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I have launched a bespoke website for a new customer: Luke Murrell from MMVSENSE.

I first met Luke Murrell at a legal workshop for tech start-ups in London, about 10 months ago. At the time, Luke Murrell was starting up his own business after years of working in the mobile industry.

Bespoke website development process

A couple of weeks before I was due to start moving to Amsterdam, Luke got back in touch and asked me if I would be interested to bid for his website development. I promptly sent him a quote and after meeting him in Brighton, won his bespoke website development project.

We exchanged a few e-mails about the design and Luke could see his website taking shape on the internet as a draft bespoke website. Once he was happy with the selection of photos and how the website portrayed his company, I pressed the button and made his website live.

What happens after a website launch?

Once a website is live, it's only the beginning of an exciting marketing journey. Just having a website is not enough, and now that Luke's website is launched, I'm working closely with him on how to promote his business through his website.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is very important of course, because if it's hard to find a website, it might as well not exist. There's more than SEO though. It's also just as important to make Luke's website tells the right story to his visitors. We work together on what potential customers and partners of MMVSENSE want to get from Luke's website and how to best present it to them.

Luke's testimonial

Luke was kind enough to give me a testimonial when his bespoke website launched:

It has been a pleasure working with Nadjib at eBabel. He provides literally a one stop shop for companies needing a web site, providing guidance on design both creative and editorial as well as covering development, SEO and post launch content management and hosting. Quick, professional, excellent attention to detail and price competitive.

Luke Murrell, CEO and co founder, MMVSENSE Ltd

I have decided to focus the languages I support on English and French. The other languages are interesting but don't yield enough interest from new customers and cost too much to support.

English websites

English is by far the most popular language for my customers. Most of them opt to have an English website. A website in English is easy to produce and doesn't require hiring the services of a translator outside eBabel.

French websites

French websites haven't sold as well as English websites, but they can be produced internally without hiring the services of an external translation agency. I will continue to promote them to potential new customers.

The future is orange, the future is Dutch!

Since moving to the Netherlands, Dutch is an obvious choice of language to support. It's not available yet, but I will support it in the near future.

I have moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, but I still take care of all my customers websites remotely.

I will go back and forth a few times this summer while sorting things out. I have been working on this move for a while now and things are falling into place.

Since moving to Amsterdam on the 5^th June 2010:

• I have won a new customer
• I am finishing a new bespoke website
• I have remotely bid for a couple of website projects in the UK

My business is still a British registered business and my Brighton accountant has kindly offered to take care of my business post while I'm away from the UK.

No plans to change anything

There is absolutely no plan to change the way I do and have been doing business. I will keep trading as eBabel Ltd for my UK based customers.

I have talked to all my customers and they are very happy with the change and all wished me luck with living in my new city of residence.

Working remotely for my UK customers

The only difference is that I will have to do everything remotely, but that's hardly an issue considering all the communication means we have:

• Skype: ebabel.support
• Support: support@ebabel.eu
• E-mail: nadjib.amar@ebabel.eu
• Telephone: +31 (0)619 288 261

The new registered address of eBabel

eBabel new registered address is now my accountant's in Brighton:

eBabel Ltd
c/o David C Gorrod
68 Ship Street
Brighton BN1 1AE
United Kingdom

David Pitts isn't a director any more

Due to his work commitment and his duty not to mix eBabel work with his own employment, David Pitts is no longer a director of eBabel. He's taking a back seat in terms of working on eBabel but he will still own half the company.