer English classes.
Visit Purley College London

Login Secure Areas

For The English Garden School, Budapest, we created a child login area so the children could download worksheets each day and watch videos with their teachers.
Visit The English Garden Budapest

Booking Systems

For Flow Image consultants in London we created a new appointment booking system so their clients could arrange online consultations.
Visit Flow Image Appointments

Online Framing

For Crescent Picture Frames, we created bespoke software which allows users to upload their own image, view it with varying mount colours and frames and then purchase the final bespoke item securely.
Visit Crescent Frame Builder

Ecommerce Solutions

For UK Gifts Online, we created a new ecommerce site with a range of gift and home items from this long established gift company.
Visit UK Gifts Online

Online Registration

For the Gregynog Young Musician Competition, we created a website to help promote their annual music competition for young musicians including online registration of competitors.
Visit Gregynog Young Musician

Since 2000

Since 2000, we have managed, designed and developed websites and applications for business owners, sole traders, charities and creative people. Running our own web servers for clients, I believe that we can offer a friendly, effective service to create a successful, safe online presence for you.

The business has been trading continuously since 1st July 1995 and running web servers every day since 1st March 2000.

SOME HISTORY

We have found that Mike tries to understand our business and is sympathetic to our very specific requests... which is something that is very important to us as owners and operators of our businesses.
 
Pineapple Leisure
Powered by Seren Web since 2000

OUR APPROACH

We have the expertise

Since 2000, we have run our own web servers and have 22 years' experience in keeping client business sites running every single day. With our technical team in Coventry UK we have developed the best possible setup to make sure your website is running every single minute of every single day.

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Total down time in last 7 years is just 45 minutes = 99.9998% availability.

OUR SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT

Our websites are fast

No-one has much patience online so we make sure our web servers are very responsive and we code client websites to be extremely fast. On good connections, our average client website currently download in:

2.56 seconds

OUR APPROACH

Fully responsive websites

All client websites we manage are fully "screen responsive" on all devices. Screen responsive means webpages using the same online address whether they are on desktop or mobile, but "respond" according to the screen size of the device. This ensures our client sites can be viewed easily on everything from the smallest phone to large TV screens.

OUR APPROACH

"Search ready" websites

There is no "secret" to search engine positioning;
1. Host your site on fast web servers with all the latest software updates
2. Use responsive design
3. "Content is King" and make sure you have relevant content
4. Encourage some high-quality inbound links from websites already well positioned on the search engines
5. Use social network platforms to promote your "brand" and
6. Work on page titles and descriptions.

We help all our clients in building a good search position. Some examples (among many) include position 1 on global search for "glass eyes", position 1 for "budapest property rentals" and position 6 for global search on "race arches", position 7 on "native american gifts" etc

SEARCH

We are really pleased with the service Seren Web offers. Mike has succeeded in getting us on the top page on Google (we were around page 25 before). This has had a positive effect on our revenues. We are extremely happy we chose to work with Seren Web.
Purley Language College, London

OUR APPROACH